From the words of my mother, my late granny so told about the beginning of the war. The fact that the war started, my grandfather learned … in the bath.

 In the Sunday morning June 22, 1941, he went with a friend in the bath, where they learned the terrible news.

Participants from the bath former war with Finland went to the grocery store. And then people panic buy up all the food…

 Friends got in line, bought a bottle of vodka with a snack.

Came home to his grandfather, drunk and … written by volunteers went to the front.

In their actions, there was no patriotism. Just the experience of the Finnish war, they knew that in the first days of war, the volunteers were paid money. The logic of their argument was a simple and straightforward. That today is mobilizing for war, that tomorrow – what’s the difference? And his large family, left without a breadwinner (three children) will receive at least some money.

Mama said – my grandfather felt that this war alive he will not return …