During World War II, the Soviet Union fought against the German Nazi invasion and many heroes appeared. For example, vasily Zaitsev, the male protagonist of the American film "Soldiers In the City", is based on a Soviet hero who is a very famous sniper in the Soviet Army during World War II. He became famous for killing 225 Wehrmacht and other Axis soldiers and officers between 10 November and 17 December between 10 November and 17 December at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, after which he was promoted to colonel in the Army. There were also those who contributed and died in World War II, and the Soviet government would give them the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union". The woman I'm going to write about today, Martha Broskina, did her best for the War of Resistance at the time. She was publicly hanged by the Germans for quietly rescuing the Red Army. However, Blozkina could not earn the title of "hero", why?
Born in 1924 to a Jewish family in Minsk, Belarus, Martha Broskina was a very clever and clever girl, but she was born in a troubled world. In 1941, during World War II, Martha had grown to the right age of seventeen, but in the same year, Germany launched the Barbarossa Plan and launched a fierce attack on the Soviet Union, which failed to control the war due to the commander's decision-making error. In just 20 days, the Soviet Union's western military line was completely defeated. At the same time as Minsk fell, hundreds of thousands of Red Army troops were captured.
The city of Minsk, already occupied by the Germans, can be said to be a miasma of smoke, and the Germans are running amok in the city. These Soviet people did not want to be humiliated by the Germans in this way, and they fought hard again and again, but without exception, these rebel groups were eventually suppressed. Even at a young age, Martha joined the revolutionary army as a member of the underground resistance in Minsk, and Blozkina began quietly underground activities in minsk hospitals as a nurse. She rescued many Red Army members under the eyes of the Germans and provided the recovered wounded with civilian clothes and home identification cards to facilitate their escape. Thanks to Blozkina's efforts, more than 100 Red Army soldiers escaped and re-engaged in anti-German activities.
At such times, the danger also came quietly, because someone had informed him, so on October 14, he and two gay men who had joined the resistance were arrested by the German army. After being imprisoned, Martha was not able to escape the brutal torture of the Germans, but she was not afraid at all, and did not reveal any information about the list of the resistance organization and the location of the base camp. The Germans, unable to do anything, decided to put Martha to death in public, acting as a scaremonger.
Martha did not have the slightest fear in the face of death, and she wrote a letter to her mother in prison, saying: What makes me uneasy is that you are worried about me. It's okay, it's already happened, and I swear there won't be anything worse. If possible, please bring my green shirt and white socks, and I will leave in decent clothes. On October 26, Martha and the two Red Army soldiers were escorted to the streets of Minsk with signs that read, "We are partisans, we have killed German soldiers." "When they went under the gallows and put the ropes on them. The German soldiers turned Martha toward the camera, but she turned her body around, and the soldiers pushed her several times. It wasn't until the stool at her feet was kicked away that she was turned to face the camera.
Even more cruelly, the Germans did not allow anyone to collect their bodies, and Blozkina were not allowed to be buried after their deaths. Something even more tragic happened after the end of World War II, when Martha and the two Reds were posthumously hailed as Soviet heroes. The two Reds were quickly confirmed, but Martha could not have the name of hero. The Soviet government called this an "unidentified young girl" in 1968 when a Russian journalist confirmed that the girl killed was Martha Bruceina, then 17 years old. But her identity still cannot be finally accepted. The main reason was that she was a Jew and not a Slav of the Soviet Union.