“If I hadn’t received an inheritance, this story wouldn’t exist... Even during his lifetime, my grandfather was preparing to leave an eternal memory of himself. He personally dictated speeches to his grandmother for his speeches. She wrote it down in a notebook and then read it aloud to him: “Dear comrades! I lost my parents early, I was raised by the Soviet government and the Communist Party, in whose ranks I have been for more than half a century...” After his speeches, my grandmother lovingly collected newspaper clippings in an album: “Lieutenant General I. Ya. Kolodin at a meeting with cadets of the Higher Police School ", "Lieutenant General I. Ya. Kolodin at a meeting with veterans of the Volyn region partisan movement"... Grandfather posed in a ceremonial uniform, for which he had accumulated so many orders and medals that the cloth could not even be seen from under them..."