Tamara Levchuk: Gangbangs (after the War)
Categories: End of the war, Residence and weekdays, Tamara Levchuk
We had lived for long in Grodno, but my father started to work as a forester in the forestry, so we moved to Putrishki. It was the year of 1955. There was a gangbang organized in Cheschevlyany. They were the Poles as if they were fighting on behalf of their regime. They were such nationalists. They killed the Russians, the military, deputies of the village councils; they killed a lot of them in Kazimirouka. Yes, they killed such people. So my uncle, my mother’s brother was a deputy in Kazimirouka. So he was a deputy that is why he should be killed. They came and killed him. Chernuschyk Vladzimir. I have learned recently that they had their own messenger; I have learned recently that she was a bandit messenger, Kladko Handzya. She brought bandits to my uncle’s house, knocked at the window and said (my aunt was Fanka Praskovya), «Fanka, open, don’t be afraid, open». «It is her, Gandzechka», and she opened and the bandits came in. They have already died; God didn’t give their children long lives. Nobody put her into prison, nobody told about that, nobody paid attention to that. At that time there were lots of these bandits. Gandechka’s daughter, Kladko Galya, worked in the customs office in Grodno. – Nobody would hire us in the customs office, but the bandits knew their own people and hired her. There was such a bandit, Bareisha. He was a leader. They hid at their own houses, in Yaloushchyna,
Zabalats, Kulbaki. At nights they came out and killed people. Oh, it was terrible! When a dog barked, everybody was afraid of bandits. I survived the war, the Germans, nobody hurt us, but after they war the gangbangs appeared. Once they surrounded Bareisha with machine guns, somebody directed. They told to give in. So he either blew up himself or shot himself dead. The war wasn’t as horrible as the gangbangs. They killed, because of the Soviet regime, and nobody felt for the Soviet regime. Somebody was judged. After Gandzechka Kazimirouka was swept out.
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Researcher: Alexei Zagidulin, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
