Inside the Rzhev Meatginder

Оглавление

Геннадий Федорович Русаков. Inside the Rzhev Meatginder

Rusakov GenNadiy Fedorovich. INSIDE THE. RZHEV MEATGRINDER. CHILDHOOD. World War II prose. 1941—1945

Preface

INSIDE THE. RZHEV MEATGRINDER. CHILDHOOD. World War II prose. 1941—1945

Chapter 1. The year is 1941. I’m 7 years old.Fire

Chapter 2. The year is 1941. The rolls of war

Chapter 3. The year is 1941. September. Fascists

Chapter 4. The year is 1941. Military reserve

Chapter 5. The year is 1941. Boots

Chapter 6. The year is 1942. Between fronts. I’m 8 years old

Chapter 7. The year is 1942. Hunger

Chapter 8. The year is 1942. Bombing

Chapter 9. The year is 1942. Potato field

Chapter 10. The year is 1942. Great-grandfather

Chapter 11. The year is 1942. Search

Chapter 12. The year is 1942. Sled

Chapter 13. The year is 1942. Raft

Chapter 14. The year is 1942. Gallows

Chapter 15. The year is 1942. Nettle

Chapter 16. The year is 1942. Eight-walled

Chapter 17. The year is 1942. Grey lumps

Chapter 18. The year is 1942. Katyusha

Chapter 19. The year is 1942. Traitor

Chapter 20. The year is 1942. Five

Chapter 21. The year is 1942. June. Ring

Chapter 22. The year is 1942. Dugout

Chapter 23. The year is 1942. 17 bullet holes. Mines

Chapter 24. The year is 1942. Pawns

Chapter 25. The year is 1942. Shelenkovy

Chapter 26. The year is 1942. Aunt Anya

Chapter 27. The year is 1942. 22 spikelets

Chapter 28. The year is 1942. August. Our. Carpet bombing

Chapter 29. The year is 1942. Medsanbat

Chapter 30. The year is 1942. Tupitsyno

Chapter 31. The year is 1942. School

Chapter 32. The year is 1942. Typhus. Mummy

Chapter 33. The year is 1943. Spring. Marshal Govorov

Chapter 34. The year is 1943. Our cabin

Chapter 35. The year is 1943. Workdays

Chapter 36. The year is 1943. Moscow. Hospital. Sister

Chapter 37. The year is 1943. October. Grade 2

Chapter 38. The year is 1943. Guryanovna

Chapter 39. The year is 1944. Tuberculosis dispensary

Chapter 40. The year is 1944. Calf

Chapter 41. The year is 1944. Fedor Penkin

Chapter 42. The year is 1944. Revenge

Chapter 43. 1944—45 years. Victory!

Отрывок из книги

To my shame, with three higher educations and 58 years behind me, I knew very little, if nothing at all, about the Rzhev arc (Battles of Rzhev). I vaguely remembered the lines of Alexander Tvardovsky: “I was killed near Rzhev, In a nameless swamp…” and that’s it…

“Rzhev arc. Childhood” Rusakov Gennady Fedorovich – a teenager of 8 years by the will of fate found himself with his family between two front lines.

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The nearest medical facility was 12 kilometers away. I recovered slowly. While in our village the fascists were only raids – chickens were still walking through the streets and all other peasant animals were still intact.

In November, when the cold weather came, orders were posted in the village – to hand over warm clothes and shoes to the German command. Particular attention was paid to boots and fur coats, for hiding them – shooting. Houses were searched. But the inhabitants did not want to give what in such a harsh winter was necessary for themselves or their loved ones, husbands, sons and fathers who went to war, so they hid everything in some hiding places, often risking their lives.

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