Mikhail Kripets
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Mikhail Kripets, 1928–2014, born in village Dokudovo, Lida Region, Grodno Oblast.
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Mikhail Kripets: About soltys
You know I … me too to Germany, they wanted me to go to Germany. We were twelve of people. My father went to the soltys and gave a good going-over to him. He told, «Do you think I fought …
Researcher: Natalya Ivaschenko, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Kseniya Aadsik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Wartime, Mikhail Kripets
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Mikhail Kripets: About the captives
We had two military officers left. One lived at the house where the handicapped lived, the other one lived at the Kuleshs’ place, one stayed at the Byalundziya’s place. Well, when the …
Researcher: Natalya Ivaschenko, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Kseniya Adasik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Wartime, Mikhail Kripets
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Mikhail Kripets: About father
Well, at first my father was a bachelor. They were three of Kryptsy, in 1917 they went together with Lenin. My father told me how it had happened. So during the day they used to be at the bog land, …
Researcher: Natalya Ivaschenko, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Kseniya Adasik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Parents, Mikhail Kripets
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Mikhail Kripets: Partisans
You know the Germans left this place, they left Dakudava. Then the Russian partisans came: one was standing on the right, the other one was standing on the left and they were collecting food, who …
Researcher: Natalya Ivaschenko, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Kseniya Adasik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Wartime, Mikhail Kripets
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Mikhail Kripets: The beginning of the War
Where were you when the war began?
At home. I was at home. I was thirteen years old.
In Polish times we were called the Kryptsavs’ sons, the Bolshevicks’ sons. Me and my brother. And …
Researcher: Natalya Ivaschenko, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Kseniya Adasik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Beginning of the war, Mikhail Kripets
