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Vitka Kempner - The only punishment is death in the partisans

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Vitka Kempner - The only punishment is death in the partisans
Vitka Kempner - The only punishment is death in the partisans
Transcript: I wanted in a few words to tell what life was like in a partisan forest. We were part of a Lithuanian/Russian partisan brigade, where the rules were very strict, almost incomprehensible to a Western person, who lives in the present time. Actually, everything was tuned towards fighting life was very, very hard, and the rules were strict. If somebody would transgress even the smallest rule, the only punishment was death. Actually, there wasn't any other punishment. So let's say, we had to have food in order to survive. So to get food we'd go out on operations.

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