10 juin 2020
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Guido Lessing, « Selfmade Red Army Boots », Intersections of Luxembourgish-Russian History, ID : 10.58079/ul9g
Written by Yuriy Khrushchev To prepare this material, I talked to Olga Yurievna Popova, director of the Museum of Local History in Bondar District of Tambov Region. The exhibit to be discussed is a boot made by Olga Yurievna's grandfather, Gerasimov Ivan Prokopyevich. Ivan Prokopyevich, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, was drafted into the army in 1941. At the very beginning of the war, the advanced units were not always fully equipped, and in the conditions of continuous battles, adj...