SMERSH officer. How Petr Shpakovsky was saved by bedbugs

Still from the film "Four Tankmen and a Dog". Janek in front of a photograph of Olgerd Jarosz, a descendant of Polish rebels exiled to Siberia by the tsar. And so they came up with a similar biography for Pyotr Shpakovsky...

“…sent insects to sting them…”
Psalms 77:45

Military biography. The publication of materials about the military affairs of my stepfather Petr Shpakovsky, and he was de facto one, although he did not legally adopt me - we met too late for that, aroused considerable interest among the readership of our site. And the most varied comments. And the most varied letters from readers. Someone, and there were many of them, both in the comments and in personal letters asked to continue this topic. Someone was most interested in who slept with whom and at what age, others - and whether I made all this up at all. And someone directly wrote that I should not have started this, because personally it would be unpleasant for him to have the memory of my loved ones groped by some ... (then comes a word prohibited in VO).

And partly I would even agree with him, reading some comments. But there are as many opinions as there are people. Therefore, I believe that the story of this man's life should still be continued, because he has undoubtedly earned fame. And the documents available in the archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense confirm this. Well, as for the Polish awards, let those who are interested contact the relevant organizations in Poland themselves and find out what and how. It is enough for me that I saw them with my own eyes and held them in my hands. So... in the last article we stopped at the fact that Pyotr Shpakovsky had to serve in besieged Leningrad.

And that's where he got seriously wounded: a small aerial bomb exploded not far from him and... threw him out of his leather officer's coat and threw him into a crater quite far from the explosion site, and even covered him with earth. His orderly comes running, and all that was left of Pyotr Iosifovich was a bloody torn coat. He starts looking for it, and there are someone else's severed arms and legs lying nearby... Well, he thought that his "boss" had come to an end. And he reported it to the right place. And they sent his family a funeral notice. They say he died a hero's death.

But - it happens, and not only in novels - his mother did not doubt for a single day that her son was alive. Although, of course, after that all the neighbors began to think she was crazy with grief. And Shpakovsky was found by undertakers and they saw that he was alive. True, he did not have any documents on him, they were in his coat, but by his officer's boots and other insignia they determined that he was an officer, and they took him to the officers' hospital. And both his legs were broken, and as a result of the concussion, he had completely lost his speech. So the doctors did not find out for a long time who they were treating. And when they found out, they immediately reported that Major Shpakovsky was alive, although not quite healthy, and ... a corresponding letter to his father and mother confirmed what she was sure of from the very beginning. No matter what you say, some kind of extrasensory perception does exist, and this is one of the examples confirming that it does.

They treated him in the hospital and sent him to a sanatorium to finish his treatment. It was just like in the movie "Heavenly Slow Walker." And one of his SMERSH colleagues comes to him and says that SMERSH has special plans for him. He has known Polish since childhood, believed in God as a child, went to mass, knows all the rituals... And we, they say, are just now assembling a new Polish army on the territory of the USSR. We sent Anders' army to the British. But there are many Poles on the territory of our country, as well as Czechoslovakians and Romanians who are ready to fight the fascists together with us, and extra soldiers will not hurt us. But, it is clear that these "brothers in arms"You need to keep an eye on them. And if that's the case, then we are now selecting people like you, making them a good, reliable biography and... enrolling them as Poles in this very Polish army. And the main benefit in this situation is that everyone who knew him personally knows that the Soviet Pyotr Shpakovsky died. And this new one could well be the namesake of the old one. In general, the situation was typical for an intelligence officer - "one of our own among strangers and a stranger among our own." And, of course, there was no talk of refusal. Therefore, Pyotr Shpakovsky immediately said "yes" and right there in the sanatorium began to prepare to carry out this mission for the Motherland.

1st Czechoslovak Separate Infantry Brigade

However, he did not fully recover soon, when foreign units had already been created on the territory of the USSR and even took part in battles. Thus, from the Poles (although not only from them!), a division named after Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the leader of the Polish uprising of 1794, was formed, and the unique 1st separate female infantry battalion named after Emilia Plater, a participant in the Polish uprising of 1830-1831, fought in its composition. The 1st tank The brigade named after the heroes of Westerplatte – the place where the last defenders of the Polish Baltic coast fell in 1939. This Polish unit is well known to all citizens of the USSR, and even to today's Russians, from the once popular novel by the writer Janusz Przymanowski (who fought in this brigade) and the TV series "Four Tankmen and a Dog". It began with a tank regiment, but on August 19, 1943, it was expanded into a two-regiment brigade, which initially included 71 T-34 tanks, 14 T-70 light tanks and over 2000 soldiers and officers, both Poles and citizens of the USSR of other nationalities. So "Four Tankmen...", where the tank crew consists of three Poles and a Georgian, should not be considered an unfounded writer's invention. That's how it was! In total, 15 Soviet officers passed through the Polish Army, of which 000 died in battle.

1st Warsaw Polish Infantry Division named after Tadeusz Kosciuszko

A Czechoslovak military unit and the 1st Romanian Tudor Vladimirescu Volunteer Infantry Division were created. And that's where Petr Shpakovsky was sent, since he also knew Romanian from his intelligence school, to check the reports of informants included in it that officers from the fascist organization "Garda de Fer" had infiltrated its ranks and that they were preparing a mutiny with the aim of leading it to the Germans. Meetings with informants were always simple. A stupid-looking officer would arrive and, under the guise of checking some papers, would call everyone in a row and ask various questions. He would scold and call names to someone so that everyone could hear it, and usually these were informants - ha-ha! And at that time they would quietly and quickly report all the necessary information to him. Well, the "useless for the cause" were kept the longest, so that if the enemies could suspect someone of informing, it would be them. In general, this method is well described in Wilkie Collins' novel "The Moonstone", where it is used by the detective Cuff.

1st Romanian Volunteer Infantry Division named Tudor Vladimirescu

So Pyotr Shpakovsky arrived at this unit, and arrived in a BA-64 armored car, and in the evening, and they immediately took him to spend the night in a peasant hut, brought him a hot dinner, put a guard at the hut and... left him to rest. He lay down on a bench by the wall opposite the door (there was no bed in the hut, of course), but he just couldn't fall asleep: the bugs started eating him. What to do, he wanted to sleep... He looked around the hut and saw that there was a whole heap of some herbs lying on the stove. He got up and sniffed them. The smell was strong! He thought that it would kill his human spirit, and there, on the stove, the bugs wouldn't get him.

New army, new symbols…

He had just climbed onto the stove when he heard someone talking at the entrance to the hut. They were talking to the sentry, and he was answering something in Romanian. Then a quiet cry: "Aaaah!" and then the creak of the front door and footsteps in the entryway. And Pyotr always had a pistol and a lemon grenade with him, so he carefully took them all out and began to wait to see what would happen next. And then the door to the hut opened slightly, the barrel of a machine gun stuck out through the crack and - bang, bang, bang!!! Right at the bench where he slept and where his raglan raincoat remained. That's when the grenade flew from him through the slightly opened door and exploded in the entryway. There was screaming, yelling, and he fired a couple more shots from the pistol, kicked out the frame, climbed out, and shooting and screams could already be heard throughout the village.

Well, he ran to his armored car and quickly to the headquarters of the nearest Soviet unit - supposedly, there was a mutiny in the Romanian brigade. Our guys quickly got their bearings, moved tanks to the village, brought up a BM-13 and, under the threat of total destruction, offered the rebels to surrender. They surrendered, and Shpakovsky had to interrogate his informants almost legally: who, what, when and how. They exposed everyone who was in the "Garda de Fer" organization, and immediately shot them in a ravine outside the village. Well, my stepfather once again had to write off one raincoat (it was so well riddled with holes from a PPSh!) and order himself another one!

To be continued ...

Comments

[not main]

I don't believe it! Firstly, the author simply doesn't know what bedbugs are! Secondly, this is throwing a grenade at the front door from a Russian stove! Let me explain, for those who don't know, in a Russian stove the firebox was located as close as possible to the entrance to the room. But the "bench" is exactly opposite! Not only was it forbidden to throw a grenade, but it was also forbidden to shoot from a Russian stove!

[Same lech]

And I believe ... The article doesn't say that the stove is Russian... I know what bedbugs are... they can get you anywhere and do anything.
According to the rules, the mutiny in this unit should be documented by Shpakovsky in a report and should be kept in the SMERSH archives under the secret stamp.
It would be nice to take a look at it...if the Ministry of Defense allows it, of course.

[kalibr]

Quote: The same LYOKHA

According to the rules, the mutiny in this unit should be documented by Shpakovsky in a report and should be kept in the SMERSH archives under the secret stamp.

Without a doubt. But these archives are closed until 2045.

[kalibr]

Quote: non-primary

Firstly, the author simply doesn’t know what bedbugs are!

Ha-ha-ha! In 1973, we, students of the Penza Pedagogical Institute, were sent to do autumn agricultural work. And there I was placed with an old woman who had bedbugs... I lasted exactly one night! And I demanded to be moved immediately. So I am familiar with them. And now about the stove... In the same '73, only in the summer, we were sent to an archaeological field trip (there is an article about what kind of field trip it was here). So, because of the rains, we moved from tents to abandoned rural huts. I and two girls whom I was looking after, settled in a hut where the stove with a stove bench stood TO THE RIGHT of the front door. And, accordingly, there was also a stove bench there, and from it you could clearly see who was entering and part of the entryway. Although, yes, in my home, a huge Russian stove had a stove bench with an "exit" into the corridor. In it, again, there was a door into the entryway. And you could see who was entering the house. But you couldn't throw a grenade. But in a village house from 1973 you could only do that. Different houses, different stoves...

[Dutchman Michel]

Quote: kalibr

And there they put me with an old woman who had bedbugs.

My generation has not seen any bedbugs, although I have heard about such domestic insects from my parents and grandmother. But I have seen cockroaches

[Sebenza]

Any communal apartment in the center of St. Petersburg. And voila, the acquaintance took place.

[Xnumx vis]

Quote: Sebenza

Any communal apartment in the center of St. Petersburg. And voila, the acquaintance took place.

In the eighties I was in Kyiv. I lived with relatives, in the center near the Cathedral of St. Sophia of Kyiv, Maxim Rylsky Lane. The ceilings in the apartment were three and a half meters high, with stucco molding. And at night, battalions and regiments of bedbugs moved from this antique stucco molding toward the fresh man. On the third day I went to live on the balcony. But there was a view of the ancient Russian cathedral.

[Sebenza]

View, yes. Three days - you are patient. I spent more money on insect powder than on women in my younger years.

[Dost]

Not only communal apartments, but also student dorms in the 80s were sometimes inhabited by bedbugs.

[Richard]

My generation has not seen any bedbugs, although I had heard about such domestic insects from my parents and grandmother.

And I did. In the early 70s, this was a common occurrence in our village. They would coat the backs of wooden furniture with nitro paint, turpentine, or kerosene. Furniture and bedding would periodically be taken out into the hot sun or frost to kill insects and their eggs. Herbs also helped - wormwood, wild rosemary, chamomile. And, of course, tansy. Judging by how the author writes:

He looked around the hut and saw that there was a whole heap of some herbs lying on the stove. He stood up and sniffed them. The smell was strong! He thought that it would kill his human spirit.

. Most likely it was tansy. The smell from it was truly "armor-piercing" - you wouldn't drive a dog into the house.
But in the mid-70s, with the advent of chemical products, bedbugs and cockroaches almost completely disappeared.

[Aviator_]

But in the mid-70s, with the advent of chemical products, bedbugs and cockroaches almost completely disappeared.

In Orenburg they disappeared in the mid-60s, with the advent of dichlorvos. The dust they tried to poison them with earlier no longer worked. We are talking about communal apartments, of course. The second encounter with them was during the university entrance exams in Dolgoprudny in 1972. There were no such things in the student dormitory in Zhukovsky.

[your1970]

Quote: Richard

But in the mid-70s, with the advent of chemical products, bedbugs and cockroaches almost completely disappeared.

Cockroaches disappeared with the development of cellular communications.
And bedbugs, yes - with the advent of dichlorvos.

[ZnachWest]

Nothing has gone anywhere. Dichlorvos just stopped working a long time ago.

[2 Level Advisor]

Quote: your1970

Cockroaches disappeared with the development of cellular communications.

Somehow they haven't disappeared from our place - I periodically destroy spies from my neighbors.

[your1970]

Quote from ZnachWest

Nothing has gone anywhere. Dichlorvos just stopped working a long time ago.

Do you have bedbugs?

Quote: Level 2 Advisor

Somehow they haven't disappeared from our place - I periodically destroy spies from my neighbors.

Cockroaches left the Almaty and Dushanbe trains, in both directions, in 2005 - as soon as the towers were installed at the stations on the railway to Moscow.
They disappeared in a dorm in Saratov at the same time. They disappeared in a communal apartment in Moscow in 2002.
In our former military city, the towers disappeared a month after they were installed.
In the regional center, in the hostel for homeless people, they left.
The jokes about "I take the sofa out to the trash and the cockroaches immediately bring it back" have long since disappeared.
Seriously - have you heard the joke about cockroaches lately??!!!!

[Tests]

Exactly! Only the neighbors are a grocery store on the 1st floor, and the apartment is on the 6th floor. Last summer, a red-haired, mustachioed man was stomping along the outside wall of the house when I was washing the windows. I saw a traveler on the white bricks when he had only crawled up to the 5th floor from below. He was confidently stomping diagonally, as if he had undergone mountain training. He reached the 6th floor and was mercilessly crushed, just below the windows of the 6th floor...

[Graz]

My grandmother's country house was built before the Great Patriotic War. If you look from the entrance, the stove was to the left of the door along the wall, that is, the stove bench was along the entrance, the stove started right from the wall at the entrance (the door frame was very low with a high threshold, that is, you had to bend over a lot to enter and the door itself was probably 10 cm thick wood, this was done to keep the heat in the winter), and the firebox was directed to the left side of the building's rectangle towards the side windows in the kitchen. In the hallway where they slept there was a small stove

[Tests]

non-chief (Andrey), respected, you are very categorical! The author did not specify in what region his stepfather dealt with those who tried to kill him at night. It seems that it was in Moldova, Ukraine or already in Romania ... In my native Arkhangelsk region, in all the houses where I was, the stove pole always looked out the window. In my father's house, previously my grandfather's (a house with 5 windows in the front) there are 2 Russian stoves. The house faces the "river" that flows from the west, the house is stretched from west to east. Both Russian stoves have a pole to the window, one stove looks with a pole out the window facing south, and the second - out the window facing north. You can climb onto the stove just from the entrance doors, the stove bench (roof) is partially closed with bricks from the doors, the width of the passage to the stove bench is about a meter. Throwing a grenade from the stove pole out the front door into the kitchen is a pleasure. My grandmother's home in the same village, also with 5 windows in front, one Russian stove, arranged similarly. And my mother's house today is on the island territory of Arkhangelsk, it has 3 windows in front, the kitchen is like an annex to the main hut. There is one Russian stove in it. With a pole to the window to the north, opposite the entrance door from the loft to the kitchen you climb onto the bench, also with a narrow manhole. From the mouth of the stove along the bench there is a wall of bricks. Kneeling and from this stove it is convenient to shoot at those who enter the house with your left hand. Throwing a grenade from the stove at those who are on the loft is not a problem.

[Tests]

Oh, great anonymous minusator! You personally visited all the houses of my relatives and my house, did you find in the description of Russian stoves, in the houses I described, a discrepancy with what you saw with your own eyes?

[Richard]

In my native Arkhangelsk region, in all the houses I visited, the stove pole always looked out the window

Greetings, Eugene.
Here your esteemed fellow countrymen are not original. All ordinary Russian stoves, regardless of the location of the region, always had the hearth, the chute, the damper and the latches opposite the window. The only exception to this rule that I have seen is the stove in the house of the parents of my colleague and comrade in Comrat. There, the mouth and the hearth of the stove looked to the side of the window. Our usual stove bench was not there, and opposite the window there was a wide wooden box-golbchik attached to the stove, which served both as a bench and a sleeping place. But this is Moldovan Gagauzia - the climate there is different.

[Tests]

Good day, dear sir! The museum workers simply claimed that in the Arkhangelsk region the Russian stove was always placed with its mouth to the window facing south, supposedly it was easier for the housewife to light the stove and cook on a gloomy dark October morning. But for some reason those museum workers forgot that the sea, lake or river could be on any side of the world and, most often, the house faced the water with its front. But the number of windows in the front of the house could vary: 3, 5, 6. And the number of Russian stoves in the house was different, there could be one, there could be two. And the number of Dutch stoves in the house could vary. And a stove could be attached to the Russian stove, on which they cooked in the summer, when the second winter frames were already taken out of the hut, and the Russian stove might not be heated for a week. The Arkhangelsk region did not know summer kitchens... I have never been to Moldova.

[Richard]

The Arkhangelsk region did not know of any summer kitchens.

Kabitsa, toplushki, gornushki - we called them by many names. They were an integral part of every village plot. Now we don't have many of these stoves left in our village. But before, they stood in every yard. Unfortunately, we had to break our great-grandfather's one, installed back in 1908, in 2017, when sewerage and water supply were laid through our and neighboring plots. It was painful to tears to watch when it was torn down. It only remains in the photo.
Our stanitsa letnitsa - gornushki were not a whim of the owner, but a forced, obligatory necessity. Previously, the stanitsa houses stood close to each other. There were many wooden buildings, and the adobe kurens had reed roofs. Such buildings easily caught fire. And if one kuren caught fire, then the neighboring ones did too. Quite often, entire stanitsas burned down. That is why summer stoves in the yards were needed. To protect the Cossacks' homes from fire. A very simple and wise solution. Before the revolution, it was strictly forbidden to cook food in the houses in the Cossack stanitsas in the summer. For the summer, the stanitsa prikaz administration sealed the stoves in all kurens. Housewives cooked in summer stoves - gornushki, standing right on the street, far from the house. Those who were richer, or large families - built summer kitchens - the so-called letnitsa. They were also placed away from the houses. A small stove, a table, benches, and above them a canopy from the scorching sun. They usually ate at the table, right on the street.

[Richard]

Gornushki are a thing of the past, but traditions live on - today in the villages, covered summer gazebos with a dining table near the barbecue are quickly gaining popularity. What kind of projects do not builders offer?

[Olgovich]

Quote: non-primary

In a Russian stove, the firebox was located as close as possible to the entrance to the room. But the "bench" is exactly opposite!

We have it differently: when entering the hut, the stove is located on the right, and the firebox faces the wall opposite the entrance.

But of course, it’s hard to believe: a person for... half-year learned not only how to shoot masterfully, martial arts, radio, control cars, airplanes, parachutes, but also... the Romanian language - and all this in an ordinary interregional NKVD school. It's simply impossible

Everything else is from the same series.

Another interesting thing is that the heroes of the Polish units were the people who took part in anti-russian uprisings of the 19th century and they were allowed to do it! So why be surprised by Russophobia now?

[BAI]

Let me explain for those who don’t know, in a Russian stove the firebox was located as close as possible to the entrance to the room.

Nothing of the sort. My house was built in 1933. The firebox is at the maximum distance from the entrance - facing the windows, and the stove bench is on the side of the entrance door. The same system is in the peasant houses in the Suzdal Ethnographic Museum. And in Karabikha - the house of Nekrasov's brother, where Nekrasov himself lived - there was a labyrinth leading to the firebox. The firebox is in one room, and the stove is in another, so that there is basically no burning smell in the living space.

[Richard]

non-chief (Andrey): Let me explain, for those who don't know, in a Russian stove the firebox was located as close as possible to the entrance to the room. But the "bench" is exactly opposite!

BAI: Nothing of the sort. My house was built in 1933. The firebox is at the maximum distance from the entrance - facing the windows, and the stove bench is on the side of the entrance door.

Good day, BAI! I completely agree with you. Neglavny is mistaken. Russian stoves have always traditionally been placed with their mouths facing the window.

My house was built in 1933. The firebox is at the maximum distance from the entrance - facing the windows, and the stove bench is on the side of the entrance door.

In our old ancestral house in the village, built in 1908, it was similar. The mouth of the firebox of the Russian stove in the kitchen faces the windows, between the stove and the wall separating the kitchen from the entryway is a stone stove bench. Location - KMV village near Pyatigorsk. Further - central Russia. A village house in the village of Peshchery near the city of Teikovo, where my mother was born and left, and where I often visited as a child. Today it belongs to our distant relatives. The location of the Russian stove in the kitchen is similar, only the stone stove bench itself is shorter, and a wooden bench-chest is attached to it. I don’t know exactly what year this house was built. But probably before the war - my late mother was born in 1943.

[gsev]

Quote: non-primary

Let me explain for those who don’t know, in a Russian stove the firebox was located as close as possible to the entrance to the room.

In my wife's parents' house the firebox faced the opposite side from the front door. The stove bench was right next to the front door. This arrangement is quite reasonable. Lying on the stove when it is heated and still retains heat is too hot for a young and healthy person. In areas where there was little forest, the Russian stove was not placed in the room but in the kitchen (a small nook). The Russian stove consumes too much firewood and uneconomically. It is often used not for heating but for cooking, allowing the housewife to save time. Food cooked in a Russian stove, especially porridge, is much tastier than food cooked over an open fire. Our room was heated by a small stove, something between a Turkish and Dutch one.

[ZnachWest]

The stove can also be in the middle.

[bya965]

Thanks for the series of articles.
I read and my soul becomes warmer.
From the heart!

[kalibr]

Quote: bya965

From the heart!

Sincere thanks! There will be a continuation.

[bubalik]

he was seriously wounded:

“But in the award sheet from June 1945, in the column for whether he has wounds or concussions, it says: none.”

[kalibr]

Quote: bubalik

“But in the award sheet from June 1945, in the column for whether he has wounds or concussions, it says: none.”

I can't explain. I saw the wounds on his legs when we were swimming in the sea. I asked... He told me... I didn't even think to ask about his documents...

[bubalik]

It’s strange of course, especially since according to the words the injury was serious and he was in the hospital.

[cpls22]

Quote: bubalik

It’s strange of course, especially since according to the words the injury was serious and he was in the hospital.

Maybe because it wasn't considered combat grade? After all, he got it during the bombing of the city.

[Blacksmith 55]

Vyacheslav Olegovich, it is a good and interesting read. But so much criticism. Naturally, I cannot know about this story. But maybe it would be better if you wrote a book about it. There you can't blame the author, you can refer to the author's fantasy))))).
Moreover, you yourself don’t know all the details.

[kalibr]

Quote: Blacksmith 55

But maybe it would be better if you wrote a book about it.

I put some things into the novel "If Hitler had taken Moscow". I wanted, yes, to write a book about it. But... I found myself facing a number of difficulties.

[UAT]

My father's first award sheet has a mistake in the month of birth. I believe that such mistakes are quite common.

[BAI]

Noma of life. My father's surname was distorted on the award sheet.
I'm not even mentioning that on the Podvig Naroda website there is a complete copy of my father. Only my father went through the entire war, and the "namesake" died in 1943 and the burial place is indicated

[Richard]

The caption under the photo of the article "Still from the film "Four Tankmen and a Dog". Janek in front of a photograph of the first tank commander Olgierd Jarosz, a descendant of Polish rebels exiled to Siberia by the tsar. So they came up with a similar biography for Pyotr Shpakovsky...

According to the film, the commander of the "Red" crew, Olgerd Yarosh, is a Russian officer of the Red Army, but his father is a Pole born in Siberia, and his mother is Ukrainian. According to the book "Four Tankmen and a Dog", this is the Russian lieutenant Vasily Semenov. This is not the imagination of the author of this work, Janusz Przymanowski. If the other members of the "Red" crew were collective images, then Lieutenant Olgerd Yarosh had a real prototype - the Soviet tanker Viktor Vasilyevich Tyufyakov. During the war, correspondent Janusz Przymanowski repeatedly met Tyufyakov.
He is often mentioned in another work by Janusz Przymanowski about Polish tank crews - "Studzianki". Many episodes from the combat biography of Viktor Vasilyevich were included in the book and film. Viktor Vasilyevich was a lucky man. He fought since 1941, was seriously wounded twice, . In the battles for Rzhev, in thirty-five days, he changed five tanks.
But fate was unfair to this man. It was known that Viktor Vasilyevich was a very straightforward person. He hated deception and never kept silent if he saw injustice.
After the war, the hero was stripped of all his awards, demoted and dismissed from the army.
It is not known exactly what caused this, but many believe that it was Viktor Vasilyevich's character and his conflict with his superiors. After demobilization, Viktor Vasilyevich became a geologist. Perhaps nothing would have become known about his heroic past if not for the TV series "Four Tankmen and a Dog". The series was incredibly popular in the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the GDR. It was then that it became clear that Viktor Vasilyevich was the prototype of Olgierd Yarosh. He was invited to Poland, where he was greeted as a national hero. Thanks to this, Viktor Vasilyevich was reinstated in the rank in the USSR in 1970 and all his awards were returned to him. In total, he had thirteen government awards, including four Polish orders.
In the photo from 1970 V.V. Tyufyakov

[your1970]

Quote: UAT

My father's first award sheet has a mistake in the month of birth. I believe that such mistakes are quite common.

My passport and military ID had different blood types and Rh factors. Moreover, the blood type can be mixed up if the drug is expired, but the Rh factor is technically impossible.
And this is already in the 1980s, not in the 1940s.

[Million]

Shpakovsky got carried away.
It's better to write jokes, they pay money for them.

[Lewww]

And it was there that he received a serious injury: a small bomb exploded not far from him. air bomb and… threw it out of the officer’s leather coat

Well, he ran to his armored car and quickly to the headquarters of the nearest Soviet unit - supposedly, there was a mutiny in the Romanian brigade. Our guys quickly got their bearings and moved towards the village tanks, brought BM-13

What kind of Bolshevik climbed onto our armored vehicle?
Doesn't pronounce the letter "r" and wears a big cap?

I see a new section has appeared: "Weekend Tale"

[shikin]

Do you know about the BR-13 armored car? It's clear to me that tanks and Katyusha were used.
The text was BA-64. Or are you talking about something else?

[Lewww]

About other things:

Well, he's running. in his armored car and quickly to the headquarters of the nearest Soviet unit

[Nikname2025]

His orderly comes running

There were no orderlies in the Red Army. There were orderlies in the Red Army.

[cpls22]

Quote: Nikname2025

His orderly comes running

There were no orderlies in the Red Army. There were orderlies in the Red Army.

It seems that even in the RIA in 1916 they no longer existed as such - they were renamed as orderlies, or something like that.

[Nikname2025]

officers from the fascist organization "Garda de Fer" infiltrated its ranks

After the failed coup attempt in January 1941, the Garda de Fier ceased to exist. The leaders of this organization fled, some to Germany, some to France, some to Spain. Those who remained in Romania were imprisoned.

[Nikname2025]

In addition. The Tudor Vladimirescu Division was created by the NKVD and the process was personally supervised by L.P. Beria. Therefore, the inclusion of even former members of the Legion in its ranks is extremely doubtful.

[Tests]

Nikname2025, dear sir, no one has ever canceled the three great Russian constants: "maybe, probably and somehow". Prisoner of war camp #220 since July 1944, the city of Molotovsk (today - Severodvinsk). The first camp department directly in Molotovsk (4 prisoners) worked on the construction of plant #000, which is today Sevmash, the port and residential brick houses on Severnaya Street (today - Pervomayskaya Street). The second camp department in the village of Zeleny Bor and opposite the village of Solza (402 prisoners) built a narrow-gauge railway from Molotovsk to the west to the village of Nyonoksa, worked in logging and in a sand quarry (today - Solzenskie pits). (Our prisoners, mostly former Estonian forest brothers, extended the narrow-gauge railway line to the Solza River. True, Solza was already a penal camp point, where they sent those who did not want to build houses, work at a wood processing plant and a mechanical plant (later this plant became "SevDorMash" and produced auger-rotor and milling snowplows.) The third camp department from July 1, 000 km from the Lomovoe station of the Northern Railway, (1945 prisoners) mined stone in a quarry ... And only in October 5 did it dawn on the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that "a significant number of prisoners of war were working at facilities that constituted a state secret." And on November 430, 1947, the Soviet secret "DIRECTIVE OF THE USSR MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS No. 22.11.1947 ON THE REMOVAL OF PRISONERS OF WAR FROM WORK" was born. AT MILITARY-STRATEGIC FACILITIES AND ENTERPRISES,
"THE PRODUCTS OF WHICH CONSTITUTE A STATE SECRET" of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR S.N. Kruglov. In January 1948, there were still 377 prisoners of war in Molotovsk. In May 1948, the camp department in Molotovsk was closed, the prisoners were transferred to the 1st department of camp No. 211 for the construction of the Solombala Pulp and Paper Mill in Arkhangelsk or sent to camps in the Vologda Region...
One more thing. It could have been not only former members of the Legion, but professional intelligence officers or counterintelligence officers who knew the conspiracy and pretended to be someone else in our captivity or called their military specialty different.

[Nikname2025]

You see, the history of the Division "Tudor Vladimirescu" is very well studied, since this division was created with an eye to the future, as a support for the seizure of power in Romania by the communists. The division brilliantly fulfilled this task, ensuring the overthrow of King Mihai in December 1947 and the formation of the Romanian People's Republic. But not a single source, including modern Romanian ones, contains any information about any protest actions in this division. Modern Romanian "enemies of the communists" would certainly have written about this.

[Tests]

Nikname2025, thank you for your prompt reply! I only agree with you 1% about studying the history of the 50st Romanian division. Our SMERSH archives are still closed. The SVR archives are closed. After the criminal case of Professor Suprun from NArFU, I doubt that anyone will undertake to study why in 1945 most of the Hungarian prisoners of war were released from prisoner of war camps No. 211 and 220 from Arkhangelsk and Molotovsk, and not Romanians, Germans, Austrians or Czechs. There are memoirs of Soviet nurses who saved prisoners of war from typhus in Solombala in camp point 1 of camp No. 211 in Arkhangelsk, about the fact that anti-fascist prisoners of war from anti-fascist schools were transferred to camp No. 211 and their number - there are. And there is no personal data about them - it is a secret even today... After all, it is possible that Shpakovsky embellished something, there were only 2 conspirators, or maybe only 1. The former SMERSH officer told the author something the way he told it, and the author forgot something, time... And a lot of time passed between the division's entry into battle and the overthrow of Mihai. How many of those who entered the first battle were former prisoners, who fought against the Red Army in the Romanian Army, how many soldiers were from the Red Army, who spoke or understood Moldavian (Romanian), how many Soviet officers remained - there is no exact data...

[Nikname2025]

The archives of our SMERSH are still closed

Do you think that Romanians don’t know their own history and that they can’t do without the “SMERSH archives”?

[Tests]

Nikname2025, dear sir, I have never personally communicated with Romanians and therefore I cannot answer your questions.

[Lewww]

And then the door to the hut opened slightly, stuck his head out through the crack the barrel of the machine gun and - bang, bang, bang!!! Right on the bench where he was sleeping and where his raglan coat was still left. That's when a grenade flew from him through the slightly opened door and exploded in the entryway.

Vyacheslav, if you really want to fantasize, then at least fantasize in line with common sense and not so primitively.

Imagine a real scenario: it’s night, complete darkness, and a person in these conditions throws a grenade from a stove and hits it right into a crack.
This is unbelievable, dangerous, and most importantly unnecessary, because 1) if he had missed or the grenade had bounced off the machine gun into the room, he would have been cut to pieces by shrapnel; 2) in this situation it would have been much more reasonable to empty the TT clip through the door, in which case the probability of hitting the enemy would have been close to 100% with a guaranteed absence of a ricochet.

Further, if he was given a BA-64, then there should be a driver with him. Therefore, in your fantasy, you would have to leave the driver to spend the night in the armored car (to protect it from theft), then Shpakovsky's escape in the armored car would be more realistic, like he would jump inside and shout in Polish: "Vasya, start the engine, warm it up and quickly leave." And at this time he would hold on to the DT machine gun and menacingly move the barrel, instilling fear in the enemies. And even better, he would fire a couple of bursts at the hut to finish off those damned Romanians for sure.

And then: why does Shpakovsky always wear a raglan coat like Gleb Zheglov?
If he was introduced into the military unit under a cover story, then he should have arrived in a greatcoat like an ordinary officer or soldier, and not as an NKVD officer from Lubyanka.
In short, you have one nonsense after another.
Although, however, it is ridiculous to demand authenticity from a fairy tale

And by the way, if it’s a machine gun barrel, then it’s not bang, bang, bang!!!, but ra-ta-ta.
Although, sorry for the nitpicking, I forgot that this is a fairy tale

[Richard]

It would have been necessary to leave the driver to spend the night in the armored car (to protect it from theft), then Shpakovsky’s escape in the armored car would have been more realistic.

Spend the night in a BA-64? Well, that's only if you stand up )). Alas, Lev, it's not a one-and-a-half-ton truck or a passenger car. The driver's space is very limited there. And there's no roof. (Photo 1). And judging by the fact that Shpakovsky himself was wearing a leather coat, the weather was not the most comfortable. In theory, the driver should have spent the night in the hut with Shpakovsky.
What is more interesting is that the author writes:

Pyotr Shpakovsky arrived at this unit, and arrived with a driver in a BA-64 armored car.

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And there was no passenger seat. Arrived standing in a half-closed machine gun turret? Let's just say it was not the most comfortable place to transport an NKVD major. His colleagues of lower rank usually traveled in GAZ-61s and Vilis, accompanied by BA. (photo 2)

[Lewww]

Spend the night in BA-64? Well, that's only if you stand up )).

Theoretically it is possible - don't forget that we are discussing and finishing the story

And there was no passenger seat. Did he arrive standing in a half-closed machine gun turret?

Well, yes, either standing or sitting - there was a seat for the shooter

Let's just say it's not the most comfortable place to transport an NKVD major.

Not the best, but since the author put him in an armored car, he had to go

What is more interesting is that the author writes:
Pyotr Shpakovsky arrived at this unit, and arrived with a driver in a BA-64 armored car.

There is no mention of the driver in the author's text.
I already added that if they gave him a BA-64, they gave it with a driver.

[Tarasios]

Well, damn, the author himself is just provoking) I read the previous parts about the omnipresent Shpakovsky, and more and more often thoughts appeared. That in vain in childhood we were "showed" that the war was won by just one tank, "four tankers and a dog". Apparently, Shpakovsky was clearly in their company there ;) So I thought about it, but endured, kept quiet. But then the author published a new article, and the very first one - a photo of Yanek. Author, this is a provocation, for sure ;)

[Lewww]

Yes, after reading it, my fingers ached, demanding to write something similarly heroic.
For example, about the radio operator Kat, who in reality was a man who, never having reached his Stirlitz, got caught, foolishly coming to a safe house to meet with local communists who forgot to put the 5 agreed-upon irons on the windowsill

[Richard]

As children we were "shown" that the war was won by just one tank, "four tankers and a dog."

Well, this claim is exclusively to the directors and screenwriters of the film - Directors: Andrzej Czekalski, Konrad Nałęcki, Screenwriters: Janusz Przymanowski, Maria Przymanowska.
The film is based on the book of the same name by Janusz Przymanowski. There is no such fantastic, hurray-heroic plot in the book. And where would it come from? The author, a famous military historian, knew about the war firsthand. He fought from the age of 17. Since 1939. First in the Polish army, then Russian captivity. In 1941, having learned about the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he volunteered for the Red Army - as a gunner of an anti-tank gun in the 62nd separate Red Banner naval rifle brigade in the Azov region. In 1943, information began to spread about the recruitment of military personnel for the forming First Corps of the new Polish Armed Forces, and Przymanowski was among the first to sign up, and again as a volunteer. He ended his military career as a major artilleryman in his native Warsaw. He ended his military career as a colonel of the GPU of the Polish People's Army.
It is vain to consider Janusz Przymanowski only the author of a children's book based on which a famous Polish TV series consisting of three parts and 21 episodes was filmed. In the early sixties, Janusz Przymanowski, together with the Soviet writer Ovid Gorchakov, published a book based on military archives that undoubtedly deserves to be called a landmark one - "We Call Fire on Ourselves" about the Russian intelligence officer Anna Morozova. A few years later, director Sergei Kolosov filmed a four-part film of the same name based on this book, which we still watch with pleasure. The screening of the film on television led to one very important event: its main character, the real partisan Anna Morozova, was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Almost all of Janusz Przymanowski's books are about the war. In 1987, he created another historical and documentary study, which he called "Memory". In two huge volumes, the anti-fascist writer immortalized the names of Soviet and Polish soldiers who died liberating his homeland. 78556 names... I have his research book "Studzianki" about tankers in my home library. I read it for the first time in high school, and then reread it many times. I highly recommend it. (Studzianki is a Polish village, not far from which a grand tank battle took place).
Przymanowski died on July 4, 1998. He was buried at the Military Cemetery in Powązki.
By the way, in modern Poland, as part of the so-called decommunization, all books by Janusz Przymanowski are banned. The film "Four Tankmen and a Dog" is also banned.

[gsev]

Quote: Richard

The film "Four Tankmen and a Dog" is also banned

An acquaintance in 1945 spoke with a soldier of the Polish Army who was negligently on guard duty. The Pole, mobilized after the liberation of Poland but living under German occupation since 1939, explained his timidity and negligence by an almost genetic fear of any foreign soldier after the German occupation. For its time, the book and film "Four Tankers" weaned Poles off fear of foreign enemies and instilled national pride and Polish arrogance in the post-war generation of Poles.

[ZnachWest]

They overdid it. Although, Polish pride is restored by itself, and very quickly...

[gsev]

Quote from ZnachWest

However, Polish pride is restored on its own, and very quickly.

If the German occupier enters Poland, Polish pride will instantly evaporate. Before the recapture of Crimea, the Pashtuns always mocked the Russians for allowing the USSR to collapse. But after 2014, they compare the inviolability of the Durand Line to the unpredictability of Ukraine's borders.

[kalibr]

Quote: Tarasios

Author, this is a provocation, for sure ;)

I really hope that you understand that there may be relatives, which I really hope. In any case, there was definitely one nephew. And he had a family. There were people, and many, whom he taught at the university, there were many. So there is no point in me inventing anything. Although, of course, a lot of time has passed since he told me about this.

[Des]

Well, it's too late.
Thanks to the author for reminding the local users of the site about, among other things, the Poles who fought as part of the Red Army.
Colonel Sigmund Berling and his comrades (Poles) were sentenced to death in absentia by the Sikorski "government" (in London).
Many here, out of pure hatred (and simply ignorance of the history of their country (you know what they are called)) curse different nationalities.
They seem like good people, but they say such things...

[Pavel57]

The cockroaches leave, but promise to return.