bumashkov in the polesie region. in the second half of 1941 there were about 60 independent entities operating in the occupied territory of belarus. they were small in composition and initially numbered from 25 to 40 people. since april 1942, many detachments began to unite into partisan brigades, which could independently solve combat missions and were the most convenient form of organizing partisan forces. as a rule, a brigade consisted of three, and sometimes up to ten, detachments. well, there were a lot of us there, there were three brigadas, the brigada dzyadzi kolya, there were 11 satradas in general, the joy of every skin was our own camp, i caught a cold for the rest of my life, we slept in the same swamp, because we were already late, we were already occupied in more land-based places, we women did everything, i can do all the men’s work and mow. and plow, well, saw wood , sawed wood, the partisans made it, so much was needed, they made trenches, eyebrows, and dugouts, especially they made bunkers, in three