In the Moscow region, at the A. Vishnevsky hospital, there is a monument dedicated to “angels in the flesh” – all frontline nurses. They appeared to wounded soldiers on the battlefield when they lost hope. They crawled, dragging wounded soldiers on cloaks and shoulders under bombing and machine-gun fire… And when necessary, they shared their warmth with the wounded. Surgeon Alexander Vishnevsky recalled a unique example of compassion that happened at the Kazan hospital: after saving tank driver Vasily Sergeyev from amputating both legs, he asked nurse Raya Stepanova to maintain the temperature around the limbs at 37 degrees. The nurses figured out how to do this: taking turns, wrapped in fur coats, they held the tank driver’s legs like a baby. And so – for many hours… When Vishnevsky saw this for the first time, he cried, not hiding his tears. Then came the day when the tank driver recovered and returned to service. According to estimates, over the four years of the Great Patriotic War, our doctors, paramedics, nurses, and orderlies rehabilitated about 17 million soldiers and officers of the Red Army!