We decided to do everything thoroughly, – meets one of the first search engines and the authors of the idea camp, co-founder of Riot police in Sakha-Yakutia Vladimir Cantuel. – Work to establish the names of the collective of the Unknown soldier will last for decades to come, and next are almost all of the regions that was occupied by the Nazis during the great Patriotic war.
When Vladimir Cantuel on the opening day of the Rzhev memorial 30 June 2020 explained to the guests from different countries the task and the meaning of open “at hand”, in twelve or fifteen kilometres from the memorial, the youth military-Patriotic camp for training professionals in the search business, he recalls, was a culture shock. At first it stumped the question – why?
the Question was asked by the doctor to Anna wick Davis from the University of London (UK), who studied the Soviet memorial culture in Novorossiysk. Cantuel explained that for thirty years the search movement of Russia is more than 500 thousand names of the missing, found and buried more than 100 thousand of the remains of soldiers and officers, clarified the fate of more than 5,000 dead, and yet to find, alas, no less. The guest was surprised.
– we also Have a memorial to the memory, said Anna Vick Davis – but only in Rzhev I think I understand the roots of your culture’s historical memory. We have all the names of those killed in the Second world war is long established. Their burial are largely in the North of France, because in Britain the fighting was not conducted. And you are fighting now for the victims, continues. And it’s a romantic component of memorial memory, which in the UK, no.
Vladimir Cantuel also admits that she was stunned and for the first time realized that the fact that Europe – the romance, for Russia – patriotism.
listens To us the search of the movement “Volunteer brotherhood” Anton Demidov .
– I was initially worried because when I say you’re a search engine, then you say, “a patriot or something”? – says Demidov. – We have, as is customary? Patriotism or shy, or believe all they say, “blah-blah-blah”, or call it the last refuge of scoundrels. I have that shit flew out of my head when his hands lifted up the first fighter. It was at Kursk. The dress of the soldier is almost all rotted, the medallion, there is only bone and adhering the remaining top ten cents, 1925. We of the soldiers buried in a mass grave. My month didn’t let go – all that remains of the man who gave his life for our life, ten rusty 10 cents. And we earn, earn, and laugh at those who in this case did not succeed. I did this a dilemma for myself so I decided: to earn, but in order not to rust, should not be ashamed of their feelings. They tell me how to live. To me they say, “I raised a fighter.”
Anthe hand shows the tent. There are wooden benches hang out guys and girls.
– From them, – shows a hand Demidov, every second can say: “I raised a soldier.”
We come. Meet. Agit Kolodeznikov from Yakutsk and Denis Nikitin of Tver set the radio.
– you Know what’s annoying? – shares Agit Kolodeznikov. We seniors say, the farther the Victory Day, the less we want to know about it. This is empty talk. Yes, the world is opened, with the descendants of the enemies is better and we should be friends, but the farther we get away from may 9, 1945, the more I want to know about it.
the Young men launched into a detailed story about what search work are long gone from “primitive” detector and was concentrated in the archives and at the “Supe”, which is impossible without aerial photography and GPR. And in order to own them, and the basics of archival searches, and need a training camp to teach new principles of search research.
– Because soldiers with medallions, and it was not all an affordable luxury during the Great Patriotic war, mostly found, says Denis Nikitin, and more often find soldiers without medallions and documents. And these nameless finds will be more. The principles of search – search softness in the soil, voids, holes. Science is also, almost of a sniper.
Agit Kolodeznikov and Gavril Markov from Yakutsk shifting from foot to foot.
– We’re taking the conversation away, asking Agit – just the nature of us, Yakuts, such that PR itself is not accepted somehow. Of course, we know that in the Rzhev were designed more than 20 thousand of Yakutia in the Great Patriotic war, more than 2.5 thousand of them die here. Only 1174 name installed. Yet. Yet even Yakut our squad or two people. Our Republic will not retreat a coronavirus and remains rigid quarantine. Only the following year to a camp in each of the three shifts will call 40-50 people from Yakutia. I’m sorry too.
the Guys are gone. They had to install a Billboard Hero of the Soviet Union Theodore Okhlopkova. The legendary Yakut the sniper, which the Nazis called “shaman”, – he destroyed 420 of the Nazis. After the war, the Sergeant who returned home, hunted, begat ten children, and did not even know that in 1965, he, on the basis of the classified data and archives of the NKVD, was awarded the title of Hero. Now it is named after the first Russian all-year military-Patriotic camp of the search movement, which healed Rzhev.
