When Arturs, a sixteen-year-old boy, falls in love, the First World War intervenes. After losing both his mother and his house, he joins the army for the first time in the Russian Empire's history, which allows national battalions. There is no heroism or fairness in war as Arturs envisioned. It's excruciatingly painful. Since both his father and brother were killed in battle, Arturs is now all by himself. Furthermore, little progress has been made in bringing an end to the war quickly enough to allow soldiers to return home in a timely manner. Arturs finds the strength to fight the final battle and return home to start everything from scratch, much like his newly founded country, under the belief that he alone cares about going home and that his motherland is merely a playground for other nations.
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When Arturs, a sixteen-year-old boy, falls in love, the First World War intervenes. After losing both his mother and his house, he joins the army for the first time in the Russian Empire's history, which allows national battalions. There is no heroism or fairness in war as Arturs envisioned. It's excruciatingly painful. Since both his father and brother were killed in battle, Arturs is now all by himself. Furthermore, little progress has been made in bringing an end to the war quickly enough to allow soldiers to return home in a timely manner. Arturs finds the strength to fight the final battle and return home to start everything from scratch, much like his newly founded country, under the belief that he alone cares about going home and that his motherland is merely a playground for other nations.
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