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perimeter fence, and you can get lost if
you don’t know your way around. But
it’s remarkably quiet, as if you are on a
farm. The soldiers wander about without
weapons and they stand upright, having
rid themselves of the habit of stooping
like they do at the front. Maybe this lot
have never even heard a shot; their eyes
betray neither tension nor fear, they are
probably not hungry and perhaps they
have no lice. This really is the rear.
It’s a cosy little world, segregated
from the war by a concrete wall. This is
the way the army should be: ideal,
astounding order. And it’s just how
Lyokha had described Severny to us,
although we didn’t believe him at the
time: straight, tarmacked roads, green