Pavlik Morozov is a pioneer whose name was glorified by the Soviet media. His feat was that he betrayed his father to the authorities, learning about how he actively decided to resist the Soviet regime. His name has become a kind of collective image of a teenager, ready to do anything for a bright communist future. In the 30s of the XX century, more than 30 children were known who repeated the feat of Pavlik Morozov and became symbols of the young Soviet state.
Pavel Timofeevich Morozov was born in 1918 in the village of Gerasimovka, Sverdlovsk Region. He organized the first pioneer detachment in his native village and actively campaigned for the creation of a collective farm. Fists, including Timofey Morozov, actively opposed the Soviet regime and plotted to disrupt grain procurements. Pavlik accidentally found out about the upcoming sabotage. The young pioneer did not stop at anything and exposed his fists. The villagers, who learned that the son had handed over his own father to the authorities, brutally dealt with Pavlik and his younger brother. They were brutally killed in the forest.
Many books have been written about the exploit of Pavlik Morozov; songs and poems were written about him. The first song about Pavlik Morozov was written then by an unknown young writer Sergei Mikhalkov. This work made him overnight a very popular and sought-after author. In 1948, a street in Moscow was named after Pavlik Morozov and a monument was erected.
Pavlik Morozov was not the first
At least eight cases are known where children were killed for denunciations. These events occurred before the murder of Pavlik Morozov.
In the Ukrainian village of Sorochintsy, Pavel Teslya also reported on his father, for which he paid with his life five years earlier Morozov.
Seven more similar cases occurred in various villages. Two years before the death of Pavlik Morozov, a scammer Grisha Hakobyan was killed in Azerbaijan.
Even before Pavlik’s death, the newspaper Pionerskaya Pravda told of cases when young villagers brutally killed the villagers. It also published texts of child denunciations, with all the details.
Followers of Pavlik Morozov
The brutal reprisals against the young scammers continued. In 1932, three children were killed for denunciations, six in 1934, and nine in 1935.
The story of Proni Kolybin is noteworthy, which he reported to his mother, accusing her of stealing socialist property. A beggarly woman collected fallen spikelets on a collective farm field in order to somehow feed her family, including Pronya himself. The woman was imprisoned, and the boy was sent to rest in Artek.
Mitya Gordienko also noticed on the collective farm field a couple who collected fallen spikelets. As a result, a man was shot at the denunciation of a young pioneer, and a woman was sentenced to ten years in prison. Mitya Gordienko received a gift watch, a subscription to the newspaper Leninsky Grandchildren, new boots and a pioneer costume.
A Chukchi boy, whose name was Yatyrgin, found out that the reindeer herders had gathered to take their reindeer herds to Alaska. He informed the Bolsheviks about this, for which enraged reindeer herders hit Yatyrgin with an ax in the head and threw him into the pit. Thinking that the boy is already dead. However, he managed to survive and get to "his". When Yatyrgin was solemnly accepted as pioneers, it was decided to give him a new name - Pavlik Morozov, with whom he lived to old age.
