Over Fields of Fire: Flying the Sturmovik in Action on the Eastern Front 1942-45 (Soviet Memories of War) by Timofeeva-Egorova Anna

Author:Timofeeva-Egorova, Anna [Timofeeva-Egorova, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HIS027130
ISBN: 9781907677557
Publisher: Casemate Publishing
Published: 2010-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

Here we were in Tashkent. We called in at the oriental bazaar, buying there the famous dried apricots that were allegedly a cure for all possible diseases. But the main point was, they were said to make one young and beautiful. Sure, we were young but everyone without exception also wanted to be beautiful and that was why everyone was buying dried apricots. If one had no money he would borrow from his mates. I also bought Tashkent sultanas but they turned out to be merely dried grapes with pits.

When approaching Kuibyshev at the Grachevka Station we heard a Sovinformbureau communiqué from the loud-speakers: “The Southern grouping of the German troops under command of General Field-Marshal Paulus has capitulated. The Northern group has capitulated too”. This happened on 2 February 1943. It got noisy straightaway in our wagon: we rejoiced in the great success of our Army, shouted ‘hurray’. And one more thing – we were outraged that they had been so slow taking us to pick up our new planes. We had missed out on the Stalingrad fighting…

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