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Salsk during the Nazi Occupation: the Memoirs of Valentin Matveevich Shubin
Authors: Nikita S. Shubin
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Recording the memories of the participants and eyewitnesses of the Great Patriotic War is one of the most important ways to preserve a historical memory. These materials are valuable historical sources that allow us to analyze the perception of war by Russian society. These issues are not reflected in official documents, which historians traditionally refer to. However, the possibilities of recording memories of the war are steadily declining. The last generation of direct witnesses of the war are people who survived it in childhood. But they are becoming less and less.
The author of the memoirs, Valentin Matveevich Shubin, was born in 1937. At the age of 5, he became an eyewitness to the Nazi occupation of the city of Salsk, Rostov Region. Obviously, the basis of his story about the war and occupation is not only his own memories, but the information received in the family from his parents. Before the interview, was set the goal to find out how the city itself changed during the occupation and the living conditions of the people living in it. During the interview with the respondent, questions were raised about the everyday life of the population, relations within the family between relatives and with representatives of the occupying forces, and the various fates of people who found themselves in the war.