About the book: 2006 / The recently released film "Bastards" caused sharp rejection among security veterans " This is understandable: the training and activities of teenagers behind enemy lines are shown tendentiously and deceitfully. How much do our creators of mass culture know about those people who, despite their young age, helped in the fight against invaders during the Great Patriotic War? more about teenage scouts? Pioneers, Komsomol members, they voluntarily went behind enemy lines to obtain important information, risking their own lives, they avenged the death of their family and friends, for their war-torn homeland. The documentary stories included in this collection tell just about such young heroes. The first of them, “Retribution and Retribution,” is dedicated to a youth group led by the youngest resident of the NKVD, sixteen-year-old Alyosha Shumavtsov, who was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The second story - “I didn’t return to the special department ...” - is the real story of a 14-year-old intelligence officer of the Special Department of the NKVD... So who are the bastards: young boys who fought the enemy, or modern popularizers of lies?