Rank: Major My father, Aleksey Grigorievich Stupak, was born on April 20, 1922 in the village of Lazorki, Poltava region, in a peasant family. He graduated from the 7th grade of Secondary School, then worked in a kolkhoz. He faced the Great Patriotic War in the Baltic States in the city of Tartu as part of the 625th light Artillery Regiment of the 182th division on June 22, 1941. At 16:00 PM, the territory of the division's deployment was bombed, so the war started in a terrible mess and retreat. At first there wer no ammunition, no shells, then the horses were killed. They retreated in combats, in the morning they were in the area of Staraya Russa, on the banks of the Velikaya River. Then he was wounded in the leg, fortunately he managed to get on the ship "25 Let Oktyabrya" and underwent treatment in an evacuation hospital in Cheboksary. At the end of 1941 he was sent to the active unit, fought on the Kursk Bulge as a gunner of an artillery battery. As part of a Separate Communications Battalion, he crossed the river Pripyat, Desna, liberated cities from the Nazis: Chernobyl, Zhitomir, Ternopil as part of the Central, 1st Ukrainian, 4th Ukrainian, 2nd Belorussian fronts. The news of the surrender of Nazi Germany caught him in the Czech city of Olomouc. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War, medals "For Military Merit", "For the Liberation of Krakow", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." After the end of the war, he continued to serve in a Separate Regiment of the KGB State Communications under the USSR Council of Ministers. He retired with the rank of Major. His soul called him home, he managed to move to the Poltava region of Ukraine. He did not sit idle, he worked to the best of his ability. He did not lose optimism even in extreme old age, he loved folk songs. He was distinguished by his honesty, modesty and decency. Until the last days of his long life, and he died in December 2013, he retained a clear memory and a sober mind. So fate decreed that his last days fell on the time of the notorious Kiev Maidan, when a portrait of S. Bandera hung on the building of the Kiev Rada. He no longer knew about the “fraternization” of UPA soldiers and veterans of the Great Patriotic War, organized by the President of Ukraine on May 9, 2015, about equalizing their rights, about the fact that Moskovsky Prospect in Kiev is now S. Bandera Avenue, about the desecration by the Nazis monument to General Vatutin, who liberated the city of Kiev from the Nazis. I would like to believe that the common forces in Ukraine will not give up the common past and the historical memory of the joint struggle against fascism will be restored! Shkuropatskaya Valentina Alekseevna, daughter.