Eternal Winter: The Love and Lies of Stalingrad

Chapter 1

My name is Ptitsa Krasivyivitch-Svoboda Lenin, and I cried when I said goodbye to my dead. My dads name is Vladimir Lenin we just call him Vlad. I remember all two well when he said goobye. we had been arguing for months about if I should join the army. "Ptitsa" he said" I want you to live and be a good girl and a housewife like normal girls. You always said you wanted to be normal deer and I love you and the army is a bad place were people die. But I said "I have never been normal I have always been cursed with beuaty and before I wated to normal, now I know it was my destiny to join the amy and beat the nazis and defend freedom from evil and protect my home!"

When I walked into the military recriutment building they said "you cant join you are a woman and we can only have men in our army it says so in the rules"

"pkease, let me try!" I said, wipping my brilliant red hair that is herditory by my family and passed down like old pants except its not pants its hair and it works a little duferent then that (AN go check the wikpedai on genetics). I stared at them with my brilliant golden eyes, batting them flaccidly as I begged with all heart to get in. They where overwelmed by my beuaty and gave me a chance of 3 tests. The first was to shoot a can thrown into the sky from a tree and I shot it so many times it exploded from bullets in the air before it hit the ground. Then I had to restle the captain, but that was the easeist of all as papa Vlad had always ressled bears in the summer and I was fially able to help after years of not helpingness.

Then I went to the final task which was to beat the tank driver in a car race which was hardest of all becuase I always rode horses becuase horses are sentient not like machines and inteligent, so si superior to machine. But all the cars broke down in an earthquake and then wolves attacked!

"Go away wolves I dont want to hurt you!"

"No we must eat becuase hungry!"

"Let me hunt and bring food to give and have babecue!"

"Ok"

So we did and the deers were ok becuase they new that they were going into circle of life and natural order of thigs. Their souls became pospurus and went into sky by science into water to become rain to create life of more deer.

In those lomg months I'd gone from a cadet to a general and the only girl general in Russia passing all my tests in startegy and tactics and aiming. On the last day before I was sent East to the Eastren front, I went hiking in the woods outside my village to get one last look at the simmer snows and have notsalagia. In all the white, I nearlu didn't notice movement at the bottom of the hill I was medititating becuase it was a white thing that camofoged into the snow likea cameleon. I ran closer and picked it up and it turned out to be a bear! I thought at first that it was a polar bear like dad kept around, but it was a grizzl bear! It was white becuase it was an albono and had red eyes like a demon. "No! Ptitsa! You must never trust in the grizzlt bear it is two wild and vishus not like polars or black or brown or teddy but like pure animal! " my father had always said that. But then I raelizied that the bears wildness was what I would need in East becuase in battle I need wild power of savage to release on enemy and become force of nature like a hurricane only made flesh and killing nazis.

So I took it will me and named it Zimnii and held it sleeping on my lap while we took the train East. On the front we grew up together and learned that to become mature a oerson must forget the survival need. people go to spots like water- to path of least resitsnace down stream into easy spots. They think of survival like Derin and finches who were like "I need to evolve, bros, and eat nuts and live like God wants" and so he grew a new moyth. So is like evolving water, taking shape of container for living.

But they need to become adults by becoming brave and fighting and not running from nazis and doin what has to be done. And so I did what I had to be done and went out and attacked the enemy and we went threw enemy lines and into feelds of Europ. "Pesents! Lets be free and not be nazis becuase nazis aare evil and liberty is better!" I said and they were like "ok" and helped kill nazis and we all burnt the feilds and the cows and lived off berries and nazis couldnt eat so had to go back to germany. I went all the way to Belguim but went to far so I set up a new front in the Crymia and the nazis gave up on me after learned I they couldnt win and left me to free people and live happy. For a month that was the good life hunting nazis eating with nature and playing with bear in perfect Acadian freedome. But then it all ended on that snowy day.

I got a phone call and didnt recogonize the caller id. It was Trostky "I need you in Stalingrad we are losing to the Germans get over here now or I will kill you Stalin needs you so leave Crymia and fight for your home!"

"Ok" I said "you just had to say so nice sure ill come let me buy a train ticket"

so I did, and me and all my solders went to Stalingard thining it was an ordingary battle like any other. When we stepped from the train we saw it was something else entirely. It was a hellscape of borken buildings with rubble falling to teg ground like guts of a dead person and smoke rising into the sky and blotting sun. The mixsture of cement snow blood and steel was painful.

"This is not nature! How could this happen?" I screamed likec wildcat.

But I knew y. It was the nazis and theyre evil and voilence and tyranny that made the city turn into the cesspool of deturction! So many dead, so much blood, all becuase of them! I wanted in that moment to destroy them all even the ones who where innocent and I am still ahsamed today tat I did but I was in rage and still learning to contain primal power.

I ran leading my men into the broken skeletal city, but it was not long before we where lost and I couldn't find anything all the ruuble looked similar. I calmed down eventually and took out my map and began to find the way back but then suddenly I heard a noise. A terrible noise as suddenly the air seemed to buzz like bees except not bees it was deeper and came from sky. I looked up and saw that the sky was filed with jet plans and they were everywere like shiny metal ceiling that kills! A killing ceiling! And then the bombs dropped and everything exploded and I said "dive under rocks if you want to live their is no enemyto fight!" They said "but Ptitsa u said to never be afraid of death and not surive like water!"

I replid "I know but no enemies yet so best not tot die in vein but rather save yourself to kill nazis later it is not best to give your life for you freedom and home but rather do your best with your life so dont be suicide and die!"

They said "ok" but it was two late for many and their where dead people everywhere and arms and blood like strawberries in blender and fire and sharpnel that waited for cockys and killed them when come out to soon.

"Ok lets go into ruin building lets hold rocks over our heads so plans cant see or kill us and we will be safe inside!"

We, with I riding Zimnii holding really big cement slab. The fighter plans flew overhead and shot sometimes but mostly looked but couldn't see nothing so assumed wrongly that there was no one but I knew better and was happy. We all got to the building and cheered but suddenly the planes went up rlly fast! "They heard us! Everybody get ready and remember to kill all the nazis!" I said and looked out window and saw nazis running in waving rufles and guns and rockets.

They pored in and jumped though windows and snarled and shot and stabbed us and we fought back.

"For freedom and Russia and homes and children and wifes and pets and lifes and liberty!" I said and we all yelled and ran at them and shot and I shot so fast that the gun turned to fire and soon ran out of bullets and threw bayonet into rocket and blew up a squad of nazis who said "Oh no I don't want to go die" but they did anyways becuase nazus don't get that chioce they made it when attack!

Then I took our my sword and my axe and fought with one in each hand on Zimnii who was throwing nazis and eating them and not afraid of bullets but the nazis kept coming. All seemed lost and suddenly I heard a nois and looked outside as the nazis were cut down by what we call clow cars that aren't for clowns they are for solders (AN: actually is ba-42) and has turets and go really fast. Russian troops where everywhere and I was happy and covered in blood of nazis and tired and hungry.

The nazis were dead now and everyone was happy and cheering and dancing and playing games and having babecue.

"Where is your leader" I said " I want to thanks him for the help and the nazi killing their were so many and my solders were mostly killed by plans and no ammo"

"I am the leader" said a voice behind me that was soft and mealconhy like the sweet breeze of a winter night with wolves howling like sorrow at the moon.

I turned around and saw the man in black with hair below eyes and sad look despite happy times. He was wearing a balck leather general uniform and had two pistols on his belt.

"My name is General Zhukov . Let's get back to camp" he said and suddenly went very rigid and srs "not that I care or anything"

But I saw the softening of his eyeballs and new he wasn't bad so I said ok and we went to the Russian side and had food. My first day at Stalingardd had been a sucess.