Leonid talks about his elder brother: My elder brother fought in the Red Army against Nazi Germany. He was called back from the front when he was only 17 kilometres off Berlin. On the advice of his commander he took with him a war trophy, a parachute. He was sent to a labour camp in Omskaya oblast. There were many Kalmyk men in that camp who pulled mining carts. Having spent six months, one day my brother bumped into a man from his village who was eating dry fish heads that he had found in a garbage. People went really hungry. Upon his release from the camp, my brother returned to his family, to us. He had been wounded at the front. His wound did not bother him much when he was young, but when he grew old, he died from it. Although he fought in the war, the military committee did not help us with his burial.