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		gandhium on April 27, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: France’s Zone Rouge – A Forbidden No Man’s Land Po... Did you reaed historian Mark Solonin? Or Eisenhower memoirs? He mentions a quote from Zhukov: > There are two kinds of mines; one is the personnel mine and the other is the vehicular mine. When we come to a mine field our infantry attacks exactly as if it were not there.

ethelward on April 27, 2018 [–]

OK, so we go from Zhukov's memoir to Eisenhower's...

Now, in the context: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6rabb3/did_t...

gandhium on April 30, 2018 | [–]

So, Russian historian _translates_ Eisehnower's words into his own narrative? Color me surprised.

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