Read the story of a daughter asking her mother if she was crying when Lenin died.
I remembered how one of my friends, also at the age of about 12, was seriously interested in parents whether they were singing in school "God keeps the King." This is really "so no one missed the age")

When I was six years old, I asked my dad if he was still a little boy when I was WOW.
Father (60 years of birth) answered this with a very serious look, saying, yes, daughter, my childhood fell on the Great Patriotic War. Your mother’s childhood was civil.