"Khatyn's story": a brief summary. Ales Adamovich's story about the struggle of the Belarusian partisans

Ales Adamovich's book "The Khatyn story" was created in 1973. It was widely known not only in the USSR, but also in Europe. Such stories about the war will never let the memory of contemporaries fall asleep. This work was created on the basis of documentary stories and eyewitness accounts. Unprecedented atrocities of the fascists, when thousands of villages were burned together with residents, all this was described in detail by Adamovich. "Khatyn story" tells about the heroism of the Soviet people in the fight against the German invaders and traitors of the Motherland in the territory of Belarus. According to this book, the feature film "Go and See" was made.

"Khatyn's story". Summary

There is the Great Patriotic War. The fascists are at war with particular cruelty. Violent fights continue. In the forests hide guerrillas, which help the regular troops.

The story begins with the fact that an elderly man, blinded by wounds, a former Belarusian partisan, and now a university professor, Fleur Petrovich, along with his wife Glasha, son Sergei and fellow soldiers, goes to the opening of the monument to the fallen partisans. On the way, he recalls the events that took place 30 years ago. Among them is their commander Kosach ...

Fleur

The "Khatyn story" tells how the main character, Fleur's seventeen-year-old boy, lived with his mother and two twin sisters in a village. His father was taken prisoner to the Finnish, and so disappeared without a trace. The young man had long wanted to become a partisan and wanted to get to commander Kosach, as he heard that he had in his detachment only one cadre, armed as paratroopers, and able to fight fearlessly. Fleur quickly got himself a gun, and he dug it out with Fedka from a soldier's grave. Then there were many such graves in the forests of Polissya, since from the very year of 1941 there were constant battles.

Fedka also asked to go to the front, but his father did not let him. A Fleur began with his mother. He came home and confessed that he was going to the partisans. Seven-year-old sisters looked with curiosity at his brother and waited for the reaction of my mother, who was very strict and could even move her belt. But at that moment tears came to her eyes. Soon they said goodbye.

Partisans

In the guerrillas, Fleur immediately began to learn a serious army discipline, but also without soldiers' tales and jokes could not do. The gramophone in the detachment consistently played only one song "Stop angry, Masha," and when it was all right, and when the killed and wounded were brought, and when the guerrillas came wet and exhausted.

Partisans respected their commander Kosach, if not to say, were afraid. He was a closed, tough and laconic, but very brave and resolute man. It was thanks to him that the squad had such strict discipline. The cowards from the battlefield did not run, because they knew that Kosach would decide their fate. And it was impossible to say whether he was good or bad, but he had his own accounts with the war, and he knew how to command.

Kossach had a relationship with the young partisan Glasha. She once lived with her mother, and her father lived somewhere with another family in the Urals and from there sent her alimony. In the summer of the 43rd, when the Germans began bombing villages, Glasha, with the permission of her mother, went to the partisans. The girl literally begged Kosach to take her into the detachment. She immediately fell in love with this closed person , as it seemed to her then. But in fact she did not know how he treated her and what he thought about their relationship.

The detachment did not stand still, after periodic "blockades" it was necessary to constantly change the dislocation. The Germans were wild and literally walked on their heels.

Glasha

"Khatyn's story" continues its plot further. Fleur always closely followed Kosach, since he was a great authority for him, and Glasha was next to the commander and therefore also often fell into the field of view of Fleur.

One day Fleur went to look for his horse Hering in the hazel and went deep into the forest thicket, when he heard someone crying and saw Glasha, who suddenly confessed that she was pregnant. Fleur began to reassure her, they even cheered up in their conversations. Then they returned to the detachment. And the next day there was an offensive. Fleur was wounded and contused, he had to be treated for a long time, he was practically deaf.

One day he fell asleep near an oak tree. Opening his eyes, he saw that Glasha was examining his face. In her eyes, he realized that, most likely, they had already parted with Kosach. But suddenly there were automatic bursts and explosions of mines. They began to run away, where their eyes are looking, and after a while they realized that they could not make it to the detachment, since it was in a "blockade". Now they needed to save themselves. For a long time they had to wander and run from the Germans.

White Sands

Then Fleur decided to go to his village, although he guessed that there were already Germans there, but perhaps the inhabitants were saved on the "islands" of the marshes, as it was in the 41st and 42nd years. After a while, they ran into the people who had fled from the village, frightened to death. The bombing was heard everywhere, German planes furiously bombed all life on earth. Fleur and Glasha went on and nearly fell into an ambush, but managed to escape. And finally came to his native village of Flora White Sands, but from the village there was practically nothing left, only scorched earth and charred stoves as monuments.

After a while they met a stranger who had led them through the swamps to the island. There they saw women, children and several more guerrillas. Fleur, not finding among them his relatives, moaned like an animal. A little later he learned that all the inhabitants of his village had been burned alive in the stable. From this great stress, he could not recover for a long time.

Soon he began to hear again. He and three more guerrillas go for provisions to make at least some food supplies, because in addition to potatoes and hare sorrel, nothing else was left for people.

Glasha is standing with Stepan the Magician, the "commandant", a Leningrader, leaves her to look after the wounded. The women cried out: "Do not leave us, dear ones, here your wounded too!" "We are not alimony people!" - protested and joked the Belarusian partisan Rubezh.

Ambush

They began to get to the German lair itself in order to seize at least some wagonload of provisions. Something terrible and irreparable was felt in the air. Partisans Skorokhod and the "Leningrad" soon fell into captivity. Fleur and Rubezh remained, who never for a moment forgot that they were waiting for them on the "island". After looking at one, seemingly quiet village, they slipped into it. And they managed to get the cow out of there in an incredible way. And now they were rushing to the "island". But after a while, German stray bullets killed first the partisan of Rubezh, and then their cow.

Fleur again had to go to the village. But, not having time to free himself, he again runs up against the Germans, who walked along the field in a chain and approached the village. Seeing them, people were fleeing in all directions, who to where. What Fleur saw later, it's simply impossible to describe in words. He, like many villagers, was first captured, then imprisoned in a barn and began to set fire to first his thatched roof, and then everything else, so that human death would be excruciating and slow. People cried out in fear of fear and pain in an inhuman voice. Some ran out of the barn, but immediately they were caught by a bullet. Others tried to throw their children into small windows, but they fell on burning straw. Still others tried to get out through other passages.

Release

So Fleur himself did not understand how he was at large, he was seized by the Germans and thrown from the barn, leaving alive, like several other people. The Germans forced them to drive cows behind a column of infantry. Fleur, however, did not give up hope of revenge, he seemed to have a premonition that our people were about to appear. And they appeared and took revenge on these soulless creatures.

When Fleur saw Kosach sitting on a horse, with a detachment of "his", he hardly lost his speech. Then he told the commander that it was necessary to save Glasha, all the remaining wounded and residents on the "island". But this was not meant to happen. The Germans reached the "island" before, and each had its own terrible torment, one - painful death, another - a concentration camp, and the third - hard labor in Germany.

After the war

In 1946, the past Ozarichi concentration camp in Byelorussia and having recovered with typhus, Glasha returned from Germany, who decided to find Kosach, who worked in the district executive committee, in the same area as the partisan. She dreamed of meeting so much, but her expectations were not justified. After all, then, in the meadow, she and her love, and the baby just nafantazirovala, and so she suffered from her far-fetched love. And after a while she just ran away from him.

The "Khatyn story" goes on to say that after the war half the country was devastated, burned and killed, and in addition, a drought began. From the villages there were only maples and birches, in some places dug-out and benches near grassy fires.

She went into the house to Kosach, where the windows and doors were torn out, and so she could not get used to this. It seemed to her that during the war it was still possible to endure this somehow, but then Glasha became uneasy, and she just ran away. She realized that she was reassured by the memories of Fleur and the forest glade where they were chatting. She was sure that Fleur had died in the hospital, and so she did not look for him.

And in 1953 she went to enter the institute for a correspondence department, and suddenly she met Flair in the corridor, by that time he was already a young teacher. And their joy was boundless. Glasha screamed and rushed to his neck. And then she told him everything that happened to them on the "island" then, and what kind of inhumane trials they were.

Adamovich "Khatyn story". Analysis

A truly great work was written by Ales Adamovich. The "Khatyn story" is now capable of awakening the whole of mankind to recall fascism.

When the Nuremberg Court showed journalists, judges, public and security guards a documentary shooting of the Nazi atrocities in Europe and throughout the Soviet Union, they showed Auschwitz and Khatyn, after the viewing in the hall the light turned on, and people turned to the defendants for just 15 minutes silently simply Looked at them with wild horror.

The tale of war makes us look once again at fascism.