

In part three, A Soldier's Prayer, Kaji and a handful of surviving comrades attempt to evade the triumphant Soviet forces. While trying desperately to get back home, they get lost in a forest treated as deserters and attacked by the Chinese. But it's when Kaji decides to surrender to the Soviets that he finally learns first hand that his romantic illusions about Communism bear little resemblance to reality, as he is forced to work in a camp that bears a strong resemblance to the mine in part one, only this time Kaji is the one at the bottom of the pile.