"Lehto's moods, however, grew ever darker. Once a shell landed right beside him, leaving him unhurt but temporarily deafened. And he was still deaf when he shot a wounded Russian on the grounds that the man's cries got on his nerves. But no one took any notice of the incident this time, for their education as soldiers was complete. Another time, forced to withdraw from a captured hill, they left a wounded man behind. When they retook the hill, they found him lying dead, bayoneted in the stomach. In retaliation one of Kariluoto's tommy gunners coldly shot down three prisoners. Two days later a shell cut him almost in two. Death had ceased to be a moral issue."
— Väinö Linna (The Unknown Soldier)
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