He went from home to the war at nineteen, such a gray-eyed cheerful little boy,
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After all, he still didn’t know how to kiss at all, and didn’t think, didn’t know what was waiting for him there.
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And then the first battle and a severe wound and bearded faces above it alone.
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Well, at that moment, probably, my mother asked the icon: “Lord, save me!”.
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They dragged him across the distant land, and he ran away that same night in the morning.
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But they caught him, beat him for a long time, cruelly, and he lay unconscious for several days.
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A day later, he again ran away from the gorge, he was betrayed by scarlet blood in the snow.
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Well, the mother kept asking God for forgiveness, and whispered: "Son, I can't live without you."
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They shot at him for a long time at the big stone, the bullets hit the rock above his head.
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Only the swollen lips of the boy were silent and the bloody sun lay behind the mountain.
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Behind the ridge is a pass, and behind it are passes, everything is “forward!” |
and "go ahead!" |
is distributed
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order.
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And in a short battle at one crossing, he, having gathered all his strength, fled for the third time.
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At first he ran, then barely crawled, a flock of birds returned to the north, home,
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There, near Kursk, the blizzards had already subsided for relatives, and, probably, it also smelled of spring.
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He saw his people at dawn across the river, he could not scream, he only raised his hands.
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Why does fate never have a misfire, and, smitten with lead, he fell to the ground. |