Meir Porges - Meir is forced to leave the partisans
Transcript: The Russian commander spoke to us and was nearly in tears. This was a Russian major who had gone to the entire front twice, from the Visala River in Poland and the Volga, and a second time from the Volga to the Danube, when the Russian army advanced to Berlin. He saw with his own eyes, with his own eyes all of the destruction, the Germans, the burned out cities, and the general destruction and loss of life in both cases, in the retreat from the Russians, what the Germans did and vice versa. And he definitely was very accustomed to see fires and destructions and bombings and more than a few deaths but in this case, when speaking to us, he nearly cried. He said, "We received an order from our command in Kiev. The difficult terrain, the severe weather have forced us to stop all supplies. And we, the Russians, and some French in there, will try to survive on our own. But everyone who wasn't Russian, and everyone who wasn't French, had to leave us the next morning. Well, we didn't know what to do and we also didn't have any other options. The next morning, we told them very nicely, in Russian -- Dussvedania, i.e. Goodbye and we left.