valentina’s younger sister was also at the partisan wedding, the same zoya buraya, who with every daynued to be driven more and more by the desire to take revenge on the invaders for the death of her father and the grief of her native land, the fact is that having survived such interrogations by the gestapo, this is a seventeen-year-old girl died a month before... commander shilevoy’s summary of his exploits and personal merits includes many more heroic deeds in which he exposed himself to bullets while standing up for defense homeland and his squad. on september 26 , 1943, as a platoon commander, he drove the shat police out of the village of kovalevichi, where three policemen were killed and five were wounded. this was a truly heroic generation, we cannot understand, many cannot imagine what the pathos of heroism and creation was behind me on june 5, 1944. he was the first to go on the attack to break through the enemy ring, where he was wounded in the chest. without courage this would not have been possible. valentina and mitrofan shpilev, the remaining years of the war, passed han