From Vasily to Zhang Taofang

Dax 2022-03-19 09:01:03

The defense of Stalingrad, the French director, the British actor, had nothing to do with the Russians.

The sniper Vasily and the political commissar Danilov were like actors and agents. The latter created a hero for the former, mainly because the Russian people needed such a hero to inspire them at that time. Vasily played the role successfully. (Jude Law in 2001 was quite interesting.)

A woman's intervention gave the two of them a break, because he liked her and she liked the other him. The German army transferred a colonel sniper to target Vasily. In several confrontations, Vasily lost confidence in himself (mainly because the uncle with bright silver teeth was killed by the opponent), he did not want to be a hero, but Danny doesn't allow it, you're a hero and you're not your own. In short, you can only move forward, never backward. To get the brotherhood back together, let the woman get shot and make them think she's dead. Without the external cause, the two could work together again. Danilov sacrificed himself, exposed the German snipers, and was killed by Vasily.

The sniper Vasily was real. From November 10 to December 17, 1942, Vasily Zaitsev shot and killed a total of 225 German officers and soldiers (an average of 6 people per day!) He was 27 years old at the time.

On the battlefield to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, Zhang Taofang, a sniper from the 8th Company of the 214th Regiment of the Volunteer Army, was only 22 years old. In the sniper battle in Shangganling, Jinhua County, he used 442 rounds of bullets to kill 214 enemies, creating the highest record for our army to kill the enemy with cold shots on the front line of North Korea. . Zhang Taofang worked as a sniper from January 29, 1953 to May 25, lasting 3 months and 26 days. Except for training camps, meetings and other activities, the actual shooting time was 32 days, and an average of more than 6 people were killed every day!

Zhang Taofang used more than 400 rounds of bullets. I don’t know how many bullets Vasily used. They were all misled by novels. Just like in the movie, Zhang Taofang also has a wonderful scene of competing with the opponent's sniper, but there will be no passion in our war, and there will never be romanticism in the movie.

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Enemy at the Gates quotes

  • Vassili Zaitsev: On this day, September 20th 1942, a young shepherd boy from the Urals arrived in the city of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. His name is Vassilij Zaitzev. Like thousands before him he came to answer comrade Stalin's call. Armed only with a rifle, he quickly made the fascist invader realise that from now on he would be punished for every step he took in the motherland, that from here on the only way was back.

  • Vassili Zaitsev: Shouldn't we try and make the point that I'm not the only one fighting?

    Commisar Danilov: That's an excellent idea. We can take it even further though. Your battle for the production of coal is as worthy as mine. There's no 'k' in coal. Just one 'l'. Tell me if I'm going too fast.

    Vassili Zaitsev: No, you're not going too fast. Is there any other improvements?

    Mother Filipov: Why don't you get some rest? These letters can wait until tomorrow.

    Vassili Zaitsev: We should carry on. We're not tired. Thank you, Mrs. Filipov. These people took the trouble to write to us. Tomorrow we might not be around to write back.