Categories: Beginning of the war, Evdokiya Kolokolnikova

The war found me at my brother’s place. I was studying. When the war began I was sitting at home and suddenly we heard that it was a war. And my brother, it was Sunday, my brother left and didn’t come back for a long time. I thought, «What has happened? He didn’t come back». «Excuse me, I will take the word. She started the nurse’s course and was going to the front. For God’s sake we managed to win on time (laughing)» (V.T. Kolokolnikov – remark by K. Adasik). I studied in the 10th form. And could you imagine that he, Ivan, came back at midnight, and told him, «Vanya, where have you been? The war has begun!» – We were crying all the time and shouting. He said, «I have already sent two cars to the army. The demobilization has started». And I was waiting for Vanya and he was preparing people to send at that time. What could I tell him? – So the war began this way.

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Researcher: Natalya Ivaschenko, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Kseniya Adasik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno