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The person you see in this photo will be shot in about 10 minutes. The picture was taken on August 2, 1941 (Smolensk region, Mogilev district, the village of Zvenchatka). 40 days after the start of the war of Nazi Germany, only 450 kilometers remained to Moscow ... The man in the photo is a colonel, commissar of the 148th Division. He is 39 years old. Georgians. His name is Mirian Odisharia. I'm looking at this photo. What was the young colonel thinking about before he was shot? What was he experiencing?… I'm trying to read the answers in his face... He was a real soldier, but not everything depended on him, I respect him for not cowering, not taking off his uniform, not betraying his Homeland… In 2015, a book (Diary) of a German, a military doctor of the 3rd tank, was published in Germany. German Turk's Wehrmacht divisions about World War II. This book contains a photograph of the colonel, the commissar before the execution. The photo was taken by Herman Turk himself. "When the calculation of the machine gun was killed, the fire continued to be conducted by Commissar M.L.Odisharia. He, shell-shocked, was captured and shot by the Germans. In the photo: Commissar of the 148th Division, Colonel Odisharia Mirian Levanovich. After 10 min. he will be shot. 02.08.1941. Mogilev region, village. Zvenchatka.