Ukraine: how people honor the memory of the fallen
Here is a monument to Soviet tankmen on the outskirts of the city. Local residents always said: "We go to tank... "," meet at the tank ... "
Once again I will explain: it so happened that the family of my parents broke up just at the turn of the collapse of the Soviet Union. My mother is Russian, and my father is Ukrainian. In the “indestructible” such families there were hundreds of thousands. But I’m not writing about this and not about Ukraine as a neighboring state - there’s a Okoloradsky Cockroach on the site. I decided to write about the small town of Kiev region. About Fastov.
If we omit the information from Wikipedia, which will tell about the historical heritage, the city of railroad workers and famous residents, and dwell on the events of World War II, we get a plot worthy of the script of the film. The location and the railway component, which includes several depots and an important railway junction, led to strategic attacks on the city.
The fascist German forces in 1941 tried to capture the station as quickly as possible, respectively, the Red Army held the city with all possible forces. According to the memoirs of local historians, in 1941 the station and station passed from hand to hand four times, as orders followed to repel the railway junction in order to pass military (mainly sanitary) trains from Bila Tserkva, Kazatin, Zhytomyr towards Kiev.
And the combined garrison of the remnants of the units and the border guard located in the city rose in the next attack!
According to eyewitnesses, the last echelon left the city under the shelling of fascist tanks ...
But the Soviet people survived! A great turning point has come about! The war rolled back to the west! On November 6, 1943, our units took Kiev, and on the 7th, just on the feast of the Great October Revolution, Fastov was also released!
The Germans worked hard to keep an important railway junction. This is reminded by the monuments and street names of the city.
Here they are, the streets, the state excited me. I somehow forgot to ask my father, but I came to visit a few days ago, walked around the city and smiled - they were standing. Granite pedestals are looking at us. Entire, well-groomed ...
This is a monument to the heroes of the border guards who defended Fastov in 1941
Place of death of Hero of the Soviet Union, junior lieutenant A.P. Lyangasov. According to eyewitnesses, a wrecked tank under the command of Lyangasov fired at the Nazis, even engulfed in flames! BTR-60 in the background - modern realities. Tribute to the participants of the ATO ...
Mass grave located at the entrance to the city park. Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant K.V. Zaborovsky, is buried in it among the remaining fallen soldiers. Received this high rank on the Kursk.
The memory remained in the names of streets and squares. The signs “Victory Square”, “Marshal Rybalko Street”, “Captain Strokov Street”, “Heroes-Frontier Guards Street”, “Heroes-Tankers Street” and others have not gone away. Written only in Ukrainian.
Some of the readers will object: now they have decommunization!
Yes, Lenin Street, Ordzhonikidze Street, Kirova Street, Sovetskaya Street and some others were renamed. And the monument to Lenin was demolished. Soviet leaders may not have heard of a small town in the Kiev region.
And those who laid down their lives for freedom from fascist oppression, people continue to remember that they are honored and paid tribute to them.
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