There was plenty of mice, I remember a lot, it just boggles the mind! And the wolves were howling out at night, and the village was all deaf – no light whatsoever, nothing happens anywhere, and you go out - the wind, the blizzard, the howling gale. Well, in short, the warlike feeling – bang! bang! – stuff like that. At that time I seem to have experienced, well, a feeling that, in general, is not probably characteristic of a person, well, something from a horror film. And now I have about the same thing as dejavu here, in those front-line cities that I will visit now. Well, I'm coming back at a time when it's ... That is, I already have experienced it, it seems to me that I've already passed through it.

Well, I can't know it for sure – whether it's true or not – but allegedly, those who were here before us – the previous shift – they were given red wine to drink. But when we arrived – nobody gave us no nothing. And nobody gave soldiers anything. But you know what it's like with soldiers – you give him a “shot” - a 100 grams of spirits – and he says “another one, please”. And then, maybe another one. Them soldiers, they were always searching for “moonshine” - and found it. Local residents sold them home-made alcohol. Soldiers were given canned meat and condensed milk – and they sold it all or exchanged – to get some booze. It's true, I'm telling you!

Our service consisted in patrolling. Basically, there was nothing to patrol, nothing to guard – it was all abandonned and overgrown with weeds. There were no local residents – practically no people where we were. We had a couple of detentions. Meaning, some people came to loot – to make a hand of something good. Because lots of things were just abandonned. Imagine, we enter a shop... And it was like a shop in a horror movie: you look around – everything is in its place, as if somebody had just left...There's everything – all, all, all – foodstaffs and what not. And nobody there – not a single person. That is, we were the only ones - absolutely on our own there.