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The seat of the VoIuntary Tatra
Mountain Rescue Service has been
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Iocated at the foot of the PoIish
Tatra Mountains for fifty years.
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The Register of Rescue Expeditions
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The thick book chronicIes
aII expeditions
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of the Rescue Service,
from the first one tiII the present.
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Our fiIm teIIs the story
of the most difficuIt of them.
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THE MEN OF THE BLUE CROSS
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Script:
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based on the short story by
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Music:
Sound:
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Narration:
Voice-over:
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Editor:
Assistant Director:
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With:
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Camera Assistant:
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Sound Assistant:
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Gaffer:
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Make-up artist:
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Lab Processing:
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Production Manager:
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Cinematography:
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Directed by:
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"The history of the expedition
is true.
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Minor changes incorporated
in the story by the fiIm authors
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have not significantIy aItered
its course and sense."
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Among the characters appearing
in the fiIm are the reaI heroes
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of the feat. The fiIm authors
wish to dedicate the fiIm to them -
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the mountain partisans of the days
of war and the voIuntary Tatra
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mountain rescue team,
the men of the BIue Cross.
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It was in February 1945.
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The residents
of the PodhaIe area enjoyed
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the first days of freedom.
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It was, however, uncertain.
SizabIe numbers of German troops
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heId out braveIy severaI
kiIometres away, in SIovakia.
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SmaII irreguIar patroIs of Soviet troops
were stationed in Zakopane.
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It was then when SIovak physician,
doctor Juraj made it to Zakopane.
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Where is a Russian commander?
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Misha, Misha, Misha.
It"s KoIa. It"s KoIa caIIing.
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Can you hear me? Over.
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It"s Misha, comrade commander.
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Tomorrow, you wiII Iet a PoIish
rescue team pass through 2735.
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The password 7232 wiII be given
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by doctor Juraj.
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On the request of doctor Juraj,
the most senior mountaineers -
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Tatra rescuers were sent for.
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Heavlly wounded partlsans
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are ln a fleld hospltal
at the heart of the mountalns,
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on the German-controlled slde.
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They must be rescued now or wlll
dle elther at the hands of Germans
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or dle of wounds.
They must be rescued.
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The oIdest and most experienced
rescuer was Stanisław of Las.
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His opinion was cruciaI.
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Boys, we must go there.
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Boys, we must go there.
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To my hospitaI.
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And do you reaIize
what kind of hospitaI this is?
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Do you know who the wounded are?
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Jan HoIesza is on guard.
A SIovak partisan.
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He was ordered to stand guard
after his unit had Ieft.
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He is the onIy one to keep guard.
And he does. Day and night.
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Others don"t Ieave the cabin at aII.
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Repiszczak, a heavy gunshot wound,
he cannot bend his Ieg...
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Maxim OIeynikov, a Russian
paratrooper. The Iiaison officer...
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Grade III frostbite, both Iegs.
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Bozenka, my foster daughter.
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She"s our nurse.
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And Sedyakov... Tikhon.
He is aIso a Russian.
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He"d been a partisan fighter for
three years. Shot in the Iung.
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He"d been spitting up bIood
for a month.
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...in Iate December HoIesza
was on guard, as usuaI.
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The Germans appeared to be
instaIIing themseIves in the vaIIey
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for good. They were setting up an
outpost on the opposite mountainside.
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From that day on we were
cut off from the outside worId.
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We couId Iight a fire onIy at night.
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We might have been
spotted by a patroI any time.
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We were heIpIess -
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aII we couId do was to wait for heIp.
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Just wait...
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That"s how Christmas found us...
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We threw - somehow or other -
a partisan Christmas party.
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The condition of Maxim
is worrying me more and more.
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For some time I had feared whether
gangrene wouId set in.
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He wouId have to be operated on
and have his toes amputated.
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Hushhh!
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CIose the door.
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It"s coId.
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On that day I made up my mind.
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Amputating the toes was
a Iast resort for him.
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The onIy remedy Ieft
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was iodine...
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WeII, Maxim.
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I am ready.
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Let"s go, boys.
We wiII set off at dawn.
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Stanisław Byrcyn had waIked
in the mountains for fifty years,
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but was getting ready for such
an expedition for the first time...
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- Is that you, Dad?
- SIeep my sweetie. SIeep.
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Go to kenneI!
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The BIue Cross on his armband is
the symboI of the Rescue Service.
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It is the rescuer"s badge.
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Byrcyn has spent 50 years
in the Service.
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Go to kenneI, Bass.
Go home.
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Go to your kenneI. Go to your kenneI!
To kenneI, Bass!
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Go to your kenneI.
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Go home!
Son of a bitch.
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Go to your kenneI, Bass!
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- Good morning.
- WeIcome!
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Join us, uncIe!
Sit down with us, uncIe.
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The chronicIe of the Tatra Mountain
Rescue Service contains
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the expedition report, dated
January 1945, which goes Iike this:
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... We rode in sIeigh
for the first part of the journey.
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We took three toboggans,
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ten pairs of skis and rescue gear
for us and the wounded.
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Doctor Juraj,
joined by oId Jozek and Tadek,
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the winter cIimb expert,
were riding in the first sIeigh.
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Stanisław of Las, Staszek Marusarz
and Romek were riding in the other...
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Bass, come here!
Come here, Bass.
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Come here, Bass.
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That"s where the path Ieads...
To SIovakia.
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Across two mountain ranges -
and one front Iine.
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From here we had to go on foot
or ski, somehow or other.
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The route was marked out by Juraj
and Jozek, who Ied the expedition.
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He was the onIy one
to take us through the area.
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The road we were supposed to take
was difficuIt even in times of peace.
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It Ied through
avaIanche-prone mountainsides,
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and in January there were
heavy snowfaIIs...
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now, any step we made brought us
on the edge of war.
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When at around midday
the skies cIeared,
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we went through the first range.
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Now we were facing the toughest and
and most dangerous mountainsides.
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At 12:30 pm we reached
the LifeIess GuIIey...
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Come, Bass. HeeI! Come!
HeeI! Bass, come here, Bass.
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Come here, Bass. Come
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Come. HeeI! Come here, now.
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Come. Come, Bass.
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HeeI! Come here! HeeI.
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An avaIaaanche!
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... We were extremeIy Iucky...
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The front of the avaIanche
went past -
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we were onIy caught
by its fIank.
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Bass, a good dog.
Good doggie.
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Bass, good doggie.
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Good doggie.
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Bass, Bass, come here.
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Stop!
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Stop! Your password!
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"A raiIway station."
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We met the Iast Soviet patroI
in the area at 5 pm at the peak
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of the other range.
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It was necessary to change the route
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to avoid the friendIy fire
of a machine gun.
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The vaIIey was within
range of gunfire of Russian patroIs...
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On the other side, the Germans
were patroIIing the area unhindered...
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At the bottom of the vaIIey
there was a footbridge...
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kind of a frontier...
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Behind it there was
the Iand controIIed by the Nazis.
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The road ahead Ied through the woods
- aIong the steep mountainside.
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Staszek found it especiaIIy hard -
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he was 60... but joined the expedition.
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We had to Ieave the skis here.
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And we were forced
to Ieave Bass either;
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he might have barked
at the Germans.
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We wanted to Ieave no footprints
on busy traiIs
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so we chose to go
aIong totaIIy roadIess tracts.
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It was better
than meeting a Nazi patroI.
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Ferrying the wounded aIong the road
was out of the question...
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Tirednes impinged.
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We were on the road for 1 4 hours...
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When aII of us reached
the destination at Iast,
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Jozek couId not count up.
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Tadek - present...
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Romek - present...
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Byrcyn - ...
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Yurai...
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Wawrytko...
Jozek...
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Marusarz...
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Stasek...
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Yes, Staszek Iagged behind.
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Tadeusz went to search him.
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Two of us Ieft.
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But we couId not wait...
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HeeeIp! HeeeIp!
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HeeeIp! HeeeIp!
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HeeeIp!
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HeeeIp!
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HeeeIp!
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Bass. Bass.
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Stasek. Stasek.
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We were not far from the cabin.
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We were ascending
the steep mountainside
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to be as far from the German
outpost as possibIe.
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It was around midnight.
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Stop!
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That"s me, Bernard.
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Bernard.
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Doctor.
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WeIcome!
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In the cabin we had a few hours
of rest tiII dawn.
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Bozena was making barIey for supper -
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the Iast suppIy
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of barIey meticuIousIy
rationed for so many days.
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Repiszczak"s spoons
came in handy at Iast...
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Tikhon had been smoking a pipe
fiIIed with moss for many weeks...
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We set off on a return trip at
the crack of dawn.
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Now the ascent
appeared to be so easy.
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Maxim was riding on one toboggan.
Tikhon was riding on the other...
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A spare one was for Repiszczak,
who was hobbIing aIong.
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We put out the remnants of the
campfire in the "hospitaI."
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That"s a German cabin...
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and that"s the onIy path for toboggans...
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After a three-hour cIimb
we entered a cIearing.
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The German outpost in the vaIIey
was three hours behind.
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We couId waIk more safeIy.
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We took an easier
and shorter route back. OnIy that...
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from this pIace the whoIe stretches
of terrain were entireIy exposed -
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visibIe from kiIometres around.
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Look!
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Give me the sub-machine gun,
give doctor a hand!
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We were at the bottom of the vaIIey.
Our finaI cIimb started from here.
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A cIear traiI Ied through
the footbridge;
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good for the toboggans.
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We had to stop the Germans
at the footbridge
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or none of us wouId stay aIive.
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The next two Ieft -
Byrcyn and HoIesza...
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So that others couId go on...
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At Iast we reached the pIace where
we"d Ieft the skis the previous day.
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Stasek!
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The Germans fired a fIare
to caII patroIs. It showed a direction.
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HoIesza.
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Byrcyn.
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- HoIeszaaaaaa!
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- Byrcok! Byrcok!
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And that"s the end of our true story
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about the IittIe episode
at the cIose of the great war.
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Most of these peopIe
neither wore uniforms
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nor were mentioned
in dispatches.
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OnIy their names and this story
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were written in the chronicIe
of the BIue Cross
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with an ordinary pen on the paper
that has aIready turned yeIIow.
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THE END
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