July 1917 British Major-General Alfred W. F. Knox's July 4th letter detailing the breakdown of discipline in Russian Army |
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| "Some nights ago a company commander in the Yegerski Regiment was riding along with his company when the men called to him to get off, as they did not see why a bourgeois should ride when they had to walk. He got off! Then they began to consider whether, after all, he had not better ride so that he might be able the quicker to find them billets when they arrived. He mounted, but he had no sooner mounted than they required him to again to dismount." (650) | |
Click here to read "Says Russia Faces New Era" from The New York Times on July 1, 1917
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