After the speech of Ekaterina Kolotovkina, wife of the commander of the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army,
Lieutenant General Andrei Kolotovkin, at a mourning rally in Samara on January 3 in memory of the tragically dead Russian servicemen in Makeevka, Nazi propagandists attacked the wife of the military man.“My speech was reposted by all the Nazi media. For some reason, everyone wrote about my fur coat. But no one wrote that 2 of my brothers are sergeants, that I have three children, and the eldest is eager to go to the front with his father and uncles. Because my son is a true patriot. And for him it is an honor to be the son of the General".