Life in the XX century (Russia, USSR, Russia)

This book is like an honest photograph of my homeland of the XX century: the USSR - Russia.
hunger, cold, homelessness, executions (even children!), Lists signed by the great leaders of the revolution. But the main thing is that socialism was built. Hooray! New words appeared: "Stakhanovets", "Drummer", "Drummer of the Socialist Labor", prizes are issued. And in life - a card system, miserable products for the people. Again, new terrible words: "enemy of the people", "wrecking". There were always arrests, but the terrible fell into 1937-1938. My father, a talented engineer-builder, “drummer ", since 1938, humiliated, exhausted by interrogations, with a bullet in a blond head. After 20 years, rehabilitated posthumously. This is an eternal grief in my heart.
War of 1941-1945. The Nazis broke into our country and reached the Volga. Bombings, grief, wanderings, women and children at the machines. And yet, after 5 years and millions of dead we entered Berlin. Mom is a surgeon in Berlin, in the hospital thousands of seriously wounded. A childhood friend Igor was buried in the south of Poland, a lieutenant, an orderly carrier, there are no more twenty.
So I live with two wounds in the heart: father and friend. But ... Victory! I am going to the promised salvo of guns on Red Square. The people are darkness. Screams, enthusiasm. Victory! In the sky, multi -colored lights. I do not hold back sobs: I look at these lights and I think - after all, these are the souls of our boys, fathers, friends