Putin spoke about the family tragedy

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

In honor of the upcoming Victory Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote a special column for the Russian Pioneer magazine. The politician told about the life of his family during the Great Patriotic War. The material is simply called "Life is so simple and cruel."

As Vladimir Vladimirovich writes, his parents did not like to talk about the war. Father and mother had suffered too many hardships, so they tried not to touch on this topic. Vladimir Putin Sr. in 1939 served in Sevastopol as a sailor in a submarine. After demobilization, he worked at a military enterprise. After the outbreak of the war, despite the so-called reservation exempt from conscription, he asked to be sent to the front.

The man was sent to the NKVD sabotage detachment, in which 28 people served. According to the president, the group was almost immediately ambushed and his father, pursued by the German military, miraculously managed to survive. After that, the president's father was sent "to reorganize into an active army - and to the Nevsky Pyatachok." There he was seriously wounded - "all his life he lived with shrapnel in his leg: all of them were never taken out."

The president also told how, during his stay in the hospital, the father gave his wife all his rations so that she could feed her three-year-old son. After a while, the boy was taken away "in a confidential manner in order to save young children from hunger," but the child fell ill with diphtheria and died. “And the father, when the child was taken away and the mother was left alone, and he was allowed to walk, stood on crutches and went home,” the politician writes. - When I approached the house, I saw that the orderlies were carrying out the corpses from the entrance. And I saw my mother. He came up and it seemed to him that she was breathing. And he says to the orderlies: "She's still alive!" “He'll come along the way,” the orderlies tell him. "He won't survive anymore." He said that he pounced on them with crutches and forced them to lift her back to the apartment. They told him: “Well, as you say, we will do so, but know that we will not come here for another two, three or four weeks. You yourself will figure it out then. " And he left her. She survived. And she lived until 1999. And he died at the end of 1998 ".

Vladimir Vladimirovich writes that he still does not quite understand his parents.

“They had no hatred for the enemy, which is amazing. I still cannot, frankly, fully understand this. In general, my mother was a very gentle, kind person … And she said: "Well, what kind of hatred can there be for these soldiers? They are ordinary people and also died in the war." This is amazing. We were brought up on Soviet books, films … and hated. But for some reason she didn't have it at all. And I remember her words very well: "Well, what can I take from them? They are as hard workers as we are. They were just driven to the front."