Unknown heroes of the Great Patriotic War. Alexey Malakh
This history I heard when I was a little girl. My grandfather young boys went to the front. In those years, the guys believed that it was necessary to fulfill their duty to the Fatherland. That is, to protect their homeland and defeat the enemy. He passed from Dnepropetrovsk to Berlin. During this period, he told quite a few. But most often he recalled only one case, about a simple soldier Alexey Malakh.
Alexey Malakh was an ordinary twenty year old soldier. In the division where my grandfather served, he ended up in Minsk. After being wounded, he was in the medical unit for a long time, and after his recovery, he again went to the ranks of the Soviet Army. It was a fun and friendly guy. He told everyone that there were six brothers in his family. Father on the first day of the war went to the front and Alexey became the breadwinner, as he was the oldest. Soon they received news that the father was killed at the front. This news very much struck the mother, after which she became sick and died. Since the family lost two breadwinners, the babies were distributed to children's homes in the city. After that, Alex went to the front. In one of the battles he was wounded in the leg, in connection with which he spent several months in the medical unit of Minsk. And now he is already walking hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder with the same people like him.
The division receives another order to come out in defense of the city of Mogilev. In the course of several days of fierce battles, the enemy retreated. Soviet soldiers decided to rest a bit and settled in the House of Culture, next to which there was a kindergarten. Alexey was still experiencing the pain of parting with the brothers, and therefore began visiting the little children who were there.
There were about ten children in the garden. Many have already been evacuated from the city along with their mothers. And those who sneezed their parents killed or they died of starvation gave them to local kindergartens. Here Alex and found a temporary family. He told them stories that happened to him at the front, shared rations. He tried hard to cheer up the kids.
By order of the main command, the division for some time was to be in Mogilev. The enemy was not completely defeated, and part of the German troops, sheltering in the woods, was waiting for reinforcements. That is why the troops of the Soviet army continued to be in the city.
It all happened suddenly. The evening was no different from the past evenings. Malach, as always, went to the kindergarten, played with the children, and was already returning to the rest of the soldiers, to the location. Suddenly, something beckoned him toward the park alley. This later, his colleagues will understand that Alexey saw a disguised machine gun and a slowly moving detachment of Germans. Friends of the soldier noticed how he, like a wild beast on a hunt, moved from one tree to another, trying to get closer. But because of one careless movement, he was immediately noticed by the enemy.
The silence was broken by shots and exploding shells, shouts of commanders “To shelter!”. Everyone immediately noticed that most of the shots were aimed at kindergarten. Almost all the soldiers who were on the street were unarmed, they rushed for rifles, but the enemy was merciless.
At this time, Alexei did not even suspect that he would commit an act that subsequently made him a hero, but, alas, posthumously. Trying to distract the enemy, he landed in some kind of trap (perhaps the local residents, thus, tried to protect themselves from the Germans), and he also received a bullet wound in the shoulder. All his attempts to escape were unsuccessful. It was at this time that he decided to save the little ones, no matter what it cost him. Those who were nearby, very clearly heard the last words of Alexei: "For you, little brothers!". He was hard and painful to move. Slowly, on one side, creeping closer and closer to the enemy lair, he took out a grenade and with it fell on a machine gun. So the life of one of the many heroes of that time was cut short. The enemy fell in battle, and the life of a good person was cut short in the struggle for a just cause.
Alexey Malakh was buried at the brotherly cemetery of the city of Mogilev. About his action is not described in the history books. But for the fact, those who served with him in the same division, as well as the children he saved, dented and honored his memory. After all, it is about these simple guys will write poems and compose songs. No wonder they say "Nobody forget, nothing is forgotten."
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