keskiviikko 16. marraskuuta 2016

Leave no man behind - Soviet style

The photo archive of Finnish Military forces has published a very interesting photo collection in web address http://sa-kuva.fi/ . The collection is open and free to browse in the net and the pictures can be published under open source licensing  as long as the source is referenced ("SA-kuva").

One picture worth of publishing is a photo taken at Seesjärvi, Karelia on 1942. In the picture one can see the soviet version of theme "Leave no man behind". In Finnish the phrase ("Kaveria ei jätetä") means that wounded or dead co-fighter was always saved from the frontier to the hospital or the cemetery of hometown. In the soviet version the co-fighter is shot and eaten ergo he is carried with inside one's stomach...

The photo below. The recognized parts of victims corpse are colored.

A soviet solder, originally Ukrianian, slaughtered and eaten by his co-fighters. Seesjärvi, Karelia, 1942.


The original narration from SA -kuva archive translated in English is following :

"A man savaged by a soviet patrol. The two other members of the patrol agreed to murder the third one in order to eat him after that. Murder was committed by shooting the victim while he was shaving. A Finnish patrol catched the soviets in act while they were cooking. In the picture one can see the brutal action. From left the foot (cut from ankle), then other palm, head, hip bones behind the head, other foot, thorax, the skin hanging from the tree. One of the other murderers was Finnish communist who told that the meat was particularly tasty. Seesjärvi  1942.11.06"
Source: SA-kuva.

The soviet patrol included in the beginning two Ukrainian (then part of Soviet Russia) solders and two Finnish defector, probably communists. The patrol was stuck behind the Finnish battlefront. They hided two months there while the both Ukrainian were killed and eaten. Thus, already then people of Ukrainian have suffered even in Finland although the was no argue between Ukrainian and Finland... The geopolitical position of Ukrainian is even more difficult than the position of Finland and they suffer it also in the present days. All sympathy to them!