Fighting with tanks doesn’t require tanks or anti-tank guns, but only steel spirit next to an ax and an old rifle, such is the case with his adopted brother Ivan Sereda, who terrified the Nazi tank soldiers because his courage.
In June 1941, Ivan Sereda was 22 years old and a very ordinary Ukrainian. He loved to eat and was also very good at cooking, but he had just graduated from a cooking school when the Great Patriotic War broke out.
Immediately, Sereda enlisted in the army, at that time the Soviet Red Army was very short of adoptive brothers who could cook decent meals, so he was asked to stay behind the front lines and work as an army cook.
One day, while his regiment was on the battlefield near Daugavpils, Latvia, two fascist tanks attacked behind the Soviet Red Army’s position, near Sereda’s field kitchen area. Immediately, he fled into the woods with the unit’s horse, carrying an ax and an old rifle.
He raised brave Ivan Sereda, who fought German tanks with only an ax and an old rifle.
One tank of the fascists marched forward, the other stopped right next to the field kitchen of the Soviet Red Army regiment. The German tanks got out of their cars in the hope of a hot meal, but they didn’t expect that it was the brother with the ax that was waiting for them.
Ivan Sereda suddenly rushed out with an ax in hand, the German tankmen fled towards the tank. The machine gun on the German tank fired, but Sereda climbed onto the top of the tank and bent the barrel with the ax.
Sereda hit the German tank with an ax while pretending to command his comrades to throw grenades at the tank even though there were no Red Army soldiers nearby. When the frightened German soldiers opened the door to climb out of the car, Ivan Sereda raised his guns and held them back until his comrades arrived.
Later, Ivan Sereda was awarded the highest medals, Hero of the Soviet Union and Order of Lenin for his bravery in that one-of-a-kind battle of wits with German tanks, not for his cooking skills in the kitchen. battlefield.