he remembers, viktor zakharovich, when the great war began , how the germans appeared on the threshold, we have ours, mine, where i was born, and the village, and his village, they are nearby, so they were in our village for 2 years, which means they drove out all the residents, occupied our huts, well and we ... somehow we lived, somehow we lived, and the germans were with us, well, in a hut, and we were in gornitsa, for two winters, and then they drove us through to bryansk, well, not just one, not just me, all of us, all of us, they drove us to bryansk, forty-third year, from bryansk they drove us to gomel along the way, well, the railway and the shiseynaya road across the river. and our planes began to bomb this bridge, as a result the germans fled, and we were obliged. four died, all the villages through which we went there, all burned down, they, the germans, retreated and burned houses, i remember, i there were 3 years, when we returned, our house was gone, but there was a bench left, our mother put us there, my sister is a little older by 2 years, and i am the smallest, she put