Stavropol State Agrarian University has joined the all-Russian campaign "Scientific regiment", which is held by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.
"Scientific Regiment" is a series of publications about students and teachers, about scientists who during the Great Patriotic War brought the victory closer by their military and labor exploits.
The main aim of the project is patriotic education of young people and preserving the memory of the Great Victory. Thousands of students, teachers, workers and employees of institutes volunteered to go to the front. The memory of them should live!
Author: Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor of Philosophy and History Department, Head of the University History Museum Olga Nikolaevna Shmatko.
While the veterans of the Great Patriotic War and toilers of the military rear are spoken about much, highly deservedly and proudly, the prisoners of German concentration camps are, as a rule, spoken about in passing. Meanwhile, the former prisoners of Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Treblinka and Salaspils, and dozens of concentration and sorting camps on occupied Soviet territory, who miraculously survived (they are literally in their numbers), pass away. To the martyrs of Hitler's sinister "new order," the sorrowful truth of the war also includes the minor prisoners of fascism.
On 27 January 1945, the Soviets liberated Auschwitz, a camp that was one of the most tragic milestones in human history, a camp whose grim fame resounded through the decades, a camp where life was not worth anything.
Still little is known about the staggering figure of more than 5 million children held in concentration camps and other places of detention scattered across occupied Europe. The horror of the slave humiliation of their mothers, the constant mockery, the medical experiments on innocent people who were taken to Germany as teenage "laborers. According to the International Union of Former Juvenile Prisoners of Fascism, only one in ten survived.
The Museum of History of Stavropol State Agrarian University preserves memories of his difficult childhood during the Great Patriotic War, Viktor Alexandrovich Kazachenkov, Associate Professor of Philosophy and History Department of Stavropol State Agrarian University, retired colonel, former juvenile prisoner of Nazi concentration camp Mannheim, Chairman of the University Veterans Council, Chairman of Stavropol veterans organization, member of the Council of Elders under the Chairman of the Stavropol Regional Duma.
Victor Aleksandrovich Kazachenkov kept his miraculously obtained birth certificate in an alien German land:
"Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy and Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky in the city of Mannheim. Metric book, part I about baptism for 1945... Month and day of birth: March 3, 1945, baptism April 17, 1945. Name, patronymic of parents and what religion - Alexander Nikolaevich Sorokin and Maria Maksimovna Kazachenkova, both Orthodox. I testify to the correctness of this record by my handwritten signature and the attachment of a church seal.
Rector Archpriest Alexander Popov,
г. Mannheim, April 17, 1945.
It is a mystery to this day how an Orthodox church could exist in Hitler's Germany? Perhaps it was because it was a special camp, where thousands of slaves worked, bearing their cross in a foreign land.
The 19-year-old Maria Kazachenkova, who had been deported to Germany, endured all the horrors of slave labor in an enemy aircraft factory in Mannheim. It is unlikely that she knew that the carriers of secrets in any particularly unfortunate military situation, according to German circulars, were to be destroyed. However it was the spring of the forty-fifth, our allied troops were approaching the city, there was a hope of survival, and the youth always has its laws: there Maria met Alexander Sorokin, a guy from Tver region.
"...The feat of my mother," Victor Aleksandrovich was unable to restrain his excitement, remembering his mother, "is that she did not agree to get rid of the child under any circumstances. How much fell to her lot... Before the war, young Masha had the chance to work as a gardener for the commander of the Kiev Special Military District Sergey Timoshenko. Timoshenko. In July 1941 she returned home to Strelniki village, not far from Kursk, then the Germans came. "Well-wishers" reported that she served with a great Soviet military commander. Understandably - the road to captivity and suffering. Then I was to return home with a baby in my arms, undergoing excruciating filtration checks and being subjected to long "slanted glances". It was not easy for me too with this "stigma".
Victor Alexandrovich never got to see his father. After all sorts of inspections, by the end of the summer of '45 he was taken to the war with Japan. He was officially listed there as "missing in action".
Victor Kozachenkov was born on March 3, 1945 in a fascist concentration camp in Mannheim. He was brought up in a peasant family, his childhood passed in the village Strelniki of Putivl district of Sumy region of the Ukrainian SSR. Victor had to live in the difficult post-war times, his fate tested him on his strength - he had to see and experience a lot. He wanted very much to go to military school, and to do it was not easy because he was born in a concentration camp. But the young man walked the straight path and strived for his dream. In 1965 graduated from Daugavpils military aviation and radio technical school. The same year he joined the CPSU. After becoming an officer, he served the fatherland faithfully for many years. He began his service in Zaporozhye, Ukrainian SSR, as an airplane technician, then became a maintenance technician, was appointed head of the group of political studies and was elected secretary of the primary organization of the regiment. The young lieutenant worked vigorously with great desire, for which he was repeatedly encouraged by the command. In 1971 he was already appointed assistant of the head of the division political department on the Komsomol work in Petrozavodsk. Was elected as a member of Karelian regional committee of Komsomol and a member of the regional committee's bureau. In 1973 he became deputy chief of the regiment political department. After a serious operation he continued his service at Stavropol Higher Military Aviation School named after V.A.Sudets. At first, he taught at the department of Marxism-Leninism, then became a senior lecturer.
In 1990 he was discharged from the USSR Armed Forces because of illness and joined the Stavropol Agricultural Institute as a senior lecturer of the Chair of Marxism-Leninism philosophy. His lectures were always held at a high level, he was loved by his students and respected by his colleagues. Viktor Alexandrovich gave twenty-five years of his life to Stavropol State Agrarian University. His active nature knew no rest: a man of activity, energetic, with an active civil position, he was active in public life. In 1999 he was elected chairman of the University Veterans' Council, and in 2010 became chairman of the city veterans' organization. He took care not only about the people of the older generation, but also cared about the moral and patriotic education of the youth, contributing to the formation of a healthy future of our country.
Friends, colleagues and students knew Victor Alexandrovich as a man who could not work half-heartedly, responsible in the highest degree, noble, energetic, sensitive, tactful, not indifferent to other people's problems, and he was deeply respected. The whole life of this bright personality is an example of selfless service to his homeland and his people.
On December 25, 2015, at the age of 71, Victor Aleksandrovich Kozachenkov passed away. The blessed memory of the remarkable man will always live in our hearts.
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