European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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it’ll sound a bit wicked how I say it … from Fascism to Bolshevism, or from Nationalism to Bolshevism.
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That’s how we imagined things were at the time, because there was no sentry or guard watching over us in Krasnogorsk.
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I think we were there in Krasnogorsk perhaps about one month.
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Once, Mesic came to visit; by rank he was a general.
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He was the father of the current Croatian Mesic, the one who is now president or something.
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So his father came to us and said boys, whoever wants to join the brigade can go and fight the Germans.
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It was either to get away from the encampment,
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or maybe just to get away from being controlled,
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or maybe even we were fully conscious, but we chose to join the units.
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I joined the Yugoslav brigade; that’s what it was called later, but then it was a detachment.
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At the time there were perhaps about 200 of us, or 300, 400 …
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I joined and I don’t know if I was weak or not; I probably was.
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But I came to that headquarters where Mesic was the commanding officer and he said that I’d be going to someone.
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Who? I didn’t know.
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But it came to be that I went to this man who had been living in Russia since 1918, or maybe even earlier, since WWI.
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His name was Jevremovic.
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I came to this man wearing a uniform, and I spoke Serbian with him,
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and he told me that I was going to be with him as his courier.
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As prisoner of war in the Soviet Union
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Perhaps it was a week or two or three, I can’t say because we didn’t follow calendar days.
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