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{{quote|''"The birthplace of Bolshevism, that city of thieves and maggots."''|Hitler on Leningrad}}

 

 

In its concise 258 pages, it tells the story of Lev, a timid Jew doing his best to survive the harsh winter with no food or supplies. One day, while Lev and friends were on the roof of the apartment building where they lived, they see a German paratrooper fall from the sky (who has been dead since he ejected from the cockpit), and they quickly rush to the body and loot it (Lev gets a fancy German knife). While they're robbing the corpse, the GAZ arrive to arrest them for illegal looting (and by "arrest" we mean "shoot dead on the street"). His three friends get away, but is caught after helping one go over a fence. Instead of shooting him right then and there, they take him to the Crosses, a famous convict prison, to spend the night. There, Lev meets Kolya, a coarse and talkative army deserter.

The rest of the story follows from there; Lav and Kolya traveling through Leningrad in search these eggs.

 

 

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* [[Action Girl]]: Vika, sniper extraordinaire and a partisan.

* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: A ten-ruble banknote Lev finds that was (badly)counterfeited by the Fritz to lower the value of the actual notes.

* [[Cold Sniper]]: Vika, although she warms up a bit.

* [[Cowardly Lion]]: Lev makes numerous punches at himself for his cowardice.

* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Korsakov, one of the partisans, gets the bottom half of his face blown off by a German when they're trying to escape oncoming forces.

** Zoya, a fourteen year old [[Sex Slave]], gets her feet sawed off by Abendroth of the Einsatzgruppen after she tries to run away.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Lev to Kolya pretty much whenever he talks.

** She's badass enough to be [[The Stoic]], too.

* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]: Vika can't, or rather, doesn't like to, thus making her one of the least feminine girls in a work of fiction.

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Kolya, who boasts much experience in the matters of sex (and even gets some while on the trip), despite his nature.

* [[I Ain't Got Time to Bleed]]: Lev, doesn't notice {{spoiler|loosing half of a finger in a fight.}}

* [[Sex Slave]]: The girls being kept in the cabin by the Einzatgruppen are basically this.

* [[Snow Means Death]]: The cold is Mother Russia's oldest weapon, after all.

* [[There Is No Higher Court]]: There's not even a court to begin with.

* [[Toilet Humour]]: A favorite of Kolya's

* [[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]]: They had to go there to find the eggs, after all.

 

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