Glow over Polesia

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… Yet the first stage of "rail war" did not end, and the Central Committee of KP(b)B already set the new object for guerrillas. On August 14, 1943 it adopted the resolution "About a Harvest of 1943" in which obliged the underground party and Komsomol organizations, guerrilla groups to give to peasants various help in harvesting, it is reliable to hide the carried corn, to exterminate Hitlerite teams of suppliers, to burn their points, to attack transports with bread, and to return the taken grain to peasants. Generally, it was necessary to break attempts of invaders to catch a harvest of 1943.

The party and Komsomol organizations, guerrilla groups had to take measures rescuing the population from destruction, to keep bread and cattle. We directed all forces to implementation of the main task. It is the bright page of national war, the evidence of humane and noble mission of guerrillas. The important role in it was played by Komsomol members.

The Komsomol and youth guerrilla group of V. I. Chapayev worked in Kobrin district of the Brest region. The member of All-Union Leninist Young Communist League Ewan Poe-Victor of Boyko ordered it. In one of summer days 1943 underground workers reported that chasteners intend to undertake expedition to villages Borsches and Plyanta - to take away bread and to burn villages together with the population. Nobody knew date of the scheduled action of chasteners. But the group took necessary measures. And when to a battalion of Hitlerites accompanied by the tank and armored cars moved on these villages, guerrillas led by Ivan Postovalov and Victor Boyko blocked them a way. Fight continued several hours. Chasteners slowly, but persistently moved ahead, using tank fire. Then Ivan Postovalov rushed to the tank with a linking of grenades and stopped it, but itself died. The guerrillas inspired with a feat of the commander went in to the attack. Hitlerites did not sustain and ran, having left in the battlefield tens of corpses and several padded cars. The commissioner of group Victor Boyko also died in this attack.

The civilians of villages Borsches and Plyanta were rescued …

Mazurov, K. T. Zarevo over Polesia / K. T. Mazurov//Unforgettable / K. T. Mazurov. – M.: Young Guard, 1988. – Page 246-276. The author, the party and Soviet figure K.T. Mazurov, in the years of war was in the back of the enemy as the representative of the Central staff of the guerrilla movement, tells about feats of Komsomol members of group of Chapayev acting in Kobrin district.



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