vladimir kostikin participated in the famous operation to force the great khingan mountain range andefeat the kwantung army for a successful offensive. he received gratitude from supreme commander stalin. when there was no war, grief is absolutely grief. these are people in such, as they say, fears of oneself without end explosions ruins dead volgograd region the house of 96-year-old war veteran nikolai fedorovich masterov is decorated with flags and posters. today the postman brings him a special letter. good afternoon. this is sveta listen. aha. i brought you a letter of congratulations from the president to you on victory day. nikolai masterov, a participant in the battles for moscow and smolensk, was podorzhev as part of a mortar artillery regiment. the legendary 20th army in one of the battles in one of the battles, an explosion crushed the bones of the shoulder, threatened with amputation, the mortar hit the bomb. and now he was wounded, how alive he remained says, i don’t know well, they wounded him in the shoulder and shattered his forearm, then they took him away there, the