/polru/ - pol - Russian Edition

An incredible example of ingenuity and courage was demonstrated by corporal of the Soviet Army Nikolai Kozhevnikov, a teacher of German at school in peaceful life. At the very beginning of the war, he was surrounded along with his division near Kiev. No matter how the fighters tried to escape, but the forces were unequal, which did not prevent them from fighting to the end and in the end only our corporal remained alive, and even then only because during the battle he was stunned by a fallen nearby grenade and the Germans decided that he was dead. He woke up a day later on the battlefield, among the corpses of his comrades and enemies, the advanced units of the fascists had already gone forward and there was silence around. The soldier sat down and wept with bitter tears at the realization that he could do nothing to help his country. But then his gaze caught on the corpse of a German officer lying a little further away, and a brilliant plan ripened in his head.
He took out a knife and carefully, slowly began to cut off the skin of the German with a knife, so as not to damage it, and he succeeded. Then he took a coil of thread and a needle from his soldier's bag and began to sew a suit out of this skin, making sure that the seams were not visible. It was finally done, and he immediately stripped naked and got into this makeshift suit - it suited him perfectly. Nicholas rejoiced and hurried to search for the nearest German part and soon luck smiled at him, and his knowledge of the German language, coupled with a certificate that he found in the chest pocket of a German, became his guides to the rear of the Nazis. And right on the first night on the night, he slipped out of his sleeping bag, pulled out a knife and, under cover of night, cut out the entire squad to which he was assigned. He found among the corpses of an officer of the highest rank among them and again performed the same operation on the skin, having received a new suit, and burned the old one.
Thus, he wooed the rear of the Germans until the very end of the war, eventually “reaching” to the rank of general, which allowed him to bring confusion into the ranks of the enemy, sending the formations to certain death. He even lived in the house of the general he killed with his wife and children, moreover, his wife even gave birth to a child for him, and from long communication in German he forgot the Russian language. Therefore, when he was caught by the Soviet soldiers in Berlin and wanted to shoot him on the spot, he could not even let them know that a terrible mistake had occurred, but he immediately got out of this position by brilliantly performing Yablochko, which made everyone laugh and was sent to the commandant's office, where, having already freed himself from the skin and remembering the Russian, he told his amazing story to the investigator, and a month later he told it to Joseph Vissarionovich himself, who personally hung so many orders and medals on his chest that their total weight exceeded 15 kilograms, and after he kissed the German apartment for 102 years, he died together with our hero from Moscow.