Re: Zaitsev's accounting. (Long)
Zaitsev's account of the duel has the German master sniper making too many mistakes that an experienced sniper would never make. The worst is the German sniper taking a hide where there was no means of escape undetected and using the same hide on subsequent days. Also the German sniper would never have fallen for the glove on a stick trick, and if he thought he had made a kill, he would not have raised his head above his hide to observe his handiwork. I think Russian propaganda played a large role in Zaitsev's account.
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