We often say that war is cruel, and that the trauma it inflicts on humanity may take decades to fully recover, and the most direct manifestation of this trauma is the soldiers of various countries who have fought on the battlefield. When watching movies, we often see such a scene, in many cases, soldiers will risk their lives to break through the siege after encountering the enemy siege, so this also gives people a feeling. In the face of death, the soldiers have been completely fearless, but is this really the case? Perhaps the post-war memoirs of some soldiers will give us a lot of thoughts and answers.
At the outbreak of World War I, the entire level of human manufacturing was not very high, and in most cases, the battles between soldiers of various countries were basically direct face-to-face combat, but even so, the scenes faced by soldiers still overwhelmed them. One of the fighters recalled afterwards: "When I saw myself soaked in blood, my hands began to tremble and my heart was filled with fear, but I still could not drop the weapon full of blood in my hand, because once I did, the next person to fall was me, and I lived in this fear all day until I finally paralyzed myself.".
In World War II, the level of human weapons and equipment was raised to another level, and what was in front of people was no longer the battle that had been warm, but the cold life and death, and the war really became a bloodthirsty machine, which was a contest between man and steel. On the Soviet-German battlefield, which suffered the worst losses in World War II, this scene was vividly portrayed. A Veteran of the Soviet Union who participated in the war at the time once wrote: "There are corpses everywhere, some of which have long since decayed to the point of turning green, and it is difficult to find a complete corpse among these many corpses, which have not been disposed of for a long time, and the smell emitted is disgusting." Many soldiers go from the initial mental breakdown to the final insensitivity, completely like zombies, and fear is no longer enough to describe their hearts."
Indeed, this is the real battlefield, which is why many soldiers leave a lot of mental illness after the war. People who have not experienced war will never appreciate the pressure of life and death brought by the real battlefield, and these blood and tear lessons remind us time and again that we must never forget the hard-won peace.