The text of a theatrical production in the verbatim style that is popular today. Only real documents, words and thoughts of participants in the Great Patriotic War. Do you want to know the truth about what Soviet women and men thought when they went to the front? Do you want to know what the captive children, oppressed by the enemy, thought? Do you want to know what the enemy was really thinking when killing our compatriots? Do you want to know what this enemy thought when he realized he was losing? It's all here. The past comes alive on these pages. Heroes and tyrants come to life. On these pages are those who did not reach victory... still alive... The play uses letters from participants in the Great Patriotic War L. Zemskaya, L. A. Silin, N. A. Onilova, E. K. Stepkovskaya, V. Z. Khoruzhay, D. A. Petrakova, K. Susanina, O. Karpova, A. V. Kolbatova, A. Frank, A. P. Dolgova, G. D. Kievskaya. Punctuation marks and style have not been changed.