When We Were Wolves follows Alexei Ivanovich Morozov, a 25-year-old Serzhant in the Soviet Army, who is transferred to the frontlines in 1943 after serving in a Gulag. Thrust into the brutal Soviet invasion of Germany, Alexei faces the horrors of war and the war crimes committed by his fellow soldiers. Struggling to reconcile the violence with the Soviet ideals he was raised on, Alexei forms a close bond with a comrade and grapples with his growing disillusionment as the reality of war pushes him to his limits.
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