would have probably been killed but he managed to escape the horror by being pushed out a back door and running for his life with no one left to care for him and with his home village burned to the ground seriously ran off into the woods he spent several days wandering through the forest before being saved by a scout unit of the NUMBER_TOKENnd guards infantry regiment of the NUMBER_TOKENth guard's rifle division it was fortunate for him that the scouts were patrolling that remote region far behind the front line when they found ceriosa the little boy was in a terrible state he was half starved and disoriented and his body was covered in scabs from insect bites the soldiers wrapped him in a horse blanket and took him to the safety of their headquarters the boy quickly recovered the entire unit grew very fond of him so he became the unit's mascot the regiment's commander major mikhail varubioff showed a special affection towards sariosa so he adopted him major of orobioff had no wife or children of his own zaryosa even suggested a suitable wife for the major regimental nurse nina bedova whom the boy was very fond of for the major adopting the boy was not only a choice of his heart but also a wise decision he knew seriosa would not end up hungry in the regiment as he probably would if he was put into an orphanage that was the beginning of private sergey aleshkov's war in november of NUMBER_TOKEN the NUMBER_TOKENnd guard's infantry regiment was transferred to stalingrad sergey naturally went with them he delivered newspapers and letters to the soldiers on the front line and sang songs to cheer them up overall he was responsible for boosting the unit's morale and providing soldiers with the image of their kids that they missed so much the unit kept him as far from the front line as they could but the boy did his part in defeating the enemy one day as he was performing his usual duties he spotted some suspicious looking characters hiding in the haystack he knew that he needed to rush back and report it to the hq as it turned out these were german artillery forward fire spotters the germans were quickly disposed of and sergey received praise for his actions on another occasion he and his adoptive father meja vorobief found themselves in the middle of a german barrage robia pushed his son to safety and jumped into a dugout which was then hit by a shell the major was wounded and buried under a pile of dirt and debris zaryosa tried to dig him out but didn't have the strength to do it so he ran to seek help a squad of sappers hurried over and managed to dig the major out of the dugout on april NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN sergey received a medal for military merit from the divisional commander in recognition of his bravery being always around his new father sergey considered himself to be nothing less than the commander's adjutant therefore he insisted on wearing an officer's uniform and he got one a proper small sized version of the red army officer's uniform small leather boots a belt a cap and binoculars to indulge him even more soldiers even made a small set of shoulder straps for the
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