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any easy riders without verification of documents because some adventurers for exchange for moonshine and
alcohol can use it. He thanked.
Was interested that with him will be further as government bodies will treat him.
Grows dark. The head hurts and the body, and a hand aches and to transfer difficult twists as. Stop writing, hard.

03.15.1944

In the farm there was one pretty girl 24 years. She hid from Germans, avoided them, and those called her proud.
Several times they climbed to Ooze, but mother slightly to them did not scratch an eye and enemies lagged
behind. Tina lost weight. Ached, but kept virginity, there was no one of many girls tempted with the enemy and
who went with them to Germany.
Nepochaty persuaded me to spend the night in other apartment (through the house), penultimate from edge. There
he got moonshine, potatoes fried on fat, [...].
Went to have a talk to Ooze (to jest as Ukrainians speak). Talked to it, and then and to her mother late when
darkened. But the hand pain incredible, prevented me to talk quietly and I hurried to leave not to show to people
of the sufferings and not to force them also to worry about me.
Drank two glasses of moonshine, but did not get drunk but only became heavy in a stomach. The hand hurt all
night long, only before morning took a nap, but that hour woke up, having remembered that it is necessary to
move further. Found out a further route of our part from one major of 416 pages of.
Kherson is occupied by us. He advised moving to Nikolaev.
The hand torments ruthlessly. Medical battalion in Novosibirsk. Yesterday I saw as he passed. He can will tie up
to me a hand. I did not do 4 or 5 days of bandaging after operation.
Nepochaty hinted that he gave both an overcoat, and money, and a tent. To me it became inconvenient, and I gave
a jersey to the hostess. German. Now I again in one overcoat, and Nepochaty exchanged at the hostess my jersey
for a groundsheet. Let carries on health to me not to live in enemy clothes.
The spring and day promises to be magnificent. Let's move farther now. The front, according to the major, 5060
kilometers from here.

Novosibirsk. Came across one medical unit. The army doctor was very kind. Tied up to me a hand. Did a bath,
but even the bath did not soak a bandage, it was necessary to tear off. Together with a bandage also the piece of
meat by hand came off.

03.16.1944

Yudindorf in German. Chkalovo's collective farm the 2nd site in a Soviet way.
Former Jewish village farm. Germans shot all Jews and dug in an antitank ditch, up to juvenile kids. 'To baby' as
peasants speak. After short transition from the settlement of Novosibirsk, stopped here on a lodging for the night.
Weather was rainy all day, gloomy and, appear, the end edge will not be to these frowned clouds heavenly. From
the horizon to the horizon the sky distorted a gray veil.
In a lodge it was warm. Wind did not make the way through thick walls to the apartment and only its hungry
rustle outside the window was felt. But I wanted to find the apartment with the girl, dreaming to spend better
time. I was told that on the farm there were girls some. But found only one, however, very nicelooking girl. Only
the married, though my coeval. Agreed about the apartment, but the fighter Nepochaty likes to eat my satellite
most of all nourishingly and well and I because of him remained on the first apartment, on that which was
occupied as soon as came to the village.
Ate, and Nepochaty decided to pass into another, more purely. I advised going in me chosen. Already grew dark.
Apartments all were occupied also we, prokhodiv is decent time on the village, returned on the old place. That
lodge that I chose, was occupied too.