How did the hero children influence the victory in the Eastern Front?
The Eastern War ended 75 years ago. This war changed the course of world history, the fate of people and the map of the world. Our people resisted the powerful onslaught of a highly organized and well-armed enemy - Nazi Germany and its allies. The highest price was paid for the Victory - the price of life. The war left its mark on the fate of every family. Each had their own business. And it brought closer the last day of the war. 2020 is the year of celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory.
Child Heroes in the Eastern War:
- Leonid Alexandrovich Golikov.
Leonid Aleksandrovich Golikov was born on June 17, 1926 in the village of Lukino, Starorussky district, in a working class family.
In total, he destroyed 78 Germans, 2 railway and 12 highway bridges, 2 food and fodder warehouses and 10 vehicles with ammunition. Accompanied a wagon train with food (250 carts) to besieged Leningrad. For valor and courage he was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the medal "For Courage" and the medal of the Partisan of the Patriotic War, II degree.
On January 24, 1943, Leonid Golikov died in a battle in the village of Ostray Luka, Pskov Region, and was later included in the list of pioneer heroes, although by the beginning of the war he was 15 years old.
2. Zinaida Martynovna Portnova.
Zinaida Portnova was born on February 20, 1926 in the city of Leningrad in a working class family. Belarusian by nationality.
According to Soviet historiography, she participated in the distribution of leaflets among the population and sabotage against the invaders. While working in the canteen of retraining courses for German officers, she poisoned the soup at the direction of the underground (more than a hundred officers died). The Nazis began to search for intruders, suspecting one and all. Zina, whom the Germans almost forcibly fed with the same soup, also fell under suspicion.
On the morning of January 10, 1944, she was shot in the prison of the city of Polotsk.
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