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You order twenty thousand prisoners freed - do you keep your honor or your army?
A Siberian general frees 20,000 enemy soldiers on Christmas Day, believing a war can end with dignity. But the world demands a different kind of fight.
You order twenty thousand prisoners freed - do you keep your honor or your army?
This episode explores the life of Anatoly Pepelyayev, a lieutenant general in the Imperial Russian Army, and the profound cost of holding onto an idea when the world deems it dangerous. What does it mean to believe in mercy when war demands brutality?
Person: Anatoly Pepelyayev
Date: July 15, 1891 (birth)
Location: Tomsk, Western Siberia
Military Rank: Lieutenant…
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