Viktor Kolokolnikov: Defectors

Categories: Mode of life, Viktor Kolokolnikov

During the war there were not only Bolsheviks and partisans. There were defectors there. Though, they were not as many as partisans. If there was an army of partisans in number of three hundred seventy four thousands there were about sixty thousands of policemen. By the way, we shot up these defectors. And these guys, I am sorry, are immoral crums. They were ready to make such a frame-up for the own people at the cost of a bottle of schnapps. They were shot up. Though, we never touched their wives, children or parents, never ever. By the way, sometimes we had … the partisans sometimes had such a … what is a partisan movement… These are the descendants of those we had shot up. The descendants are revenging us. We have to fight even today for this. You see.

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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

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