Decision: Soviet Boy

All that is happening around us is the outcome of the decisions we have made. People are either too late to realize it or whole life, but they don’t realize that whatever is happening around them is the result of decisions made by them, but they easily put the blame on others and think that they will get rid of the blame. The story is about healing the mood of how a boy, the youngest in a family, bravely blocks the problems faced by his family with his wit.

There is a Russian village just one hundred and fifty kilometres from the border of Poland at the beginning of May 1940, a boy named Miroslav belongs to this village and at a school in Konas, a city in Russia named Konas Jesuit Jimenneygium Senior Secondary School, about two and a half hundred kilometres from the village where he is studying high school. Miroslav’s father is a small farmer. Miroslav has two older sisters. Miroslav’s mother sends him to Konas, a town a hundred kilometres away from his village, to study at Konas. Miroslav studied from his childhood. His mother has only one dream to make his country proud when he grows up and help his family get rid of economic problems and progress to the village in which his family lives. The reason for this thinking of his mother was the poor condition of the village. His entire family had always faced poverty and his father used to farm and discharge his family in some way. There was a great lack of resources in his village, so the cultivation could not have taken place in the manner that the village was looking for. Apart from his family, there were only twenty families living in the village who wanted to leave the village and settle elsewhere, but it was very difficult for any family to do so because earlier all the families who had tried to leave the village were either completely in debt or were worse off, it was difficult to flee from the village and start a new beginning in a different location because the big city would have to come from that village They were very far away. The family members of the village had to bear the brunt of Russia being a very large geographical country, which would have removed the village from the main cities of the country. ‘Miroslav’ had been upset since childhood. Being close to her mother, Miroslav always wanted to fulfil her mother’s wish. That is why he used to concentrate on his studies. Her mother loved him a lot but her father wanted him to grow up and support him in farming but Miroslav’s mother wanted him to educate and become a big man.

One day Miroslav came to his home before his high school exams and after two days passed told his family that he has been told by his teacher who teaches history that nowadays Germany has taken a very aggressive stance and he can ever make a dangerous attack on our country. Germany has already attacked several countries and occupied those countries, may our turn come, so they have told me to tell your family and the villagers this thing because at any time the German army can move towards all of us, your village will come first in the way of enemy army and at this time the army of our country is not as strong as the army of their country which can fight them and fight them better. Our nationalist leader, Stalin, is also not confident that Germany can attack him. Miroslav tells all his family members that my teacher is confident that there is going to be such an attack on our country soon, so as soon as possible we should tell the rest of the families in the village and immediately vacate this village and move to a safe place. Now is the time to do all this or else we will all be killed by their army or even worse they will join us. On hearing this, his father starts scolding Miroslav and asks him to give up his work, his father is very angry with him and tells him that nothing is going to happen, your teachers are only making a guess, nothing more. They don’t know about anything, why are the school telling you that they don’t have any other work to do. After hearing the scolding of Miroslav’s father, he walks out of the room into the courtyard of the house. After a while, her mother comes to him and tells him not to follow his father’s scolding. Then his elder sister, who is only two years elder to him, also comes to him and in the courtyard outside both the mother and her sister start asking him about his teacher, both of whom have their concerns on their foreheads and ask Miroslav what would we do if this indeed happened. Miroslav tells his mother and sister that Dad may not think of it, but whatever happens, we have to be prepared to avoid enemies in advance so that we don’t meet them here when they arrive. Then the elder sister of Miroslav also comes there and asks her, How sure is this thing? Do you have full faith in your teacher who they say? Can you really believe them so much. If this is true, then it is very difficult for all of us to get out of here and go elsewhere? This is almost impossible. In response, Miroslav says sister I have full faith in my teacher because he knows better about the situation at the moment. He teaches history and is very old and has the experience, he has told me this with full confidence. When he was telling me this, there was no doubt in him about it. He has given me some reasons for this, he has been constantly talking to us about the situation of this time for several days like he knows that the attack is not to be today, if not tomorrow, now tell me how I should cut their pieces. He is my guide. He understands the situation better. And what some events have signaled to him is that Hitler can go to any extent to fulfill his plans and his biggest goal is to be the Soviet Union at the moment, his army is strong and the way his army has so far conquered all the countries, even Britain has suffered a lot, is different from the four and so on Surrounded by the sea, it is impossible to go on foot in Britain, otherwise Hitler would have already landed on Britain. I have full faith in this and it is going to happen soon if you all don’t believe it, the coming tomorrow will not be good for all of us. So, I would like to tell you that we should talk to our army in advance. An uncle near my hostel used to work in the army first. I made him a friend and I talked to him about it. He is a very well-settled person and has told me a lot, he has told me that my son is in the army and that he is going to be on a holiday. If you want to tell him this, he can start all preparations for the safety of his village. My son will also agree fully with you because he too has spoken to me on this subject. Miroslav agrees with the rest of the family, except his father.

Then the mother of Miroslav says, Son, you are probably right, I will explain to your father. You leave Konas and meet your uncle’s son so we can do something from now on to save our village. I am with you and this flow will also support you. I have full faith in your words. We explain this to the people here and by then we take them in our support so that we can all together save the whole village. We are all with you. Just go there and ask the soldier what steps we should all take to protect ourselves. Miroslav then leaves for his school the next day and he goes to his school hostel and meets the uncle who has also worked in the army himself and his son is currently admitted to the private rank in the army. Fortunately, his son also meets him there for the first time. Miroslav then talks about the rescue of his village to the son of the same familiar uncle whose name is Joseph. Joseph tells him, I will help you and your family. One of my officers is they know very well how to make a safe place inside the land for security. The army has a machine to do this work, but instead of doing it, you have to help the army. We will do this for you and in time you will just do it. When the German army occupies your village, you will have to telephone us, which we will keep in the same secret place, through that phone, the ground situation there. You have to report every day twice a day. There is a danger to your life in this work. Do you agree that the army is ready to help your village? Miroslav then unconsciously opposes them and says, Even if I die, can my village survive if I have to die to save everyone, my death can be of everyone’s benefit. After listening to this from the mouth of a sixteen-year-old boy, Joseph and his father Marcus remain perturbed and they make a big difference to the boy. Joseph tells him that the captains of our company want to give responsibility to some citizens to gain some intelligence and for that, they have asked all of us to complete it. You will not be given any financial help because they have asked us to join this campaign only for those in need. I have spoken to my office over the telephone and sent you some help for your village now. Give this information to your family via telephone and after a while come with me to pick you up, after which I introduce you to the work of my army. Miroslav immediately goes to his hostel and Joseph takes him from there where his company’s captains are waiting for him to meet Miroslav, and he tells Captain Miroslav about how to do his job. Miroslav then goes back to his home, with two of his army’s soldiers sending captives with him, one with Joseph and another with Petrov. The two soldiers go to Miroslav’s house to collect the entire villagers and tell them that the army is going to build a safe haven for you in many parts of the land for your safety. The villagers are ready to listen and all the villagers are fully prepared to accompany the army, so this is easily done because Miroslav mother and sisters help him, the villagers are already aware and they are also afraid of not vandalizing with us, so they all come in full support of the army and live in a low secret manner on the ground Let’s get together. The solidarity that Miroslav sees in the villagers seems to be the reason for this, and Miroslav‘s efforts are now beginning to bring colour and he tries to meet the army captain again. But the Captain calls him to meet after the bunker has been built, so Miroslav’s training becomes operational, especially with the Captain’s recommendation, and that training teaches Miroslav every technique of working like a spy that is necessary for a good spy. After a few handicaps in a few days, Miroslav is transformed somewhat through this training into a trained detective. On the other hand, the army creates a better habitable secret place with the help of villagers. Where food is also stored completely for about a year, twenty families of these villagers, including the family of Miroslav, are directed to be used for a full two-year-to-two-and-a-half year. Some medicines and first aid boxes for the stage of the disease are also installed in the same secret place. With the help of the army and the people, a well-planned living and eating arrangement is made under one entire land as a concrete bunker, the responsibility of conducting which is given to Miroslav father and two other members of the village families. Three people thus take up the responsibility of better looking after the people of their own village who live under the land for two and a half years. In this world of survival, Miroslav and his family get together and try to escape for the people of their village. Two months pass by, and all the villagers and Miroslav make all preparations with the help of the army to fight the disaster, and all the soldiers of the army leave the village and join their troops again. Miroslav is very happy and seems to wait for Germany’s army to fight with the whole promptness. After a few days have passed, Miroslav gets news that Germany has attacked the Soviet Union, as soon as the information is received by Miroslav, he immediately alerts the villagers. And he fully waits the day before he reaches his village in Germany, and waits with full vigilance. His village is just one hundred and fifty kilometres from the border with Poland and he receives information that Germany has expelled the Soviet Union forces from Poland.

Miroslav is the first to know about the Blitzkrieg strategy of Germany’s military that is designed to attack enemy countries in war. The strategy tells him that Joseph, the son of his uncle Marcus, who is in a private rank in the Soviet army, is that the German army is moving fifty kilometers every day very fast because of this strategy. And army will reach your village in three to four days. As soon as Miroslav finds out, he immediately tells his father about this and his father tells him the responsibility of his father and everyone else on whose head he was, he asks the villagers to be ready to go down to the bunker. Everyone is scared and slowly starts preparing inside the bunker, which starts from below fifty feet. By the next day, all the villagers completely vacate the land of their village and move under the land. And completely secretly the entire twenty families of the whole are gearing up for the safety of their lives. Miroslav is instructed by one military, in particular, to monitor the enemy army from the entrance to the surface of that bunker, and by telephone to provide correct information to the Soviet army. Miroslav, with all his honesty, sees his village from a part of the bunker after all the people in the bunker went to do this work. He is also provided with a telescope, which constantly points to the direction that the German army may come to. He undertakes this monitoring for ten consecutive hours. After that, while resting for a while, a second boy takes care of the work, which is a friend of Miroslav in the same village. For a while, when Miroslav resolves his fatigue and begins to monitor again by removing his friend, leaving the whole night, and no casualty has yet been found in the German army, the German army until the next day’s night, or the next day’s night, until the morning the German army is expected to be there, again in the same manner he is determined to monitor. At about nine in the morning of June 17, 1940, the sound of German army tanks begins to sound and Miroslav sees the German army for the first time with his open eyes, the place from which he sees all this is also very comfortable by the Soviet army from where one could easily see everything without anyone coming in sight, then Miroslav immediately through telephone provides information about this, and continuously informs about their numbers and the logistical to soviet army. The Soviet Army starts to give them the exact information they need, and also take care of itself so that no German soldier can see it. Shortly afterwards, the whole army of Germany occupies that village, but when the German army does not find any one there, the German army assumes that all the villagers have left because of fear. Hitler’s army, which is a threat to the entire humanity, burns the houses of the village and destroys it, leaves many officers and soldiers of his army and in a few days, the village is converted into a dangerous military base. Miroslav keeps watching all this and keeps his country’s army informed. It is a telephone radar-proof that does not even bother the German army about the fact that people in the entire village below fifty feet of the ground are hiding and being monitored by intelligence. Similarly, Miroslav constantly informs his army, goes through the day and he and all the people of the village begin to succeed in protecting their lives. And for two and a half years, continuously goes through life in a big bunker with difficulty, until Soviet Russia’s forces take Germany from there and take possession of the village.

And finally, the whole village survives without any human life and all the villagers and the army began to take great pride in the bravery and understanding of Miroslav. With Miroslav providing accurate information to the Soviet forces, the army helps develop its village and get scholarships from the University of Moscow for further studies. Thus Miroslav fulfils his mother’s dream of developing that village by protecting her village and protecting her family from the difficulties that may arise, and going forward, joining the military as an officer in the army of Soviet united. The officer then makes a number of army operations successful and looks after his village in particular and makes his village fully resourceful. Thus the story is based on a child‘s decision which becomes a boon to the village.