Elkhan Mardaliev Biography

Mardaliev visited the minor prisoner of concentration camp Anatoly Mikhailovich Kuzhukin. Anatoly Mikhailovich was born on March 15 in the village of thirteen -eater of the Smolensk region. The village received such a name by the number of houses- there were 4 children, three brothers and sister in the family. When the war began Anatoly Mikhailovich a little over a year.

In the year, when German troops retreated and passed through the village, everyone who did not manage to hide, they drove to the western part of the city of Roslavl. Among the inhabitants was the Kuzhukin family along with other relatives. The concentration camp contained military and civilians, adults and children together. The prisoners called this camp the death camp.

Anatoly Mikhailovich told how, forever hungry, they rejoiced at every piece of bread, even to the one that the Germans were thrown by them, like dogs, for their fun. Anatoly Mikhailovich knows much of that life from the stories of his mother and relatives, but he remembers some events and they have been preserved to this day. Anatoly Mikhailovich remembers how the soldier gave him a loaf of black bread and how he pressed it to his chest, and only then began to eat eagerly.

Before the war, thousands of Soviet citizens of the city and Red Army soldiers were destroyed in it. After the camp, the family returned to the village, which was completely burned. They lived in dugouts and built houses. They ate nettle, frozen potatoes. Anatoly Mikhailovich told how playing with the boys in the year, they found a shell. This shell his younger brother and cousin picked up and the shell exploded in their hands.

The boys died, and Anatoly Mikhailovich was wounded and miraculously survived. In general, he says that everything that happened to him, only a miracle can be called. In the village there was a sawmill where the boys loved to run and watch how adults work and this was the only place where the radio was. Anatoly Mikhailovich, well remembers the day of March 5 of the year, when he was on a sawmill and announced on the radio that I.

The machines had died and all the men cried, the children, not understanding what was happening, cried at adults. In the same year, in Smolensk they recruited for construction sites in the city The Kuzhukin family, mother, father and Anatoly Mikhailovich, the elder brother and sister died of typhoid, recruited for the construction facilities of Yaroslavl.

Then there was a study at a technical school, a service in the army of the GG. Anatoly Mikhailovich was engaged in struggle, has the title of CCM, conducted great educational work among the young generation on a voluntary basis. Many was able to instruct many to the right life path. And now Anatoly Mikhailovich is not sitting at home, he is the elder of one of the houses of the Zavolzhsky district, takes an active part in various public and patriotic events.

It was on his shoulders and shoulders of his generation that the whole severity of the post -war restoration of the country lay down. And the fact that Russia now has in many ways their merit. These are those people who can be proud of! Tobolskaya Olga.