User blog comment:Disturbedfan1100/Diplomatic talk and stuff/@comment-6138112-20131209160839/@comment-6812733-20131210172450

Yeah, I recall reading about the soviet general who was in charge of the armies pushing through Poland to Berlin (was it Zhukov?) using his soldiers to clear out minefields by just ordering the soldiers to walk through and clear the path for the rest of the army. It was complete madness how soviets used their own people so ruthlessly to only beat the german army. They kinda remind me of the japanese army in WW2 because they shared that same feature, brutality.

I think the logic behind running away from the fight and going forward in war (no-man's land and USSR's and Germany's order to not retreat) were between being brave enough to show that you were willing to die for your country and being coward and not defending your country. But that is only my idea, I have no clue on what Stalin, Hitler and other commanders thought about cowardice. But one thing about being a coward is certain: everyone of us is a coward in one way or another. It's what has kept us alive. We don't take idiotic risks and ensure our own demise but we assess the situation we're in and make decisions based on what keeps us alive and what could possibly kill us. The decision we humans take, is most likely the decision which benefits us the most while it keeps us away from harms way.