Steel Soviet Union

"Then, he smiled and said to me: What I can do, I believe you can do it too. Someone once reached out to me and gave me a hand, giving me courage and opportunities. I think this luck and Trust should not belong to me alone, it should be passed on. ”

""

Kirill's words narrated through Sergey's mouth echoed in everyone's ears. Everyone present without saying a word seemed to be deep in thought, thinking about their own things. Because of these words, they fell into their own. Buried deep in memories.

After a long time, as usual, Iushkin, the "most eloquent" guy, spoke first and broke the silence, but this time it was not a meaningless chat or nonsense.

"It sounds sour and full of life philosophy that I don't quite understand. It's his style. A top student from the Music Department of Moscow State University is always so impressive, just like his bravery and risklessness are unforgettable."

In the eyes of not only Iushkin, but everyone here and others who are familiar with Kirill, Kirill can definitely be called a brave warrior.

Kirill not only saved Sergey's life, it is no exaggeration to say that even Malashenko owes Kirill a debt.

It was precisely because of Malashenko that Kirill was shot and the bullet pierced his lung, leaving sequelae. In the future, any heavy physical exertion work would make it extremely difficult to breathe. He had to do it as a last resort. He left his position as a loader and became a vehicle commander, until he died in a way that no one expected.

For a long time, this made Malashenko unable to let go and even felt extremely guilty.

If only I had paid more attention and looked at the map more to make an estimate and analysis.

If I could have acted one step faster and one second earlier, Kirill would not have received the bullet that changed his fate.

Will everything that happens next not happen? Can the gears of fate be reversed? Could Kirill's sacrifice have been avoided?

As a time traveler, Malashenko can predict and change the future, but time travelers also cannot change the past and reverse history.

Of course Malashenko also knows and still remembers that the person mentioned in Kirill's words who once believed in him and gave him opportunities and encouragement was the same person who first met Kirill in 41 years.

"Captain Kirill helped me a lot. He not only changed my destiny, but also saved my life. It can even be said that he exchanged his life for mine."

"I hope I can use my life, the life we ​​both share, to witness with my own eyes the moment when this war is won. Then I can return to my hometown and tell him the news of this victory. , brought to the hero’s grave.”

"Then, I wanted to spend some time with him, to spend the time in my life that should have stopped long ago but is still flowing. That should have been his time, his life, but he took it Leave it to me. I want to talk to him, tell him stories, tell him what happened in those days when he was away, and just stay with him quietly until the long story is finished. Moment."

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You can call yourself an atheist and do not believe in the afterlife or the reincarnation of souls, but this is not a reason to hurt someone or deny others.

Be it emotion or sustenance.

In any case, Kirill is an extremely special existence to Sergey.

Anyone who can feel and understand his feelings will understand why he did what he did.

Malashenko has been silent from just now to now. It's not that Malashenko deliberately didn't say anything or didn't know what to say.

It's just that the shadows and stories cast by Sergey's words and deeds really overlap too much with the memories deep in Malashenko's mind and flow too deeply.

Malashenko and Kirill, Kirill and Sergey.

This emotion, which is similar to a bond, is just as Kirill said. Some things should, of course, be passed on and will not be destroyed until death.

"Then will you come back? Artyom ran away and went back to work as his old fitter. Are you going to leave me too? Is I, Iushkin, so unpopular? One or two loaders Were all scared away by me?"

Maybe he felt that the atmosphere was a bit sluggish, but in short Iushkin once again started to show off his traditional art: nagging.

These few words were spoken casually, and Sergey, who originally looked lonely and a little lonely, couldn't help but smile.

"No, I will definitely come back, I can promise you that."

""Never give up fighting, live bravely and strongly", this is what I learned from Kirill. He left this thing to me. This is not only a memorial, but also a reminder for me to move forward. The meaning of going on. I will continue to walk along the road that he has not finished and entrusted to me. No matter what is waiting for me, I will not give up. "

"I will follow through on what he wants me to do and I will do what I say."

What Sergey held in his hand and placed on the table was the last relic that Kirill personally handed to him before his death - the Tokarev TT33 pistol.

It was 1941, when Kirill had just graduated from college and was drafted into the army. Political Commissar Petrov, his uncle, gave him his first college graduation gift for joining the army and serving the country.

It was once the sidearm of Comrade Political Commissar. As the first mass-produced initial model, it has accompanied Comrade Political Commissar through many years and experienced countless things since the day it was delivered.

The political commissar who placed his hopes and expectations on this gun gave it to Kirill as a gift.

Then this gun lived up to expectations and followed Kirill through countless battlefield days and nights, and experienced countless bloody battlefields, until Kirill reached his end in the form of the end of many Red Army soldiers in this era. And handed it over to Sergey's hands like a baton.

Sergei once thought about giving up and escaping, but he also felt that this thing was as heavy as a thousand pounds and was beyond his ability to hold. He used this as a reason to "return it to its original owner" - as Kirill's The relics were returned to the hands of the political commissar.

But Comrade Comrade Political Commissar finally chose to send the thing back again, handing it back to Sergey's hands and trusting him again.

At the moment when he was about to give up again, Sergey thought of Kirill's words again and again. He remembered that Kirill once hoped that he could do it, but now he was about to fail and had to do it. Things that cannot be accomplished.

Just because of my own cowardice, fear, avoidance, unwillingness to face it

"If you give up on yourself, then everything is really over, and failure is doomed from this moment on."

That moment, even though it was only a brief moment.

But with Comrade Commander's words echoing in his mind again, Sergei had actually made a decision while looking at the pistol he was gradually holding tightly in his hand.