"Squeezed an award and began to cry as the child". Stories of the fighters who have received awards 70 years later

© the Photo from personal archive Korolev Vasilii Ivanovich Moscow, on May 9 — information agency "RIA Novosti", Gnedinskaya Anastasia. For veterans of an award not only the gratitude for their feats, but also a reminder on what price got the Victory. But to some heroes of the Great Patriotic War of an award and a medal there were long 70 years. In one cases prize sheets were lost, in others — surnames of fighters were mixed...