How one mother waited her son to return 22 years is one of the thousands of Russian stories about May 9, Victory Day. This story told Olga Todorova, Russian woman, who 38 years is living in Bourgas.
"On the morning of every May 9 my grandmother poured a glass of vodka and put over it a piece of black bread. On the portrait of my uncle, who was ordered under the saints icons, she put a white cloth.
Scary was that my grandmother took on a blank look - neither see nor hear. Howled. I went to her and tried to remove her from this state, but I could not", says Olga.
Her uncle and the only son of her grandmother - Zosim Nikolaevich Balin died on the Kursk arc. Notice of his death, however, arrived only just in 1965. There were reported that Zosimus died near by the village Rakitnoe, near the border with Ukraine.
After receiving a letter Olga with her mother and grandmother departed there. First they traveled 1800 km to Moscow, and then - another nearly 1,000 km to Rakitnoe.
Zosim was a trooper, head of the tank brigade. There, in the village Rakitnoe, the brigade was broken. The tanks burned. Then gathered torn and charred body parts of the soldiers.
Zosim died at age 22 .
From his native village Tador to the front have gone 250 and returned only three, two of them without legs.
