Summary Alas Adamovich Punishers
Ales Adamovich
Punishers
The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War, in 1942, in the territory of occupied Belarus.
“Punishers” is a bloody chronicle of the destruction by the battalion of Hitler’s punitive Dirlewanger of seven peaceful villages. The chapters are appropriately named: “First Settlement”, “Second Village”, “Between the Third and Fourth Villages”, etc. Each chapter contains excerpts from the documents on the activity of punitive detachments and their participants.
Punitive policemen are preparing to destroy the first settlement on the way to the main goal – a large and crowded village of Borki. The date, time, place of the event, and last names are accurately indicated. In the “special team” – “assault brigade” – the German Oscar Dirlewanger united criminals, traitors,
Polici Tupiga waits for his partner Dobroskok to finish the massacre
The chapter “Village of the Second” describes the destruction of the village of Kazulichi. The French punisher asks the policeman Tupigu for a fat salad to do for him “an unpleasant job” – to shoot a family, settled in a good sound hut. After Tupiga – “a master, a specialist, what’s he worth?” Tupigi has his own way: first he talks to women, asks bread for a snack – they will
The action returns to the village first, to the pit where a pregnant woman remained in a state of strange mortal sleep. Now, at 11 hours 51 minutes in Berlin time, she opens her eyes. Before it – the pre-war children’s room on the Bobruisk outskirts; mother and father are going to visit, and she hides from them embarrassed lipstick painted with mother’s lipstick; the next vision is for some reason an attic, and they lie with Grisha like a husband and wife, and below a cow moans… “The sour smell of love, shameful, or is it from behind the screen? No, from below, where the cow is. .. From what pit? About what? Where am I? “
The village of the third is not much different from the previous ones. Policemen Tupiga, Dobroskok and Orphan go through a rare pine-tree, inhaling fatty sweetish cadaveric smoke. Tupiga tries to suppress thoughts about possible revenge. Suddenly, in the midst of a raspberry, policemen stumble upon a woman with children. The orphan shows immediate readiness to finish them, but Tupiga, suddenly obeying some unconscious impulse, sends his companions ahead, and he gives the turn from the machine gun past the target. The sudden return of the orphan plunges him into horror. Tupiga imagines how the Germans or gangsters from the company Melnichenko-the “Galitsians”, Banderovtsi-reacted to his act. And now the “self-propensities” have begun to stir, – it turns out that some woman, after seeing a smoke-fire, is running from the field, home. A machine gun hits the bush – a woman with a bag falls. Having reached the village, Tupiga meets Sirotka and Dobroskok with stuffed pockets. He enters the still looted house. Among other things, good is one tiny boot. Holding it on his finger, Tupiga finds in the dark side of a baby sleeping in a cradle. One eye is half open and, it seems Tupiga, looks at him… Tupiga hears in the yard the voices of the marauding Banderovites. He does not want to be noticed in the house. The child screams – and Tupiga snatches the revolver… His voice is far away and unfamiliar: “It’s a pity, the boy regretted it! The living will burn.” Tupiga hears in the yard the voices of the marauding Banderites. He does not want to be noticed in the house. The child screams – and Tupiga snatches the revolver… His voice is far away and unfamiliar: “It’s a pity, the boy regretted it! The living will burn.” Tupiga hears in the yard the voices of the marauding Banderites. He does not want to be noticed in the house. The child screams – and Tupiga snatches the revolver… His voice is far away and unfamiliar: “It’s a pity, the boy regretted it! The living will burn.”
The commander of the new “Russian” company, White plans a way to get rid of the closest associate of Surov, with whom he is linked by the courses of the Red commanders, the captivity, the Bobruisk camp and voluntary consent to serve in the punitive battalion. White at first tricked himself into an unrealistic idea – to leave someday for partisans, and as a witness of his “honest” intentions to present Surov, and therefore specially protected him from obviously bloody tasks. However, the further, the more clearly Bely understands that he will never be able to break with the punitive forces, especially after the incident with the partisan intelligence officer, to whose trust he entered, but immediately gave it away. And in order to dispel the Severus halo of purity, he orders to pour gasoline on himself and shed the shed, where the entire population of the village was driven.
In the center of the next chapter is the figure of the fierce punisher from the so-called “Ukrainian company” Ivan Melnichenko, who is completely trusted by the company commander German Paul, an eternally drunk criminal pervert. Melnichenko remembers his stay in the fterland, where his parents invited Paul – Melnychenko saved his life. He hates and despises everyone: stupid, limited Germans, guerrillas, and even his parents, who are stunned by the appearance of a punitive son in a poor Kiev house and pray to God for his death. In the midst of the next “operation”, the helpers – “Moskali” – come to the millers. Melnichenko furiously beats the cheek of their commander – his recent subordinate White – and receives a full holder of lead in return. Bely himself immediately dies at the hands of one of the Bandera (from the documents known, that Melnichenko had long been treated in hospitals, after the war he was tried, fled, hid and died in Belarus). The Borkov operation continues. It is carried out by the “method” Dirlewanger Sturmfuhrer Slava Muravyov. The newcomers are built in pairs with the Nazis who were already in the business – to stay on the sidelines, it’s impossible not to get dirty in the blood. Muravyov himself also went this way: a former lieutenant of the Red Army, he was crushed in the first battle by fascist tanks, then with the remnants of his regiment tried to resist the inexorable military machine of the Germans, but in the end was captured. Completely depressed, he tries to justify himself before his mother, father, wife, himself by being “his” among strangers. The Germans noticed the military bearing, the intelligence of the former teacher, they immediately gave the platoon. The ants amuse themselves with thoughts that made them respect themselves; his subordinates are not Millnichenkov’s “self-esteem”, he has discipline. Muravyov enters the house of Dierlewanger himself, gets to know the concubine of the chief – Stasey, a fourteen-year-old Polish Jew who painfully reminds him of a long-time love – teacher Bertu. Ants are not alien to books, the German Zimmermann discusses with him the theory of Nietzsche and the biblical parables.
Dirlewanger appreciates a taciturn Asian, but now he is going to make him a pawn in his game: he is plotting the wedding of Muravyov with Stasya in order to plug the mouths of the malicious who are reporting to him about the alleged disappearance of gold gizmos after the execution of specially selected fifty Jews in Majdanek. Dirlewanger needs to rehabilitate himself before Himmler and the Fuhrer for his past connection with the conspirator Remus and the disquieting predilections for girls under the age of fourteen. On the way to Borki, Dirlewanger writes a letter to Berlin mentally, from which the leadership will recognize and appreciate his “innovative”, “revolutionary” way of total destruction of the rebellious Belarusian villages and at the same time successfully applied the practice of “re-educating” the dregs of humanity like the bastard Paul, which he pulled out of the concentration camp and took in punitive platoon: the best sterilization is “rejuvenation of children’s blood.” Borki, according to Dirlewanger, is a demonstrative act of total intimidation. Women and children are driven into the barn, local policemen who naively counted on the German mercy – to school, their families – to the house opposite. Dirlewanger and his entourage enter the gate of the barn to “admire” the material prepared in good faith. When the machine-gun fire ceases, the gates that can not stand the fire open themselves by themselves. At standing in the cordon of the chastisers, nerves can not stand: Tupiga gives a turn from the machine gun to smoke puffs, many turn their stomachs. Then the massacre begins with the policemen, who, in plain sight of the families, are taken out one by one from the school and thrown into the fire. And each of the punishers thinks that this can happen to others, but not to him.
At 11.56, German Lange drives a trunk of the machine gun through the corpses of the terrible pit of the first settlement. The last time a woman sees her killers, and in an eerie silence, the unborn six-month life shouts soundlessly from horror and loneliness.
At the end of the story – documentary evidence of the burning of the corpses of Hitler and Eva Brown, the enumeration of crimes against humanity in the modern era.
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