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| The last defender of the Brest Fortress, Pyotr Kotelnikov, dies at 92 |
| 2021-04-22 |
| [REGNUM] The last surviving defender of the Brest Fortress, WWII veteran Pyotr Kotelnikov, died in Moscow at the age of 92. This was reported on April 21 by the Ren-TV channel. At the same time, according to the source, the veteran died at home, he suffered from cancer. Note that Pyotr Kotelnikov was born in 1929 in the village of Dolgovo, Penza Region, and after the death of his parents ended up in one of the orphanages in the Rostov Region, where he learned to play the viola, and in 1940, together with four comrades, he was taken to the musical platoon of the 44th Infantry Rifle shelf. On June 21, 1941, young musicians rehearsed at the Northern Gate of the Brest Fortress, and on the morning of June 22, the war broke out. Kotelnikov, who at that time was barely 12 years old, helped the wounded, carried them ammunition, food and water, since the child was not given a weapon. On June 29, a group of fighters went to the breakthrough and took the guys with them. Recall that at the beginning of World War II, the defenders of the Brest Fortress, being completely surrounded in the rear of the strongest group of the German fascist army, without water and food, without communication, with an acute shortage of ammunition and medicines, fought with the enemy for almost a month. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 badanov is correct. The organized troops held out for a week, but resistance went on for much longer. "The Russians at Brest-Litovsk fought extremely steadfastly and tenaciously. They showed excellent infantry training and demonstrated a remarkable will to fight," wrote Lieutenant General Fritz Schlieper, commander of the 45th Infantry Division. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2021-04-22 10:10 |
| #2 Soviet pamphleteer, Sergey Smirnov in 1956, found writings on the walls of the fortress dated 20 July, 1941. Soviet resistance continued to the end of July |
| Posted by: badanov 2021-04-22 06:49 |
| #1 Not a month they fought but just over a week. |
| Posted by: BernardZ 2021-04-22 05:21 |