Didenko Kuzma Yegorovich_x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather is Didenko Kuzma Yegorovich (14.11.1912 - 27.12.1977). He was lucky: he went through the whole war and RETURNED! home to his wife Praskovia Kononova (maden name is Dudnik) and their seven children (Alexander, Valentin, Mitrofan, Nicholai, Zinaida, Ekaterina, Lubov). Part of the documents of those war years that were transferred by me to the archive of the Burlinsky Museum of local lore has been preserved. When my grandmother was alive, we often spent evenings looking at the contents of an old, worn folder - three Certificates, one can be read - for participating in the heroic defense of Leningrad - awarded a medal (I remember from my grandmother's stories that I was a driver and delivered food across the lake to besieged Leningrad), for participating in the breakthrough of the defense on the Karelian isthmus, for breaking the German defense on the Oder river and entering the city of Berlin (I left my signature on the Reistag), for breaking the German defense on the Vistula river and taking the city Warsaw, combat characteristics. This is all that has been preserved. In the combat characteristics in the last name made an error Dedenko, corrected manually. Awarded medals "for the defense of Leningrad", "for Warsaw", "for Berlin", "for Victory". When my grandfather died, I was just over a year old and I don't remember him. What a pity that I don't know a lot about his life and probably never will. But my cousin Marina Tyutyunnikova (Zinaida's daughter) remembers him. Here are her memories: "my grandparents didn't have a TV, but they had a radio and my grandfather liked to listen to it. In the evenings, fiction was often read on the radio. His most favorite work was M. Sholokhov's short story "the Fate of man". It was transmitted frequently. Sometimes my grandfather would ask me to read it to him. I listened with bated breath. And he also loved the song "Enemies burned down their native hut". Maybe it was because the song mentioned the name of Praskovya (that was our grandmother's name), or maybe it was reminiscent of the terrible time when he was at war and all the horror of the first post-war years. You'll never forget that."