veteran maria mikhailovna rokhlina lives in podolsk near moscow.ar she will turn 100 years old. she saw with her own eyes how the volga burned during the bombing of stalingrad, how soviet fascist tanks attacked each other on the kursk bulge. alexey kvashenkin spoke with maria mikhailovna and recorded a conversation about the war in the first person. yes. at the front they called me little red riding hood, after crossing the dnieper my arms gave out because i was rowing in icy water, ferrying a seriously wounded man, i was in... the doctor ordered me to crochet for the rest of my life, the first thing i knitted was little red riding hood , red beret, i wore it until i was not caught by the division commander, i am rokhlina maria mikhailovna, nee kova, born on september 28, 1924 in... ukraine, we learned the beginning of the war at school, i was in the tenth grade, finishing it, suddenly one of our guys jumps in and shouts, guys, it looks like there's a war. on the third or fourth day , we received a telephone message to report to the sofievka statio

a veteran of the great patriotic war, maria mikhailovna rokhlina, lives in podolsk near moscow, who will a medical instructor, became a witness, an eyewitness to the largest battles of those terrible years. i saw with my own eyes how the volga was burning in the destroyed stalingrad, how soviet german tanks were going head-to-head...at each other on the kurdish arc. she was wounded twice, shell-shocked several times, once even almost froze to death, they saved her at the last moment. alexey kovoshenkin met with a veteran and recorded a conversation about the war in the first person. yes, at the front they called me little red riding hood. after crossing the dnieper, my arms gave out because i was rowing in icy water while crossing. seriously wounded , the doctor ordered me to crochet for the rest of my life, the first thing i knitted was a red cap, a red beret, i walked around in it until the division commander caught me, i am rokhlina maria mikhailovna in my maiden name koval, born on september 28. .. 924 years in ukraine, we learned about the beginning of the war at school, i was in th