Heroes of the Soviet Union of different nationalities
Victory in the Great Patriotic War was achieved only thanks to the heroism of the Soviet people (not only the Russian, as is often presented in the modern press), many people lost their sons on the fronts and in the Nazi camps. Is there any way to mark and appreciate the dignity of each individual for heroism and courage. In the USSR, the highest award was the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. During the period of the Great Patriotic War, 11302 people were awarded the Hero Star. But what is strange is that when official sources indicate which peoples were represented for the title Hero of the Soviet Union, it is usually written: Russians - 7998 people, Ukrainians - 2021 people, Belarusians - 299 people, and other peoples - 984 people. But why forget the rest of the nations?
The USSR was a united country of friendly and equal peoples, but then why in official statistics most of the nations are listed as others. After all, the heroes of the Soviet Union are: 161, the Tatar , Latvians 107, 96 Kirghiz, Komi 90, 89 Udmurt, 67 Estonians, Karelians 63, 45 Kalmyks, 43 Kabardians, 38 Adygei, Abkhaz 31, 18 Yakut, Moldavian 16, 15 Tuvan. But even in this list one can see the absence of representatives of repressed peoples - Chechens and Crimean Tatars.
It is really puzzling about the attitude towards the representatives of the peoples, who for some reason have become disagreeable, and with one stroke of the pen they were crossed out stories. In fairness it should be noted that 6 Chechens and 5 of the Crimean Tatars (Ametkhan Sultan - twice) became the Heroes of the Soviet Union. These people committed heroic deeds, for which they were marked by the highest government award of the USSR. In the 1942 year, by order of Beria, the call to the front of representatives of the Chechen-Ingush republic was stopped. It was at the beginning of the year, and by the end of the summer, when the Nazis invaded the territory of the Soviet Caucasus, it was decided to allow volunteers from Chechen-Ingushetia to participate in the battles. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, thousands of volunteers and recruits from the Chechen-Ingushetia fought 18,5, they stood to death on the outskirts of Stalingrad as part of a separate Chechen-Ingush regiment.
The machine gunner Khanpasha Nuradilov and the sniper Abukhaji Idrisov became one of the most famous Chechen heroes. Nuradilov distinguished himself in the battle near the village of Zakharovka, when the Nazis destroyed 120, the hero destroyed the enemy soldiers 920, for which he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union - posthumously. Idrisov from his sniper rifle destroyed 349 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht.
No less important role in the Second World War played by representatives of the Jewish people. For many years everyone spoke about Jews only as merchants and intellectuals, but the terrible time of the war came, and they proved that the Motherland is not an empty sound for them and they will protect it to the last drop of blood.
As part of the Soviet troops, more than 200 thousand Jews were presented for various state awards, and 107 were presented for the highest award - Hero of the Soviet Union. Some sources indicate the number - 150, but for the most part this is due to the fact that in the difficult years of the war, nationality did not always play a decisive role, and only after the war it was found that, for example, Mikhail Plotkin, the legendary pilot, was not Russian, but a Jew, and there are a lot of such examples, but nevertheless this does not diminish the merit of this or that people. The great merit of the representatives of the Jewish people was that the Nazis could not break the proud spirit of Odessa. It was the Jewish partisans who forced the enemy to live in constant fear. And if we talk about the exploits of the Jews, how can we not recall the legendary scout Yankel Chernyak, who organized a magnificent network consisting of agents included in the top leadership of Nazi Germany. It was Chernyak’s group that was able to gain access to secret developments tank "Tiger" and transmit this information to Moscow. As a result, when, according to the Nazis, their best tank was put on the front, Soviet tanks were ready for this.
Took an active part in the war and representatives of the then young Soviet republics - Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. Representatives of Western Ukraine did not stand aside, many heroes were subsequently repressed for possible communication with the UPA, but the fact remains that the heroes were not only in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, but also in other republics.
Unfortunately, those years when the USSR was united and powerful remained in the past. Less and less alive and those who stood at the origins of victory, who created it. After all, now even those who were born in 1930 and participated in the partisan movement as a teenager are already 81, and this is a very solid age, considering what these people had to go through. And the less veterans remain alive, the fewer eyewitnesses who can tell the truth about the war. Already there is an attempt to change or, easier to say, rewrite history. War heroes are called into question; many events are referred to as not real, but merely invented for the purpose of propaganda. Yes, there was propaganda, but it was propaganda, calling for confrontation with the enemy who occupied our homeland.
At the front, a Russian, a Chechen, an Uzbek, a Ukrainian stood side by side and there was not even a shadow of doubt that a comrade would not leave to die on the battlefield. No, these people did not have a nationality, they were Soviet, and perhaps this is where the strength lies when teenagers do not point their fingers at a representative of a different nationality passing along the street or when a Chechen guy does not raise weapon on the same year Russian.
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