On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 04:31:55 -0700 (PDT), Jim Wilkins
wrote:

On Jun 9, 2:57 am, Gunner Asch wrote:
...
The movie Enemy at the Gates showed this rather well.
Gunner

From the paperback edition, pages 67-8:

"Inside the perimeter of the newly arrived Soviet 64th Division...
morale was particularly bad."
...
"With the division on the verge of dissolution before ever seeing
combat, its commanding officer acted decisively to curb the epidemic."
...
"His harangue ended, the colonel moved purposely to the long lines of
massed soldiers. A pistol in his right hand, he turned at the end of
the first row and began counting in a loud voice: "One, two, three,
four." As he reached the tenth man, he wheeled and shot him in the
head. As the victim crumpled to the ground, the colonel picked up the
count again: "One, two, three..." At ten, he shot another man dead and
continued his dreadful monologue: "One, two..." No one bolted."
...
"When the last bullet in the revolver thudded into a man's brain, the
commander shoved the pistol back in its holster and walked away."



the term 'decimated' derives from the killing of every 10th man, both
of your own for various reasons, usualy group punishment, and as a
warning to prisoners etc.


Gunner

at yoyodyne they were all veterans of the psychic wars
exiled from the eighth dimension where the winds of limbo roar"
* * * * * * *mariposa rand mair theal