and one of the first artists who began to go to military units was the queen of folk songs, lidia ruslanova relatives, because often these were completely new works, for example, many military men simply two soldiers didn’t see the film, there was no time for cinema, so they fell in love with the dark night performed not by mark bernes, but by ivan kozlovsky, who traveled with his guitar to dozens of units, and the soldiers did not let claudia shulzhenko go until she sang a touching blue handkerchief. god in my soul, the hall was not full, many of the spectators were already wearing military tunics, it was impossible to take my eyes off the green color of these tunics, i sang, tears filled my throat, she sang in military uniform, but one day the soldiers asked, let it be like before the war , and shulzhenka returned home to get her favorite dress, and here, on this bridge, she came under fire and lay dead. shells seemed to be exploding above me, and i thought, if only they didn’t hit the suitcase with the dress, whoever says that it’s not scary in war knows nothing about war, but we didn’t