re: The six year old soldier who fought in WWII

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Once, as a joke, the soldiers gave Seryozha a junior lieutenant’s uniform and it almost cost the boy his life. The shiny shoulder straps attracted the attention of German pilots, who discharged a burst of machine gun fire at the “officer”. One bullet hit Aleshkov in the heel. “My father later reproached himself a lot for it,” said Vyacheslav Vorobyov, Sergei’s stepbrother.

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