Ukraine
Juri Nesterov

The youth (early years) of these people coincided with the middle of the 20th century. That was a hard time. Stalin dictatorship, War against Hitler. The time of War, hardship and repressions. They all took part in the biggest fight of The World War 2 - battle for Stalingrad. More than 1 million militaries from each side participated in it. It was the time when "human life worth nothing" - one of the characters said then.

Alexander Bichkov: "There was a truck with
wounded people not far from us. The German tanks
appeared on a slope and one shell hit the truck. A
head fell to my feet and the eyes were still blinking".