The most precious thing for a person is life. It is given to us only once. A person's life should be spent like this: when he looks back on the past, he will not regret for wasting his years, nor will he be ashamed of being inactive. In this way, when he was dying, he could say: 'I have dedicated my entire life and all my energy to the most magnificent cause - the struggle for the liberation of mankind. '"

————Nikolai Alexeyevich Ostrovsky

Paul was admitted to the hospital again due to pneumonia. Pneumonia He recovered, but the doctor found shrapnel scars on his spine. While he was recovering in his hometown, Paul went to Lietu's grave to pay homage to his comrades. He was filled with emotion and made a touching and shocking speech:

"The most precious thing for a person is life... A person's life should be spent like this..."

After recovering from the illness, Paul devoted himself selflessly to revolutionary work: at work, He resolutely fought against all kinds of non-mainstream ideas and "evil tendencies". He was very sad about the "degeneration" of his comrade-in-arms Dubava and resolutely criticized him...