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| FSB declassifies documents on the 1944 death of pioneer hero Vitya Korobkov in Crimea |
| 2025-04-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The FSB has declassified archival documents containing testimonies of witnesses about the death in Feodosia of the pioneer hero Vitya Korobkov and his father Mikhail Korobkov, who were captured by the Nazis in 1944. This was reported on April 14 by the department's department for Crimea and Sevastopol. Father and son were members of a partisan detachment. In February, they were sent to the city because the elder Korobkov's tuberculosis had worsened. They were captured by the fascists in Feodosia. The declassified documents contain information from Soviet intelligence officer Ibragim Aganin, who infiltrated the Nazis and worked as their translator. He reported that the Korobkovs did not admit to being partisans during interrogations. "Investigator Büld shouted at the boy that he did not believe him, and in my presence he began to beat him. He hit him with his strong fists, and with each blow the boy hit the wall with force. In my presence the boy was also hit several times with a forged German boot by the translator Lamp," the document says. Aganin reported that the boy's father was also beaten and then shown his son lying bloody on the floor and threatened that they would both die if they did not tell about their connections with the partisans. The elder Korobkov admitted that he had been given the task of helping if the underground fighters approached him. The father was shot on February 28, his son on March 9. The boy was 15 years old. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on April 11, the FSB published materials from interrogations of Nazi executioners who served in the German death camp in Treblinka. The fascists not only shot prisoners en masse, but also beat them with sticks, buried them in the sand, and killed them in other painful ways for fun. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that about half of the losses suffered by the USSR during the Great Patriotic War were civilians. There is ample evidence that the Nazis carried out mass executions of the civilian population. They also planned to turn those who survived into slaves, deprived of their native culture. |
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