War and fascism: from the memoirs of the WWII veteran Ilya Kusraev
ONLY THE PEOPLE WHO HONOR THEIR HEROES CAN BE CONSIDERED GREAT - K. K. Rokossovsky
When the Great Patriotic War began in 1941, 21,736 people left South Ossetia for the front, of which 11,711 were killed, more than 7,000 were missing. Among those who returned back to their native land was Ilya Nikolaevich Kusraev, a native of the village of Grom, Tskhinval district.