History 09/03/20 Peter klypa: the fate of the young defender of the Brest fortress
Fourteen-year-old teenager Peter klypa was one of the few survivors of the defenders of the Brest fortress. After the war, the young hero of the great Patriotic war was associated with criminals and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for robbery. A petition writer Sergei Smirnov, the author of the book “Brest fortress” (1954), which describes in detail the biography of Petr Sergeevich Klipy, helped him to escape after 5 years.
the Young assistant of the Brest defenders
Peter klypa 11 years after his father’s death was brought up by brother Nicholas, who served in the 333 th infantry regiment as a platoon commander. Pete was a trumpet student of music Department of the regiment, which was stationed in the Brest fortress. On the first morning of the great Patriotic war, the fortress has undergone a massive attack by the Nazis. Pete Klipa shell-shocked, but the boy along with the rest of the surviving soldiers came to the defense of the citadel. Klypa and other young people scouting the enemy firing points, performs the duties of liaison, searched out the destroyed warehouses of ammunition, weapons and medical supplies, mined products. Peter my way to the bug river for water. In early July, the surviving defenders of the Brest fortress tried to break out, but fortune smiled on a few, among them were Peter klypa. However, the teenager and some encircled was soon captured by the Germans.
the Laborer with the Germans,
Peter teammates managed to escape from the camp of one of the Polish cities. They got to Brest and remained there until the autumn of 1941. Then decided to go to their combat units. However, during the long transition in the occupied territory of the Nazis Klypa and his friend Vladimir Kazmin was again captured, this time by policemen. They were sent with a party of Soviet young people for forced work in Germany.
To victorious 1945 Klypa rotten to the Alsatianth prosperous farmer of Koala Friedrich. When the village of Hagenbach, where he worked for Peter were liberated by American troops, the allies, according to him, encouraged him to move to America. This 18-year-old boy did not agree.
Postwar life and crime
in the Summer of 1945 Peter klipu after the check was drafted into the army, and in the autumn of that year he was discharged. Arrived in Bryansk, where he was born. Got together with longtime friends pre-war Lev STATCOM, and that involved him in criminal activities: speculation and armed robbery. One of such attacks ended with the murder of Static was beaten to death by a former employee of the interior Ministry. According to the released evidence, he Klypa, being in a gang, not cut and did not shoot. But part of the loot during bandit raids willingly gave.
In 1949, criminals Statica and Clipu disarmed, and sentenced both to one and the same time – 25 years in the camps. At that time, the writer Sergey Sergeyevich Smirnov, collecting materials for his book about holding the defense of the Brest fortress, already knew about the young defender of the citadel and was actively looking for him. By the way, bringing up Peter’s brother Nicholas was fought throughout the war and after the Victory in the rank of major, he headed one of the military commissariats in Siberia. He helped Smirnov to find Peter.
the Search failed, but it turned out that Peter klypa serving time in one of the Magadan labor camp. Smirnov was charged with the prisoner, and the latter was to send to publicist your memories. Many episodes in these written stories match the stories that were shared with Smirnov and other defenders of the Brest fortress.
the Writer Sergei Smirnov, a former participant of the great Patriotic war, retired Colonel, decided to seek commutation of sentence to the hero of his book. At the end of 1955, Peter klypa by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR were released, the conviction was dropped.
However, on the rehabilitation of the question. In response to the petition of the widow of S. S. Smirnov, written it is two years after the death of Peter Sergeyevich, from the Prosecutor of the Bryansk region, reported that condemned Klipu at the time, and at the same tyranny had been committed.
At large P. S. Klypa lived for 28 years, worked at the Bryansk plant Turner, started a family, had a daughter and a son. Largely thanks to the book Smirnov “Brest fortress” in the name of the young defender of the citadel in the Soviet Union called the pioneer squads. The veteran has provided and other honors – Peter S., was awarded the order Patriotic war of I degree, was known as a hero. Died S. P. Klypa in 1983 from cancer.
Nicholas Syromyatnikov
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