For example, the famous collaborator General Andrei Vlasov, who created Russian under the wing of the Nazis liberation army(ROA), before going over to the side of the enemy, there were two PJs.
The first is the military doctor Agnes Podmazenko, whom Vlasov was even going to marry. It was she who helped the general in 1941 to get out of his first environment - the Kyiv boiler.
Moving along with Vlasov along the German rear, in order to connect with her own, the "wife" scouted the road, got food and clothes from local residents. This epic continued for two and a half months until the couple caught up with the Red Army near Kursk.
Podmazenko stayed next to Vlasov until January 1942, and then the general sent his pregnant lover to the rear. There, the military doctor gave birth to a son, whom she named Andrei. Subsequently, Pomazenko was given five years - "for communication with a traitor to the motherland." However, Vlasov's legal wife was no more fortunate: "for her husband" she received a longer term - eight years.
Vlasov, having barely sent Pomazenko to the rear, found her a replacement in the person of the cook Maria Voronova. In July 1942, he was again surrounded, and again, as a year earlier near Kyiv, he went to meet his people in the company of PPJ. However, in the end he was captured and transferred to the service of the Germans. His companion was sent to the camp from where Voronova fled.
The cook got to Riga, found out that her general was in Berlin, and went there. Arriving in the capital of the Third Reich, she was convinced that Vlasov did not need her: the leader of the ROA at that time was courting Agenheld Bidenberg, the sister of the personal adjutant of the Reich Minister of the Interior, Heinrich Himmler.
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funny story the relationship of front-line soldiers to the LPG was described by Nina Smarkalova, a front-line mortar gunner. One day, a regimental commander came to her with his girlfriend and announced that he had brought a new fighter who needed to be shown how mortars fired.
Smarkalova decided to play a trick on the "rookie". To do this, she brought the calculation of the mortarmen together with the PZH of the regiment commander into the field. It was April and the ground was wet. If in such conditions to shoot from a mortar, then fountains of mud fly out from under its base plate.
“I told her (PPZh) to stand exactly in the place where all this would fly, and commanded: “Rapid fire!” Smarkalova recalled. “She didn’t know that she needed to cover her hair, face, uniform. I fired three shots.”
Smarkalova thought that after such a “baptism of fire” the regimental commander would send her to the guardhouse herself, but nothing happened.
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Maria Fridman, who served in the intelligence of the First Division of the NKVD, recalled how she had to fight with male fellow soldiers. “If you don’t hit me in the teeth, you’ll be lost! In the end, the scouts themselves began to protect me from“ foreign ”fans: if no one, then no one,” said Friedman.
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About how hard it was to resist, Ekaterina Romanovskaya told in her book, past the war a simple liaison. She was the first among female veterans to frankly describe the life of girls at the front: from fighting to sexual harassment and love.
Romanovskaya turned out to be the object of claims of the elderly division commander. To drag the girl into bed, he ordered that a young signalman be on duty at night at the telephone in his dugout. On one of her shifts, a set table was waiting for her.
"A half-liter of cognac appeared in a crystal decanter, fried potatoes, scrambled eggs, lard, a can of canned fish and two appliances," writes Romanovskaya. At that time, near Stalingrad, where the described events took place, the Red Army was starving, and here such dishes.
After the fourth glass, the division commander invited the girl to become his LPG. He promised to clothe, feed, drive and, where possible, represent his wife. Romanovskaya refused the colonel, who was 22 years older than her, answering that she went to the front to fight, and not to twist novels.
The commander retreated. However, he subsequently offered Romanovskaya to marry him. Having received a turn from the gate here too, the colonel got angry, unsuccessfully tried to take it by force. And then he started messing around.
Romanovskaya had a romantic relationship with the captain of a neighboring regiment, and when the colonel found out about this, he sent a signalman to an assault company, from where rarely anyone returned alive. And the opponent, under pressure from the divisional commander, was transferred to another formation.
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The result of such courtship, as a rule, is pregnancy and being sent to the rear, which in the language of military offices was called "a trip by order of 009." True, by order of 009, not only the LPG left - often the pregnancy was the result of real feelings. Moreover, at the front they escalated.
Here is what Nina Vishnevskaya, the medical instructor of the tank battalion, said about this. Once, with her unit, she was surrounded.
“We are already deciding: at night we will either break through or die. It was thought that we would most likely die. We sit, wait for the night to make an attempt to break through, and the lieutenant, he was 19 years old, no more, says: “Have you even tried? ". - "No." - "And I haven't tried it yet either. You'll die and you won't know what love is."
The veteran medical instructor emphasized that this was the most terrible thing - not that they would kill you, but that you would die without knowing the fullness of life. “We went to die for life, not yet knowing what life is,” Vishnevskaya recalled.
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Interesting oral memoirs-reflections of the participants of the Great Patriotic War leads B. Schneider. The author interviewed respondents on the question of the attitude of Soviet soldiers during the war to sex. As a result, he received a number of unexpected, even discouraging answers.
Vasil Bykov answered the question as follows:
“On the front line, people had absolutely no time for this. For example, I never thought further than until the evening. I only dreamed of surviving until dark, when the battle subsided. After that, you could take a breath, relax. At such hours, I only wanted to sleep, even hunger was not felt that way - just to forget ... I think that in the bulk of the soldiers were so depressed that in more calm environment no mention of women.
And then, there were very young fighters in the infantry. Those who are older, who were 25-30 years old, who already had a family and some kind of profession, ended up in tankers or got jobs as drivers, in the kitchen, in batmen, in shoemakers and could stay in the rear. And seventeen-eighteen-year-olds were given guns in their hands and sent to the infantry.
These youths, yesterday's schoolchildren, have not yet reached the age when a person wants and can live an active sexual life. Millions of these died without knowing a woman, and some without even experiencing the joy of the first kiss.
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Viktor Nekrasov, the author of the story "In the trenches of Stalingrad", noted during an interview that "in the German army, whatever it was, the soldiers regularly received vacations; there were also brothels, so the soldiers had somewhere to relax, make love. us - no leave, no brothels.
The officers lived with nurses, with signalmen, and the private could only engage in masturbation. In this respect Soviet soldier It was also very difficult."
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General M.P. Korabelnikov, doctor psychological sciences, said:
“When I joined the army, I was not yet twenty and I still didn’t love anyone - then people grew up later. I devoted all my time to study and until September 1942 I didn’t even think about love. And this was typical of all the youth of that time Feelings awakened only at twenty-one or twenty-two.
And besides ... it was very hard in the war. When in forty-three - forty-four we began to advance, women began to be taken into the army, so that cooks, hairdressers, laundresses appeared in each battalion ... but the hope that some one would pay attention to simple soldier almost didn't exist."
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However, as B. Schneider notes, he heard the most amazing answer from General Nikolai Antipenko, who during the war was Deputy Marshals G.K. Zhukov and K.K. Rokossovsky on rear issues.
He said that in the summer of 1944 in the Red Army they were opened with the consent of the High Command under his direct participation two public houses.
It goes without saying that these brothels were called differently - rest houses, although they served this very purpose and were intended only for officers. There were many applicants. The experiment, however, ended touchingly - and in a very Russian way.
The first group of officers spent their three-week vacation according to plan. But after that, all the officers returned to the front and took all their girlfriends with them. No new ones have been taken.
Separated from families soviet marshals and officers during the war found solace in the arms of female military personnel. AT peaceful life they would be called mistresses, and in the war they would be reduced to the life expectancy of field wives, writes Vladimir Ginda in the column Archive in issue 10 of the magazine Correspondent dated March 15, 2013.
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The failures of the first stage of the war forced Soviet leadership use all possible human resources. Moreover, one of them - young women - on the wave of a patriotic upsurge, he massively sought to join the ranks of the defenders of the motherland.
Many got a chance to contribute to the victory - during the war years, 800 thousand women served in the Red Army. Even exclusively women's units were created - three air regiments, one of which, a night bomber, became famous as "night witches". Soviet women snipers also gained fame.
However, most of the fair sex did not go through the war with weapons in their hands - they were doctors, nurses, telephone operators, radio operators.
The history of front-line love, as a rule, was short - if not death, then separation after the war
Torn from home, surrounded by many temporarily single men, women who stood out for their bright appearance were faced with increased attention from colleagues. Particularly persistent were the commanders of different ranks, who, unlike the soldiers, had the opportunity to “twist love” in relatively convenient conditions - in separate dugouts and dugouts.
Whether out of love or by calculation, some women entered into long-term relationships with these “knights” in uniform. So the so-called field wives (PJWs) appeared at the front. Even individual representatives the high Soviet command were similar "spouses".
The history of front-line love, as a rule, was short - if not death, then separation after the war. Although some PJs nevertheless became the legal spouses of their “combat” comrades.
“In his life story, a man often found such strength and spiritual values that forever separated him from his previous family, from his children. How many such tragedies have passed before my eyes!” - wrote in her memoirs the famous opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya, who survived the blockade of Leningrad and at the age of 16 went to serve in the air defense forces.
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However, the phenomenon of LLP itself was not massive. But it remained in the memory of many, especially when it comes to the memories of ordinary soldiers who fed lice in the trenches. For them, the novels that the command played in front-line conditions were something beyond.
The memoirs of Nikolai Posylayev, a war veteran, look characteristic. Having previously apologized to all the front-line soldiers, he expressed the following thought in one of his interviews: “As a rule, women, having got to the front, quickly became the mistresses of officers. How else: if a woman is on her own, there will be no end to harassment. It’s another matter when with someone ... Practically all officers had field wives.
The share of truth in the words of Posylayev is small: not all officers had PPL. More often than not, representatives high command- generals and marshals.
As a rule, women, having got to the front, quickly became mistresses of officers.
For example, the famous collaborator General Andrei Vlasov, who created the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) under the wing of the Nazis, had two PJs before going over to the side of the enemy.
The first is the military doctor Agnes Podmazenko, whom Vlasov was even going to marry. It was she who helped the general in 1941 to get out of his first environment - the Kyiv boiler.
Moving along with Vlasov along the German rear, in order to connect with her own, the “wife” scouted the road, got food and clothes from local residents. This epic continued for two and a half months until the couple caught up with the Red Army near Kursk.
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800 thousand women fought in the ranks of the Red Army. They are straight and figurative sense became fighting friends
Podmazenko stayed next to Vlasov until January 1942, and then the general sent his pregnant lover to the rear. There, the military doctor gave birth to a son, whom she named Andrei. Subsequently, Pomazenko was given five years - "for communication with a traitor to the motherland." However, the legal wife of Vlasov was no more fortunate: “for her husband” she received a longer term - eight years.
Vlasov, having barely sent Pomazenko to the rear, found her a replacement in the person of the cook Maria Voronova. In July 1942, he was again surrounded, and again, as a year earlier near Kyiv, he went to meet his people in the company of PPJ. However, in the end he was captured and transferred to the service of the Germans. His companion was sent to the camp from where Voronova fled.
The cook got to Riga, found out that her general was in Berlin, and went there. Arriving in the capital of the Third Reich, she was convinced that Vlasov did not need her: the leader of the ROA at that time was courting Agenheld Bidenberg, the sister of the personal adjutant of the Reich Minister of the Interior, Heinrich Himmler.
Although not only the traitors of the motherland were loving - the marshals of victory also had romances.
The front sweetheart of Marshal Georgy Zhukov was called Lidia Zakharova, she was a nurse. They did not hide their relationship, despite the fact that by that time the military leader had been living in a civil marriage with Alexandra Zuykova for two decades.
The front-line sweetheart of Marshal Georgy Zhukov was called Lidia Zakharova, she was a nurse
The novel of the famous commander and nurse lasted from the autumn of 1941 to 1948. The couple broke up after the marshal started new love- military doctor Galina Semenova, who was 30 years younger than Zhukov and later became his second and last legal wife. True, he did not forget about the former LPG and helped Zakharova, who had married by that time, get an apartment in Moscow.
Another famous Soviet commander, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, met his doctor Galina Talanova near Moscow in the first war year. Talanova, running past, did not put her hand to her cap in an army salute, and the marshal made a playful remark to her: “Why don’t you salute, comrade officer ?!”.
With this phrase, their romance began. Rokossovsky went through the whole war with PPG, although his wife and little daughter were waiting for the marshal at home. In 1945, in Poland, Talanova gave birth to a daughter from Rokossovsky, who was named Nadezhda. The commander did not abandon the child and gave him his last name, but after the war he returned to his legal wife.
Baptism of fire
Usually ordinary fighters and commanders were treated with contempt by PZh, they made up vulgar jokes about them, and added obscene ditties. The blame for such a dismissive attitude lay partly on the “keepers” of the PJP themselves. After all, these men, having great power, created very comfortable conditions for their mistresses by front-line standards: “wives”, being in military positions, often lived at the headquarters in the rear and had a vague idea about the war.
Moreover, in some cases, at the suggestion of boyfriends, they even managed to receive government awards. For example, thanks to Zhukov, his beloved Zakharova was awarded an order.
Usually ordinary fighters and commanders were treated with contempt by the PPZh, they made up vulgar jokes about them, added obscene ditties
A funny story about the relationship of front-line soldiers to the PPP was described by Nina Smarkalova, a front-line mortar gunner. One day, a regimental commander came to her with his girlfriend and announced that he had brought a new fighter who needed to be shown how mortars fired. Smarkalova decided to play a trick on the “rookie”. To do this, she brought the calculation of the mortarmen together with the PZH of the regiment commander into the field. It was April and the ground was wet. If in such conditions to shoot from a mortar, then fountains of mud fly out from under its base plate.
“I told her [PPJ] to stand exactly in the place where all this would fly, and commanded: “Rapid fire!” - recalled Smarkalova. - She did not know that it was necessary to cover her hair, her face, her uniform. I fired three shots."
Smarkalova thought that after such a “baptism of fire” the regimental commander would send her to the guardhouse herself, but nothing happened.
What is life
At the front, a woman, especially if she was attractive, required courage not to become the mistress of some commander. After all, gentlemen swarmed around, and many were far from gentlemen. In such a situation, there were two ways of salvation - either a constant connection with the authorities, or one's own determination.
Maria Fridman, who served in the intelligence of the First Division of the NKVD, recalled how she had to fight with male fellow soldiers. “If you don’t hit it in the teeth, you will be lost! In the end, the scouts themselves began to protect me from “foreign” fans: if no one, then no one, ”said Friedman.
About how hard it was to resist, Ekaterina Romanovskaya, who went through the war as a simple signalman, told in her book. She was the first among female veterans to frankly describe the life of girls at the front: from fighting to sexual harassment and love.
Romanovskaya turned out to be the object of claims of the elderly division commander. To drag the girl into bed, he ordered that a young signalman be on duty at night at the telephone in his dugout. On one of her shifts, a set table was waiting for her.
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Marshal Rodion Malinovsky (left) met his future wife Raisa Kurchenko (pictured on the right) at the front in 1943 and, for a start, made her a canteen. And he took him as a wife after the war
“A half-liter of cognac appeared in a crystal decanter, fried potatoes, scrambled eggs, bacon, a can of canned fish and two appliances,” writes Romanovskaya. At that time, near Stalingrad, where the described events took place, the Red Army was starving, and here such dishes.
After the fourth glass, the division commander invited the girl to become his LPG. He promised to clothe, feed, drive and, where possible, represent his wife. Romanovskaya refused the colonel, who was 22 years older than her, answering that she went to the front to fight, and not to twist novels.
The commander retreated. However, he subsequently offered Romanovskaya to marry him. Having received a turn from the gate here too, the colonel got angry, unsuccessfully tried to take it by force. And then he started messing around. Romanovskaya had a romantic relationship with the captain of a neighboring regiment, and when the colonel found out about this, he sent a signalman to an assault company, from where rarely anyone returned alive. And the opponent, under pressure from the divisional commander, was transferred to another formation.
The hungry soldiers had no time for women, but the authorities got their way by any means, from rough pressure to the most exquisite courtship
Nikolai Nikulin, an art historian and former ordinary artilleryman, the author of poignant memoirs, wrote: “The hungry soldiers were not in the mood for women, but the authorities got their way by any means, from rough pressure to the most exquisite courtship. Among the cavaliers there were Romeos for every taste: to sing, and dance, and talk beautifully, and for experienced ones - to read [Alexander] Blok or [Mikhail] Lermontov.”
The result of such courtship, as a rule, is pregnancy and being sent to the rear, which in the language of military offices was called “a trip by order 009”. This order, according to Nikulin's stories, was popular. So, in his part of the 50 women who arrived in 1942, only two remained until the end of the war.
True, by order of 009, not only the LPG left - often the pregnancy was the result of real feelings. Moreover, at the front they escalated. Here is what Nina Vishnevskaya, the medical instructor of the tank battalion, said about this. Once, with her unit, she was surrounded.
“We are already deciding: at night we will either break through or die. I thought we would probably die. We sit, waiting for the night to make an attempt to break through, and the lieutenant, he was 19 years old, no more, says: “Have you even tried?”. - "Not". “And I haven't tried it yet either. If you die, you won't know what love is."
The veteran medical instructor emphasized that this was the most terrible thing - not that they would kill you, but that you would die without knowing the fullness of life. “We went to die for life, not yet knowing what life is,” Vishnevskaya recalled.
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TUT.BY has already published Vasily about incredible fate common man, caught in the millstones of big politics, "polite people" from 1939 and about escaping naked from prison. New story dedicated to wives Soviet commanders.
When Western Belarus was annexed to the USSR, they came to our country as winners. But then, when their husbands retreated to the east with active army, turned out to be of no use to anyone. How did they survive under the new government?
I'm on you like in a war. Abandoned
“Let your Stalin feed you!”
Many years ago, in the sixties, there was an incident at the checkpoint of a Brest factory. The enterprise is more female, after the change of workers, an avalanche hurried home, and conflicts occurred in the crush. They did not look at faces: whether it was an editorial or a deputy, they applied it with proletarian frankness.
At the turnstile, as in a bath, everyone is equal, and the wife of the commander from Brest Fortress, who headed the factory trade union - not yet old, twenty years had not passed since the war, survived the occupation - pushed on common grounds. Maybe she hit someone - with her elbow or during distribution - and the young weaver, who heard from her friends such things that they don’t write about in the newspapers, whipped backhand: “German prostitute!” - and she grabbed her breasts and croaked: “If you have small children ...”
So in one phrase - the whole truth about the war, with many shades, from which we were carefully taken away.
In conversations with people who survived the occupation, at first I could not understand when they made the remark “this is already after the war” and began to talk about the Germans. For the inhabitant of Brest, hostilities flashed in one morning, and then another power, three and a half years of deep German rear. At different categories citizens - locals, easterners, Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, party workers who got out from behind the wire of prisoners, commanders' wives, soltyses, policemen - everyone had their own war. Some survived the misfortune at home, where neighbors, relatives, where the walls help. It was very bad for those whom hard times caught in a foreign land.
Before the war, they arrived in the "liberated" western region as mistresses - yesterday's girls from the Russian hinterland, who pulled out happy ticket(We are talking about the events of 1939, when Western Belarus was annexed to the USSR. - TUT.BY). To marry a lieutenant from a stationed regiment meant to take off in status. And here - " liberation campaign"and in general a different world, where people raise the brim of their hats when they meet and turn to "pan", where in the store without an appointment there are bicycles with wonderfully curved handlebars, and private traders smoke a dozen varieties of sausages, and for a penny you can take at least five cuts on a dress ... And that's all these people look at them with their husband with apprehension - they look right ...
Nina Vasilievna Petruchik - by the way, the cousin of Fyodor Maslievich, whose fate is already in the chapter “ Polite people 1939,” she recalled that autumn in the town of Volchin: “The wives of the commanders were in boots, floral print dresses, black velvet jackets and huge white scarves. At the market, they began to buy embroidered nightgowns and, out of ignorance, put them on instead of dresses ... "
Maybe the weather was like this - I'm talking about boots, but they are met by clothes. This is how an eleven-year-old girl saw them: very poor people came. People, chuckling, sold nightgowns, but laughter with laughter, and the newcomers became the masters of life in a year and a half before the war.
But life calculates for random happiness. It was these women, perceived with hostility, with children in their arms, with the outbreak of war, who were left alone in an alien world. From a privileged caste they suddenly turned into pariahs, thrown out of the queues with the words: “Let your Stalin feed you!”.
It was not so with everyone, but it was, and it is not for us now to judge the ways of survival that young women chose. The easiest thing was to find a guardian who would warm and feed the children, and protect them somewhere.
“Limousines with German officers drove up to the building and took away young women, the inhabitants of this house”
Photo is illustrative Vasily Prokopuk, a boy from the time of the occupation, who was snooping around the city with his friends, recalled that on the former Moskovskaya (we are talking about one of the Brest streets. - TUT.BY) one could see young women with soldiers walking in the direction of the fortress. The narrator is convinced that it was not local girls who “spasted” under the arm, for whom it is more difficult to accept such courtship: there were parents, neighbors, in whose eyes the church grew, finally. Maybe polkas are more relaxed? - “What are you, the Poles have ambition! my respondents answered. “There was a case, a panenka was seen flirting with an occupier - the priest screwed this into his sermon ...”
"The war is walking around Russia, and we are so young ..." - three and a half years long term in a short Indian age. But this was not the main motive - the children, their eternally hungry eyes. The troublesome boys did not delve into the subtleties, sneered contemptuously about women from former homes officers: "Found yourself ..."
“In the center of the courtyard,” the author writes, “there was a rather exotic outbuilding in which he lived German Major, our current boss, along with a beautiful young woman and her small child. We soon learned that this ex-wife Soviet officer, left to the mercy of fate in the tragic days of the Red Army in June 1941. In the corner of the barracks yard stood a three-story brick building inhabited by abandoned families. Soviet officers. In the evenings, limousines drove up to the building with German officers and they took away young women, the inhabitants of this house.
The situation allowed options. For example, weren't the commander's wives forcibly taken away? According to Ivan Petrovich, “it was a small barracks, converted into a residential building, with several apartments per floor. Young women lived here, mostly with small children. It is possible that even before the war it was the house of the command staff, where the families found the war: I did not see guards or any signs of forced detention.
More than once or twice, I witnessed how the Germans drove up here in the evening: our camp was across the parade ground from this house. Sometimes they dropped in on the commandant, other times straight. It was not a trip to a brothel - they were going to the ladies. They knew about the visit, smiled like good friends. Usually the Germans came in the evening, went upstairs, or the women themselves went out dressed up, and the cavaliers took them away, one might assume, to a theater or a restaurant. I didn’t have to catch the return, with whom the children were, I can’t know. But everyone in the camp knew that these were the wives of the commanders. They understood that for women it was a means of survival.”
Here's how it turned out. AT last days before the war, commanders and party workers who wanted to take their families out of the city were accused of alarmism and expelled from the party - and now women have been left for the use of Wehrmacht officers.
The son's name was Albert, the Germans came - he became Adolf
Photo is illustrative It would be wrong to say that the women left behind were looking for such support, it was just one of the ways to survive. Unpopular, stepping over the line, beyond which - gossip and piercing glances.
The women who came to Western Belarus from the east, more often they lived in twos, threes, it’s easier to survive. They went to distant (they didn’t give them to the neighbors) villages, but you can’t live on alms alone, they settled down to wash wagons, barracks, and soldiers’ dormitories. Once a German gave a large postcard to the wife of a political worker from the artillery regiment, and she hung it on the wall to decorate the room. Many years have passed since the war, and the baboons remembered the picture - they vigilantly looked at each other during the war.
Battalion commander's wife rifle regiment, which stood in the fortress before the war, at the beginning of the occupation rewrote little son from Albert to Adolf, she came up with such a move, and after the release she again made Albert. Other widows moved away from her, turned away, but for the mother this was not the main thing.
Someone will be closer to her truth, someone to the heroic Vera Khoruzhey, who insisted on going to the occupied Vitebsk at the head of an underground group, leaving a baby and a little daughter in Moscow.
Life is multifaceted, and those who survived the occupation remembered different things. And a romantically minded person who left the terrible building of the SD was clearly not after torture, and the German’s love for a Jewish girl, whom he hid to the last and went after her into penal company, and an urban plantation worker who hastily pleasured a Wehrmacht soldier nearby in the park until she was shot by a client who caught a bad disease. In each case, it was different: where is the food, where is the physiology, and somewhere - a feeling, love.
Outside of service, the Germans became gallant wealthy males. Bright in her youth, the beauty N. said: at least don’t go beyond the threshold - they stuck like ticks.
Statistics will not answer how many red-haired babies were born during the war and after the expulsion of the Germans from the temporarily occupied territory, as, indeed, with Slavic appearance in Germany at the beginning of the 46th ... This is a delicate topic to take deeply, and we went somewhere to the side ...
Maybe in vain in general about commander's wives - there were enough restless women of all statuses and categories, and they all behaved differently. Someone tried to hide their beauty, while someone, on the contrary, turned it to good. The wife of the commander of the reconnaissance battalion Anastasia Kudinova, older, shared shelter with young partners who also lost their husbands in the fortress. All three with children - such a kindergarten-day nursery. As soon as the Germans appeared, she smeared her friends with soot and kept her away from the window. I was not afraid for myself, my friends joked, our old maid ... They pulled their mother's strap and survived without the enemy's shoulder, then they joined the fight.
They were not alone, many remained faithful, waiting for their husbands throughout the war and later. However, the opposition - arrived, local - is not entirely true. Everywhere there are cultured and not very cultured people, with principles and creeping, pure and vicious. And there are depths in any person where it is better not to look, the nature of all sorts of things mixed up, and what will appear with greater strength– largely depends on the circumstances. It so happened that since June 22, 1941, the most destitute, stunned by these circumstances, were the “easterners”.
Another would not be missed - the reason. How did it happen that you had to flee to Smolensk and further, leaving weapons, warehouses, the entire army of personnel, and in the border areas - also wives to the delight of Wehrmacht officers?
Then there was a noble rage, the science of hatred in a journalistic performance and a real one, which increased tenfold strength in battle. This hatred helped fulfill combat missions, but miraculously not shifted to the direct culprits of many sufferings.
field wives
They loved their homeland
General and PPG,
Covered with your body
From the Nazis in the dugout.
Not scared in the war
I am a brave girl.
The whole war under the general -
My cause is right.
Chastushki of military time
“As a rule, women who go to the front soon become mistresses of officers,” recalled war veteran I.S. Posylayev. - And how else: if a woman is on her own, there will be no end to harassment. Another thing, if with someone. Practically all officers had field wives (PPZh), except for the platoon vanka. He is always with the soldiers, he has no time to make love.
In the spring of 1942, the political instructor of the artillery battery on Leningrad front Vera Lebedeva explained to military journalist Pavel Luknitsky:
Unfortunately, in the army I did not meet a single exemplary friendship between a woman and a man, such that one could point a finger and say: they love! The girls laugh: “The war will write everything off!”, but they laugh artificially, they themselves are worried. And when you tell her what she did, she cries.
There are still, of course, people who can be good friends. But it was enough to appear in our military unit alone, which wrong image life led, as the commanders have already begun to treat everyone differently than before.
I often want to talk, laugh, chat. At the beginning of the war, I did it, but now I don’t do it, because they will say: “Everything is twisting, twirling its tail!”.
The attitude of commanders towards girls arriving at the front was also sometimes based on objective reality. Yulia Zhukova recalls that when they (graduates of the Central Women's Sniper School in Podolsk. - Auth.) were brought to the reserve regiment of the 31st Army on the border with East Prussia, “we were met by a major, well-fed, rosy-cheeked, dressed in a snow-white short fur coat with a turned up collar. He walked in front of the formation, critically examining us. “Well,” he asks, “why did you come, to fight or?” The incorrigible foul-mouthed Sasha Khaydukova completed the question for him: “Fuck ... wat?” This is the welcome they gave us. Everyone was embarrassed."
Nikolai Aleksandrov, tank commander:
“Once a train with women came to us for replenishment. The corps commander looked: “Send them back, what, should I open maternity hospitals in nine months?!”. I didn't accept it."
The reasoning of the commander of the mechanized corps about nine months was not at all abstract, especially in relation to the girls who were directly in the soldier's environment. Harassment to them really was more than enough.
An excerpt from the memoirs of the medical instructor Sofya K-vich, who later became an officer's field wife herself, and therefore, talking about her war, asked the writer Svetlana Aleksievich not to mention her last name for the sake of her daughter, can serve as a colorful illustration of this:
"First battalion commander. I didn't love him. He was a good man, but I didn't like him. And I went to him in a dugout a few months later. Where to go? There are only men around, so it's better to live with one than to be afraid of everyone. In battle, it was not as scary as after the battle, especially when we had a rest, we would retreat to re-form. How they shoot, fire, they call: “Sister! Sister! ”, And after the battle, everyone guards you. You can't get out of the dugout at night.
Did the other girls tell you this or didn't they admit it? Ashamed, I think. They kept silent. Proud! And it was all. Because I didn't want to die. It was a shame to die when you were young. And for men it is hard four years without women. There were no brothels in our army, and no pills were given. Somewhere, maybe they were following it. We do not have. Four years. Commanders could only afford something, but ordinary soldiers could not. Discipline. But they are silent about it. Not accepted.
For example, there was one woman in the battalion, she lived in a common dugout. Together with men. They gave me a place, but what a separate place it is, the whole dugout is six meters. I woke up at night because I waved my arms, then I would give one on the cheeks, on the hands, then the other. I was wounded, ended up in the hospital and waved my arms there. The nanny will wake you up at night: “What are you doing?” Who will you tell?"
Another thing is if a woman was an officer, served in the headquarters, commanded a unit (and this, although rarely, happened. - Auth.), Performed the functions of a political worker, like Vera Lebedeva, or a military doctor, like a Barnaul resident Angelina Ostrovskaya, who wrote in March 1943 from the front home: “Now I live in a tent, the so-called officer’s, it is for four people. Two more doctors and a senior military assistant live in it, all men. This is not a particular inconvenience, since we sleep without undressing. In general, I don’t like the simplicity of morals here - too many people adhere to the motto “war will write everything off”. Of course conditions play here big role. When a person's life is not valued, the question of other, comparatively less essential circumstances of life inevitably disappears. In a word, they live while they live. I personally cannot share this point of view. I don't think time and circumstances will make me think otherwise."
In general, female soldiers had to suffer from an overabundance of male attention, and to ordinary soldiers men - from acute shortage female. Which, of course, was a shame.
“The authorities have always lived a little better. Almost everyone had field wife, - recalled the native of the Stone-on-Obi Hero Soviet Union Mikhail Borisov. - Our battalion commander did not have, but the battalion commanders all had. Each sanitary instructor served faithfully. When we arrived at the courses, we went to the headquarters of the front with my comrade from tank brigade, the same gunner as me, but the gun commander. Bouncer. He says: "I destroyed more tanks than you." - “Yes, you didn’t destroy it, but the gunner destroyed it.” - "I commanded!" - "Exactly what you commanded." Well, God bless him.
We met the girls from the communication center there. They told us where they lived, and we "locked" ourselves to visit them at five o'clock in the afternoon. They were all well dressed and well groomed. Stockings are not simple, but Fildepers. After 15 minutes they tell us: “Guys, leave.” - "Why? We have time, you are not on shift either. “You don’t understand, do you? We are all booked. Now the working day is over, they will come for us.”
It is not surprising that among the soldiers, the attitude towards the “painted” girls and women was contemptuous, and in relation to those PJ who actively used their position, hatred was mixed with contempt. Then such songs were born:
Now everyone is kind to you
You have success everywhere
But I am a soldier's soul
I despise you, PJ.
She doesn't live like a soldier in a dugout
Cheese, where the oil lamp flickers.
In the village they found her an apartment already,
On the "emka" she drives around.
An elderly soldier who has been in battles,
Medal "For Courage" having,
Obliged to go to Rai in toadies,
Don't dare say anything to her...
The system of field wives was widely developed not only in the regular units of the Red Army, but also in partisan detachments and compounds, where life was, though harsh and full of danger, but still much more free. Such wartime documents can serve as another proof of this.
From the book Hitler's Penal Battalions. The living dead of the Wehrmacht author Vasilchenko Andrey VyacheslavovichCHAPTER 4 Field Detention Units and Penal Camps On October 10, 1941, the Völkische Beobachter (People's Observer) came out with an editorial bearing the huge headline "The hour has struck: the campaign in the East is a foregone conclusion!" It took two whole months
From the book Stalin. Russian obsession author Mlechin Leonid MikhailovichThe suicide of Stalin's wife was remembered as an elderly man. But he was also young, lively and energetic, he liked to have fun. Members of the Politburo came to his dacha with their wives. Molotov and Kirov danced Russian. Voroshilov is a gopaka. Mikoyan performed lezginka with the leader's wife
From the book Unknown Borodino. Molodinsk battle of 1572 author Andreev Alexander RadievichTroops: field troops, fortresses, border service In the 16th century, in contrast to the settlement, the "City" was called the fortress, of which there were about 200. The approaches to the capital were also guarded by 7 distant and 14 monasteries near Moscow. In the 16th century, a deep ditch was dug around the Kremlin and lined with stone. AT
author Kochnev Evgeny Dmitrievich From the book Cars Soviet army 1946-1991 author Kochnev Evgeny Dmitrievich From the book Cars of the Soviet Army 1946-1991 author Kochnev Evgeny Dmitrievich From the book Cars of the Soviet Army 1946-1991 author Kochnev Evgeny Dmitrievich From the book Cars of the Soviet Army 1946-1991 author Kochnev Evgeny Dmitrievich From the book Cars of the Soviet Army 1946-1991 author Kochnev Evgeny Dmitrievich From book combat equipment Wehrmacht 1939-1945 author Rottman Gordon LField rations Although they are not part of the equipment, field rations are considered here as standard contents of various satchels and bags. German field rations, more precisely, portions (Feldportionen - field portions, Feldrationen - designation for fodder) were
From the book Secrets of the Forbidden Emperor author Anisimov Evgeny ViktorovichChapter 10 Brunswick family to White Sea. But their entire journey took place off-road, and Korf did not have time to take the captives before the end of navigation.
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From the book Egypt of the Ramses by Monte PierreVII. Field Pests We already know that crops were threatened by numerous enemies. When the ears were filled, and the flax blossomed, thunderstorms and hail fell on the fields of Egypt, and with them they were devastated by people and animals. The seventh plague of Egypt was the locust, brought by the east wind,
From book Knightly orders in battle author Zharkov Sergey Vladimirovich From the book Assyrian Power. From city-state to empire author Mochalov Mikhail Yurievich From the book History of the British social anthropology author Nikishenkov Alexey AlekseevichThe very phenomenon of LLP was not massive. But it remained in the memory of many, especially when it comes to the memories of ordinary soldiers who fed lice in the trenches. For them, the novels that the command played in front-line conditions were something beyond.
For example, the famous collaborator General Andrei Vlasov, who created the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) under the wing of the Nazis, had two PJs before going over to the side of the enemy.
The first is the military doctor Agnes Podmazenko, whom Vlasov was even going to marry. It was she who helped the general in 1941 to get out of his first environment - the Kyiv boiler.
Moving along with Vlasov along the German rear, in order to connect with her own, the "wife" scouted the road, got food and clothes from local residents. This epic continued for two and a half months until the couple caught up with the Red Army near Kursk.
Podmazenko stayed next to Vlasov until January 1942, and then the general sent his pregnant lover to the rear. There, the military doctor gave birth to a son, whom she named Andrei. Subsequently, Pomazenko was given five years - "for communication with a traitor to the motherland." However, Vlasov's legal wife was no more fortunate: "for her husband" she received a longer term - eight years.
Vlasov, having barely sent Pomazenko to the rear, found her a replacement in the person of the cook Maria Voronova. In July 1942, he was again surrounded, and again, as a year earlier near Kyiv, he went to meet his people in the company of PPJ. However, in the end he was captured and transferred to the service of the Germans. His companion was sent to the camp from where Voronova fled.
The cook got to Riga, found out that her general was in Berlin, and went there. Arriving in the capital of the Third Reich, she was convinced that Vlasov did not need her: the leader of the ROA at that time was courting Agenheld Bidenberg, the sister of the personal adjutant of the Reich Minister of the Interior, Heinrich Himmler.
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A funny story about the relationship of front-line soldiers to the PPP was described by Nina Smarkalova, a front-line mortar gunner. One day, a regimental commander came to her with his girlfriend and announced that he had brought a new fighter who needed to be shown how mortars fired.
Smarkalova decided to play a trick on the "rookie". To do this, she brought the calculation of the mortarmen together with the PZH of the regiment commander into the field. It was April and the ground was wet. If in such conditions to shoot from a mortar, then fountains of mud fly out from under its base plate.
“I told her (PPZh) to stand exactly in the place where all this would fly, and commanded: “Rapid fire!” Smarkalova recalled. “She didn’t know that she needed to cover her hair, face, uniform. I fired three shots.”
Smarkalova thought that after such a “baptism of fire” the regimental commander would send her to the guardhouse herself, but nothing happened.
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Maria Fridman, who served in the intelligence of the First Division of the NKVD, recalled how she had to fight with male fellow soldiers. “If you don’t hit me in the teeth, you’ll be lost! In the end, the scouts themselves began to protect me from“ foreign ”fans: if no one, then no one,” said Friedman.
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About how hard it was to resist, Ekaterina Romanovskaya, who went through the war as a simple signalman, told in her book. She was the first among female veterans to frankly describe the life of girls at the front: from fighting to sexual harassment and love.
Romanovskaya turned out to be the object of claims of the elderly division commander. To drag the girl into bed, he ordered that a young signalman be on duty at night at the telephone in his dugout. On one of her shifts, a set table was waiting for her.
"A half-liter of cognac appeared in a crystal decanter, fried potatoes, scrambled eggs, lard, a can of canned fish and two appliances," writes Romanovskaya. At that time, near Stalingrad, where the described events took place, the Red Army was starving, and here such dishes.
After the fourth glass, the division commander invited the girl to become his LPG. He promised to clothe, feed, drive and, where possible, represent his wife. Romanovskaya refused the colonel, who was 22 years older than her, answering that she went to the front to fight, and not to twist novels.
The commander retreated. However, he subsequently offered Romanovskaya to marry him. Having received a turn from the gate here too, the colonel got angry, unsuccessfully tried to take it by force. And then he started messing around.
Romanovskaya had a romantic relationship with the captain of a neighboring regiment, and when the colonel found out about this, he sent a signalman to an assault company, from where rarely anyone returned alive. And the opponent, under pressure from the divisional commander, was transferred to another formation.
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The result of such courtship, as a rule, is pregnancy and being sent to the rear, which in the language of military offices was called "a trip by order of 009." True, by order of 009, not only the LPG left - often the pregnancy was the result of real feelings. Moreover, at the front they escalated.
Here is what Nina Vishnevskaya, the medical instructor of the tank battalion, said about this. Once, with her unit, she was surrounded.
“We are already deciding: at night we will either break through or die. It was thought that we would most likely die. We sit, wait for the night to make an attempt to break through, and the lieutenant, he was 19 years old, no more, says: “Have you even tried? ". - "No." - "And I haven't tried it yet either. You'll die and you won't know what love is."
The veteran medical instructor emphasized that this was the most terrible thing - not that they would kill you, but that you would die without knowing the fullness of life. “We went to die for life, not yet knowing what life is,” Vishnevskaya recalled.
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B. Schneider cites interesting oral reminiscences and reflections of the participants in the Great Patriotic War. The author interviewed respondents on the question of the attitude of Soviet soldiers during the war to sex. As a result, he received a number of unexpected, even discouraging answers.
Vasil Bykov answered the question as follows:
“On the front line, people had absolutely no time for this. For example, I never thought further than until the evening. I only dreamed of surviving until dark, when the battle subsided. After that, you could take a breath, relax. At such hours, I only wanted to sleep, even the hunger was not felt that way - just to forget ... I think that the bulk of the soldiers were so depressed that even in a calmer atmosphere they did not remember women.
And then, there were very young fighters in the infantry. Those who are older, who were 25-30 years old, who already had a family and some kind of profession, ended up in tankers or got jobs as drivers, in the kitchen, in batmen, in shoemakers and could stay in the rear. And seventeen-eighteen-year-olds were given guns in their hands and sent to the infantry.
These youths, yesterday's schoolchildren, have not yet reached the age when a person wants and can live an active sexual life. Millions of these died without knowing a woman, and some without even experiencing the joy of the first kiss.
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Viktor Nekrasov, the author of the story "In the trenches of Stalingrad", noted during an interview that "in german army, whatever it was, the soldiers regularly received vacations; there were also brothels, so the soldier somewhere to relax, make love. We have no leave, no brothels.
The officers lived with nurses, with signalmen, and the private could only engage in masturbation. In this regard, it was also very difficult for the Soviet soldier."
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General M.P. Korabelnikov, Doctor of Psychology, said:
“When I joined the army, I was not yet twenty and I still didn’t love anyone - then people grew up later. I devoted all my time to study and until September 1942 I didn’t even think about love. And this was typical of all the youth of that time Feelings awakened only at twenty-one or twenty-two.
And besides ... it was very hard in the war. When in forty-three - forty-four we began to advance, women began to be taken into the army, so that cooks, hairdressers, laundresses appeared in each battalion ... but there was almost no hope that any one would pay attention to a simple soldier.
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However, as B. Schneider notes, he heard the most amazing answer from General Nikolai Antipenko, who during the war was Deputy Marshals G.K. Zhukov and K.K. Rokossovsky on rear issues.
He reported that in the summer of 1944 two brothels were opened in the Red Army with the consent of the High Command with his direct participation.
It goes without saying that these brothels were called differently - rest houses, although they served this very purpose and were intended only for officers. There were many applicants. The experiment, however, ended touchingly - and in a very Russian way.
The first group of officers spent their three-week vacation according to plan. But after that, all the officers returned to the front and took all their girlfriends with them. No new ones have been taken.
