Nadia Bogdanova. A tragic page in the history of the war

The canonical image of a young partisan

Nadya Bogdanova in the cartoon "The First Squad" (2009)

In Soviet times, there were also enough fake "veterans of the Great Patriotic War". I found here in Vitebsk even a pioneer-hero from the all-Union iconostasis.

A former professional beggar (by then working as a laborer in a factory for a year), at thirty, she suddenly announced that she was a former young partisan. She described her exploits in the style of "crucified boys" and North Korean posters about American atrocities.
I was unable to isolate a coherent minimum in her fantastic stories, although there are always TWO executions, both times with miraculous salvation, a star burnt on my back and blindness after torture, which was healed in the city of Odessa.
There are enough descriptions on the Internet. One, two, three, four, five, you can continue, but everywhere there is a terrible confusion and a flight of the folk storyteller's fantasy.
Even elementary verifiable facts, such as the number of children, are different everywhere. "She raised four children", in another place, there are already eight children (one of her own and seven adopted), in the third source - she raised eight of her own and three adopted.

Having officially recognized the saint, it is not easy to demote her, therefore, singing the feats of Nadia Bogdanova, they tried not to advertise the real N.A.Kravtsova.
She, in the style of the children of Lieutenant Schmidt, began to huddle remote provincial schools.

Since the late 1970s, she has been in active correspondence with the pioneers of the 35th school in the city of Bratsk, the Klemovskaya secondary school in the village of Novoklemovo in the Moscow region, the 9th school in the city of Novopolotsk, the school in the city of Leninsk (now Baikonur) and others.

Photo from the website of the Charysh secondary school of the Charysh district of the Altai Territory. "It was a sensation to see Nadya Bogdanova, a WWII participant, on whose back the Nazis burned out a star."

Even her death in 1991 was accompanied by a "story":

After her death, fundraising was organized in several schools for the opening of a monument to Nadezhda Bogdanova. At present, nothing is known about the fate of the monument.

It is clear that in Vitebsk they tried to forget the heroine as soon as possible, like a bad dream. Nowhere in the city is it mentioned, as if it never happened.

Bonus description of the main feat:

Yura was killed first. Having ripped everything off her, in one shirt they drove Nadia into the frost and began to pour cold water over her from head to toe. The torture did not end there - they put her bare feet on the hot stones. The fascist hoped to achieve this faster than the goal, and again began interrogation. But the answer was silence. Gathering her last strength, she spat in the officer's face, and this was the last straw - he mercilessly and carefully burned a five-pointed star on her back with a red-hot iron.
Considering her dead, the Gestapo carried out the body of Nadia and threw it into the snow. But her strong heart was still beating. Quite by accident, a collective farmer came across her

1965 year. N.A. Kravtsova tells "about the war" to Dunya Smirnova's grandfather.

But the story is more believable:

When the war ends, the blind Nadia Bogdanova will sit on a bridge in Vitebsk, put her crutches aside, pick up an accordion and hoarsely sing a song about a killed partisan, and passers-by will throw rare coins at her. One day she will freeze, and she, frozen, will be picked up and taken to the Vitebsk hospital, where doctor Sosnovik P.O. it comes out and cures. The paramedics of the Vitebsk Regional Healthcare will take Nadezhda Aleksandrovna to Odessa, where her eyesight will be restored.
In 1958 she will come to Belarus, to her village of Avdanki. In 1960 she will come to Vitebsk and get a job as a laborer at the Znamya Industrializaciya factory. In 1962 she will marry forester Dmitry Kravtsov

She was twice executed by the Nazis, and comrades in arms for many years considered her dead and even erected a monument. When she became a scout in the partisan detachment of the 2nd Belarusian Brigade, she was not even ten years old. Small, thin, she, pretending to be a beggar, wandered among the Nazis, noticing and remembering everything, and brought the most valuable information to the detachment. And then, together with the partisan fighters, she blew up the fascist headquarters, derailed a train with military equipment, and mined objects. In subsequent operations, she was entrusted with a weapon - she walked with a pistol and a grenade in her belt. In one of the night battles, she rescued the wounded commander of the reconnaissance department Ferapont Slesarenko. The Great Patriotic War was going on. The holiday of November 7 was approaching - the Day of the October Revolution. At a meeting of the partisan detachment, they discussed who would go to the city of Vitebsk and hang red flags on the buildings in which the Nazis lived in honor of the holiday. In Vitebsk, the Nazis kept many Soviet prisoners of war, and established laws in the city under which children, old people, and women died every day. “If we hang out red flags for the holiday, then everyone will see that we are fighting the German fascist invaders, and this fight will continue to the last drop of blood,” said the commander of the partisans, Mikhail Ivanovich Dyachkov. The Nazis carefully guarded the approaches to the city, searched everyone, and even sniffed. If a suspect's hat smelled of smoke or gunpowder, he was considered a partisan and shot on the spot. There was less attention to children, so they decided to entrust this task to Bogdanova Nadya and Vanya Zvontsov - proven scouts, who were only eleven years old. At dawn on November 7, the partisans drove the children closer to Vitebsk. They gave a sledge in which brooms were neatly laid, among them three brooms at the bases of which were wound red flags, and on top - rods. The legend was this: children go to sell brooms. Nadya and Vanya entered the city without any problems, on little guys with sleds, none of the Nazis paid much attention. To remove the suspicions of the Germans looking in their direction, Nadya with a sled went up to a group of fascists and offered them to buy brooms. They began to laugh and poke the muzzles of their submachine guns in her direction, and one of them said menacingly: Dafai is running away from here. Nadya felt that Vanya was afraid, and encouraged him as best she could: - You do the main thing, what I tell you, and don't think about anything bad. And if you feel scared, take my hand, - said Nadya - I'm not afraid - answered Vanya, and he himself grabbed Nadia's hand over and over again. All day they walked around the city and looked closely at buildings in the city center where red flags could be placed. When evening fell and it got dark, they set to work. During the night, the guys planted flags at the railway station, a vocational school and a cigarette factory. When dawn came, our flags were already flying on these buildings. Nadya and Vanya were happy, they were in a hurry to go to the partisan detachment, to report on the completed assignment. The children had already left the city, went out onto the high road, but then the fascist policemen caught up with them) and shouted: - Stop! Who are they? - We are orphans, uncle, Vanya cried, - give me some bread, I really want to eat. - I'll give you some bread! Bastards, did you hang out the red flags in Vitebsk? - asked the policeman. - No, what are you. Look at us where we can have flags? - Nadia replied. - Get into the sleigh, we'll figure it out in the city, - ordered the policeman. The guys cried all the way and rubbed their eyes with their fists. At the headquarters they were interrogated by a fascist. When the guys told their legend, the German began to shout that they were partisans, after which he ordered Nadya and Vanya to be shot. The guys never confessed and did not betray anyone. They were placed in a basement where many of our prisoners of war were kept. The next day, everyone was taken out of the city and began to be shot. Our prisoners of war shouted to the fascists not to touch Nadia and Vanya, and when they were placed near a huge ditch, they tried to cover them with their bodies. Here Nadia and Vanya are standing at the moat and the Nazis are aiming at them. The guys are holding hands and crying. Something clicked in Nadia's head, her eyes clouded, she felt that she was falling into the abyss ……. ... A girl woke up in a ditch among the dead. It turns out that a split second before the Nazis fired, she lost consciousness and fainted, this saved her life. Nadya got out of the ditch, rose and fell, crawled, rose again. There was no strength. - Guys, she's alive- Nadia heard a familiar voice above her. Uncle Stepan from their partisan detachment found her. He took her in his arms and put her in the sleigh, Nadya lost consciousness again ... ... After this incident, the partisan detachment began to take care of her, and they did not send her to reconnaissance or combat missions. Remembering the deceased Vanya, Nadya always cried, as soon as eleven-year-old girls can cry. She felt sorry for Vanya, she often dreamed of how he laughs, as if they were playing snowballs .... Nadya strengthened herself, in the detachment, together with the adults, she learned to shoot at targets, throw grenades. There, in the detachment, she swore allegiance to her people and kissed the red banner. “I will avenge the Nazis for Vanya, for the fallen comrades and for all Soviet people,” she said to the commander of the partisan detachment. And she took revenge! German warehouses took off from the explosions, the houses where the Nazis lived were on fire, enemy trains flew downhill. It was Nadya Bogdanova and her comrades who fought their war against the Nazis. The Nazis were very afraid of the partisans, and at the front, it was not as easy as the Nazis intended. The Red Army rebuffed the Fritz on all fronts. Therefore, the Germans tried to turn the main villages and cities into fortresses. One of such fortresses of the fascists was the village of Balbeki. The Germans set up firing points there, mined the roads, dug tanks into the ground ... It was necessary to carry out reconnaissance and establish where the Germans have camouflaged guns, machine guns, where the sentries are, and which side is better to attack the village. The command decided to send Nadia and the chief of intelligence of the partisans Ferapont Slesarenko. Nadya, disguised as a beggar, will go around the village, and Slesarenko will cover her retreat in the woods not far from the village. Sentinels - the Nazis easily let the girl into the village, you never know the homeless go to the villages in the cold, collect food in order to somehow feed themselves. Nadya walked around all the courtyards, collected alms and memorized everything that was needed. It was getting dark, she returned to the woods, where to Uncle Feropont, and there she saw the whole partisan detachment. They expected information from her. The young scout told everything in detail and showed which side it was better to attack the village from. The partisan detachment struck at the fascists from both sides of the village at night: machine-gun bursts scattered here and there, the maddened Nazis could be heard yelling - these were partisans avenging the fascists for our tormented Motherland, for the Soviet people who died. The Nazis jumped out of the houses in their underwear, shouted something and tried to escape through the white snow away from the village, but they were still overtaken by the bullets of the partisans. For the first time, Nadya took part in a night battle, although Slesarenko did not let her go a step away from him. And suddenly he was wounded. Slesarenko fell and lost consciousness for some time, Nadya bandaged his wound, a green rocket soared into the sky - this was the commander's signal for all partisans to retreat into the forest. Slesarenko said to Nadya: - Nadya leave me! Go to the forest! “No, I’ll get you out,” Nadya said, she pulled herself up and could only lift Slesarenko, the girl’s strength was not enough. - Leave me you hear? We will both die, you must go .... call ours ... remember this place. I order you! ”The intelligence chief said menacingly. Nadia plucked spruce branches, made a bed of them for Uncle Feropont, laid him down and went. Nadya ran to the partisan detachment, at night, in the cold. It was about 10 kilometers to the detachment, the wind whipped her face, she fell through the snowdrifts, but went forward. Suddenly she saw a small farm, a house and a light in the window. A horse with a sleigh was standing near the house. Exactly what you need, she thought. Slowly sneaking up to the house, she looked through the window and saw several policemen at the table having supper. Hearing the horse stomp, the traitor policemen rushed out onto the porch, but Nadia was already far away and they could not catch up with her. She found Slesarenko in the same place where she left him. Together they safely reached the partisan detachment. So Nadya, risking her life, saved her comrade in arms. Nadia could have done many more things for the speedy liberation of our Motherland from the Nazis, but in February 1943, she parted with her comrades in arms. She, along with the demolition guerrillas, was ordered to destroy the railway bridge. When the girl mined him and began to return to the detachment, she was stopped by policemen, Nadya began to pretend to be a beggar, then they searched her and found a piece of explosives in Nadya's backpack. When they began to ask her what it was, there was a violent explosion and the bridge flew into the air right in front of the policemen. The police realized that it was Nadia who had mined him. They tied her up, put her in a sleigh and took her to the Gestapo. There they tortured her for a long time, burned a star on her back, doused her with icy water in the frost, threw her on a red-hot stove ... All covered in blood, tortured, exhausted little girl did not betray anyone. She withstood all the torture and the Nazis decided that she was dead and threw her out into the cold. Nadia was picked up by the villagers, went out, and cured. But it was no longer possible for her to fight, she practically lost her sight. At the end of the war, Nadya spent several years in the Odessa hospital, where her eyesight was restored. Nadya went to work at the plant and did not tell anyone about how she fought the Nazis. More than 15 years have passed since the war. Nadia and those with whom she worked heard on the radio how the chief of intelligence of the 6th partisan detachment Ferapont Slesarenko - her commander - said that the fighters would never forget their dead comrades, and named among them Nadia Bogdanova, who to him, wounded, saved her life ... Only then did she appear, only then did the people who worked with her learn about what an amazing fate she is, Nadya Bogdanova, who was awarded the Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, and medals.

20-30 years ago, schoolchildren knew the names of the pioneer heroes by heart. Pioneer detachments and squads were named in their honor, they composed songs and poems about them, drew wall newspapers with descriptions of their exploits. They were legendary children, role models that any ordinary child needs. They were not fictional characters and were not the product of someone's fantasy. Their lives were cut short, disfigured by a war sparing no one.

Nadya Bogdanova was a simple Belarusian girl who was not even 10 years old when the war began. In 1941, the orphanage where she lived was evacuated to Frunze.

Nadia, on the other hand, with several children, during one of the stops, got off the train to go to the front. With her comrades (and these were children under 14 years old), Nadya joined the Belarusian partisans who could not refuse even such help. Surprisingly, she not only did not become a burden for them. At the age of 9, Nadya became a scout in the partisan detachment of "Uncle Vanya" Dyachkov. Small, thin, she, pretending to be a beggar, wandered among the Nazis, noticing everything, remembering everything, and brought the most valuable information to the detachment. And then, together with the partisan fighters, she blew up the fascist headquarters, derailed a train with military equipment, mined objects. I am amazed at the courage and determination of this girl. It is unlikely that she even thought about the consequences that could come if she fell into the hands of enemies.

Red flags over Vitebsk.

On the eve of the upcoming holiday of the October Revolution, at a meeting of the partisan detachment, they discussed who would go to Vitebsk and hang red flags on the buildings in which the Nazis lived in honor of the holiday. According to the commander of the detachment Mikhail Ivanovich Dyachkov, the red flags hung out in honor of the holiday were supposed to serve as a sign to the residents of the city that the war with the Nazi invaders continues in order to raise the fighting spirit of the residents of Vitebsk. The Nazis carefully guarded the approaches to the city, searched everyone and even sniffed. If a suspect's hat smelled of smoke or gunpowder, he was considered a partisan and shot on the spot. There was less attention to children, so they decided to entrust this task to 10-year-old Nadya Bogdanova and 12-year-old Vanya Zvontsov. At dawn on November 7, 1941, the partisans drove the children closer to Vitebsk. They gave a sledge, in which brooms were neatly packed. Among them are three brooms, at the base of which red flags were wound, and on top of them there were rods. According to the idea of the partisans, children should sell brooms to divert the eyes of the fascists.

Reconstruction "Nadya Bogdanova distracts the Nazis"

Nadya and Vanya entered the city without any problems. None of the Nazis paid special attention to small children with sleds. To remove the suspicions of the Germans looking in their direction, Nadya with a sled went up to a group of fascists and offered them to buy brooms. They began to laugh and poke the muzzles of their machine guns in her direction, after which one of them chased her away in broken Russian.

All day they walked around the city and looked closely at buildings in the city center where red flags could be placed. When evening fell and it got dark, they set to work. During the night, the guys planted flags at the railway station, a vocational school and a cigarette factory. By the time dawn came, red flags were already flying on these buildings. Having completed the case, the children rushed to the partisan detachment to report on the completed assignment. On the way, they brought along cigarettes for the partisans. And this was a fatal mistake.

When they, having already left the city, went out onto the high road, the Nazis caught up with them and searched them. Having found the cigarettes, they guessed to whom the children were carrying them and began to interrogate them, after which they took them back to the city. The guys cried all the way. At the headquarters they were interrogated by one of the fascists. After interrogation, he ordered the children to be shot. They were placed in a basement where there were many Soviet prisoners of war. The next day, everyone was taken out of town to be shot.

Nadia and Vanya stood at the moat at the gunpoint of the Nazis. The children were holding hands and crying. A split second before the shot, Nadia lost consciousness. After some time, Nadya woke up among the dead, including Vanya Zvontsov ...

Reconnaissance and battle in Balbeky.

After the capture of the settlements of the Byelorussian SSR, the Nazis set up firing points there, mined roads, and dug tanks into the ground. In one of such settlements - in the village of Balbeki - it was necessary to conduct reconnaissance and establish where the Germans have camouflaged guns, machine guns, where the sentries are, and which side it is better to attack the village from. The command decided to send the chief of intelligence of the partisans Ferapont Slesarenko and Nadia Bogdanova to this task. Nadya, disguised as a beggar, was supposed to go around the village, and Slesarenko was supposed to cover her retreat in the woods not far from the village. The Nazis easily let the girl into the village, believing that she is one of the homeless children who walk around the villages in the cold, collecting food in order to somehow feed themselves. Nadya went around all the courtyards, collected alms, and remembered everything that was needed. In the evening she returned to the woods to Slesarenko. There a partisan detachment was waiting for her, to which she reported information.

Illustration "Nadya Bogdanova with the wounded Ferapont Slesarenko return to the partisan detachment after the battle."

At night, the partisans hit the fascists with a machine-gun burst from both sides of the village. It was then that Nadya took part in a night battle for the first time, although Slesarenko did not let her go a step away from him. In this battle, Slesarenko was wounded, Nadia bandaged his wound. A green rocket soared into the sky, which was a signal from the commander for all partisans to retreat into the forest. Slesarenko ordered Nadya to leave him and go to the detachment for help.

On a frosty night, Nadya ran through the snowdrifts to the partisan detachment, which was about 10 kilometers away. On the way, she wandered into a small farm. Near one of the houses where the police were having supper, there was a horse with a sleigh. Having crept up to the house, Nadya got into the sleigh and returned to the wounded Slesarenko. Sitting on the sleigh, they returned to the detachment together.

Just imagine, the girl is only 10 years old.

Mining of the bridge in Karasevo.

In February 1942 (according to other sources - 1943), Nadya, along with partisans-demolitionists, was ordered to destroy the railway bridge in Karasevo. When the girl mined him and returned to the detachment, she was stopped by the police. Nadia pretended to be a beggar, then they searched her and found a piece of explosives in her bag. When they began to interrogate her, at that moment there was an explosion and the bridge flew into the air right in front of the policemen. The police realized that it was Nadia who had mined him. The girl was captured and taken to the Gestapo. There they tortured her for a long time, burned a star on her back, poured ice water over her in the cold, threw her on a hot stove. Not having obtained information from her, the Nazis threw the tortured bloody girl into the cold, deciding that she would not survive. Nadia was picked up by the inhabitants of the village of Zanalyuchki, who left her. Nadya could no longer take part in the war; after torture, she practically lost her sight.

After the war.

After the end of the Great Patriotic War, Nadya was sent to Odessa for treatment. In Odessa, academician Vladimir Petrovich Filatov returned her sight. Returning to Vitebsk, Nadya got a job at the plant. For a long time, Nadya did not tell anyone that she was at war with the Nazis.

And she did not even know that a monument was erected to her. Posthumously, as her comrades thought.

15 years later, she heard on the radio how the chief of intelligence of the 6th partisan detachment Ferapont Slesarenko - her commander - said that the fighters would never forget their dead comrades, and named Nadia Bogdanova among them, who saved his life as a wounded man. It was only then that the people who worked with her learned about what an amazing fate she was, Nadya Bogdanova, who was awarded the Orders of the Red Banner, the First Degree of the Patriotic War, and medals.

She became the youngest pioneer-hero, her name is entered in the Book of Honor of the Belarusian Republican Pioneer Organization named after V.I. Lenin.

Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Bogdanova lived all her life in Vitebsk, in the marriage of Kravtsova. She raised 4 children alone, her husband died early.

from: http://ru.deti.wikia.com/wiki/, http://cpacibodedu.ru/article/86-pioneryi___geroi_velikoy_otechestvennoy_voynyi.

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Hello readers and blog guests! 20-30 years ago, schoolchildren knew the names of the pioneer heroes by heart. Pioneer detachments and squads were named in their honor, they composed songs and poems about them, drew wall newspapers with descriptions of their exploits. They were legendary children, role models that any ordinary child needs. They were not fictional characters and were not the product of someone's fantasy. Their lives were cut short, disfigured by a war sparing no one. Today I want to offer material about Nadya Bogdanova.

Nadya Bogdanova was a simple Belarusian girl who was not even 10 years old when the war began. In 1941, the orphanage where she lived was evacuated to Frunze.
Nadia, on the other hand, with several children, during one of the stops, got off the train to go to the front. With her comrades (and these were children under 14 years old), Nadya joined the Belarusian partisans who could not refuse even such help. Surprisingly, she not only did not become a burden for them. At the age of 9, Nadya became a scout in the partisan detachment of "Uncle Vanya" Dyachkov. Small, thin, she, pretending to be a beggar, wandered among the Nazis, noticing everything, remembering everything, and brought the most valuable information to the detachment. And then, together with the partisan fighters, she blew up the fascist headquarters, derailed a train with military equipment, and mined objects. I am amazed at the courage and determination of this girl. It is unlikely that she even thought about the consequences that could come if she fell into the hands of enemies.

Let's read excerpts from the publication in the magazine "Our Filippok"

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She woke up in a ditch among the dead, it turns out a split second before the Nazis fired, Nadya lost consciousness and fainted, this saved her life. The girl got out of the ditch and walked towards the forest, rose and fell, crawled, rose again. There was no strength.

- Guys, she's alive - Nadya heard a familiar voice above her. Uncle Stepan from the partisan detachment found her. He took her in his arms and put her in the sleigh, Nadia fainted again ...

After this incident, they began to take care of her in the partisan detachment, they were not sent either to reconnaissance or on combat missions. Recalling the deceased Vanya, Nadya cried as only eleven-year-old girls can cry, she felt sorry for Vanya, she often dreamed of how he laughs, how they play snowballs ...

Nadya strengthened herself, in the detachment, together with the adults, she learned to shoot at targets, throw grenades, in the same detachment she swore allegiance to her people and kissed the red banner.

- I will avenge the Nazis for Vanya, for the fallen comrades and for all Soviet people, she said to the commander of the partisan detachment. And she took revenge! Here and there German warehouses took off from the explosions, the houses where the Nazis lived were on fire, enemy trains flew downhill - this is Nadia Bogdanova and her comrades waging their war against the Nazis.

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E. Filippov “Nadya Bogdanova. Warm heart of a partisan "- Our Filippok - 2014. - №6. (text scanned)

After the end of the war, Nadya spent several years in the Odessa hospital, where doctors restored her eyesight.

Nadya went to work at the plant and did not tell anyone about how she fought the Nazis. More than 15 years have passed since the war, Nadya and the people with whom she worked heard on the radio how the chief of intelligence of the 6th partisan detachment Ferapont Slesarenko - her commander - said that the fighters would never forget their dead comrades, and named among them Nadya Bogdanova, who saved his life as a wounded man ...

Only then did she appear, only then did the people who worked with her learn about what an amazing fate a person is, Nadya Bogdanova, awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, and medals.

Nadezhda Alexandrovna is no longer alive, she died already in peacetime, but we will always remember how a little eleven-year-old girl fought for the Motherland, so that you and I could live in this world and be happyenjoy life. For our country to live, just live ...

Eternal memory to you, Nadya Bogdanova!

When you once again read into the written evidence of human heroism or cowardice, courage or insignificance, shown during the Second World War, you begin to choke with overwhelming feelings - so many of them, different, are bubbling inside. But some stories are more striking than others.

Are children rewarded for heroism today in our country? Yes, good news is heard from time to time: a nine-year-old girl brought four children out of the fire, but a ten-year-old boy pulled out the kids who were stuck in arable land in high water; A 16-year-old teenager rescued a little girl who fell from a bridge into an icy spring river.

This news warms the soul. After all, they mean that, despite the total decline of culture and the progressive ailments of society, we are still able to educate a Human. And maybe these were the children who helped us to withstand the cruellest bloodshed of the 20th century?

Her name was Nadia

20-30 years ago, schoolchildren learned the names of the pioneer heroes by heart. Pioneer detachments and squads were named in their honor, they composed songs and poems about them, drew wall newspapers with descriptions of their exploits. They were legendary children, role models that any ordinary child needs. They were not fictional characters and were not the product of someone's fantasy. Their lives were cut short, disfigured by a war sparing no one.

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Nadya Bogdanova was a simple Belarusian girl who was not even 10 years old when the war began. In 1941, the orphanage where she lived was evacuated to Frunze. Nadia, on the other hand, with several children, during one of the stops, got off the train to go to the front.

Children forced to live in orphanages grow up early. There you need to survive and rely only on yourself: there are no loving parents nearby who could make their life carefree. The front to many of them at that time seemed the personification of freedom, heroism, heroism. And also - adult life without strict supervision. Of course, in reality it was not like that. But what to take from the children, if some adults, hovering in romantic fantasies about glory and beautiful battle scenes, went to the front with similar thoughts?

With her comrades, Nadya joined the Belarusian partisans, who could not refuse even such help. Surprisingly, she not only did not become a burden for them - together with her young friends, she managed to destroy dozens of trucks with ammunition and several hundred Nazis. And this is a 10 year old girl.

Sometimes you look at a ten-year-old child and are horrified by the very thought that he can hold a grenade in his hands, fearlessly disassemble an anti-tank mine, talentedly pretend to be a beggar who wanders between the Nazis, and at this time he notices and remembers everything in order to bring the most valuable information later to their own. And here - one small fragile girl among the animals that have already tortured hundreds of thousands of children to death.

Where did she have so much courage? Maybe this is just such a fearless child in himself, who has never seen anything good in his orphanage? And because he was so brave that he was not given a mother's affection and tenderness?

No. Children do not become tender / cowardly / brave just depending on whether they were raised by their parents or strangers. Children may or may not be very brave, depending on their innate vectors and how these vectors develop.

Nadya Bogdanova was a girl with visual and skin vectors. Skinny flexible, nimble, she went on such tasks where it was impossible to do without her innate dexterity. Nadya grasped everything on the fly, learning the partisan "craft", was the leader of a teenage squad.

And she was visually very scared. It is unbearably scary to find herself in a crowd of fascists, where if something happens no one would help her - neither the commander of the partisan detachment, nor the legendary Marshal Zhukov, nor the leader of the proletariat. Nadya trembled like an autumn leaf, but she went there because she understood: the partisans could not live without her. Without her, one cannot defeat the enemy in this small, but such an important part of her homeland.

First execution

It was autumn 1941. The holiday of the October Revolution was approaching. The command of the partisan detachment decided to hang red flags in Vitebsk in order to raise the morale of local residents suffering from the actions of the enemy garrison. The partisans could not yet hit the enemy. But do nothing too.

However, there was a plan, but there was no one who could go to the city to implement the plan. The Nazis did not allow the partisans to approach the city, and there they searched everyone who could arouse suspicion. Only children, dressed in beggarly rags, holding dirty toys in their hands, and truthfully whimpering as soon as the gaze of the policemen turned to them, did not call him.

Nadia and her friend Vanya (he was 12) went on a mission together. They were ordered to return alive.

It was snowy that day. The children dragged a sledge loaded with brooms. Among a dozen identical brooms, three special ones lay, in the rods of which red panels were imperceptibly inserted. Vanya waddled around funny, trying to save energy (the road was not close - about 10 km), and Nadia laughed and walked easily and freely. But my soul was alarming.

In the city, no one bothered them, no one stopped them. Vanya was shaking from habit, while Nadia boldly directed their "sortie". They managed to hang all the flags without attracting attention.

On the way back, the girl decided to get some cigarettes, because the partisans suffered so much without tobacco ... It was their mistake. When leaving Vitebsk, the children were stopped by a policeman. He discovered tobacco and understood everything.

Children were interrogated, threatened with execution and shooting over their heads. They demanded to hand over the partisans. Both were silent, only shuddering after the next shot. The next morning after the interrogation, the young scouts were taken to execution.

- Have pity on children, animals! - the prisoners shouted to the executioners, but they could not do anything, falling from bullets into a common pit. Vanya fell after another shot. Nadia passed out a second before the bullet was supposed to pierce her chest.

In the pit with the dead, Nadia found a partisan post alive.

One more chance

Who will not be broken by such an event that happened to Nadia? Where to get the strength of a simple little girl who does not even have parents who could comfort her? Where to get the strength to continue the fight?

It seems normal to us that a girl might want to evacuate and live in the rear to heal her wounded soul. However, Nadya did not do this: moreover, the brave girl demanded to teach her how to shoot at targets and throw grenades at the enemy. And when the time came, she was eager for reconnaissance, participated in battles and saved the life of the chief of intelligence Slesarenko, who was wounded during the operation.

There is nothing surprising in Nadia's actions for a person who has the knowledge of Yuri Burlan. A girl with a visual vector is born with a feeling of fear - for herself and her life. We do not know how Nadya lived in the orphanage, how her visual vector developed. But the general grief, the powerful rallying of the people, the idea of sacrificing oneself for the sake of a happy future of the Motherland, which is possible only in a country with a urethral mentality, all this contributed to the fact that fear was supplanted by the desire to give without caring for oneself.

Caring for the wounded, seeing the death and suffering of thousands of people, a simple girl with a visual vector managed to put a common goal above her own fears. She pushed him out in boundless compassion and became staunch like flint, not giving out a word about the partisans during inhuman torture ...

A very expensive payment for the development of the visual vector - so it seems to us. But THEM, these children-heroes, were not afraid to die.

In February 1942, Nadia went to blow up a railway bridge. On the way back, she was stopped by policemen. After searching the girl, a tiny piece of explosives was found in her jacket. At the same moment, in front of the policemen, the bridge flew into the air.

The girl was brutally tortured: they burned a five-pointed star on her back, doused her with icy water in the cold, and threw her on hot coals. Having failed to achieve recognition, they threw the tortured child into a snowdrift, believing that the girl was dead. Nadia was found by partisans who were sent to help her. The dying woman was brought to the village. The curtains were left to the local peasant women. The powerful desire to live won, and the girl who was dying survived again. True, she could no longer fight - Nadya practically lost her sight (after the war, Academician V.P. Filatov returned her sight).

For military exploits, Nadezhda Alexandrovna Bogdanova was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of the Battle of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree and medals.

War and peace in a single organism

We can admire the courage and courage of the heroic children who helped our grandfathers and great-grandfathers to win. Marvel at their resilience, empathize with their grief and short, broken lives. And continue to live the way you lived - with your fears and looks directed inward.