"..some have too much.." "..others not enough... // THE TANK BATTALLION \\" "...love is like money some have too much some not enough.." "...such love is.." "...just annoying not to be enjoyed and it's useless...useless.." "..all your sorrow... useless useless all your sorrow only time will help because time can.." "...change and heal anything... fellas!" "You don't value the fact you're only playing at being soldiers!" "Just wait when there's a war!" "You'll then remember how hard it was to dig a trench!" "we'll all shit our pants!" "when the life expectancy of a tank crew in battle's 4 minutes." "But hopefully there'll be no war.." "I'm getting discharged anyhow..." "Ruzicka!" "Continue your inspection of preparedness for battle!" "Will do!" " Malina!" "" " Here!" "Pinkas..get the report ready about the exemplary carrying out of our task!" "Hospodin!" "will you!" "I'm going to bed now." "I've had night shift twice this week." "And today this happens..." "Hey!" "Wake me at 5." "comrade Captain!" "Holeny!" "Go help corporal Smiricky!" "There's only four of them there; the fifth one has gonorrhea." "On the run!" "Holeny!" "understand?" "Off you go!" "Comrade Corporal!" "but.." "Does he think that we'll break our necks here?" "Danny?" "huh?" "Sure..." "I knew it's been here for years" "I've conquered the" "Okrouhlice Hill at least 500 times!" "I won't give him a reason to nag me!" "I should quickly get a photo taken at the Okrouhlice photographer." "The photographer has his own tank hat for us to wear." "Lizetka may like a photo like that." "She'd find it funny I think." "...As always..." "Lizetka!" ".... leave me alone!" "Lizetka..." "Let me stay here... you'll want to touch me and I don't want that!" "really..." "I promise not to touch you!" "It annoys me!" "you bitch; so distant!" "What; is it something?" "no?" "can't you?" "isn't it?" "You said that yourself." "What if I kill myself?" "You?" " For sure!" "...and she'll then see you... ..and she'll send you away..." "Danny..." "Lizetka..." "I...can't help it... it's like an order..." "Stop!" "Get up!" "comrade Captain?" "I'm making sure that the unit is in a state of full alert!" "And what about shoes?" "Yes - shoes!" "Standard military shoes!" "What do you think you're doing?" "This is how you're training your soldiers?" "Are you aware that training in peace times is your essential task so as to protect your fatherland?" "You will report to the division chief!" "Comrade Major.." " Quiet!" "Be ashamed of yourself!" "Will do!" "Off you go!" "If this was war time you'd be court marshalled!" "comrade Major!" "What do you think you're doing?" "This is how your idea of a battle simulation?" "Up!" "Where's the Squadron Leader?" "Where's the artillery support?" "You're hiding here like two faggots!" "Get up!" "Up!" "Little Devil's here!" "What's going on?" "Josef - do you have radio contact?" "What?" "Radio contact..." "Ahh...whatever... it's always fucked up in some way or another..." "If your radio doesn't work" "I can't navigate you past the boss." "Fuck it all!" "Little Devil" "The brass have got themselves in trouble." "The tank leader - come here!" "here at your order." "Corporal Soudek." "Soudek?" "Back!" "Comrade Soudek!" "Is this how you exit a tank?" "What's that?" "move it!" "move!" "Where are you going?" "I've never seen anything like it!" "That's how you exit a tank?" "here at your order." "Corporal Soudek." "Soudek - back!" "Change over!" "Who taught you this?" "who?" "Move it Soudek!" "Swift like a weasel!" "how did you disguise your vehicle?" "Is that what you've been taught?" "Changeover!" "we won't obey we'll take up arms" "The bastards!" "Where are we living?" "what's happening?" "Is this what we've worked for?" "We're bastards!" "Just wait when it's all fallen over..." "I'll hang any communist that I can lay my hands on." "And I know who they are!" "Because I look after issuing membership stamps in our organization!" "Nobody will be able to hide from me!" "The tank leader - come here!" "So where are you?" "Comrade Major - at your service!" "Corporal Smiricky." "is how a buried tank should look!" "comrade Captain." "comrade!" "Your trench can serve as an example" "I serve the people!" "Off you go." "What a laugh..." "You have excelled!" "..to drive into an old trench!" "I'd have you shot on the spot!" "First you'd shit your pants!" "..." "do you have radio contact?" "Doesn't work." "It does work!" "Admit up front that you don't know how to do it!" "It really doesn't work." "Don't bullshit me!" "huh?" "I might extend it for you!" "So you could practise working with a radio for an extra year!" "Driver forward!" "Look where you are" "You're supposed to drive in a line of attack!" "I'll show you!" "They started out of shallow trenches so they got going quicker!" "Don't be smart!" "..and keep driving!" "Get fucked!" "Guys!" "Hang on tight!" "I'll knock him off!" "What a pig this driver is!" "I'll have him locked up!" "He hasn't fallen off?" "No." "He'll spend his Sundays learning how to drive!" "I'm leading him on." "Isuue an immediate order to destroy the enemy's positions!" "at Navigation Point two-oh-three!" "3 TANKS "SHERMAN"" "You're supposed to stop." "Are you gonna stop or what?" "stop!" "Fuck the prick!" "Why is the gun operator not shooting?" "What an incompetent pig! to make him happy! so why should I keep moving the barrell - fuck him!" "BATTALION OF TANKS "CROMWELL"" "Shoot back!" "Can't you see the enemy's shooting at you?" "I'll show you...!" "Shit!" "you're an ass!" "What was that supposed to be?" "That was supposed to be shooting from a stopped vehicle?" "That would at best hit a piece of old cow shit!" "Who gave the order?" "Not me!" "Not you?" "Why did you shoot? as the tank jerked I pulled the trigger by mistake." "So your crew is so independent that anyone can shoot whenever they feel like it?" "boys!" "He's just pissed off that they screw his old lady!" "Why is that idiot of a driver not moving for so long?" "you'd have been shredded times over!" "man!" "Which circus did you learn to drive at?" "What can I do with this old heap of shit?" "comrade?" "These machines have been through several Soviet war advances!" "That's why they're shit... move please!" "You haven't started yet?" "Get that gun chamber spotless!" "What's this?" "You have nothing to do?" "Tank leader?" "Here!" "the crew's doing nothing..." "You'll spend the whole night cleaning the barrell!" "Squadron leader - come here!" "Finish!" "Line up; face in the direction of the church!" "Here comes trouble..." "Attention!" "Comrade Major!" "..." " Comrades!" "What you showed here today was not an attack of a tank battalion but a parody of one!" "It was a disgrace...chaos!" "Comrades!" "It is clear that during your national service you've learned nothing!" "It's obvious that two years of service is not enough!" "There are comrades among you who've already been here for 2 1/2 years and one would've thought this should've resulted in better performance!" "comrades?" "that some comrades cheat!" "They are betraying the trust the working people have placed in our army!" "comrades!" "Let them not assume they are not known!" "Let them not assume that the proletariat will let them" "..undermine what it's built by its labour!" "comrades!" "What a load of crap!" "..." "The sun is setting behind a tall mountain one more day's gone to shit; thanks god.." "another's awaited..." "Eat it!" "Go on!" "we'll see it happen... we know no Sundays..." "Janinka Pinkasova..." "How can her old man keep her happy" "..when he probably even sleeps at the tankodrome.... tell me get in that tank... a bunch of imbeciles..." "But he always has a loaded gun on his arse ...and you can never be sure when he's gonna turn up at home." "forget about love... let me stay with you... " " No way!" "darling!" "really!" " I know you; you'd annoy me!" "But..." "Lizetka. ther's no logic in you... you idiot?" "What's happening?" "Mrs Pinkasova?" "Would you please ask if Leutenant Pinkas is coming home tonight?" "For you - anything!" "Danny!" "What?" "You're supposed to see Ruzicka immediately!" "but you're to be on the run!" "" " Fuck!" "" " Yes I understand.." "At your command!" "Corporal Smiricky!" "comrade Corporal!" "The battalion's cultural group will ensure completion of their commitment to attain the Fucik plaque by undertaking exams of the Plaque of Fucik." "Smiricky!" "The new comrade Lieutenant here will be the chairman of the examination commission." "How do you run your F.P.?" "Are you doing it according to plan?" "comrade Lieutenant." "Otherwise...the comrades would like to..." "Yeah...they would..." "But there's not even one fifth of the necessary books available at the library..." "But that's no excuse!" "You must overcome difficulties!" "Just like members of the Komsomol did!" "And they not only did not have books... they often did not even have any food." "did they not?" "How many comrades are ready for F.P.?" "Well... --Well?" "About two." "What?" "Finish!" "Attention!" "Those wearing shorts will lie down to the afternoon rest!" "Everyone else will be lined up in 10 mins in front of the building." "..as candidates of F.P.!" "I'll get you going!" "To think you have your rest at noon fully dressed!" "Corporal Smiricky!" "Here!" "You'll be responsible that all those who don't know the regulations will be lined up for the exam!" "Will do!" "Where have you been?" "you moron!" "comrades..." "Let's start with the book" "Far from Moscow"." "Comrades..." "You need not be afraid!" "I'm sure you read in your spare time." "comrade!" "Soudek!" "Get here!" ".."Far from Moscow" that is..." "Soudek!" "that's such a... it's a book... ..the people in it..." "Soudek!" "Quick!" "Come here!" "I'm here!" "...they worked for a long time but not hard..not hard well..they...there..in those. in those countries far...well...from the capital of the Soviet Union there...it was...they then.... there are no more imperialists there!" "That's right!" "comrades!" "None of us here is motivated by the intention difficult for anyone here... we will examine the officers for a change - and also their wives!" "who could tell us what have you learned from that novel that will help you improve your work?" "comrade Corporal?" "Well then... ..we've learned from it that we should work according to the new methods and. to use the experiences of those comrades from... ..the USSR. --But of course!" "guys!" "Just need to do it army style!" "Have you read anything from Wolker?" "Well..sure..." "I've read that... ..that Ballad of an Aborted Child." "And?" "..." "How did you like it?" "Well.." "I liked it...why wouldn't I?" "who'll tell us what it's about?" "Private Bamza!" "Well...it's about that..." "like how two people fall in love... you know...pregnant because they're both poor so she must somehow..get rid of it... --Good!" "comrades?" "comrade Lieutenant!" "in our people's democratic country for such things to happen? because they might be unable to feed that..that child?" "too!" "No they don't!" "What would you value most...about your girlfriend?" "...you know..if you were to..marry her?" "Well?" "Bamza!" "Well?" "Well?" "you know...if...here..." "Tits!" "comrades!" "The comrade meant what a woman should be like today regarding the..the socialist morals!" "what are those..those.." "physical merits?" "right... ..according to the preference of each comrade!" "..." "So..." "What are the merits your girl must have?" "you know..." "Soudek!" "Well..she must be..honest." "of course... ..but what are the main features of socialist morality" "..that every girl must comply with?" "Men...we had it in that brochure... the socialist morality..." "Megala!" "She must be faithful to the people's cause." "Yes! mainly a helper" "..at her workplace." "In that woman we see what?" "... that Mr Wolker saw in her at the times of the bourgeois republic.." "comrades!" "Jiri Wolker was a poor boy from a working class family." "He was forced to work hard since he was a child." "And he was often hungry..." "The bourgeois capitalist republic tried all sorts of ways to stop him from writing poetry." "He could not find a publisher." "His work was multiplied solely by groups of dedicated youths." "They loved Wolker... ..and printed his poetry illegally by hand." "But today Jiri Wolker has become the poet of all young people." "Right!" "Would you be able to recite one of Wolker's poems?" "The Mail Box." "The mailbox at the street's corner" "..that's not just any thing." "It blooms in blue; people value it a lot they confide anything to it." "They put letters in it from two sides the other for the happy ones." "The letters are white like pollen ships.." "and for men... ..so like a bumble bee or like wind would send them to distant places red flowers.." "..hidden amongst pink petals.." "..when the letter lands on one." "Fruit will grow on them.." "..both sweet and sour..." "You'll soon be discharged. --Yes." "You must be looking forward to that..." "I've been here for two years already." "I've been here two more years." "And could comrade Lieutenant ask for a transfer somewhere else?" "Some better place?" "he could not." "He must stay here." "Don't you know that but he picked the wrong direction?" "To England?" "What did you study?" "Me?" "Philosophy." "I also wanted to study." "..but I did not know how big a sin it is to be married to a man but has been an officer in the English army." "there's nothing to covet." "isn't it?" "Lizetka? lost in the area of army object "Kobylec"." "Lizetka. you bitch with an academic degree and you won't... comrade Corporal?" "I'm not sure myself... it's like...feels like the moment before an attack." "second by second..." "You have some very strange comparisons." "Why?" "It's a strange compliment when you compare me to what awaits the tankists during a battle!" "No; it's not like that." "You don't know what death means to me." "That's the biggest compliment I can give you." "you'd be changing your tune!" "I'd be thinking of you then!" "The tough tankist talk; as if I were hearing my husband!" "But when you're confronted by death in your tank you'll be rushing to open the lid so you can jump out." "But then they'll shoot you with their machine guns. anything will be beautiful!" "You must return to the squadron now. --Mmm..." "No I don't. --You'll have troubles." "I'd be happy to have troubles because of you!" "And if they have you locked up for returning late?" "I'll go to jail happily!" "All of a sudden it's not that bad to be doing army service." "Everything that's about to end is not too bad suddenly." "Lifi consists of things in the past." "boys!" "Toilet!" "Give me a fag!" "OK." "Open the door!" "Hey guys!" "Let me out!" "Do you hear?" "Let me out!" "Wait - this'll be some fun!" "Arseholes!" "Whatever;" "I don't care!" "you'll be cleaning it yourselves!" "Well - you'll piss yourself!" "If you don't open by the time I count to 20 get a rag and a bucket ready!" "Bamza!" "One...two... ..three!" "...four...five six..." "As you please.." "Attention!" "Arms ready!" "Arms at ease!" "Oh my god... enough." "She's something... --Danny!" "You'll need help!" "Danny; please... ..please; would you take my shift tonight?" "We can swap another time if you want." "I have." "Kamen's Officer in Charge." "He'll sleep through it." "For sure." "It'll be nice and peaceful." "OK?" "OK." "and I think I'll also go and arrange something." "One sin after another." "But no mortal ones." "Lizetka!" "you'd make a fine catch!" "Comrade Major during my service nothing unusual has happened in the battallion's jail." "There are 10 prisoners;" "Corporal Smiricky in charge." "May a prison guard lay down his weapon during service?" "He may not!" "Have you followed that regulation?" "I have not!" "How is it possible?" "comrade Corporal?" "I have acted in an irresponsible and unpraiseworthy way!" "Where's the soldier in charge of the guard?" "comrade Major!" "Well; so." "Show me the prison." "What is this - mess like in a whorehouse?" "How is this possible?" "What is....what...who...?" "Corporal Babincakova." "She's in for 15 days sharp detention..." "Up!" "Comrade Major!" "Nothing unusual has happened during my shift!" "Lieutenant Malina!" "Pick up your uniform and follow me!" "And you - to bed!" "Yes Sir!" "Are you sleepwalking?" "You're not aware of what you're doing?" "How come you have left your post?" "I don't know." "So you're a sleepwalker!" "No." "So how could you have left your post?" "I don't know." "I don't know." "and you are an officer?" "You can't talk?" "Can't you face up to the results of your deeds?" "Answer me!" "Yes. --What "yes"?" "Can you or can't you?" "No!" "I am not here for you to laugh at; remember that!" "Are you aware of what you've done?" "Do you know what's gonna happen to you?" "Do you?" "Yes!" "What?" "No!" "What made you leave your post?" "Answer slowly and calmly!" "Yes!" "Comrade Corporal Babincakova. --So!" "So; a woman!" "comrade?" "No!" "Women!" "And I don't mean our women; those at home." "..those whose safety we are guarding here.." "I mean other women!" "Such women..they will get the soldier all confused... ..they take away his sharpness... ..his awareness..they lead him to neglect his duty to tell them our army secrets!" "not that. --What; why not?" "Comrade Babincakova didn't want..---Didn't want what?" "She did not want me to tell any secrets... ..she wanted only... ---What?" "..only..---What only?" "Use full sentences when you answer!" "only the...intercourse..." "And you're saying that so calmly? Lieutenant!" "you allow things like that to happen in prison?" "I was just following orders." "You don't know the rules?" "I do." "Do you know that you can refuse to carry out any order which goes against the interests of the people?" "No." "I must follow orders first;" "I can complain afterwards." "You are the right one to complain!" "You always rely on your cleverness but that won't work in our people's democratic state!" "Because we know who the class enemy is and we'll sort those out!" "I will finish you off!" "I will put in a complaint about you." "Complaint?" "You?" "You want to abuse the rights and privileges of our people's democratic army?" "So you could subvert it?" "I'll sort you out!" "the bolshevik way!" "Soviet Tankist" " Our Example\\ comrades." "..not even mentioning the political awareness." "Slansky... had been paid 30 thousand koruna each month and he still betrayed. we getnot even a quarter of that." "And what will we do?" "We won't betray!" "Loud!" "Everybody!" "We will not betray!" "Comrades!" "To examine your combat and political preparedness our battallion will be visited by the Soviet combat advisor" "Colonel Nik..." "Nik..." "Nikititchenko!" "two!" "Sing!" "across bloody rivers our army units keep marching forward on... ; we keep marching on..." "American tanks are attacking." "Your tank is following a river." "You are subjected to heavy enemy fire." "Suddenly you see in your gun sight an American tank "Sherman"." "What will you do?" "Private Bamza!" "The "Sherman" tank is approaching." "You can even see the white star on its armour." "What will you do?" "Corporal Zloudek!" "I will shoot!" "But how will you shoot?" "comrades that's you." "The American tank is approaching you at full throttle." "comrade!" "I will shoot the cannon!" "The machine gun's of fuck all use." "What?" "But HOW will you shoot is what I want to know!" "allow me to speak!" "Corporal Manas; speak!" "I'll use trigonometric method to estimate enemy's distance." "Demonstrate!" "Using the known height and the estimated speed which is the speed of an anti-armour cartridge needed to penetrate enemy's tank." "I will set the third scale on the left used for calculating anti-armour ammunition the arrived at figure of distance and shoot!" "Go on!" "Shoot for fuck's sake!" "comrade!" "Right turn!" "Follow me!" "I want to see this!" "He's been so busy agitating these last two years he's never even tried to shoot out of a tank!" "Fuckwit!" "Attention!" "Down!" "Lie down you idiot!" "Manas!" "That idiot!" "You prick!" "I'll kill you!" "The bastard!" "You animal!" "Why did you not report at conscription that you are blind like a bat?" "Dou you know who you've almost killed?" "I guarantee you that you'll spend the rest of your army time in jail!" "When it jerked" "I mistakenly pulled the trigger..." "You prick!" "Jana!" "Has anything happened to you?" "What is it?" "Jana!" "Danny!" "Jana..." "Wait..." "Fuck it!" "Sorry..." "Danny..." "Thanks!" "Stop!" "arsehole?" "How have you addressed your comrade?" "Come here!" "Smiricky?" "I went for a walk." "Walk?" "How is it possible to leave the unit during exercises which have not even finished?" "This is sabotage!" "What are you going to tell me about it?" "Did you intend to ridicule our unit in front of our Soviet comrades?" "That's unforgivable!" "as you say that you can escape justice!" "Or can you explain to me how is it possible?" "What do you do in normal life?" "I'm supposed to be starting at a book publisher's." "Publishers!" "Books!" "An element like yourself at a publisher's?" "How can that be?" "You will never start" "Smiricky!" "I'll make sure of that personally!" "You will experience what the rule of the proletariat is in the mines!" "And one day you'll thank me for it yet!" "At least you've been locked up for leaving the barracks without a permit." "they just asked me what the name was of the president of our people's democratic republic." "And what did you say?" "Dr Alfons Cepicka." "You moron!" "Who's to remember all those pricks' names?" "And what the fuck can I say?" "All those arseholes keep repeating to me how I am to be proud of the honour of being an exemplary tankist." "And what do I get for it?" "Crap; not even any holidays." "Instead the pricks put me in jail!" "Piss off!" "Manas?" "my dear friend!" "Author:" "Corporal Manas." "So; one last time..." "It's a pity ...I got used to you so much even though I didn't want to know you at first." "And I almost.... fuck you!" "And I was almost scared of you... ..and yet I've grown to love you over the two years... ..so warm..and close just like my best friend... ..I often gave you all my spare time..." "..often even my nights... ..and all those lovely moments we've had together... ..remember.." "the time a deer played around us... ..with his doe.." "..and I then wanted suddenly" "..so much..to love someone!" "Fucking idiot... ..and I stroke you..." "..my dear comrade..my tank T-34... man..." "I'm reading here you've been rooting a tank!" "Corporal Smiricky - to First Aid room; immediately!" "What is it?" "moron." "come in!" "I have gonnorhea?" "Bullshit..." "What other excuse would have got them to let you out?" "This had to happen at the end of the service." "cruel joke..." "I could've spent two years idling around with Janinka.." "I kept chasing Lizetka that hypnotic chunk of ice." "One does not value some things till they're no longer around." "When it's pretty much all over." "That stupid law of life..." "Borovicka will destroy you." "Just like he destroyed my husband." "And what can I do?" "Danny..." "I love you!" "Comrades! in a happy and manly way the honourable completion of service in our people's democratic army!" "Even more honourable considering that some of you have had the basic 24 months of service extended by 6 more months of special training." "But even that is not sufficient to master such a complex machine like the tank T-34!" "We will need 3 years of service for that!" "You've completed your task with some enthusiasm but of course some of you have not had as much enthusiasm as is natural with soldiers of our people's democratic army!" "But against such as those we have and we will devise measures to deal with them!" "The nation as well as our Communist Party will not tolerate the disruptive elements' destroying our dedication! whose education was made possible by the sweat of the working classes!" "who do not carry out the people's orders with enthusiasm are themselves separating from our lines and I will ensure" "that they are brought to task - and there are such amongst you - for the full consequences of their actions even in civilian life!" "The workers are aware and awake and they will get rid of anyone who stands in their way!" "Such persons will feel the hard fist of the people!" "And they will be forced to enthusiastically do their duty and if they are not enthusiastically doing their duty the working class will sort them out!" "Long live the USSR!" "Long live our great friend and protector our leader and teacher our beloved liberator the wise and great benevolent and immortallized irreplaceable generalissimus" "Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin!" "mum!" "Two and a half years... ..two and a half years..." "How could we have survived it?" "We are saying "Good-bye" today to all of you tanks and bayonets and we at the threshold of labour ...women are welcoming us with blood red roses" "I swear!" "If it were necessary for my life to be sacrificed... we are all here prepared for that fight." "am prepared to fight!" "As long as we live we will keep our sacred promise in our hearts fill that beer glass waiter... ..and we are prepared to pay with our blood... comrades!" "Silence!" "Comrades!" "Comrade Captain!" "Long live the USSR!" "...we are drinking rum!" "..." "Janinka!" "Danny!" "Danny?" "Of course!" "I'll see you in Prague!" "won't you?" "I don't know." "Why couldn't you? he won't even know that you've been away!" "Why did you turn up here in the first place?" "How do you mean - "turned up"?" "There were officers here..." "Janinka... ..cinema three times a week.. --Jani!" "Everything was very stupid but it was all OK... ..and then you turn up!" "It's just fine the way it is." "What's fine?" "That I no longer care at all about my husband's fine?" "That I'll be missisg something much more than ever before..." "Jani... --It's all fine..." "I know." "I'm just a hysterical woman." "You're not. --Yes I am!" "Come with me." "Where to?" "To some stupid rental in Prague?" "So you would run away from there so you would not have to always look at that stupid ex-Lieuntenant's wife Pinkasova?" "The one that loved you so much?" "Jani...stop..." "Danny?" "I love you so much..." "I don't know why I'm so stupid that I love you so much." "So much!" "Get a divorce. --And what are we going to do then?" "I can't do anything;" "I don't even like books." "Jani..stop.." "I love you..." "Daniel..." "Stay with me!" "I know... ..it's all stupid..." "It probably must be this way." "Shut up!" "..I got called up to a little town if only God had burned it down..." "..when we were going to the army service we were singing merrilly... ..we were unaware then... ..what an arsehole of the world it was..." "Sing the one of ours - the bolshevik one!" "...they used to call us the Red terror we will hang them all for it everyone will hang.." "...everyone in this army..." "Quiet!" "This is provocation!" "I will not tolerate insults to our people's democratic army!" "This is treason!" "Disperse!" "I see that not only Smiricky but all of you are the most disgusting reactionaries!" "you little snot?" "You'll be court marshalled!" "Comrade!" "..." "He's capable of calling the counter espionage guys." "Bloody cooks!" "They keep leaving this open!" "One day someone'll fall into the shit." "Mr Smiricky?" "There's not much left of Major Borovicka.... ..except for one thing." "Smiricky." "that is." "Does he know or does he not?" "You're lucky it was me who found it.... ..and not someone from the political department." "Reservist Corporal Smiricky.." "Go." "Daniel Smiricky was once more free." "But was he?" "It was year 1953... useless all your sorrow's useless... useless all your sorrow only time will help because time changes everything it'll turn her into an old woman who'll have no more suitors..." "...she'll be old an ugly with no more suitors..." "..but by that time you'll have died of love or drink yourself to death... ..and will be in a cold grave... ..in a cold grave..."