Antonina Stepanovna met the war under occupation in Ukraine.
The veteran remembers those years as terrible: women and children were afraid to leave the house, and her mother wore old and dirty dresses so that the Germans would not notice her.
At the age of 18, Antonina began helping the partisans.
Thanks to her good memory, she was not declassified.
“We were given the text, broken into pieces, so that if something happened, the Germans would not have information.
I memorized the text,” said the veteran.
Afterwards, Antonina Stepanovna moved to the Urals, where she met her future husband, a military man.
I celebrated the Great Victory already in Moscow.
“There were a lot of lights, everyone was running and happy.
They even ran on the roofs,” she shared.
The woman has two adult sons, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She also has relatives in Ukraine, but she has not communicated with them since 2014—the views of her relatives have changed.
Earlier it became known that on the day of the 81st anniversary of the breaking of the siege of Leningrad, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the Piskarevskoye cemetery in memory of the genocide of the city’s population and the heroism of its inhabitants.