Collector Zoe Kosmodemyanskaya Vasily Biryukov spoke about friendship with her and girls in the partisan detachment. “Lenta.ru” leads excerpts from previously not published memories of Biryukov.
On October 31, 1941, a group of young people arrived at the disposal of the military unit 9903, which specialized in intelligence and sabotage activities. In this group was Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Recomputes selected a special commission under the command of the commander of the part of Major Arthur Strogis.
Of the 3,000 volunteers about 2000 people enrolled in the secret detachment. A greasy half of recruits made up girls. The future partisans, who sent the Moscow Gorkov Gorkov, immediately warned that they could be waited in captivity. Biryukov revealed in his memoirs, that in the interruptions between operations, the partisans communicated with the girls. He noted that Kosmodemyanskaya, having seen a serious guy in him, offered him friendship.
“thought: That’s the same one of the men lucky, who will have such a wife – Zoya. It’s happiness! I considered myself happy that I sit next to her, although I’m talking about her. And he will be her beloved ! She comes to him with the same beautiful children as herself … I secretly looking at her ear, on her cheek, nose, lips, eyebrows, hair, forehead, neck. Everything is sharpened with a great sculptor master “- recalled Biryukov.
Earlier, the historian Sven Kellerhoff revealed the fear translated into German by the order of Joseph Stalin on the use of the “scorched land” tactics. In the article for Die Welt, he noted that Fric Becker’s publicist stated the absence of text parts translated. Becker argued that the order was prescribed by Soviet soldiers to change into a German form.