Another girl in our regiment told me that Antonina had fallen in love with me, and that she had arranged to bring letters to our regiment just to have the chance to see me. I'll never forget her. The war taught me a lot. Some say that war makes people savage and barbaric. But I think the exact opposite happens.
War makes people more sensitive.
War teaches you what hunger, pain, poverty and death are all about. It teaches you what it means to be separated from your homeland, your family, your friends. Azerbaijan's Contribution Even when Russians write about the war, they admit that Baku's oil greatly contributed to the outcome of the war. In 1942, for example, about 70 percent of all Soviet tanks, airplanes and armored vehicles were operating with Baku oil. A munitions factory in Baku also played an important role in supplying the Soviet Army with various kinds of guns.