THE 3RD OF JUNE (BEGINNING)
All reports of the incident on the Great Stone Bridge stated that it happened ‘in broad daylight,’ but that wasn’t true: Nina Umanskaya died early on a June evening, which was almost as bright as the middle of the day. Double -decker trolleybuses with open upper platforms had just appeared in Moscow, and there were two routes that passed over the Great Stone Bridge. There were few passers-by — in 1943 people did not just go strolling at leisure near the Kremlin, and the stairs that led off the bridge to the Popular Music Theater were generally little used. The scene of the incident was deserted, only the House of Government stared at it with all its windows.
The first thing that was made up post hoc was that Nina was shot with an exploding bullet in the back
