– the Second of July, our group met with the red army. We helped them pass swamps to Smolevichi, to close the encirclement around Minsk, chased the Germans out of the woods. Forced the Nazis to go on the track, where they were bombed by our planes, the scene was terrible…
Bronislaw friends and I decided to explore Minsk, because in the capital have never been. Reached the center and were shocked by the destruction. From one place were visible to the officers ‘ House, the Opera house, government House, their occupants did not have time to blow. Everything else is a ruin.
– Began to prepare for a guerrilla parade – says Bronislav Viktorovich. – Puciski I was trashy, Director of logistics brought the German. Old and malfunctioning of the carbine was replaced by the trophy. Learned to March in formation. 16 July in the morning we stood in a column to go to Minsk. And here I was summoned to the commander. “Take the seriously wounded to the hospital,” – he set the task. As out if among them my own brother?! Only came back in the afternoon, when the parade was over.
Bronislav V. in details remembers, how the Germans came to their village New Kalugina that East of Minsk. In July, forty-one on the highway seemed like a passenger car with officers and three motorcycles with machine guns. The invaders went on the huts, shouting “uterus, with milk, eggs”. In the neighboring yard, the German shot a pig, cut out the best piece of meat and went on.
In September flew terrible news: the Berezino Germans and policemen murdered about 900 Jews. In the next Masania the Nazis raped the young woman, and when her husband rushed to her rescue, shot both of them. The men began to go into the forest.
– In April the forty-second night, someone knocked on the window, says Bronislaw Viktorovich. We cringed, but when the father embraced the come, the heart was relieved. It was Nicholas Derbal, in the future, the commander of the guerrilla group. Father gave them a rifle and a machine, which I found in the woods. The guerrillas began to RAID the local police administration.
in the Summer of 1943 along the Berezina, the Germans began to build fortifications, began arriving combat units. Three guys – Bronislaw, Misha and Volodya had gone to seek partisans. Soon met the group, which was their fellow villager, Ivan Kuzhel. Commander Nicholas Rabkevich optimism is not shown, but still enrolled the boys in the squad.
– So 16 December 1943 I became a partisan, – said Bronislav Viktorovich. – Built dugouts, concealed them. Studied military Affairs. Soon we were sent at night to take out heaps of potatoes selected by the Germans from the peasants. And in March participated in this military operation.
on 25 September 1944, Bronislaw was summoned to the military enlistment office. So he got into the 234 th fighter antitank division 142-th guards rifle division of the 2nd B��of the Belarusian front. With heavy anti-tank gun the young man had almost reached Berlin.
the 75th anniversary of the Victory and the 76th anniversary of the liberation of his native Belarus Bronislav Karpenko meets a retired Colonel. Glad that Rzhev opened majestic monument in memory of the fallen soldiers there. I can’t believe I lived to see these times.
it is Symbolic that the service Bronislav V. made in Minsk, which was released in July, forty-fourth. The story of his life, he set out in the record, which the grandson of Anatoly supplemented by copies of the award documents of his grandfather. Now this manuscript album leaf is already great-grandchildren of one of the few living liberators of Belarus.
