Rank: Sergeant. Type of troops: Artillery. My grandfather did not like to talk about the war especially. Sometimes I recalled some isolated moments. Here are the ones that I can tell you: - After the attack - the next artillery shelling from Katyusha, when the soldiers were returning to their positions, all measures were to be taken to clean the guns and prepare them for further service, for the next trip to the firing point. And only after the completion of the work was it possible to go on vacation. The battery commander was very fond of playing chess, he found out that grandfather also played and in the evenings called him to fight with him. Grandfather played several times and won everything (since grandfather was fond of chess), which upset the commander very much. The evening games took up time for my grandfather to rest, he did not get enough sleep. And then one of his colleagues advised his grandfather to give in to serve the commander, which grandfather did. After that, the commander ordered that Private Efremov not take part in cleaning the gun, but instead went to rest, and then, when everyone was asleep, grandfather continued to play chess with him. - Grandfather graduated from the war in Czechoslovakia near Bratislava. There were just the last hostilities. On the way back, they stood in Romania for three months. We sat in the swamps for several days, after which we had problems with our legs for the rest of our lives. Grandpa was shell-shocked. Then they stayed in the same family, and at their grandmother and grandfather, who do not speak Russian, there is an Austrian machine gun against the bandits on the table in the middle of the room. During the entire war, no one thought to take it away. This time I was very thirsty, because the wells were all poisoned, they drank the same wine. There was a lot of wine - barrels, and so I wanted to drink some water. If it rained, they put everything that was possible right there, they opened their mouths just to quench their thirst. Sometimes they brought water, once a week, and so - only wine was.