The value of a life.<\/p>\n
As we crossed the bridge, the sound of whistling bombs forewarned of the hell we approached, when they crashed into the earth and defiled it, sending water up and people down, I shivered. I rushed across the bridge in a group with the others, we were a massacre waiting to happen. I expected more from this city<\/p>\n
They handed Andrei a rifle, and me the clip.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat am I supposed to do with this \u041a\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0441\u0441\u0430\u0440<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n I looked into his eyes, the eyes of my once friend, and I found no hope. He pulled me close, and whispered sharply, viciously, into my ear.<\/p>\n \u201cFind a rifle. Remember: Not. One. Step. Back.\u201dWith that, he threw me into the gates of hell, and I ran like a lost soul, selfishly and depravedly hoping someone might fall so that I might have their weapon. These 7.62x54mmR rounds I held in my hand were worth more than the lives around me, and I guess the commissars that stood at our rear, pointing 9×18 Makarovs ahead were thinking the same thing.For the motherland, and for the lives already lost; but mostly for the chance at survival, I decided to push back the fascist dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The value of a life. As we crossed the bridge, the sound of whistling bombs forewarned of the hell we approached, when they crashed into the earth and defiled it, sending water up and people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[73,6,89],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unfoundeddivinity","tag-flash-fiction","tag-short-stories","tag-war"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OILo-4p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tompass.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Enemy-at-the-gates.jpg?fit=600%2C256","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tompass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tompass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tompass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tompass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tompass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tompass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"http:\/\/www.tompass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tompass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tompass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tompass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tompass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}