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Joe Kubryk - Joe trains for the junior secret service

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Joe Kubryk - Joe trains for the junior secret service
Joe Kubryk - Joe trains for the junior secret service
Transcript: When they trained us for these missions as junior secret service we went to training over three months. And the test was the partisan soldiers, the partisans themselves used to dress up in German uniforms and hidden in certain areas that you don't know, and they send out those kids like myself to go to this and this area and go bring me information what you know, what you see there and who did you see, what did you see, what does they have, what kind of things and so forth. And as you walk, and all of a sudden, you been caught by one of these German soldiers, it's the partisan dressed in it, and as you been caught of course, they punish you very rough. The punishment was first off they start questioning you, 'where are you going, who you are'. Of course, we always had excuses, 'I got lost/I, I went out with the, with my cows up in the field, and I got lost, I don't know where I going, I went in the forest, and I can't find my way home." So make the story short, they start bothering and then they start scaring, like, for instance, they loaded up their pistol and put the barrel into your mouth. If you not going to say the truth, you going to be shot. So if you are a softy, you spill the beans. If you spill the beans you got two choices either you going to be killed by the Germans, or if you spilled the beans, you come back to the partisans you going to be killed because you spilled the beans. So you caught between the hammer (he claps) and the nail.
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