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okay, choose according to your taste. apparently, natasha has already chosen, but you won’t go on the ice right away. at the beginning there is physical education, therapeutic. and teaching became unbearable for her. choreography lessons and then skating. gradually the training became more and more difficult. soon it was difficult to distinguish natasha from her nimble friends. adras chatsvertaga requested tree in the forest of lavozera narach. here - republican piano camp the winter holidays have arrived for schoolchildren from all schools in belarus. for a short time our companions, but we fell asleep at the most extreme changes, took part in the great competition snow, ice and fantasy. are you,
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after all, eager to raise three happy mothers? no, you were thinking, darn it, matrun klyamentsein klyaus, saugasa byhauski. yana, as it seems, is extremely happy. darechy, before this i gave birth to twins, and matruna klimenciina gave birth to seven. rasstsіtse vyalіkіmі na shchastі vash matsi. telenews agency bel tv and radio company presents a documentary film dedicated to the eightieth anniversary of the tragedy in the village of ala. ala, an unhealed wound.
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the bell in ale tolls for now. 1758 people were shot and burned. known and unknown victims. wehrmacht soldier. germany still believes that the wehrmacht did not commit a crime in the occupied territory. al's documentary. ashes of genocide. watch it now. the memorial complex made of marble, granite and concrete on the entrance portal has only three letters in the belarusian language, alla. the ensemble appeared here relatively recently in 2020
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. it could have changed, because children were born in families, old people died, with the beginning of the great patriotic war, men went to the front , so it is impossible to say how many people lived in ale, but it is known for sure that during the occupation, the village became a salvation for thousands of people, it was located deep in the forest, it was extremely difficult to get here, except for the swamps, the ala river, it gave the name of the village, in winter, when a strong frost, the river froze without any problems, you could come to...
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all the outbuildings were occupied. in january 1944, there were about 2,000 people in ala. by this time, many settlements in the south of belarus were already living a peaceful life, but here the front stopped. the swampy forest area became a serious obstacle for the army of the third reich. the wehrmacht gives the order to build a powerful defense line. to do this, houses in nearby villages are being dismantled. some settlements. destroyed completely, often peacefully population, there were terrible battles all around, the earth was shaking from shells, soviet troops were retaking every meter. people were waiting for liberation, because back on november 27 , 1943, the red army was in turmoil.
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today this is the city of svetlogorsk, it is located twenty kilometers from aly. many residents of the surrounding villages went into the forests, despite the winter and severe cold, they considered the forest their only salvation. in the forest, it was so hungry, they ate buds from trees, they ate bark from trees to
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find something to eat, they went to the alu to find some frozen potato, some frozen cabbage source. on january 8, 44 , the kalinkovichi-mozor offensive operation began under the command of rakosovsky, the 61st and 65th soviet armies were opposed by the army center group of the second german army. on january 11 , the yelsky district was liberated. the front was approaching the stake. the village in the front line was still surrounded by german troops. my cousin says: come with me to the alai, we’ll find out, a lot of people came there, you see, they literally spent one night there, maybe even her burned there. on january 14, on the day of the tragedy, the village of aly, the regional center of the polesie region, the city of mozir and the city of kalinkovich were liberated. which was located 10 km there. alla was destroyed 2 weeks before the liberation of this territory by the red army.
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january 14, 1944. the first of the red army soldiers to come to alu were those who served in the seventy-fourth military construction detachment under the forty-eighth army and laid roads before the general offensive. and when they entered the alai, it seemed like the lakes were like this, shining there, there, there. when they approached, it was frozen. human fat. among the fighters of this unit was the future writer sergei galitsin. 40 years after the tragedy, he will write an essay. apple tree branch of belarus, where he will describe what the soldiers saw in al. the soldiers, having tied their noses and mouths with scarves or rags, began to pull out the remains from all the underground floors in a row. blackened bones and charred scraps of clothing were mixed together. it was impossible to count how many corpses were discovered. this is probably how death came. people were packed tightly. to every house, the nazis set them on fire, jump out meant falling under machine gun bullets, and
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the unfortunates hid in the underground, leaning on each other, they died, most likely suffocating from the smoke, and then the fire got to the dead. people somehow stood like pillars, for some reason they didn’t get hit, even the women’s combs, headscarves were burnt, there were these little coffins in their hair, and everything was burnt, and the legs, the lapchi,
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stopped us, in general, and said, so that we don’t go, it says ss, pooh-pooh, and we went in the other direction, why the wehrmacht sent people to the wall, there was probably an order, according to which german soldiers searched the forest, looked for old people, women and children, sent them to a remote forest village, perhaps soldiers of the rear units of the german army...
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lots, just like on the volga, the wehrmacht had an order not take a step back. hitler’s soldiers could not leave their loyal positions on their own. after the failure attempts to use chemical weapons at the front, nazi germany is implementing a plan to use bacteriological tools. the reich publishes a special brochure manual, where the algorithm of actions is detailed point by point, how to deport civilians, how to infect defenseless people with typhus, why minors. children are the most reliable shield against the advancing units of the red army. on the ground, the wehrmacht strictly followed the training manual, indicative from the point of view of reliability was the death camp of azarishi and toly about 30 kilometers. the civilian population
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is concentrated either in villages or in specially created areas, and a dozen typhus patients are placed there to infect the rest. swamps in the open air, without water, food, women and children were in medicine around the clock, no sanitary conditions. we tried to make a fire, we tried it, and there were machine guns, one fire at a time, another at another, that’s it. so what happened in ale,
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a remote forest village in the swamps, which was not even indicated on local maps. to date, no one has conducted our film, the first fundamental attempt to restore one 937 day of the great patriotic war in belarus, the day of january 14, 1944. in a few hours , the nazis killed 1,758 people in valet, this is the official figure included in modern
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history. the basis for the data was a document dated april 10, 1945. act of the extraordinary state commission of the paris region on the atrocities of the nazi invaders. it says. quote. at 8:00 am on january 14 , 1944, a group of german executioners, unknown strength and military unit, burst into the village of alla, where the population was driven away from other settlements of the village councils. blocking the village, she set fire and shot people of any age. the corpses of those executed were burned, citizens were caught and...
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in any case, there is none, there is another document marked top secret, but it dates back to march of 1944, stored in the national archive of belarus, a memo addressed to the secretary of the polesie regional committee: pbc of the levitical state settlements liberated from german rule for the second time occupiers. we read in it. the village of ala, consisting of thirty households, was completely
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burned by the german occupiers, both residential and commercial buildings. 20 people were evacuated from the population. the german monsters brutally tortured 1,200 people. in addition, 500 people were burned alive; in total, 1,700 people were killed by the invaders in the village of alla. after the war, investigative authorities were looking for people who miraculously survived the ala fire. their memories are an argument against the distortion of historical truth. punitive squads they raided the village of ola, surrounded them, drove everyone out into the street, lined them up in a column, then began to split them into groups of about 50-70 people and lock them up in the building. after, when everyone was locked up. they opened fire on buildings, began throwing grenades at windows and setting houses on fire. in the country where i was with my family, a german machine gun failed, at that time we broke through the door to the construction site and started
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to run, my family and relatives died, nine souls. on january 14, in the village of alla , the germans gathered up to 2 thousand civilians, children, women, old people, everyone was locked in riga and the barns began to be shot. i, with my family, five children and a husband, ended up in the same barn with other residents. all 30 people who were in the barn were shot, including my relatives, with the exception of me and the child vitaly, who was wounded. at the moment of the execution, i sat down and my husband and children standing in front of me fell on me. i remained alive under the corpses, then ran away with my wounded child. after the execution, the village was burned. whoever was nearby, there would be a cry and a groan of people,
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the village was surrounded, the road was cleared with machine gun fire, those who were in the houses on the outskirts tried to escape into the forest, it was very close, but few managed to escape , people were shot at, dogs were set on children, there was a cousin there, a villager. semen from the village of sdodich, they were in the last house, from this house they all rushed to run into the forest, and the germans chained up the obcharka, and he was the most
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the youngest one is the last to run, the shepherd dog catches up with him, jumps up, pushes him in the back , he falls, plunges into the snow , is caught up, he wants to live, he runs further , again the dog catches up with him, again he falls into the snow, and so on several times, but he reached the forest, he remained alive, because the german simply didn’t shoot, he regretted shooting his idiot, one of the versions of the reason for the liquidation of the civilian population of valais - the wehrmacht, stole for the killed soldier. bridge over the ala river. here, in december 1943, two young men killed a german, a postal service worker. the village was a few hundred meters around the bend. the nazis did not forgive the murder of the soldier and carried out massacres against the residents of ala. there’s just one nuance: the punitive styles are immediate, within a few hours, as was the case in khatyn, in extreme cases, within a day or two, as was the case in... the second version of the valais tragedy is a rapid advance
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of the red army, which means holding it back. a short period, they later destroyed many documents, well, during the retreat, to reconstruct the events that took place on january 14 forty of what, today it is only possible from memories of indirect witnesses, those who were in the forest near the village and the children of those who survived the fire. they began to drive people away, people began to scream, then there was a big fire, they began to burn people, the smell of this same girl, so
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it became a mass grave for most people, old people, women and children were driven here, many were in light clothes and barefoot. during the punitive action, the nazis provided entertainment for the officer; he watched from the sidelines as they drove people to kill, but apparently there was not enough drama. at his command, the guards stepped aside, he threw a grenade into the crowd of victims. he was amused by the explosions, screams and moans of people. and the burnt woman
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became. a symbol of the burned village, her name was aksinya kurlovich, the wife of a collective farm accountant. the grandmother to whom aksinya entrusted the children is alexandra dikun, the oldest resident of aly. at the time of the tragedy she was 110 years old. historians have an idea who was behind the brutal murders of valya, with a high degree of probability, the 45th and 707th german divisions. forty- fifth division. known from the storming of the brest fortress, where she suffered certain losses, well, it fought in the kursk bulge area, and then retreated, but as for the 707th division, it was noticed in numerous crimes on the territory of belarus, in fact, alla is not the only place where her subordinates committed atrocities, soldiers of the 48th army of the belarusian front, who they came to the graveyard, they found mountains of corpses in ashes,
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they buried them... the soviet army turned to the officers and soldiers of two german divisions, who destroyed the alu along with the people. leaflets in german were dropped at information mines, they were found during the construction of the memorial. soldiers and officers of 45 and 707 divisions. january 14, 1944 that's all. residents of the village of ala were herded into barns and set on fire. 1118 innocent villagers of alla died. can you give an account of your cruel actions? the declaration signed by roosevelt, stalin and churchel on the responsibility of hitler's fascists for the unthinkable cruelty they committed stated that the perpetrators would be found under any circumstances, even to the ends of the earth, and brought to justice. four nazis, two corporals, karl theodorstein
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hemler appeared in the dock in bryansk. it went down in history as bryansk nuremberg. one of the eyewitnesses, artyom ustimenko, acted as a witness at the trial. on january 14, 1944, german units and gendarmerie arrived in our village of ola. the village was surrounded. it was at 8:00 in the morning, they began to set fire to the village, the population was driven into courtyards and shot with machine guns, and they also threw grenades at people. there was a shooting in my yard up to 100 people, civilians, including my relatives. the germans threw all those killed into the fire. when my house started to burn, i managed to escape into the forest. on december 30, 1945, at 11:00 am, the verdict was announced in bryansk.
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stein, sentenced to 20 years of hard labor, bernhard gammanmann lemrler, to death by hanging. the sentence was not subject to appeal and was carried out just a few hours later. took place at 15:00 on the city square of bryansk, years will pass in the world's only cemetery for those burned villages in khatyn will be immortalized as an unregenerate village. but life returned here, alla was restored in 1945 , after the victory , men began to return home, vale began to build houses again, but what’s interesting.
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for a very long time they did not remove the status in memory of the tragedy, and only in 2014 the gomel regional executive committee removed the status of the village. before that, for 30 years there was a village without a single house, without a single inhabitant, on the site of the barn in which people were burned in january 1944, today there are bells , 12 silent one caller, no number random, this is the number of villages whose inhabitants died in ale, ringing bells from horror. when peaceful life here they resemble fruit trees, apple trees of the alla variety, crimson fruits against a snowy background, like drops of the blood of dead people, only at the moment
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of tragedy because of the blood the ground was not visible, the snow melted from the flames, the blood froze like puddles. at the memorial in ala we see the names of the dead red army soldiers, but not a single name... not a civilian, we do not know the names of children who were not destined to become adults, women who did not become mothers and men who never heard their sons laugh. research work continues: seven empty steles at the entrance, places where the names of people shot and burned will be engraved. the 1,758 lives taken will forever be inscribed in the history of the genocide of the belarusian people. our generation still has to finish this page, the earth was flying, the nights were crying, the day was cola-kala.
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