The pioneer hero Marat Kazei died in an unequal battle with the Nazis in 1944. No one knows what the boy was thinking in the last minutes of his life. Perhaps he dreamed that he could send as many enemies to the next world and thereby avenge the suffering and death of his loved ones.
Marat Ivanovich Kazei: biography
The future young hero was born in the Belarusian village of Stankovo on October 29, 1929. His father was a convinced communist. In the past, he served in the Baltic. He chose a name for his son in honor of the battleship on which he served. And his daughter he called Ariadne - in honor of the heroine of one of the Greek myths.
In 1927, Ivan Kazei arrived home for a visit and met his future wife Anna, who a few years later became the mother of Marat. The father of the future pioneer hero actively participated in party life. Colleagues respected him. Ivan Kazey headed a friendly court, taught courses for rural machine operators. But in 1935 he was arrested on a false denunciation, accused of sabotage. The sentence was severe: Ivan was exiled to the Far East. Marat’s father was rehabilitated only in 1959.
Marat in those years did not understand what was happening. After the trial of the father, the boy’s mother was expelled from work and from the apartment. She sent the children to relatives. And she did it right, because after a while Anna was arrested, accusing of complicity with the Trotskyists. She was released only before the start of the war.
From the first days of the German occupation, Anna, who remained a convinced Bolshevik, collaborated with the underground. Soon, however, members of the underground group who did not have experience of such work were seized and thrown into the dungeons of the Gestapo. The Nazis hanged Anna Kazey and several of her comrades.
