Strong in spirit   

Every spring less those who won the world on our earth. Among those who still function and this year will meet already the 66 anniversary of the Great Victory, - the resident of the village Legates Klimenty Akimovich Smetyukh.

Klimenty Akimovich lives in the usual rural house. In rooms it is pure, on a small kitchenette there is a radio receiver - quite often together with the spouse Nadezhda Emelyanovna turn on it to listen to the latest news. But here from family archive photo albums, various cuttings are taken, and slow conversation begins.

- When war began, I was not also twenty years old, - the veteran says. - It is dashing at that time took much: learned that is called both hunger, and cold. Germans took away my brother to Germany for forced labor at once. I was left only because there was the only worker in a family - we had no father. And when in 1944 the Soviet troops freed Belarus, at once called me on service. And in a week was at the front...

So disturbing life under a vigilant eye of aggressors was replaced with hot and dangerous everyday life of the soldier of Red Army. But gave force and courage desire to finish as soon as possible with fascist plague, belief in a fast victory. Among awards of those fiery days the Glory award is especially valuable to Klimentiya Smetyukh - it received it for capture of Warsaw. And shortly he was wounded, already in the German territory.

- The wound was heavy, five months lay in hospital in. Hills, - Klimenty Akimovich remembers further.

 - Here also met me a message about the Victory. Only, as it appeared, war for me had continuation...

Directly from hospital Klimenty Smetyukh went to be at war to Japan - as a part of tank part of the 32nd Guards regiment Decorated with the Order of the Red Banner. And here, on the Kuril Islands, it was also necessary to show courage and heroism. In total military days and nights of Klimentiya Akimovich made hot and deadly one and a half years.

But here it comes back in native Legates where it was necessary to restore economy, to look for the companion of life. So the destiny reduced it with Nadezhda Emelyanovna at whom the husband died in the 1945th at the front...

- From my first husband, Alexander Savelyevich, I managed to receive two letters, - Nadezhda Smetyukh remembers. - From them I understood that they are near Gdansk, prepare for approach. Still he wrote that the wedding photograph - as though a sign unexpectedly broke that it will not return to me more. And it happened: On March 15, 1945 received "death notification". And after war married Klimentiya Akimovich.

Since then they together more than 60 years. There were many difficulties. And those years when the given four rubles of the help to the soldier's widow were enough only for one liter of milk for the little daughter, and later when three times were necessary to be under construction: at first, after war, built a small hatka, then, in the 1954th, already a hut it is more and at last, in the 1966th built up again when after the fire the house completely burned down.

Today veterans are helped with life by consciousness that they together, please grandsons, fellows villager and the public do not forget. The special spirit brings spring awakening of the nature - free life of people proceeds. The worthy contribution to business of the Great Victory was made also by Klimenty Smetyukh.

Fedarovich, And. Strong in spirit / Igor Fedarovich//Kobrynski vesnik. – 2011. – 23 krasav_k. – Page 2. Among Great Patriotic War awards the Glory award – for capture of Warsaw is especially valuable to the veteran Klimentiya Smetyukh from the Legate.



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