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And my younger sister served in the army. She was mobilized as soon as they arrived in Gorky.
She served all the war long, and after the victory day they got aboard big lorries and started eastwards. In their battalion there were only women. They all thought they were going to be demobilized. But they went on moving eastward through Moscow, through Urals, through Siberia. When they understood that they were not going home, they started shouting, crying. It appeared that Japan drifted into war [10]. So my sister had enough time to fight there till the end of the war. She was there together with her future husband (he was their commander).
She served all the war long, and after the victory day they got aboard big lorries and started eastwards. In their battalion there were only women. They all thought they were going to be demobilized. But they went on moving eastward through Moscow, through Urals, through Siberia. When they understood that they were not going home, they started shouting, crying. It appeared that Japan drifted into war [10]. So my sister had enough time to fight there till the end of the war. She was there together with her future husband (he was their commander).
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Emma Balonova
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