"Immortal regiment" on Cultural Studies: we REMEMBER, we are Proud

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The editorial board of Kulturologiya. Ru joins the action immortal regiment and remembers their relatives and friends, in whose life there was a terrible war. Someone was lucky, having gone through terrible battles, to return home, someone remained on the battlefields or died in fascist camps. Today we say THANK YOU to all of them! We remember and we are good!

Brave chauffeur Chaika Danil Trofimovich

Chaika Danil Trofimovich was born and raised in the village of Tomakovka, near Zaporozhye. When the war began, he was 32, he had a wife and two children. Already at the beginning of July 1941, he was at the front. He managed to survive all the difficult years, perhaps, by a miracle.

In the Army of the Guard, Sergeant Chaika was a truck driver. Since 1943, after being wounded, he served in the 2nd Guards Mechanized Brigade of the 1st Guards Order of Lenin's Mechanized Corps. As part of this unit, he fought until the end of the war.

In the summer and autumn of 1943, Danil Trofimovich took part in the battles in the Donbass, in the liberation of the city of Zaporozhye. At that time, Guard Private Chaika drove GAZ-AA, ZIS-5 vehicles, providing supplies for troops on the battlefield. On September 6, 1943, in the Druzhkovka region, he drove his car full of ammunition, closing the column. German machine gunners fired at the car from an ambush. In the award list for Danil Trofimovich, those events are described as follows:

For his courage and courage, the driver was awarded the medal "For Courage".

In January 1945, after a one-year break, the 1st Guards Mechanized Corps continued fighting in Hungary. The corps survived the hardest battles near the Velence and Balaton lakes, in which it suffered terrible losses. The guardsmen, equipped with Lend-Lease equipment, were opposed by German tanks "Tiger", "Royal Tiger", "Panther".

On January 25, 1945, Danil Trofimovich, already a guard sergeant, once again distinguished himself:

For his courage and courage he was awarded the second government award - the medal "For Courage".

After the defeat of German troops in the Budapest area, the guardsmen took part in the battles for the Austrian capital, Vienna. There, the battle path of the brave chaika chaika Danil Trofimovich ended. After the war, he returned to his native village, where he worked on a collective farm.

Ostanin Ivan Nikitovich

My great-grandfather Ivan Nikitovich Ostanin went to the front at the end of 1941. When the war had just begun, he did not get into the army. The military registration and enlistment office considered that the chairman of the collective farm would be of greater benefit in the rear than in the war. And after the second draft from the small village of Moki in the Kirov region, he went to the Kalinin front.

While the train with recruits was getting to its destination, Ivan Nikitovich managed to send two letters to his relatives. Each of them began like this: “Hello, my dear wife, Anna Efimovna. Hello my daughters, Taisia, Nina, Galina and Raisa …”Then he described the simple way of life on wheels.

When my great-grandfather arrived at the front in February 1942, he sent his third and, as it turned out, the last letter. It showed firmness and readiness for decisive action: "… we did not come here to rest, but to beat the damned invaders …"

Unfortunately, my great-grandfather's life was cut short in the very first battle. The recruits were sent into the trenches as "cannon fodder." They didn't even have basic instruction, let alone training. Ivan Nikitovich died when he was only 28 years old. A fellow villager who had returned from the front told his family about the last days of Ivan Nikitovich. Great-grandmother received a funeral, grieved and, gritting her teeth, began to raise and "raise" her four daughters alone. Younger Raisa at the end of February 1942 was only 1 year old.

Aleshkevich Parfen Nikiforovich

Parfen Nikiforovich from the Belarusian village of Gulevichi was mobilized to the front in the first days of the war. A wife and three young sons remained at home, the eldest of whom was 8 years old, and the youngest a year old. He fought as part of the 42nd Infantry Division, which defended the city of Propoisk (today Slavgorod). There were difficult, protracted battles for the city, but the forces were unequal. A month later, the defense of the city fell, and Parfen Nikiforovich was captured. The people were loaded into wagons and taken to the Polish city of Deblin, where Stalag 307 was located.

A German prisoner of war camp was established in the Deblin fortress, which lasted until the end of 1943. The fortress was entangled with hundreds of rows of wire, which divided it into zones, blocks.

There were different orders in each zone, block. This is how one of the prisoners described the fortress:.

On September 11, 1941, Aleshkevich Parfen Nikiforovich died … Officially, more than 150,000 prisoners passed through the camp. The camp was closed at the end of November 1941.

Oleichik Ilya Antonovich

Oleichik Ilya Antonovich was born in 1899 into a family of Belarusian peasants. Received a 4th grade education. In 1919 he entered the service in the Red Army and became a member of the CPSU (b). Shortly before the war, he graduated from the IV Stalin Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. I met the war in Osipovichi. After the regiment was defeated by the Germans, he came to his native village. His mother tried to persuade him to stay at home, sit out, go to the partisans. But Lieutenant Colonel Oleichik was adamant: “I will break through to my own. "He disappeared without a trace," the recruiting office told his relatives after the war. And one of the villagers claimed that Ilya Antonovich was captured and shot by the Nazis.

Sukalo Emelyan Timofeevich and Kasperovich Martin Martinovich

This is a pre-war photo. Both my grandfathers are wearing it - Emelyan Timofeevich and Martin Martinovich. This is how they were before the war. The war found one in Lodz, the other in Bialystok. They had to endure all the hardships of wartime: the terrible battles of the first days of the war, the occupation, partisan dugouts, betrayal and the joy of victory. One reached Berlin with an infantry regiment, and the other, in 1947, learned what the torture chambers of the NKVD were and was exiled to the Irkutsk region for 8 years. In the war, they left friends, fellow soldiers, youth, carelessness, lightness and health. But they managed to preserve the main thing - humanity, endless diligence, modesty and selflessness. And they were also happier than many, because they returned from the hell of war, while others did not. All those who survived the war - no matter how long they were there, stayed on the battlefields or returned - they are absolute heroes. THANKS to all of them for what we have. I remember and I am proud. I congratulate everyone for whom May 9 is not just a day off on the calendar. Peaceful sky overhead!