Vasiliev Pavel Vasilyevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Red army Unit: 109th rifle Leningrad red banner division Pavel VASILIEV-born in 1925 .Participant of the great Patriotic war. Pavel Vasilyevich was born in the village of Gorbovo, Pskov region. In a large, friendly family there were six children. All the men of the farm went to the front on the first day of the war, and soon the Germans "came". Those guys who were not hijacked to work in Germany, the Germans used as a gratuitous force. I had to do what I was told. In winter, the roads were cleared of snow, and in summer they worked in the fields. Any insubordination was severely punished. If a villager was suspected of collaborating with the partisans, the entire family was shot and the houses burned. The neighboring village, Melenka, was burned to the ground, along with the residents. 90 people were burned for communication with the partisans. And when the Germans retreated, they set fire to all the houses in a row. The farm was liberated in 1944. Pavel immediately went to the front. First, he was sent to Kalinin (Tver), then as part of the 109th Leningrad red banner rifle division to Estonia. The Germans fought fiercely in Poland. In one of the battles, Pavel Vasilyevich was seriously wounded. After treatment in Lviv - again in battle. Victory day was celebrated in Bratislava. He returned home four years later. He served in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, and Poland. Returning home in 1949, he married his countryman Claudia, and had three children. Pavel Vassilyevich got a job in the Kalachinsky distance of the way as a track worker. The Vasilyev generation is proud of their grandfather and great-grandfather. Modest, hard-working Pavel Vasilyevich did not like to stand out among others, did not like to talk about the war, believed that he had no special merits. And the medal" for bravery " received in the war, so it's a war, if you got to it, he thought, so you need to fight and there is nothing to hide behind the backs of others. –All I want is that there would never be a war, that the country would create such conditions when everyone could create a good life by honest work.