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Personal Narrative: All Quiet On The Western Front

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When we were told that the war started, I was right at the border. Of course, we were not sure whether we would survive or not. We knew we had to fight for real. We believed in Communist ideas. We had it with our mother’s milk. We still think so, we still believe that the Communist ideas were good, were right ones. They were aimed at a great future. And for that purpose, we were ready to defend them, to our last drop of blood. We knew we had to do our duty, each one of us, and we were ready to fight. We were well brought up in this sense. We were patriots. We were patriots of our homeland, and we knew we had to do our best not to allow the enemy to intrude. But the real situation was completely different. The real situation showed itself a
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