Tag #144913 - Interview #83342 (Valentina Fidelman)

Uncle Fima even went to see Stalin after that. He then worked at the Kirov factory, on Pyshminsky highway, where they were producing ‘Katyushas’ [the commonly accepted name for a very powerful rocket offensive system developed in the years of Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union]. He went to Moscow from Sverdlovsk [Kirov factory and other Soviet plants were evacuated to Central and Eastern Russia during the war], to see Stalin and told him, ‘I want to be at the front, to avenge my wife and child.’ Stalin answered, ‘No, you will work on Katyusha!’ And later, after he returned to Leningrad, he went to revive the collective farms [15].