In a month, we will celebrate the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. During the war, the representatives of various union republics fought shoulder to shoulder, and thus they managed to withstand all the hardships of the war and defeat a strong, well-armed, organized enemy absolutely confident in his superiority. The Nazis were defeated because they did not calculate the most important thing: the unity and solidarity of the USSR citizens.
The victory was gained by the unity of Russians and Kazakhs, Ukrainians and Belarusians, Georgians and Jews, Uzbeks and Yakuts, Armenians and Latvians, Moldovans and Estonians, Tatars and Lithuanians, Tajiks and Turkmens, representatives of many other peoples who defended their common Motherland. People of different ages, different cultures, different faiths, Christians and Muslims, Jews and Buddhists, selflessly loyal to the oath, did not flinch in the face of death. That country ceased to exist, but the memory of its great warriors who saved the world from the brown plague remained. One of them is Janibek Suleev, who died during the Smolensk operation. He was born in 1923 in the Alma-Ata region, was conscripted into the army by the Sulikan RVK of the Sverdlovsk region on December 1, 1942, and died on April 4, 1943. Janibek Suleev fought only four months but was decorated with two medals.
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Kazakhstan Al-Farabi KazNU Laila Akhmetova says: “His first medal is ”For courage”. In the electronic document bank ”The Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, we can find Red Army gunman Suleev Janibek. He advanced ahead of his unit in a battle for the Zheltaya height on March 20-21, 1943. That day he took the injured sniper’s rifle and shot a German sniper from the third shot, giving the unit an opportunity to advance without losses. As a result of his feat, Janibek was wounded. On April 4, on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR, he was awarded a medal "For Military Merits." He received neither of the awards. We assume that he was wounded in early April 1943, taken to the medical battalion, where he died. For a long time, his fate was unknown. "
Laila Akhmetova said that "taking into account those who were conscripted into the army in 1939-1941, about 1,400,000 people from Kazakhstan went to the front. Of this number, more than 630,000 died and went missing. 130 thousand of them were Kazakhs... 33,000, a quarter of dead Kazakhs, were conscripted into the army from the RSFSR and other Union republics. We know almost nothing about these 33,000 people. "
Speaking about the Smolensk operation, during which Janibek Suleev died, Laila Akhmetova noted: “When the Smolensk-Vyazemsky cauldron was formed, almost all the armies that retreated from the territory of Belarus — about 1, 200,000 soldiers — were captured there. Only 90,000 people escaped from the cauldron. In two months, the Germans lost 250,000 people in the battle of Smolensk, about 1,000,000 of soldiers were captured ... In 1942, a third of the Wehrmacht forces in the USSR was in the Smolensk region. The Smolensk-Vyazma-Rzhev shaft was built at that time. In December 1941 - November 1942, the Germans were driven out of Moscow for 100-250 km, thus, they stopped in Smolensk, where for almost two years, there were endless battles of so-called local significance. Rzhev became the most tragic place, where the soldiers lay in stacks in several rows. The survivors recalled that while stretching the line of communication, they had to dive under those rotten bodies. About 15,000 Soviet soldiers died there every day. "
"Kazakhstan made a huge contribution to secure the Victory. It is a republic that gave the front a huge amount of metal: lead, copper, molybdenum. This republic has preserved and enforced the Soviet industry. 19 enterprises were evacuated to Almaty. Science was developing: during the war, in Kazakhstan, 12 scientific research institutes appeared, on the basis of which the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences was created after the victory, ” president of the Kazakhstan Public Foundation ‘Eurasia World’ Eduard Poletaev says.
According to him, “the Kazakhstanis who participated in the war were mostly ordinary people. Higher educational institutions just began to appear on the territory of Kazakhstan between the two wars, the first was opened in 1928, a number of others in the 1930s. Not all had time to learn, and ordinary guys fought in the war. 20-year-old boys quickly learned, took up arms and went to fight for the victory. And they died for the victory. There are few living witnesses of that war. There are about a thousand of them in Kazakhstan, the youngest of whom is 92 years old. The war on the subject of how to evaluate the results of this Great Patriotic War, unfortunately, leads to the fact that the feat of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers is not entirely unambiguously evaluated, and we cannot accept this. We have one memory and one victory.”
The political scientist noted that people at that time were completely different: “Now our best friend is a smartphone, and then people talked to each other, helped each other. A huge number of stories are related to how people shared the last piece of bread in the rear and at the front. Military units gathered from different regions of the Soviet Union, people with a different mentality and different thinking served together, but they were united by universal values. They fought for their family, for their homeland, for their home. They did not fight for money, as now contractors or mercenaries are fighting in the most global conflicts. In most cases, those people voluntarily came to the front and fought in the hardest conditions with no uniform and weapons.”
According to Poletaev, ”thanks to the feat of ordinary people the USSR and its allies were able to turn the tide of the war and gain victory. Among such ordinary fighters was Janibek Suleev - a Red Army gunman, a native of a repressed family who decided voluntarily to serve in the Red Army and accomplished a feat by destroying a German sniper. Thanks to his feat, his unit managed to take height in the Smolensk region. This is one of the ordinary events on the scale of the war, but for a person, it is a huge feat. Such feats, human courage, nobility, when in order to fulfill a combat mission, for the sake of his colleagues, a man risks his life, we must remember what happened. The Great Patriotic War and the victory in it became a cardinal turning point in the entire socio-political system of the world in the middle of the 20th century. This is not just a victory of one army over another, it is an understanding of all mankind that such a massacre must never be allowed again."
