Burial place of the Soviet soldiers during the Second World War, members of the Conservative Christian Party BPF party Jan Dzyarzhautsau and Peter Sarapenya showed by Sekachova Lyudmila Semenovna, a resident of the village Kazły. In commemoration of those buried in the end of last year, party activists installed a wooden cross.
Land of Viciebsk district in the last century has been abundantly poured human blood. In the time of Stalin's repression is believed to researchers, NKVD killed about thirty thousand prisoners Viciebsk prison. Place of burial is still classified. But even social activists found mass graves in which, according to them, are buried repressed, today the authorities are not going to read.
But if the authorities honor the heroism of Soviet soldiers. But what this honor actually more – the ideological cynicism and genuine human feeling – let the reader decide for himself.
To get straight to the cemetery dirt road was not possible, so we went through Michali, Pieštunica, Varašyły, followed and turned into a broken, with large potholes, dirt road, which then goes into the field, and finally connects Varašyły and Kazły. Passing along this road three kilometers and a half, we went across the field toward the old cemetery, near which there is no time and there was another village Varašyły. During the war here the front line, and within a few months of fierce, with many victims of the fighting. Killed military friends buried on the outskirts of the village was destroyed in the war. They put wooden obelisks, wrote the names of those buried ...
A resident of the village of Mihaly, Olga Ignatyevna Dorozhkina remembers the postwar era and those military cemetery. Let's give her a word:
– In the forty-fourth year we have returned from evacuation. Not a single house in a village left, so soldiers were living in bunkers, which were many. Plenty of space for all the former refugees. Five hundred meters from the hoppers toward the village destroyed by war Varašyły on the hill was a military cemetery: six rows of ten graves in each. Smoothly as if under the ticker. Each grave – a wooden cabinet. Top – stars at all. Here and there on the nightstand were attached even photographs, wrapped in mica.
Buried in the winter, so the body was buried deep. After spring graves sagged. The stench was unbearable. The foreman gave the order to carry on the graves of the earth. They wore all – both adults and children. They wore somewhere for a week. Two old men with shovels cut turf and surrounded from above. The stench stopped. In the spring of 1945 people put there for three poplars for every row of graves. The cemetery was fenced poles. Nails were not, therefore, put them on the poles red telephone wire.
In 1946-47, at the time I was studying in college Łužasna in the summer together with the accountant Vladimir Borovikov transcribed all the names with wooden bollards in a notebook. Each grave was about fifteen or seventeen, and was sixty graves. There were, however, three other graves: one buried captain and major, and the other two – a girl and two. The girls were even photos they – scout. They were even a little verse was dedicated. The soldiers swore revenge on the enemy for their deaths. Well, maybe we will consider eight to ten soldiers to the grave – and it turns out not less than five hundred people.
On Dzyady or Trinity, when they came to remember relatives and villagers came to a military cemetery, left kutyu, cookies ... The village was great, the people – the whole stream. Topolki grew rapidly, and in the autumn, after leaf fall, people cleaned the leaves. Will be removed neatly and then burned. So clean, clean.
And somehow, it was somewhere already before the restructuring, we have removed Lyudmila Sekachova graves of deceased relatives, come back. At the military burial at the time he was already a monument. The inscription, as usual, "the hero who liberated ... who died for their homeland ...". And suddenly we have a shock: "What's that !?" All these huge poplar bulldozer put in the vertices of the center. And at every Turned tree – on the roots of a dozen skulls hanging. Human remains are scattered around. Monument no. At the time, the land is already under Zaronava departed. We just ran out of there. Later I met a foreman, Olga Stashkevich, ask: "What is this you have done to the cemetery?" – She says: "We were ordered to be reburied, we reburied..."
And they wanted to destroy the Šarki burial. Where a hundred soldiers are buried, I copied them then too. So, tell us Mischiha Dorozhkina "bulldozer arrives after Varašyły in ponadelal troubles there. I pitchforks that manure shovel in hand – to them: Just touch – sacrificed! "And saved, drove them out. It is for the cemetery itself tended, cleaned and flowers planted. Later, people came from the recruiting office, a monument and built a chain fence. She said that from Varašyły to Šarki brought a red box with the ground. So soldiers and reburied.
My master, as he lived, he also worked as a tractor driver, said: "If I ordered something to do, after that I saw so many skulls I would have a second tree of the land would never have emptied out."
Once people come here to fight, to a military cemetery – then we just commemorated. He brought a wreath and tulips to plant. Fits up to us and asked: "Where do I put the wreath? What have you done with the military cemetery? "-" Are not we done? Zaronovo. Zaronovsky village council. " – "Okay, – he says – I did not leave it. You know how hard we have them buried? It's our comrades. We are risking their lives, as the danger was, there were many snipers. We took away their nights. Probe overcoat to recognize: we see, or German."
Around this hill began to plow the land. And guess what: we're going to the cemetery, and the tractor is to be held, the white soldiers' skulls are like mushrooms. When my brother and I went to the cemetery where is our father and all the grandparents, so he remained on time and collected the bones and skulls. No, he did not bury them, and threw it into the bushes growing on the former site of the burial. He said: "I cannot get past, I cannot go! So many skulls! A teeth – all are smooth!". – The people there were all young. It also was the last sets: 25-26 years. There were no old men, no.
A decade ago he came to me a search battalion checked the information on the burial, which they handed over a local ethnographer. They arrived in the evening – and the rain in buckets. It was October. I tell them: "Guys, you're out there you can find a sapper spatulas? Those who have carried on the plows, tractors for many years smashed to smithereens ... In the field, you will not find anything. " – Said: "Grandma, this is none of your business." They have done their shovels in the pits, but found nothing. And I told them – but says: "If you want to find something, dig here in the bush. There's just a birch stump remained, and under it is the captain. Miner. It is after the war exploded. Want to dig it – writhing stump. If only the captain can find. He has a sign: it was brought without a head. " But as they so stump without technology would cope? So they went and testified that they found nothing.
You know, recently died Viciebsk official. They buried him here in Barščoŭka. A son just drove me out of town. We ask: "What happened? On what occasion have paved the way to the graveyard? "It turns out that the funeral should have come to this Kosinets, Andreichenko, so that's the way they did. Here is our honor goes: one official which is more than five hundred defenders of the homeland, which for her release prematurely put on their heads.
After such a genuine story to add something of yourself does not make sense. As the saying goes: no comment.
S. Horki
