vasil bykov was very important to me and remains boris vasiliev.most powerful prose of this story, wonderful. i once read an article by a karelian writer , petrozavodsky, i think his name was dmitry gusarov, also a writer who fought in the great patriotic war, and it was such a very harsh critical article against the story boris vasiliev. the meaning of which was that he invented everything, this did not exist, there were no such girls, zenichits, there were no such things in karelia, the situation that i wrote is impossible, i must say that i willingly believe that it may not be there was, but this absolutely does not detract from the dignity of this story, it is still beautiful, well, yes, here a very interesting topic arises, that there is such a literal, documentary truth about the war, and there is still the artist’s right to fiction, nikolaevich himself tolstov too... they reproached him and said that it was not like that, and napoleon was not like that, and kutuzov was not like that, and the battle of borodino was not like that, but through