A smertnik (Russian: смертник, lit. 'condemned man') was an infantryman of the Imperial Japanese Army that launched suicide attacks against Soviet armored columns. It was a pejorative used by Red Army personnel during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria (August 1945).
A smertnik (Russian: смертник, lit. 'condemned man') was an infantryman of the Imperial Japanese Army that launched suicide attacks against Soviet armored columns. It was a pejorative used by Red Army personnel during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria (August 1945).
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