i saw him for the first time in dvinsk. there was a theater there. this is latvia. yes, latvia. post-war years. and the only thing that was kind of fantasy was the theater. and i was like... on a submarine, the beginning of the war, it was as if everything had already frozen, frozen, they had such landings on skis, they went out and defended leningrad, in one of these, he was the commander of this detachment, in one of these attacks... he fired a machine gun, he saw that the guys were starting to fall, and he closed the gap, but what do you remember from that time as a military man? you know, i remember, the first thing is that these were germans, amazingly, i was already four, these motorcycles that i saw for the first time with a sidecar, there were two germans sitting, young, that’s the image, i still have it, i still ca n’t i can’t hear german speech, the german language. i immediately start to cry and i, well, you were also repatriated to latvia, yes , it was to latvia, then we were still sitting in stalag 340 abran, so, you were born in the leningrad region, t