Life stories

- What, maybe you want a life story? — grandmother Nila, who treats headaches with a small glass of cognac and a cold with propolis tincture, started a conversation about her life.

As a sixteen-year-old, she dropped German bombs on the airfield near the village, and after the war, in a homemade jacket made of the German flag, she entered the technical school and became the best student. How she froze with her back against the wall of an icy dormitory, stole firewood from a military unit, stopped a train with a bottle of moonshine and learned to survive in poverty. And how her first love changed her life. Love in letters.

This is the story of the entire generation of "military youth", which meets us on the porches of old houses and hugs us with tired, aging hands. I would have time to hear all their life stories...