There is a proverb: ‘Living life is not a field to cross.’ The heroes of this story, by their example, can prove that this folk wisdom is sometimes terribly true.

Just think: these man and woman were married for only 3 days, and then separated for 60 years!
Their meeting took place in the harsh post-war period.

Boris was a Red Army soldier, party member and activist. He traveled with other Red Army soldiers to the villages of the Soviet outback, gave speeches in squares,

talked about the advantages of the Communist regime, and campaigned to join the party.In one of these villages he met Anna.

This may sound too pretentious, however, the guy and the girl fell in love with each other at first sight.

It was decided to hold the wedding without delay, but Anna had one secret, which she revealed to her beloved.

Her father openly opposed Comrade Stalin, for which he was recently exiled to a correctional camp as an ‘enemy of the people.’ Boris was not embarrassed by this. The wedding took place.

The young people did not yet know that their happiness was measured for exactly three days. According to the decision of the investigative committee in the case of Anna’s father,

his entire family, that is, the girl and her mother, were sent to a village near the camp in which he was serving his sentence.

Three days later, NKVD officers came to Anna’s house and took her and her mother away. Boris was not there at that moment he,

on instructions from the party, went to agitate people in another village. And when he returned, disorder and emptiness awaited him in the house.

All his attempts to find out where Anna was taken were unsuccessful.At the same time, the girl herself, for obvious reasons,

did not have the opportunity to inform her beloved about herself. Thus began a terrible separation that lasted more than half a century.

Boris spent several years trying to find out which camp Anna’s father ended up in, but he was frankly unlucky on his way he met exclusively ideological ‘party’ people who treated

‘enemies of the people’ very harshly. The unfortunate husband had to come to terms with the loss and start a new life.

As for Anna, she, realizing the futility of trying to contact her husband, tried to hang herself.

The girl was saved by her mother, who after that did not leave her daughter, appealing to her reason and persuading her to start a new life.

And to make it ‘easier’ for Anna to part with the past, her mother burned all the photographs of Boris,

including the wedding ones. After this, the morally devastated daughter didn’t care, and she married another man.

As for Boris, he turned out to be a good writer. Readers were amazed at how accurately and powerfully his stories conveyed moments of drama when the hero loses his heroine.

Ah, if only they knew that the feelings described were not invented, because he wrote a couple of lovers who were destined to separate from himself and Anna.

Years passed, Anna and Boris had their own families, children, then grandchildren. But if you think

that the Red Army man and the village girl have forgotten about each other, you are very mistaken. They carried their feelings throughout their lives.

Well, then Fate continued its strange jokes. She brought the eternally young lovers, who were already in their eighties, to the place where they once met.

First, Boris returned to the village where his and Anna’s old house was, and then Anna herself. They recognized each other immediately,

upon their first meeting. After 60 years of separation, they were together again!
They say that everything that is not done is for the better.

I don’t know, in this case, it’s somehow hard for me to agree with this statement. And you?