In 1924, Brest, a town in eastern Poland, welcomed a small Polish army, which was once a military town occupied by Russia, but now the Russian army has long retreated, the German army has also retreated, and this place now belongs to Poland. The purpose of this force was to excavate former quartermaster depots. No one expected that not much munitions had been found, but a Russian soldier who had lived in the cave for nine years had been found!
When they heard a voice coming from the cave, the Polish soldiers were stunned, it had been nine years, was it a ghost? The Polish soldiers, trembling with their rifles, crawled into the blasted hole, ready to crawl inside. But before they could climb in, there was a sudden sound of gun bolts being flicked inside, accompanied by a Warning in Russian: "Stop! I'll shoot again when I come in! Hearing the sound of gun bolts, the Polish soldiers quickly stopped, in case they were in trouble if they fired inside.
At this time, a few Polish soldiers who were familiar with Russian listened carefully to the warning sound inside, and it turned out to be Russian, so it was estimated that it should be a former Russian, but why were the Russians still here? Hasn't it been unguarded for nine years? So the Poles found a few soldiers who were fluent in Russian and climbed in.
Because Poland and Russia are very close, and there are many Slavic people, there are still many people who are familiar with the Russian language in Poland. Eventually several soldiers climbed into the hole they had just dug, and the sound of their bolts being pulled sounded again, and a voice began to inquire about their identities. The Polish officer did not know who it was, and could only tentatively reply that he was a Polish soldier who had come here on a mission.
But I didn't expect that the opposite side actually wanted a pass, and several Polish soldiers looked confused, what else did they want? A pass issued by His Majesty the Tsar! The other side answered loudly. When they heard the names of the Tsar and the Russian Empire, several Polish soldiers understood that it should be the soldiers of the Russian Tsarist army who had been trapped inside.
For there are no more tsars in the outside world now, and now Russia has established a new power called Soviet Russia, that is, Soviet Russia. The soldiers inside were obviously unaware of the changes in Russia outside, and thought that Tsarist Russia continued to exist, and even allegiance to the Tsar, who had long been executed.
So several Poles told the soldiers inside that the war was over and that even the Tsar had been executed by the Soviets. But when the Poles recounted the changes in the outside world, the loyal warriors of the former Tsar did not believe it and were still reluctant to let them in.
Until the Poles again uttered a name, a former Russian colonel officer who was also the soldier's immediate superior, but now he was a White Russian officer, and it was he who provided the address to the Polish soldier.
It was only then that the Russian soldiers let their guard down, it turned out that he was a survivor of the First World War, when in 1915, the German army launched an attack from the Eastern Front, the Russian army was forced to retreat, and Brest was occupied by the German army. On the eve of the retreat, because there was a huge quartermaster warehouse here that could not be evacuated, the Russians finally ordered the bombing of the basement entrance, hoping to retrieve the quartermaster warehouse later when they counterattacked. But I didn't expect that there was a soldier on duty inside.
And this soldier stayed here, from August 2, 1915, to 1924, a full nine years and 23 days. The performance of the Russian army shocked the Polish army, and also shocked all the journalists who came here later, and he stayed here for nine years, and did not give up for nine years.
He survived alone on the food and fresh water in the munitions warehouse, and was able to remember his original mission, still sticking to his post to prevent others from coming to the warehouse. Everyone was shocked and admired, and this kind of loyalty and perseverance is rare.
Posterity has to lament how fortunate the Tsar was to have such loyal soldiers. But it was a pity that when this soldier came to the earth, he found that everything had changed, and his loyal empire and emperor had disappeared. Even so, this strong soldier was respected by Polish non-commissioned officers, journalists and everyone in the world.
Summary: Of course, later, after hearing about Soviet Russia, he refused to be retained by polish soldiers, and also refused to fight with his White Russian superiors to fight against Soviet Russia, and he chose to return to Soviet Russia alone. No one knows where he went, perhaps he put on his uniform again and became a soldier of the Soviets, or perhaps he laid down his arms completely and became an ordinary Soviet citizen.
Of course, I believe it's more likely that he went home, back to the family that had been separated for nine years, to see if his former parents were old, to see if the girl he once loved was married. Here we see the loyalty of a soldier to his homeland, but we also see the cruelty and ruthlessness of war!