ОН ВСТРЕТИЛ ВОЙНУ 22.6.41 ГОДА НА ГРАНИЦЕ СССР

Boris Akimovich Dekhtyar, the leading designer at the Gorky Automobile Plant, memoirs about the Great Patriotic War, which for him began on the Soviet-Polish border on the night of June 22, 1941, and ended in Central Asia in the summer of 1945. The recording was made in Gorky in April 2011. "I heard some kind of intermittent, powerful roar coming from above. We didn't know what it was yet. So, a few others and I ran outside—the sky was pitch black, and across it, dozens of planes were flying in precise formation, heading east. Their silhouettes were like fluff, white, transparent, like paper. And we realized they were already illuminated by the rising sun. I immediately thought: war. At four in the morning, they were already shelling us..."