Superheroes are made up where there are no real ones

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Our children watch American films about heroic American women, but in reality, Americans never had such. Some myths. We had thousands of heroic girls and women, but no films were made about them.

- Throw, filmed. For example, ‘The dawns here are quiet…‘or I also remember ‘House on seven winds’. About the cavalry girl Durova - ‘Hussar ballad’.

- Well, what about the last thirty years? - the museum worker flatters me with a question.

- If you were a screenwriter, what would you write? To shoot a movie?

- Yes, certainly not ‘Resident Evil - 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on! - the usually quietest museum worker slowly begins to boil.

- Wouldn't fantasy be enough? - with sympathy urges the Raccoon.

- Here my imagination is not necessary at all! It happened with us that no scribbler would come up with anything! Yes, I can't even tell right away - who to take on!

As I say, there were thousands of heroines.

- Let's have at least three. And so that spectacular episodes.

- One spit. Curl your fingers!

- Let's bend it!

- Nina Pavlovna Petrova. Full Knight of the Order of Glory. Leningrad woman, sportswoman …

- Komsomol member, beauty - riot policeman picks up.

- What do you mean! She was 48 years old when she came to the Kuibyshev military registration and enlistment office. Naturally, she was wrapped up, the more she wanted to be a sniper. Nina Pavlovna came to the Kuibyshev military enlistment office of Leningrad at the very beginning of the war.

- I am an athlete, I shoot better than any soldier.

- You are 48 years old, we have no right to call on a woman at that age;

- Everyone has the right to defend the Motherland! - wrote Nina Pavlovna to the chief military commissar, and achieved her goal. But she was not allowed to the front, as a shooter-trainer brought up snipers, taught them all sorts of tricks - just during the war - she trained 512 snipers, and trained three hundred soldiers to the 'Voroshilov riflemen', she reached the front only in 1943 - and very quickly distinguished herself - in a street battle near Tartu, she saw a couple of Germans with cans, who were carefully pearling somewhere, carefully followed them and just as accurately shot them.

When it became clear what kind of house they wanted to set fire to. It turned out - the abandoned headquarters of the Jaeger regiment, with all the maps, documents and typewriters. This is not to wave a katana to you - to outplay two rangers, not children, by the way, not simple infantry. In Poland she received the second soldier's Order of Glory. It was necessary to knock the Germans down from the skyscraper, and at the skyscraper three machine guns, competent calculations with them - they let them get closer and put them on the ground - so that the grenade could not be reached yet, and their own artillery was not an assistant - they would slap their own people too.

And all our artillery was an elderly woman with a rifle. Nina Pavlovna cold-bloodedly from several hundred meters knocked out the brains of everyone who stood up for the machinengever. There were a dozen of such brave ones that they grabbed a machine gun, splattered with blood, a machine gun, and each received a bullet from Petrova - in the eye, forehead, face. When she shot the machine gun crews, our gunmen were thrown from their positions. How is such a duel? One woman - with a dozen machine gunners with three machine tools? Does it inspire? Yes, and in Germany brought the personal score to 122 enemies. And these are not mythical figures, each is documented, not that of the German and Finnish heroes, that they worked without taking into account, and the mad numbers are not confirmed by anything.

- Quite good, even for a computer game, not like a movie. Is she dead?

- She died - Pavel Aleksandrovich is sad - on May 2, 1945, mortarmen and a fool-driver brought her up, drunk, most likely, flew into a ravine. People were covered with a body.

- I hate drunk drivers - the riot policeman speaks out rather viciously.

- Let's continue! Maria Karpovna Baida, medical instructor. The hero of the USSR. Here she is - a Komsomol member and a beauty, a nurse. Defense of Sevastopol. In addition to dragging about a hundred wounded from the battlefield - with weapons, to which I pay special attention, and not just pulling them out. And she also tied up and encouraged that in conditions when hundreds of deaths fly nearby, explode and shout nearby in a foreign language even for a peasant - it's not an easy task, as she, in the course of doing this hard work, filled no less than twenty Nazis. A girl in her twenties. Four Fritzes - hand-to-hand. And without snot, wringing of hands and thinking about the dryness of all that exists. Because after what I saw during the shelling and bombing of the city, I no longer held the Nazis for the people. This non-human had to be stopped. So she tried.

- Something is somehow too thick - the riot policeman doubts.

- Yes, nothing particularly thick - she had a German machine gun, so the Germans made mistakes more than once, focusing on the sound and believing that they were shooting their own. And this was Masha, not their own. She also contrived to drag captured weapons and did not forget to remove ammunition from the Germans. And she freed several of our prisoners, when the Germans drove them into captivity, she killed the guards. Then she was taken prisoner - seriously wounded, with a broken leg, survived in concentration camps and when she got to work at the Bauer, she almost pinned him with a pitchfork for rudeness.

Miraculously survived, maybe because she was connected with the Resistance then. True, because of this, I ended up in the Gestapo, the head of the countryman turned out to be, was born in Ukraine, and therefore he began his acquaintance with the fact that he knocked out half of the teeth of a young woman. They kept her in the basement, where the floor was covered with ice water, and they interrogated her, placing her by the fireplace, so that she burned her - well, you have to dry her after the basement …

- Lost?

- No, she survived. And she got married and gave birth to children and became a deputy and an honorary citizen of the hero-city of Sevastopol. Is it okay? Especially in terms of staging gunfights and tactical tricks?

- Yes, it does. And the third?

“Not a problem at all. Alexandra Avraamovna Derevskaya.

- GSS or Knight of Glory?

- Neither one nor the other. But any Mile Jovovich or Angelina Jolie there can only stand at attention. When a train of orphans evacuated from Leningrad was brought to Stavropol, the kids could no longer stand, they were dystrophic. The townspeople took the children home, there were seventeen of the weakest, they did not want to take them - why take there, you still can't go out, just bury them … Alexandra Avraamovna Derevskaya took all of them for herself. And then she continued. She took the brothers and sisters of those that were with her. Her children recalled later: “One morning we saw that there were four boys behind the gate, the smaller one was no more than two …

You Derevsky … we, auntie, heard that you are collecting children … we have no one … the folder died, mother died … And our family grew up, our mother was such a person if she found out that somewhere there was a lonely sick child, she didn’t calm down until she brought it home. At the end of 1944, she learned that an emaciated six-month-old boy was lying in the hospital, and was unlikely to survive.

Father died at the front, mother died of a broken heart, having received a funeral. Mom brought the baby - blue, thin, wrinkled … At home, they immediately put him in a warm stove to warm him up … Over time, Vitya turned into a fat toddler who did not let go of his mother's skirt for a minute. We called him Ponytail … '

By the end of the war, Alexandra Avraamovna had 26 sons and 16 daughters. After the war, the family was moved to the Ukrainian city of Romny, where a large house and several hectares of garden and vegetable garden were allocated for them. On the tombstone of the heroine mother Alexandra Avraamovna Derevskaya there is a simple inscription: 'You are our conscience, mother' … And forty-two signatures … Impressive?

- Yes, strongly - we agree after a pause.

- And I could have continued, by the way. And about the girls from the death battalions and about the nurses of the First World War. And about the female warriors of the civil war - from both sides. And about the Finnish one. Well, about the Great Patriotic War - snipers alone will not have enough time to remember the year. Every army had a 'maiden company'. You could talk about Alia Moldagulova, Tatiana Kostyrina, Natasha Kovshova, Masha Polivanova, Tatiana Baramzina, Lyudmila Pavlichenko or Rosa Shanina.

And the girls are also pilots. The same ‘night witches’ managed to drop a hundred tons of bombs from their corn-growers during the war. And the regiment of Grizodubova! And the tankers? Masha Logunova, with whom the same happened to Maresyev. Or Oktyabrskaya, who donated money for her tank ‘Fighting Girlfriend’? And the signalmen? Sappers? The underground workers?

I'm not talking about those who worked, a separate song. But then, by the way - even in Afghanistan, our girls showed themselves. For example, when our sworn friends were able to arrange a biological sabotage and there was cholera in Jalalabad, which struck the DSB. In Tajikistan, too, our little girls had to take a sip.

Fragment of the story "For Sale" by Nikolai Berg