Peter Klimenko
Rank: Red Army soldier._x000D_
Unit: 110th Rifle Division (1st formation)._x000D_
HOLD ON, DEAR MARINE..._x000D_
Without difficulty we found a house for several families at the entrance to the village Loboykovo. Anna Klimenko, was not at home at this hour, she went to the pharmacy for medicines. But Peter was caught on the spot. It was kind of cold inside. There were several pine logs near the stove. The ceilings were high — one can not heat such a space, and there is wood, the owner explained, putting on a handmade down sweater without hurrying. Word for word, and a conversation started about the soul-stirring military dashing years. That's right, it's a difficult topic..._x000D_
I myself come from the Olka villadge. When the Patriotic War began, I was already 19 years old. Seven of us from our village were called up for service. Duffel bags on carts, and themselves on foot. So we moved to Dubovka. And there my ways with the villagers parted. I got to the city of Orel near Moscow. The soldiers of the 110th Rifle Division saw everything on the front-line roads: the joy of victories and the bitterness of defeats._x000D_
I was a witness to the fact that after another bombing of the city by the Nazis, here it was standing unharmed - a granite monument with an eagle. And how much weight he dragged, listed under number 1: one anti-tank rifle one and a half meters long weighed 22 kg. This is without a magazin containing 71 rounds, for which infantryman number 2 was responsible. P. Klimenko saw as his comrade died. And the enemy bullet did not avoid him: he was wounded in the left arm on August 16, 1943. It happened near Vyazma, Smolensk Region._x000D_
And then there was a hospital in Kaluga, then in Moscow, Mozhaisk. In the spring of 1944, Peter went to the village of Olkha, in the hope of meeting with his small homeland, with relatives about whom he knew nothing. For all three years he did not get any letters from there. He came to the village and found his mother Evdokia t home, in the kitchen. My father was at war at that time, and returned when the war was over._x000D_
In 1945, after the Victory, he married his Anna. Her fate was also difficult in those harsh 1940s: hunger, cold, physical labor that was too much for the girl at earthworks in the Saratov Region... So she worked all her life in animal husbandry, the narrator continued ... the clock is ticking peacefully. Minute by minute, time passes. But there was a time when the village of Olkha with its collective farm "Bolshevik" was crowded. In the 1960s, when the school and medical center were closed, the population began to leave: some to Loboykovo, others to Danilovka, and some even further away. The last to leave Olkha were the Korneev and Varvarovsky families. It was somewhere in the years 1975-1976. What does an elderly person need most at 82? Agree, health, and it was not enough of it - the war took its toll._x000D_
Thank you to your family for the warmth. In Loboykovo lives a son of Peter with his family, in the Mikhailovka — the daughter with already adult two children. In Danilovka lives the brother - Viktor, and in fact there was a time when their father Philip and their mother raised five sons... November - half-winter has already arrived. On the farmstead of the veteran, poultry - chickens, ducks - talk peacefully. How to live in a village without a farm? Still blooming near the porch courageous, to match the owners, not afraid of the cold, flowers-buttons of September: white, purple, pink, blue the embodiment of hope and goodness. And let them not leave the house of our narrator and those who passed through the flames of hell to Victory ..._x000D_
E. Kvochkin. "Danilovskie vesti" #136, November 11, 2004.
