Education, History
In the war, children, military childhood. The feats of children in war
June 22, 1941 for the main part of people began as an ordinary day. They did not even know that soon this happiness will no longer exist, and children who were born or will be born from 1928 to 1945 will steal their childhood. Sufferers in the war are no less children than adults. The Great Patriotic War forever changed their lives.
Children in the war. Children who forgot how to cry
In the war, the children forgot how to cry. If they got to the fascists, they quickly realized that it was impossible to cry, otherwise they would be shot. They are called "children of war" not because of the date of their birth. The war brought them up. They had to see the real horror. For example, often fascists shot children just for fun. They did it only to see how they are running away in horror.
Could and choose a live target just to practice in accuracy. Children can not work hard in the camp, so they can be killed with impunity. The fascists thought so. However, sometimes in concentration camps there was work for children. For example, they were often donors of blood for soldiers of the army of the Third Reich ... Or they could be forced to remove ash from the crematorium and sew it in bags, then to fertilize the land.
Children who were not needed by anyone
One can not believe that they were leaving to go to the camps of their own free will. This "good will" personified the muzzle of the machine in the back. Fascists "sorted" fit and unfit for work very cynically. If the child reached the mark on the wall of the barrack, then he was fit to work, to serve "Great Germany". He did not reach - they were sent to the gas chamber. Kids were not needed by the Third Reich, so they had only one fate. However, at home not everyone was waiting for a happy fate. Very many children in the Great Patriotic War lost all their native people. That is, only their children's home and half-starved youth were waiting for them in their homeland during the post-war ruin.
Children brought up by work and real valor
Very many children already at the age of 12 got up to machines in factories and factories, worked on construction sites on a par with adults. Because of their childishly difficult work, they grew up early and replaced their brothers and sisters with dead parents. It was children in the war of 1941-1945. Helped keep afloat, and then restored the economy of the country. They say that there are no children in the war. This is actually so. In the war they worked and fought along with adults, both in the army and the rear, and in partisan detachments.
It was commonplace that many adolescents added themselves a year or two and went to the front. Many of them, at the cost of their lives, collected ammunition, machine guns, grenades, rifles and other weapons that remained after the battles, and then handed them over to the partisans. Many engaged in partisan intelligence, worked as liaison in the detachments of the people's avengers. They helped our underground workers organize shoots of prisoners of war, saved the wounded, set fire to German warehouses with weapons and food. Interestingly, not only boys fought in the war. Girls did it with no less heroism. Especially a lot of these girls were in Belarus ... Courage, the strength of the spirit of these children, the ability to sacrifice themselves for only one purpose, made a huge contribution to the overall Victory. All this is true, but these children died tens of thousands ... Officially in our country in this war, 27 million people died. Soldiers of them - only 10 million. The rest are civilians, mostly women and children. Children who died in the war ... Their number can not be counted accurately.
Children who really wanted to help the front
From the first days of the war, children wanted to help adults in all possible ways. They built fortifications, collected scrap metal and medicinal plants, took part in collecting things for the army. As already mentioned, the children worked day and night in factories to replace fathers and older brothers who went to the front. They collected gas masks, made smoke bombs, fuses for mines, fuses for hand grenades. In the school workshops, in which before the war the girls had labor lessons, they now sewed linen and tunics for the army. Knitted and warm clothes - socks, mittens, sewed tobacco pouches. Children also helped wounded in hospitals. In addition, they wrote letters for their relatives under their dictation, and even put on concerts and performances that aroused a smile in grown men exhausted by the war. Feats are committed not only in combat. All of the above - this is also the exploits of children in the war. And hunger, cold and disease in two accounts dealt with their lives, which had not yet started properly ....
Sons of the regiment
Very often in the war, on an equal basis with adults, teenagers of 13-15 years were at war. This was not very surprising, since the sons of the regiment served the Russian army for a long time. Most often it was a young drummer or a boy. In the Great Patriotic War, it was usually children who lost their parents, killed by the Germans or stolen in concentration camps. This was the best option for them, since to stay alone in the occupied city was the most horrible. The child in this situation was threatened only by starvation. In addition, the Nazis sometimes amused themselves and threw a piece of bread to the hungry children ... And then they shot a burst from the machine gun. That is why parts of the Red Army, if passed through such territories, were very sensitive to such children and often took them with them. As Marshal Bagramyan mentions, often the courage and ingenuity of the sons of the regiment amazed even experienced soldiers.
The feats of children in war deserve no less respect than the exploits of adults. According to the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, 3500 children, whose age was less than 16 years, fought in the army during the Great Patriotic War. However, these data can not be accurate, since they did not take into account the young heroes from partisan detachments. Five were awarded the highest military award. We'll talk more about the three of them, although they were not all, children who were particularly distinguished at the war who are worthy of mention.
Valya Kotik
14-year-old Valya Kotik was a partisan-scout in the detachment of the name of Karmeliuk. He is the youngest hero of the USSR. He carried out assignments of the Shepetiv Military Intelligence Organization. His first task (and he successfully fulfilled it) was to eliminate the squad of the field gendarmerie. This task was far from the last. Valya Kotik was killed in 1944, 5 days after he turned 14.
Lenya Golikov
The 16-year-old Lenya Golikov was the scout of the Fourth Leningrad Partisan Brigade. With the outbreak of the war, he went into partisans. Slender Lenya looked even younger than his 14 years (that's how much he was at the time of the beginning of the war). He disguised himself as a beggar bypassing the villages and relaying important information to the partisans. Lenya participated in 27 battles, undermined motor vehicles with ammunition and more than a dozen bridges. In 1943, his unit could not get out of the encirclement. Few managed to survive. Leni was not among them.
Zina Portnova
17-year-old Zina Portnova was a scout of the partisan detachment named after Voroshilov in the territory of Belarus. She was also a member of the underground Young Communist League youth organization "Young Avengers". In 1943 she was instructed to find out the reasons for the collapse of this organization and to establish contact with the underground. Upon her return to the detachment, the Germans arrested her. During one of the interrogations, she grabbed the pistol of a fascist investigator and shot him and two other fascists. She tried to escape, but she was seized.
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