General Vasily Petrenko
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The History Hour · Chile’s Penguin Revolution and the 5,000-year-old frozen mummy · 31 Jan 2026
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I was walking in space, the first man ever to do so.
I felt almost insignificant, like a tiny ant compared to the immensity of the universe.
When our troops moved in, the Nazis saw they did not have time to gas the remaining prisoners, so they started shooting them, spraying the barracks with machine gun fire.
The barracks were flooded with blood.
They started to come out of the barracks when our soldiers had completely cleared Auschwitz of German soldiers and no more shots were being fired.
Then the prisoners started to come out of their barracks.
They saw the soldiers, hugged and kissed them and thanked them joyously for rescuing them.
Neither Stalin nor the top military commanders mentioned the camp.
I did not know anything about any camp.
Two artillery battalions were sent across a thin layer of ice on the river Vistula and attacked the enemy in the rear.
The enemy collapsed in the face of our attack and scrambled to retreat.
Our battalions pursued them and got behind the German divisions which were guarding the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
With the combined forces, we managed to drive the Germans out and put an end to the bloodthirsty activities of the Nazi camp.
When our troops moved in, the Nazis saw they did not have time to gas the remaining prisoners, so they started shooting them, spraying the barracks with machine gun fire.
When I came there, I saw thousands of dead bodies.
The barracks were flooded with blood.
I had seen a lot of terrible scenes while fighting on the front lines.
I saw my comrades dying.
I saw signs of German atrocities in the territories we freed.
Dozens of people hanged by the Germans, women and children shot to death.
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