Live Again

World War 2 started in September 1939, and right after this war began, in three months another one called the Soviet-Finnish War began. Wars changed people's lives because all men were sen to fight, and women didn't know if they would ever come back. That time was taught with food, clothing, and money because it was tenth longest war in the world. People in the Soviet Union couldn't get food because Germany put borders around Leningrad for ninety days. Hitler wanted the Soviet Union to give up, and people were working for free because soldiers needed clothes and weapons. When the Soviet Union lost a lot of soldiers in the wars, women needed to go to the war and even children. My grand-grandmother needed to say goodbye to her husband and six of her brothers. These wars affected my family lives and mostly my grand-grandparents because they needed to go through some hard times.

Because both wars started at the same time, my grand-grandfather went to the Soviet-Finnish War, and my grand-grandmother stayed alone with a big responsibility on her own. In addition, they had two little children, and she was pregnant with a third. When he left, she felt depressed because she loved him so much, and she realized that it would be a demanding time without her husband. She never worked in her life because back then women weren't  supposed to work. She was a lucky woman because she had six brothers who helped her get food and in the garden. The only thing she did was taking care of her children and animals. She prayed few times a day for her husband and was sitting every night by the window crying about him. She couldn't wait for this war to finish, and finally, it did. She was hoping and believing that her husband would be back as soon as possible, but he never returned home. She lost all her hope, but the situation wasn't that bad without her husband.

The reason why my grand-grandfather didn't return home after Union-Finnish War because he went to the World War 2 where my grand-grandmother brothers were. That was the time when the grim times started. She needed to take care of the children and start to work in the field. According to my grandmother, when her mother went to work with little children she put them under the trees so they could play and she was working. It was a horrible feeling. I can't imagine how my grand-grandmother felt at that time. A woman who lost a husband in her mind and never worked needed to start work, watch over her children and worry about her little brothers. It was new for her to have a job and try to find food for the babies. She couldn't keep up with everything, and she didn't take care of the house nor animals. When they didn't have food at all, she killed all her chickens so they could have something to eat, but she left only one chicken to get eggs for them. At the end, last chicken died. That was the moment when she understood that it was more difficult without her husband and brothers.

Five years after her husband returned home. They were very happy to see each other and for him to see his three children. From this happiness, they conceived the fourth baby. World War 2 wasn't over yet, but he returned home because he had a lot of injuries and shell-shock. My grand-grandmother needed to take care of him because he couldn't work anymore of the injuries he got in the war. She already had a lot of responsibilities as a woman, but after her husband returned home nothing changed because at that time she still needed to take care of everything. After the war finished, two of her brothers returned home, and the other four were lost. She never saw them again.

I would never believe the man who ended up working at cash management services could go to the war to save our generation. I'm very proud of him and of course of my great-grandmother's brothers. Who knows what would have happened without them. Maybe our family would never have a name in this world. My grand-grandmother and grand-grandfather had some hard times when they lost all desire, but they went through it. They raised four beautiful girls and gave them to marry in Muslim tradition. This history and the wars changed every person's life who lived in the Soviet-Union. A lot of people lost family members
, but with satisfied feelings, because they saved the people of the Soviet Union.