It’s called “the Last flame war, You his talent gave people” and dedicated to the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the great Victory. There placed unique documents from the funds of the Central archive of the defense Ministry. Only mentioned there names are worth: Anatoly Papanov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Rina Green, Yuri Nikulin, Vladimir Etush… In special projects of the Ministry of defence first published record cards and award documents from the war years, indicating that these persons have acquired military glory long before their stage success.
Here, for example, the rows of dated may 1945 represent the platoon commander of 72-th separate anti-aircraft artillery battalion senior Sergeant Yuri Nikulin for awarding order of Glory III degree: “While ensuring the advancing infantry continuously in combat formations of infantry, carrying out reconnaissance of targets and correction of fire of battery”. When you read them, you begin to understand why a professional clown and actor-comedian was able so eloquently to play war correspondent, Lopatin in the film “Twenty days without war” and created unforgettable images of Kuzma iordanova in the film “When trees were big” and the ordinary Nekrasov with his “trench disease” in “They fought for the Motherland”. Nikulin didn’t do it like soldiers, he really lived these roles, I thought and felt like some of his heroes.
our Other favorite actor, probably the best stage of hamlet Innokenti Smoktunovsky in the war and was twice awarded the medal “For courage” – the most respected among the soldiers. Incidentally, his real name Smoktunovich. She appears in the award documents for Sergeant and squad leader of a company of machine gunners that are in the area of the settlement of Larsen one of the first burst in the trench of the enemy and destroyed 20 Nazis.
“July 25, 1941 voluntarily joined the red army. The participant of the great Patriotic war. I have the awards of the Motherland.” So wrote in his autobiography, was awarded the medal “For military merit” captain Vladimir Basov – the future actor, film Director and screenwriter, author of a remarkable war film “Shield and sword”, “Silence”, “Tehran-43”.
And Vladimir Etush joined the army as a volunteer, fought on the Western and southern front, was seriously wounded. In premium sheet to the assistant chief of staff for logistics 581 th infantry regiment, Lieutenant Etush is written: “…fearlessly, sparing his life, inspiring the fighters, bravely led a company of the enemy, and by his skillful maneuver drove the enemy from the area of the Town, it killed 30 soldiers and officers, seized a machine gun”. The war Vladimir Abramovich has won many awards, including order of the red Star.
