Letter 18

Of course i was very proud of your russian soldiers.... and proud of  the russian  citizens... they have nothing to prove  ... their bravery has been  well documented while  our  citizens were  complaining  about  gas  shortages  for their cars  the  citizens of st. Peterburg were  starving  and  resorting to cannibalism ... when  our  citizens were cutting  back  on eating   meat  as  a big  sacrifice  for  the war  the russian boys  were eating  snow  at Stalingrad ..  americans have no idea what total  war is like ..  i remember we were  heading north... were LRRP's  .. long  range  reconnaisance patrol... one  asked  us why  we  didn't pack  any  food ... Hoss  said - " we're  going to north Vietnam  to fight ..  not eat "... HA! ... can you emagine a russian  boy  bringing a teapot ??!! .. no way ...  and yes  by the way our soldiers were always very good paid ..  usually  we were  well  recieved  by the local citizens because  we had  lots of money  to spend...  even in Vietnam we  were always carried gold  and french  francs  .. those fuckin  gooks always  fought crazy over  a battle  field  because they wanted  us retreat so they could  search all  the dead bodies  for money  and gold ... HA!.. but even in our school they teach that americans won the Second world war ..  i think  russians won the war and evrybody knows that ..   the best general since  Alexander the Great  was Georgi Zhukov... he was always  in   a desperate situation .. he saved Moscow ..  he saved  St .Petersburg . and war scholars  still teach  his  tactics at Stalingrad ... and Kursk was the mostly brillaint battle  i can  emagine ...  brilliant in its simplicity ...  simple and complex..    all those  aristocratic  prussian  generals  from  heidelburgh were  no match  for  that russian boys ...  i am so proud of those boys... when their tanks were shot up  they got out  and fought hand  to hand ...  flaiming  airplane wreckage  was  falling from the sky all around them  when their pistols  were empty they pulled  out their knives ...  one thing i know for sure :  the russian  boys werent carrying any teapots ..!!!