Some soldiers, stoically, have refused the chance to go home.
While 19 soldiers refused the order, only 18 were placed under investigation.
As a result, many soldiers were refusing to fight, he said.
In all there were 16 army officers as soldiers refused to join.
Eventually, troops and police were given orders to fire on the workers, although some soldiers refused to do so.
Inside, a soldier stood guard with a rifle and refused to answer any questions.
Near the base here, soldiers themselves refused to discuss the war publicly.
I had heard that many soldiers refused to talk about their war experiences.
In Russia "at the critical moment the soldiers refused to march against the people" and instead joined them.
The book ends by imagining what the 20th century might have looked like had the soldiers simply refused to go back to war.