Spotted some discussion about this on the Boryszyn Loop area and rather than zombie that thread I though I'd stick up something here.....Tovarisch Zayats will keep me on the straight and narrow.
To start with
Commands
Ogon! = Fire!
Na Shturm, Marsch! = Charge!
Vperyod! = Forward! Pronounce the 'V' more like an 'F'.
Responses to a direct order or question
Tak Tochno (the 'ch' is like in 'church') = Exactly So. What you say instead of yes.
Nikak Nyet = Not at all. What you say instead of no.
Slang
Podsnezhnik/Podsnezhniki = Snowdrop/Snowdrops. The Germans.
Yazik = Tongue. A prisoner for interrogation.
Tushonka = Tank Crew. A type of tinned meat stew that you can still get today.
Limonka = F1 Grenade
General words you might want at reconstruction
...tolsti - fat...
You'll definitely need that!
...mak'loud - someone who never takes hits! (I could tell you immediately where that ones from, but that would be no fun at all! Say it a few times and think about it a moment! Got it? Nah nah, I can make you chuckle!)
Thanks, that's given me the first smile of the week!
thanks guys
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
Comrades,
Gitler - Hitler. (Russians can't say the letter H, it becomes a G to them).
Gitlerite- a German.