Nelidovo: Destruction of the monument to the fallen heroically

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In January 1942, in the town of Nelidovo Tver region was organized by the so-called NELIDOVSKIJj DEATH ABROAD

His task was to prevent the onset of the German invaders on Rzhev direction, protection Rzhevsky tract. The boundary of death was situated on one of the bank. Semikovka at the moment is the suburb of Nelidovo Str. Ring.

On the other side are located the German units and formations. When German troops began the offensive, there were very fierce and bloody battles, which killed about 1,000 soldiers of the Soviet Army and several thousand German invaders (!!!)

Frontier lasted almost the entire winter. In the spring, when the river thawed and started to clean up the territory of the floodplain, corpses of German soldiers were floated down the river, and the bodies of dead soldiers of the Soviet army caught and piled on the shore.

Approximately 1,000 dead soldiers managed to identify about 100 soldiers and officers. However, in a mass grave identified were buried and all unidentified soldiers. To transport the dead will not become due to their large number.





At the burial site was made temporary wooden monument in the form of a small stele a height of about 1.5 meters, topped by a star and helmets lying around it by the number of buried soldiers.

In 1947 it was formed NELIDOVSKIJj shahtoupravlenie, on whose initiative in place of brotherly burial was set major monument on a concrete pedestal height of about 1.6 meters, made of metal, concrete and granite. The monument is a figure of a soldier in height more than 2 meters from the PCA in the hands. The monument was framed by a metal fence. Several marble boards with the names of dead soldiers identified were fixed on a pedestal.

12.10.2012, the group led by the Chief of the Vandals Nelidovsky plant JBI SUVOROVA winged Excavator, bucket blows smashed the monument, causing head and arms soldier flew a few meters, then a rope was dumped from the pedestal body soldier.



Next grader blade concrete pedestal was shifted to the side. While moving pedestal, tractor wheels traveled several times on the body of the monument and memorial plaques with the names of soldiers who died heroically in bringing the marble plaques crumbled. Then, gas welding was cut metal fence around the monument, is loaded into the bucket and taken into Vtorchermet. Commemorative wreaths were cynically thrown out.

In place of a spontaneous rally was organized. The indignation of the war veterans, who lived next to the monument and took part in the rally, nebylo limit. Forces a few outfits Nelidovsky Police Department rally was dispersed, and was delivered to the department several war veterans and the disabled of group I, which, according to the authorities, violated public order.

Representatives of the city administration to clarify something on this fact refused.



According to unofficial information available, this territory is prepared for individual construction, because it is located in a very good location, on the banks of the river.

Please note on one of the photos the shot hit the grandmother, which stands on the site of the monument and crying, because this place is buried her relative (like a brother), who died in the winter of 1942 that bloody meat grinder ...



We do not have any moral or ethical right to remain silent, we owe our grandparents peaceful sky over your head, that heroically survived in this terrible war ...

This is our story. This is our memory. It is a feat of our people ... They are in fact, the veterans, there are very few of us ...



Necessary public publicity, and repost your assessment of this fact !!! Help, now it is very important !!!
I know that the community PL can shake this subject and I hope that the information will disperse as widely as possible, which would reach the media.



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