European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I don’t know if there was any guard there at all; where would one escape to anyway?
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Winter was perpetual, no not perpetual, but the snow…
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They brought us to Moscow, or really it was Krasnogorsk.
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There was a prisoner of war camp in Krasnogorsk. There were all sorts of nationalities represented there:
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Slovenians, Croatians, Czechs, Polacks and even French.
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They sort of trained us in Krasnogorsk.
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That’s what I think and we also debated it among us - we were going to be sent in against Hitler, against Germany.
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We all decided that we would do it. So in Krasnogrosk we were prepared, they changed us …
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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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