Biography 23/03/20 Benedict Egorov: as in Stalin punished 11-year-old “counterrevolutionary”
the Stalinist regime sought to engage in political “games” of representatives of all segments of the population, including children. On the one hand, Soviet propaganda extolled all kinds of Pavlik Morozov. On the other hand, it was assumed that the may be conscious of a minor “counter-revolutionaries”. One of the most egregious cases occurred in 1944 in Saratov, where according to the 58th article was judged by six students, including 11-year-old Benedict Egorova.
the Young “underground”
“Personally wrote up and distributed among the population of Saratov 6 counterrevolutionary leaflets, erected in them slandering the activities of the party and the Soviet government, at the same time encouraged to participate in organized struggle against the existing system. However, it was stated terrorist intentions towards the leaders of the CPSU(b)” that’s only a few lines from the verdict of the Soviet court Vienna Egorov – class 4 primary school No. 47 city of Saratov (the document quoted by the site database “Immortal barracks”).
As was also the case, according to the security officers? In the fall of 1943, until the Red Army liberated Ukraine, deep in the rear was activated with the “class enemies”. A group of students created “anti-Soviet youth organization” under the name “the young revolutionaries” (it is also “the Society of pure Leninists”). Teenagers wrote anti-Stalinist leaflets with slogans “back to Lenin’s precepts”, which were then scattered on the mailboxes. Active participation in “underground work” along with senior colleagues took Benedict Egorov. As recorded by the investigators, the boy even allegedly going to go to the city of Gorky to buy there weapons. In the picture attached to the case materials, at Benedict’s harsh, the facial expression. Perhaps the student was angry, going through the crucible of interrogations in the NKVD.
the Victim’s “revolutionary ideals”
it is possible that evidence of the “young revolutionaries” have knocked out the power, but whether that “knock”? That Soviet schoolchildren were playing in the “secret organization”, it is not surprising. The government itself imposed on the children of revolutionary romanticism. Just a couple of months before the events in the Saratov Supreme Soviet of the USSR posthumously awarded the title hero of the Soviet Union five participants of the “Young guard”. Of course, the exploits of the Krasnodon underground is told in schools. Meanwhile, the political order in the country was not a secret even for children. Is it any wonder that the young residents of Saratov began to call Stalin a “bloody fascist” and tearing his portraits in public places? And yet for them it was just a game. The consequences of their actions they provide could not, especially the youngest member of the “organization.” To develop symbols and ciphers – normal hobby for a boy at the age of Veni Erofeev. But to speak of a conscious opposition to the government in this case is not necessary. Fortunately, it is understood and judge. The child read the few months that he was detained, and released into the wild. However, the conviction was for Benedict brand for many years – even before the official rehabilitation in 1957.
Other members of the “Society of young revolutionaries” were not so lucky. 14-year-old pioneer Boris Anokhin got 3 years in prison, 13-year-old Sigismund Schwartz, Herman Svyatoslav Kulikov and Ilyin – for 4 years. The fate of the leader of OUR – 13-year-old Helium Pavlov in the apartment which was about a cabal of mentions in “the Gulag Archipelago” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. According to him, Pavlov was sitting in a prison in Sekowska from 1943 to 1949. All Aurouze was later exonerated for lack of evidence.
Add that Benedict Egorov, apparently, was not the youngest of those convicted of “counterrevolutionary activities” of Soviet children.
“On 58 th no age minimum didn’t exist! <...> Dr. Usma knew 6-year-old boy, who was sitting in prison at the 58th article – it is apparently a record!” — said Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
to Confirm or refute the opinion of the writer on this issue can only be the discovery of new archival documents.
Timur Sagdiyev
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