You can t forget that! Part 1

Introduction. Congratulations to everyone on the Great the Victory Day over fascism, to which many people of the Soviet The Union is involved!! We remember all the front-line soldiers and all the days of the past Wars, we remember our fathers and grandfathers, who remained on a foreign land, but who protected us from the fascist evil. All of Europe, not just Germany fought against the USSR. The fact that Russia and other peoples of the USSR survived and won - they say that it's just a miracle. But there are no miracles without God! So in the past monstrous war without God, the CCCP could not win! Thank God! Glory to the front-line soldiers and all the workers in the rear of that time, and They were mostly women and children!

Unknown war. Heroic Voronezh
After a series of defeats of 1941-1942, Victory in the Battle of Stalingrad became a turning point not only in the Great Patriotic War, but also in History of the World Fight Against Fascism. Not all people know about the war, but now Opens with the stories of the children of war.
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In January, we celebrate a different date: 75 years of the defeat of the "European team" under the Voronezh. Voronezh became the third city in history after Leningrad and Sevastopol, according to the duration of the location on the front line. 212 days and Nights, the front line passed directly through the city. For the whole war there were only two cities - Stalingrad and Voronezh, where the front line Passed through the city itself. Are we talking about the liberation of Stalingrad? No. That’s the same with Voronezh. Moreover, Voronezh has become terrible meat grinder and shield at the same time for the parts that were supposed to go to help with Paulus in Stalingrad. Stalingrad was the first in the table most severely destroyed cities-95%. Voronezh is the second-94.5%.

In fact, it was only the beginning of the battle that the formed The Voronezh Front, and about which the "Sovinformbureau" modestly remained, replacing the truth about the heaviest battles with the streamlined words "... tentative battles in the area Voronezh.” “Sterling Battles” is 40 out of 55 thousand Italian Alpine corps, this is the entire 8th Italian army, it is 170 of 203 thousand 2nd the Hungarian army, there are 3 army corps and 13 army of Romania. Well, 26 German divisions as an addition. Of which 75 thousand were captured.

The Germans broke into the city in early July 1942. A few days before that The organized evacuation began. A dense crowd of refugees continued Going east, German planes flew in here. They saw well and They knew that underneath them were peaceful people, but they shot and bombed. People Faltered a lot. In the same convoy of refugees were and Feoktistov – Maria Fedorovna and her son Kostya, the future astronaut.

Two days later, taking advantage of the absence of his mother, 16-year-old Kostya escaped and returned to Voronezh, where he achieved enrollment in the reconnaissance group. Since July 6, he, along with other similar scout boys, has already begun to walk across the front line, to the right-bank part of the city, captured by the Germans, extract information about the condition and actions of the enemy. Four times intelligence ended successfully, the fifth unlucky: when the line was crossed the front of Kostya was caught by the SS and shot.

Shot in the face, point-blank. A miracle happened: the bullet passed through the chin and soft tissues of the neck over. At night, Feoktistov groaned and was able to crawl to own. Next to the hospital, evacuation to Kokand, graduation of the school with honors and Admission to Baumanka. Then the work in the royal CB, enrollment in detachment of astronauts as the first civil cosmonaut-engineer, flight to space in 1964 and finally the star of the Hero - which he, in conscience, earned 22 years before, in the burning Voronezh. Member of the Participation Appears to battles for Voronezh finally formed the character of Feoktistov - direct and Untired. At the Institute, he did not go to lectures on Marxism and political economy, although it remained without it additional food - in a hungry wartime!

He was the only non-partisan in the Soviet cosmonaut detachment, and sharply Repeated proposals to join the party. He was almost the only one who dared to argue with himself The Queen. He was almost the only one who openly opposed program of development of reusable spacecraft "Buran", considering, that it only repeats the capital mistakes that have already made Americans, betting on "Shuttle" (who is interested, read the book Theoctist's "How was it... You can't forget that."

Voronezh remembers his son and defender. Theoctist became the first a citizen of the USSR, in whose honor during his lifetime the city street." Source: Politikus.ru