He was a true time traveler who came to our country from the 23rd century and stayed in it forever. He died on October 19, 1991 at the moment when a country called the USSR was collapsing in which, by the will of fate, he had to live his life. Evgeny Iosifovich Gaiduchok died 200 years before his birth.
As Eugene himself said, in the 23rd century, time travel became commonplace, but only scientists were engaged in this, and then he was just a boy and also dreamed of traveling through time to look at the events of the past. And once such an opportunity presented itself to him.
Together with his girlfriend, a young dreamer once got a chance to hijack a time machine, as he himself said about it - I was young and stupid. Then it seemed to them that it was easy to control the time machine and having set the right date, they decided to go to the distant past, but they did not reach the set date, something went wrong and the car moved to 1930.
The landing was not soft, the car received minor damage, Yevgeny himself badly bruised his head, and the girl escaped with bruises. They decided to stop their journey and go back to the 23rd century, but it was not there. Due to damage, the car did not activate if both were in it. “Bolivar can't stand two,” Yevgeny joked sadly about this.
He was still a boy, but already a man and made the only correct decision - he stayed in the 30s and sent his girlfriend home in the 23rd century. She cried and refused to fly herself, but he pushed her inside and entered the required dates.
He never found out if his girlfriend was able to return to her time. The damaged car had little energy and perhaps it could not reach its destination, but he was glad that it at least flew somewhere further, and did not remain in the most cruel century of earthly civilization in the 20th.
The time machine disappeared and he was left all alone with a broken head in that time about which he knew very little. Some people picked him up, who had lost consciousness, left him and left him, becoming his new parents. He kept hoping and expecting that a rescue team would fly in for him and take him home, but time passed, and no one came to pick him up.
But he was still a boy and his worries gradually disappeared and he even began to like him in this time, especially when he was bought a bicycle. In the 20th century, there was something amazing, for example a bicycle, I will never forget my impressions of the first ride on it, said Eugene.
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Time passed quickly, he grew up and he was sent to study in Leningrad, where he studied to be a librarian. There he got the opportunity to search and find people who, as he knew for certain in the future, would become great and famous poets, artists, and writers. He met with them and took autographs from them, whose fame will not come very soon.
All wars, revolutions, repressions are such senseless nonsense, especially if you know how they will all end and what consequences they will lead, - said Gaiduchok. He knew that repressions would soon come and many Soviet people would suffer from them, that there would be war and Stalin would die, and that the Soviet people would condemn his actions in the future.
But he, as a person from the future, could not warn anyone and could not interfere in anything, so as not to change the course of history for the worse. He looked at what was happening as if he was reading a book knowing in advance how it would end.
He knew, but was still arrested for a photograph of Stalin with his eyes pierced with a nail, found in his pocket. In prison, he met many people, many really got here for their political views, but most were simply not caught by slander. In prison, he became addicted to smoking and regretted it very much, because in his time the very concept of "smoking" no longer existed.
However, he was not shot and he was released just before the outbreak of the Second World War. He was taken into the army, ended up serving at an airfield near Baku. The situation was tense, there were rumors about an imminent war with the British, but he knew that there would be a war with Germany, but he could not tell anyone about it.
When Nazi Germany attacked the USSR, on Sunday, June 22, he read a fiery speech to the soldiers about the fight against the beastly grin of fascism and officers noticed him, surprised at his oratorical abilities.
Unlike the prevailing opinion that the one who was in the dungeons of the NKVD could no longer be someone significant, he was soon appointed a political worker - commissar of this part of the Air Force.
Eugene drew well, according to him, in the future everyone can draw, it's like writing. These skills helped him and he began to draw posters for his political talks with the soldiers of his unit. Everyone who was free from service gathered at his lectures, because he did not just utter cliches, but analyzed the further development of the war, the actions of the parties and allies. It was easy because he remembered the main moves of this war.
He served in the army until his retirement, went through the entire war as a squadron commissar, after the war with his part he was in Eastern Europe and in the North and Central Asia.
I've learned so much. I saw so many things. My knowledge of the 20th century would not have been in my 23rd century. It's one thing when people come to you and spy on the events from the outside, and it's another thing to live and see everything yourself, - said Evgeny, - but alas, no one took me away and I never got a rescue team. but I'm not offended. Time is a very difficult thing and I could change something in it. Something that itself became an integral part of this period of history. Therefore, they could not bring me back.
He got married, began to lead a family life. After retirement, fate brought him to the city of Zhirnovsk, where he lived the rest of his life in the Volgograd region. Health problems began, and the achievements of the medicine of the future were now very far and unattainable from him.
He lived to see the collapse of the USSR, but long before that, in 1985, in conversations he said that the USSR would collapse, the first president of the new country would be Boris Yeltsin, who would replace Gorbachev, that after the collapse there would be a putsch, conflicts in many former republics of the union that there will be a war in Chechnya, a war with Georgia, and another country will be "like a toothache" - Ukraine.
During his life in his town Zhirnovsk, he created an excellent museum of local lore. As he said himself - I want to leave a legacy behind me. let in the future they learn about me and receive the information that I have collected about your time in my entire life.
In his house was kept a huge archive he collected - millions of newspapers, magazines, illustrations, documents, drawings and personal diaries, autographs of future famous writers, artists, poets, scientists, and in the museum his paintings, which he combined into one theme "Timeline" … In these paintings, he depicted the entire history of mankind from the beginning of time to the future 23rd century.
Unfortunately, with the collapse of the USSR, the local museum fell into decay. The paintings from the "Timeline" have disappeared somewhere and today only a few of them and a couple of photographs with their images have survived in the museum.
Evgeny's personal archive burned down after his death during a strange fire in his house. 5 years after her husband's death and at the same hour, on October 19, 1996, his wife Elizaveta Petrovna Gaiduchok died.
His children, son and daughter Svetlana survived, but all the legacy of their father, which he collected all his life, was irretrievably lost. Both the son and the daughter perceived the stories of their father as fictions, when in childhood he told them about space flights, large spaceships about life on other planets where animal-like creatures live, about spaceports and how people will live in the future.
For them, it was then only fairy tales, but now they understand that a lot of what their father said - however, much happened after he told about it. For example, he bought in advance stocks of cereals, salt, sugar and other necessary products, because he knew that a "hungry" Perestroika was coming.
He passed away in the hope that he left a mark on history and that his life was useful for historians of the future, but his legacy by his contemporaries was lost, plundered, thrown away, burned.
We can only hope that the strange fire that destroyed the archive in the large basement of his house was not accidental and the archive was simply taken there - to the future.
