Alexey Gordeevich Yeremenko, a political officer in the Red Army during World War II, leads Soviet troops against German forces while brandishing his Tokarev sidearm. He was killed moments after this photo was taken.
More from George A Romero’s “The Crazies”.
In a strange way for me, the gas masks and all white NBC suits don’t dehumanize the soldiers to me. Their deaths seem even more the horrifying when they can’t express their pain and when those white suits are stained with blood

