NV publishes excerpts from the memoirs of a corporal of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (USS), who had lived in Russian captivity for more than a year, and then, together with his fellow prisoners, got his captors drunk and escaped.
"Time now!" one of these crusaders shouted to me, but I didn't understand the Russian language and didn't guess what time he wanted. I understood only when he cursed with a rude Russian word, grabbed my hand, and pulled up my sleeve. And since I didn't have "time" either on my hand or in my pocket, the soldier pushed me forward with the butt of his kris, followed by another juicy Russian curse. Another soldier did the same with sotnik [lieutenant of Cossack troops] Petro Pasika. We ended up in Russian captivity."
