decisive factor in this terrible story was the note from the eldest daughter lisa, then given to shmyrev. a fourteen-year-old girl wrote to her father: “dad, don’t worry about us, don’t listen to anyone, don’t go to the germans, if they kill you, then we are powerless, we won’t take revenge for you, and if they kill us, dad, then... other children, his brothers and sisters, who, of course, cannot be fit into any framework, in february all four of father minai’s children, his wife’s sister and mother-in-law were shot, the monsters did not even spare misha, who was barely 3 years old; the partisan commander had more. left relatives, liza's note, dad minai carried the whole war in his pocket near his heart, well, when these children are there, they leave untimely, when they are destroyed by the evil will of others, this is a terrible stress for the father, for the mother, and especially if someone is in for propaganda purposes, it says that you could have saved, that you are not a person at all, that you are a beast? this man put on the altar of victory the most precious thing he had, more

minai filipovich shmyrev, aka.i, born on december 23, 1891 in the village of punishchi, velezhsky uyezd, now the territory of the vitebsk region. his fate is truly unique in terms of the scale of events and terrible trials that he had to go through during his difficult but bright life. when we we’re talking about minai, about father minai, he’s been measured, we must remember that, well, this is a man of such thermonuclear ferment, who. there was a dad, he was born into a peasant family, of course, his life was very difficult, he went through three wars, while still reigning over the fatherland, as they say, in 1940, minai’s first wife, proskovya, died, the widower found himself in the care of four young children, when shmyrev turned into minai's dad, he himself did not... 1941. the great patriotic war swept through cities and villages like a terrible tornado, trampling millions of people fate the evacuation has begun. shmyrev, already realizing that he would remain a partisan in the local forests, in the first day

youth knew that on the scales of history the fate of the soviet homeland was converging on minai shmyrevhe dvina guard, grandfather rydlevsky with his whole family, sons, daughters and daughters-in-law, grandfather from the stove, trouble arose, here it is, trouble, moves on covered tanks. the first secretary of the cpb central committee, comrade ponomarenko, knew these areas not from a map. at this time , party organizations of the occupied regions and districts and republics, ukraine, belarus. the baltic states did a great job of organizing the partisan movement and underground struggle; this matter became the basis of all work, the meaning of life of the organization, to raise the people to fight, to help the soviet... army, to weaken, expel, and plunder the enemy. the minsk underground branch operated on the island of zyslav. here are vasil kozlov, and varvashenya, and pilipp cabbage. he will become a forest general. 10 regional party committees operated behind enemy lines. this is the work and courage of communists. kozher, machulsky, kleshchev, klimov, baranov, samutin, uzhelyanin,