Magazine "The Army Magazine" №12

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**Magazine "The Army Magazine" №12** (Russian: *Журнал «Армейский магазин» №12*) is a document in *ATOM RPG*.

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"The Army Magazine"

07.12.1984

Topic:

"The Patriotic Shooting Gallery of Cpt. Zmeinsky"

In our day and age "peace amongst men" is something that every Soviet citizen dreams of. Who would not want to live under the new age, when Capitalism stops struggling and accepts the superior ideology of Marxism-Leninism? This could be a glorious age indeed. An age when our Soviet Nation, which already holds out a hand for Peace, will stop being spat on by the evil forces of the world that seek to provoke us for open conflict. An age when we could all cite the great Leninist writer and martyr Hemingway by proclaiming a farewell to arms. An age, when shooting becomes a simple sport for all ages, instead of a means to kill fellow human beings.

Every Soviet citizen wants just that – because we already live in a peace loving, pacifist country. But the Western aggression makes us forget this great dream… at least for the time being.

This sad truth is also known to the head of the 18903th Shooting Gallery of Ust-Katherinsk, WWII veteran Vsevolod Borisovitch Zmeinsky, who turned his workplace into a real boot camp for young fighters. Here, he teaches the ABCs of guerilla warfare to kids that are still too young for true combat training.

For the sake of this article we have visited one of his lessons with three young pupils – the 8 y.o. Zina, 9 y.o. Kostya and 10 y.o. Vadim

- "What do we have here? Oh, Zina! You call that killing a man?! " – Asks the strict teacher, while looking at a paper cutout of an American soldier, that the little girl used for target practice. - "Yes, you shot him in the side of the throat. Yes, you made some holes in his belly. So what? You know how much time a man can stay alive with such injuries? Enough to make mince meat out of you! Haven't I told you how quick their M16 rifles are? Yes, they jam a lot and are utterly unreliable, but they can put a whole magazine into you in just a few seconds! I saw plenty of that in Vietnam… Um… I mean I'd see plenty of that if I was secretly fighting in Vietnam by government orders. Which I was not. Now. If you're shooting his throat, try to hit the middle, so you cripple his backbone! But I'd rather you aim between the eyes, or at the kneecaps. You know how much it hurts, when they get you in the knees? The guy will collapse instantly and scream his lungs out, as you finish him with the bayonet!"

The girl quietly nods. She looks rather sad because of her mistakes, but that frown quickly turns into a smile, as she promises she will never let her mentor down again.

A piercing sound of the whistle signals for little Vadik to start shooting! The boy sticks his tongue out, and begins methodically shooting a pig carcass that was gifted to the Shooting Gallery by the 7th Ust-Katherinsk slaughterhouse. Despite the boy shooting from the hip, each bullet hits it's mark, making the carcass shake as if alive. But, alas, the last shot isn't a bang, but only a sad little click… The TT gets jammed.

- "You're pretty good" – Says comrade Zmeinsky with a smile, while taking the pistol from the boy and ejecting the jammed bullet by hand. - "But where did you pick up that technique? Did you see it in some action movie? Never try out a technique you're not properly acquainted with. And don't bend your elbow like that after each shot to dampen the recoil. That's more of a revolver technique."

- "I'm not training future sports stars or trick shooters! I am making them into warriors, that will get up from their school desks and fight to the death if need be." – States comrade Zmeinsky. - "They will forget everything the movies like "The white sun of the desert" or spaghetti westerns taught them! I will teach them to fight like a real child soldier fights".

After such an impressive speech, the only thing we could do was to congratulate comrade Zmeinsky on his methods and wish great luck to his patriotic project.