Wounds of War (English commentary.).wmv

Wounds of War is a home-made documentary about a small Russian village and it's connection to the great battle of Stalingrad. The village is Chertkovo on the southern Russian steppes. Chertkovo and it's neighbour Milove(pronounced Millavoya) are now either side of the Russia/Ukraine border but at the time of WW2/Great Patriotic war they were part of the Soviet Union and no border existed. I visited Chertkovo two years ago in 2009 and since then have spent in total seven months there. I have found the area very interesting and the people very welcoming and friendly. WW2 and the German invasion affected the whole region very deeply and the village lost too many of it's sons in defence of the motherland. Travelling around the area one come across many quiet memorials still surrounded by fresh flowers of rememberance. The area also has many unrecorded graves and new discoveries are frequently made. The small museum in the village were pleased to show me, in May 2011, their most recent discoveries and from a name scratched on a spoon they had managed to dicover the identities of the soldiers. The area was occupied mainly by Italian forces and many of their dead were unrecorded when they were buried. Victor, the boy in the story, although nearly eighty years of age still spends all summer, from May until October, on the steppes at his apiary tending his bees.

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Education

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• stalingrad
• ww2
• wwii
• open
• next
• russia
• great patriotic war
• stalin
• hitler
• Germany
• history
• battle

[Honour42GB]

@ElseMush You need passport, a Russian visa and on arrival you need to registar with the Ruusian police and also with the Russian border guards. Fly to Moscow, suggest Domedaedavo airport, then train, 20hrs, to Chertkovo....Yes it is safe. If you require much more info contact me through 'send message on my channel'....regards

[ElseMush]

Do you need special permission to go there because it's a border town? I'm not a seasoned traveller but I'd like to visit this place. Is it safe for westerners?