The room I walked in was surprisingly dim, even though there were candles lit in broad daylight. One is that all the windows are covered with paper, and the light from the outside cannot penetrate in; Second, lighting a candle in such a large room is too little.

There was only a rickety wooden bed in the room, and on the bed lay a young girl with black hair, perhaps because she had been in bed for too long, and her face did not have any flesh that looked better, and the whole person was so thin that it looked like a skeleton wrapped in skin. The miserable white eyeballs did not have any light, and they looked at the roof so fixedly. If it weren't for her occasional moan or two, I would have thought it was a dead man lying on the bed.

Before I could speak, the door suddenly "banged" open, and seven or eight uniformed men rushed in from outside, startling me unprepared. When I looked at the people who came in were wearing Soviet uniforms, I breathed a sigh of relief, patted my heart and said self-deprecatingly: It's okay, it's okay, you broke in like this, but it frightened me, I thought it was German. After speaking, I took a closer look, and I didn't know any of these people.

"Who are you? How can you break into someone else's home so casually! I shouted at the intruders, but they ignored me and threw themselves at the girl lying on the bed.

"Comrade Captain, this girl is not dead yet, what should I do?" The two people in the front lifted the girl who was lying on the bed and turned to look at the people behind. The captain stepped forward to take a look, and then said in an indifferent tone: "Even if you don't die, you won't live for a few days, so let's carry it out first." ”

"Please, give me something to eat, I don't want to die, I want to live!" The girl pleaded with the men who carried her in a weak voice.

"Stop! Who are you and what do you want to do? "I didn't understand what was going on, but I couldn't stand it anymore, so I stood up to stop them and blocked their way. I didn't know that those people actually ignored me and carried the girl out of the room, and I found that they actually walked over in a good manner, from the middle of my body. Oh, my God! What's going on? I stopped where I was, stunned.

A roar from outside caught my attention, and I looked out the door just in time to see a man swoop down on the uniformed men like an angry lion, followed by a crackling thump and hysterical scolding.

"Smack! Syllable! After two crisp gunshots, everything was calm again. I rushed out the door and looked down to see a little old man with a full beard lying on his back on the ground by the door, his eyes wide, his hand clutching a wooden stick, and his white shirt stained red with blood coming out of his chest.

I looked up into the distance, and saw the men throwing the girl into a carriage with a baffle. Although it was more than 20 meters away, I could see clearly that the carriage was full of corpses, all of them as skinny as the girl.

"Comrade Captain!" There was a shout from someone on the right, and I turned my head to see seven or eight uniformed men, spears in their hands, escorting a dozen or so countrymen tied up in a string to this side.

"What's the matter? Seryosha! The captain asked impatiently the man he had just called.

The man named Seryosha stepped forward and saluted the captain respectfully, and then said, "We have just caught a dozen rich peasants, and I would like to ask you what to do with them?" ”

"What else can I do, it's better to follow the old rules!"

"But you see there are women and children in there!"

"Seryosha, aren't you still awake from today's wine? As long as it is a kulak, even a woman and a child, it must be exterminated without mercy, understand? ”

"Yes!" Seryosha agreed, turned and ran back to his group, beckoning the group of kulaks to stand by the wall of a house. Then the uniformed man took a few steps back, raised his rifle with an indifferent expression, and aimed at the men standing by the wall.

I saw that these people were so disrespectful that I could no longer suppress the anger in my heart, and I couldn't help but rush over and stand in the middle of the two groups. Facing the muzzles of the black holes, I very calmly stretched out my hands, cut off the so-called "kulaks" standing by the wall behind me, and shouted loudly from those in uniform: "Stop, you can't do this!" ”

No one paid attention to me, the captain led people to drive a few carriages to the outside of the village, only Seryosha continued to shout the password to his men: "All of them, listen to my orders, aim at the enemy in front, prepare ~~~"

"Mom! I'm afraid~~! I'm afraid~~~! I couldn't help but look back at a young woman with a headscarf, holding an eight or nine-year-old girl in her arms and coaxing her with a happy face: "Yiyana is good!" Don't be afraid, mom is here, you hurry up and close your eyes, and you won't be afraid if you close them! ”

"Put!" Seryosha gave the order, and seven or eight rifles opened fire together, and I saw six men leaning against the wall, first with a cloud of blood on their chests, and then falling backwards, slowly sliding against the wall and falling to the ground. Before the smoke had cleared, the second round of gunfire rang out again, and the other five women who fell this time, Yjana's mother, who had been shot in the back, used her body to block the vicious bullet for the child.

"Alright, march up." When Seryosha saw that the execution had been completed, he did not come to check it, so he beckoned all the people to chase after the captain.

I walked over to Izanna's mother, who was lying in a pool of blood, crouched down, and carefully examined the child she was holding in her arms, only to see Jana holding her arms tightly with her eyes closed, clutching her mother's clothes, and sobbing quietly. I wanted to comfort her, so I reached over and touched her face, but I didn't know that Lu Dao touched her again. I couldn't help but wonder, what the hell is going on, no one else seems to be able to see me, and I can even pass through the middle of my body, am I a soul out of my body again? But where is this, why would the Soviet army shoot and slaughter its own people?

In order to clear up this series of questions, I stood up and chased after the captain and Seryosha along the path they had taken. After about a kilometer or so, I finally caught up with this strange team. They stopped in front of a trench in the wilderness, and several men were still standing in front of it. The captain asked the others to stop, and he ran alone. Although it was far away, I could hear it clearly, and he was reporting to one of them, wearing a large-brimmed hat with the rank of political worker: "Comrade Military Commissar, the 97th corpse collection team has come to report to you, please instruct!" ”

Corpse collection team?! I was confused, what the hell was going on, had I traveled to another era? In order to figure out what was going on, I had to listen patiently.

"How many corpses did you collect this time?" Big-brimmed hat asked.

"There are 49 in total."

The big-brimmed hat nodded, and then said to a soldier next to him who was holding a ledger and a pen in his hand: "Write it down, the 97th corpse collection team has collected a total of 49 corpses today, and according to the standard of 200 grams of bread per corpse, they should be rewarded with 9,800 grams of bread." Then he instructed the captain: "Unload all the corpses and throw them into the pit." ”

The captain said yes and ran briskly to his teammates, shouting as he ran, "Unload the corpses and throw them all into the pit." The members of the corpse collection team heard the shouts of the captain, and several people climbed into the carriage, lifted the corpse inside, and threw it to the ground like a log. The man standing below lifted the body from the ground and carried it to the edge of the ditch to throw it away.

As they carried the bodies, I could clearly hear the girl pleading with them in a faint voice: "Please, I'm not dead, don't throw me into the pit, I want to live." But they ignored her, and threw the girl into the pile of corpses in the trench.

The tragedy that happened in front of me, but I didn't have the slightest ability to stop it, and I couldn't even save the innocent girl.

I don't know how I got back to the little village, but as soon as I got outside the original house, I saw a middle-aged woman in a headscarf crying over the old man who had died at the door. I stopped where I was, silently looking at the weeping woman. At this time, Xiao Yiyanna's voice came from the pile of corpses next to the wall: "Aunt Ayouna! Is that you? ”

The woman looked up from the corpse and looked towards where the sound had come from. At this time, the little girl's voice sounded again: "Aunt Ayouna, is that you?" ”

"It's me, it's me!" The woman stood up, wiped her tears as she walked quickly towards the pile of corpses, and said loudly, "Yiyana, where are you?" ”

"I'm crushed under my mother's body, come and save me!"

The woman walked up to Yjana's mother, carefully turned her body over, pulled Jana out of her arms, and held her tightly in her arms. He said, "Poor child, my poor child! Then she looked up at the sky and cried out in a loud voice: "O Virgin Mary! What have we done, and why do you want to punish us like this? ”

When she looked up, I could see her face from my vantage point, and I was shocked to learn that this middle-aged woman was actually Ayouna, who had brought the Germans to the village during the day.

I sat up from the bed and realized that I had another strange dream, and everything in it was so real. I sat on the bed with my hands on my knees, and after thinking about it, I realized that this dream did not appear for no reason, but was related to the member of the village Soviet whom I met in the evening.

As soon as the middle-aged woman saw me, she began to nag and kept telling me about Alyoua and Yyanna. It is said that nine years ago, Ayuna fled to this village with a nine-year-old Yjana, and everyone saw that they were pitiful, so they took them into the farm. In the beginning, Ayouna was relatively honest, and after a long time, she often spread reactionary remarks in the village to deceive people.

I remember when she said this, Lukin interjected and asked, "What kind of reactionary rhetoric?" ”

The middle-aged woman said as if meritorious: "What else can there be, she said that her family was originally in Ukraine, and at the end of 32, there was a food shortage, and the government organized a grain collection team to collect all the grain in the countrymen's homes." If anyone refuses to do so, he will be designated as a new kulak, and the members of the task force will have the right to carry out the death sentence on them. Speaking of this, she also added her own opinion: "Comrade commander, do you think, our army will do such a thing?" It's not that she's dissatisfied with society that she will maliciously slander. ”

"What else? Go on. I didn't want to take her ballast, so I urged him to continue.

Ayuna also said that because the grain was taken away by the grain conscription team, everyone had nothing to eat, so they went to the forest to dig grass roots and bark to eat, and in the winter, they did not have even this food, and they began to starve to death. At first, only one or two people died, and then the family starved to death. So the government organized a corpse collection team to collect the corpses from house to house and send them to the wilderness to be buried. At that time, her daughter was just dying of hunger, and was dragged alive by the corpse collection team. The corpse team did this because for every corpse they buried, they were given 200 grams of bread. ……”

Lukin interjected at this time: "I have also heard about the organization of corpse collection teams, but soon after the starvation of people began to die, the government adopted a strict rationing system throughout the country, which quickly helped us to tide over the difficulties. ”

"No, comrade soldier, the same is true of what I know, it is said that Ukraine was the hardest hit area of the great famine, and more than 100,000 people died before and after. But this evil Alyoua spread rumors that the government was hiding the true death toll, and based on what she saw and heard on her way out, it was estimated that thousands of people starved to death every day. Throughout the Holodomor, almost a quarter of the population of Ukraine starved to death. ”

"Rumors, it's just rumors!" Lukin said indignantly, "Why do your village soviets ignore such a person? ”

"Lukin, don't say it." I interrupted Lukin, and stopped the middle-aged woman's attempts to speak, and by now I understood that the great famine I remember was not supposed to be in 1946, but at the end of 1932. During that Holodomor, almost 10 million people in Ukraine starved to death. In this way, I can understand why Ijana got involved with the Germans so quickly, and when Ajuna found out that Ijana was dead, she ran to report to the Germans and took them with her to try to destroy us. And why are there so many Ukrainians in the puppet army during the entire Great Patriotic War, it seems that they are all the goods of this damn famine.

I was sitting on my bed thinking about it when there was a knock on the door. "Who?" I asked out loud.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I'm Pavlov."

"What's the matter?"

"Let me tell you, the troops have been assembled and are ready to go."

"I'll be here soon." With that, I rolled over and got out of bed and started getting dressed.