European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I don’t know what kind of officers they were. They asked me all sorts of things.
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Perhaps I’d been thinking about it in the hen coop, I was asked for my surname.
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I said Ivan Ivanovic Srcnikov.
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That was almost my death, although I didn’t know it.
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And then one of the officers, he says to me in Russian what’s your surname?!
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I responded Ivan Ivanovic Srcnikov. He said I’m not Yugoslavian, but rather a Vlach.
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The Vlachs were Russian soldiers who had gone over to the enemy side, or who had been taken prisoner.
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They had gone over and joined the German army.
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Then that officer said sitchas mi vidjot, meaning we’ll see now, if you really are Yugoslavian.
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I wondered how he could figure that out over a thousand kilometers away.
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They shoved me off again, untied me and locked me back in the hen coop. I was there perhaps a day or perhaps only hours.
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Hours were an eternity.
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The same two soldiers came again and tied me up and covered my eyes.
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I thought: goodbye Slovenia, Yugoslavia, I’m going to be shot.
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I knew that the Russians shot the German soldiers somewhere down there by the plum trees.
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I was sure I was going to be shot.
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The two soldiers tied up my eyes and I thought goodbye parents, I’m going to die now.
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We stepped out of the hen coop and one of them said that we’re going to headquarters.
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When we got there someone asked me my surname. Once more I said Ivan Ivanovic Srcnikov.
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He spoke Russian and said something about some measurements; I didn’t understand because he was speaking too fast.
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