, she nodded towards ragovich, a fellow villager who had once been a neighbor and now served as a fascisttting on a cart. and watered their huts. she dragged a frightened boy by the hand behind her, heading towards the cart. in the panic that began, no one began to find out whether this was true, and the woman calmly walked towards her house. but the road was unexpectedly blocked by two germans. one immediately pointed a machine gun at the woman with the child: sister, i am a sister, smiling pointing to the policeman, she said in a calm, confident voice. the german lowered his machine gun, they let the woman through, and behind the house the forest became salvation. the fascists invented new methods of reprisal each time, more sadistic and cruel. the residents of the village of korpilovka, where there were 127 households, were not burned right away. the punishers began to count out 10 people to take away. hut, they drove us all out of the village, and so we found ourselves in the oktyabrsky district. on march 20 , 1942, the fascists began to block the oktyabrsky-lyubensky district partisa