War through the eyes of a teenager

Igor Vasilyevich Bestuzhev -Lada is a famous Soviet and Russian historian, sociologist and futurologist, author of several dozen monographs and brochures, more than two thousand articles in periodicals.
During the war, he was a teenager, survived the evacuation, worked at a military factory, returned to Moscow at the end of the war, where he saw a lot of this, as shown in the famous film "The meeting place cannot be changed". The author talks about the heroic and dark sides of the wartime - about selfless work and crime in the rear, about the complete deprivation of the life of ordinary citizens and the far from poor life of the nomenclature, about the strange, sometimes, decisions of the party and Soviet leadership. His memories of these years are interesting in that the heighten perception of the teenager is combined here with the deep thoughts of a person who lived a long life and has known a lot