My neighbor, as soon as he takes a sip of wine, keeps saying: "War, war ..." and how many lives
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carried away and did not work out.
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And Victory Day will come up - he will put on orders and drink, and cry quietly, remembers
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how they lived.
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As his mother remembers, the facial features and the funeral for his father, and how at sixteen he ran away to
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front with Vityukha,
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How Vitka shouted: "Forward, for ..." and tore up before my eyes, and buried
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unfamiliar old woman.
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And how he lay in hospitals, how the battalion commander died in his arms and how he was shell-shocked in April under
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Berlin.
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How in childhood he launched a snake, played war with boys and how to crochet in winter
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clung to cars.
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I played in the war - as if I knew: I grew up a little - I got to the front.
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The war from childhood came in handy in life.
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And many played one by one before the war in prison, there are very few of them from the penal battalion
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returned.
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He recalled that when he came, his mother prepared two pickled cucumbers on the table,
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sugar and humpback.
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How she cried into an empty sleeve and watched everything, pursing her lips, as he drank from
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father's mug.
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Then Vityukha's mother came, and they began to commemorate how Vityukhin had given her
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old pouch.
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She went home in tears, pressing her hand to her chest, and everything burned in her window.
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midnight light.
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And having put him to bed, his mother sat next to him all night, then she went to wash on
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river gymnast.
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A shepherd whipped in the distance, a rooster crowed hoarsely across the river, flying up on a rusty
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gas tank thirty-four.
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Why has the armless veteran neighbor been drinking for so many years, and the stars smell of mothballs
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and medals?
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There is an obelisk near the Volga, a funeral list for the father, and the commander-in-chief smiles in the photo
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Stalin... |