by Evgenia Dolginova
[REGNUM] The village of Gogolevka in the Sudzhansky district is located three and a half kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border and six kilometers from Sudzha itself. The village, by today's standards, is not small at all. It has an old church, built in 1894, the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, a school, a community center, a library. And about 80 households.
In one of them lived pensioner Alexander Stepanovich Grigoriev , a former miner from Makeyevka (Donetsk region).
In August 2024, the entire country began to follow his fate.
PLAYING "ARYANS"
He moved to the village ten years ago, already retired. Grigoriev wanted little: a quiet, smooth, calm existence, communication with his daughter and grandchildren. In 2024, he turned 74.
Last summer, his daughter Svetlana Petrenko took her father to Sudzha, away from the shelling. When the Ukrainian Armed Forces entered the Kursk region, she left the city for a short time - she took the children to Kursk and looked for housing for them. She tried to return for her father the next day, but was unable to: the military did not let her in. The Ukrainian Armed Forces were already approaching Sudzha.
And a few days later she was sent a link to a video in which she saw her father wandering along the road to Korenevo. It turned out that, left alone, he simply left the city - and, despite his sore legs, walked home to Gogolevka on foot.
And got lost.
This short video, filmed and published by a certain Ukrainian named Alexey, immediately became widely known. The scene turned out to be extremely expressive: two soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are playing Germans - soldiers of Hitler's army. They are wearing helmets to match. They are simply bursting with happiness.
"Hey, Russian Ivan! How are you?" these "Aryans" shout to the old man.
They are quite amused by the encounter with a helpless, hungry, disoriented Russian, wandering along a dusty road in his pajama bottoms. Grigoriev says that he spent the night on the side of the road and does not know where to go. And he hears in response: “All of you, ****, are lost in life, *****, you went the wrong way, the wrong way!” Then the fun begins: “Du bist ein russisches schweine. Ja! (You are a Russian pig) Go drink vodka! Ja, ja! Schnapps!”
This is a kind of humor, a short role-playing game. The Sudzhansky district was occupied by the Nazi army from October 1941 to March 1943. Apparently, they imagined themselves inside the second take - and had a lot of fun.
One of the "Nazi German invaders" was identified as 38-year-old builder Vasyl Danylyuk from a small town in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. One of the Russian senators has offered a reward of 5 million rubles for the capture of Danylyuk or his partner.
A few days later, another short video appeared, this time from the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The old man, confused, says that he holds no grudge against Ukrainians and shows a Ukrainian passport. The family later clarified that the Ukrainian passport had expired, and after moving to the Kursk region, Grigoriev acquired Russian citizenship.
Every day Svetlana Petrenko tried to find out something about her father. There was no connection. There was no information. There was no way to break through to the occupied zone. "He won't survive the winter!" Svetlana said in despair.
But he survived the winter. Already in February, during the fighting, the first liberated people from Gogolevka began to appear, and they reported: Aleksandr Stepanovich is alive. His house was destroyed by a direct hit from a shell, but the Sudzhans survived in the basements.
The remains of Alexander Stepanovich Grigoriev were found at a bus stop on March 25. His daughter and son-in-law recognized him by his clothes and hands; it was already difficult to recognize him by his face. According to preliminary calculations, Grigoriev was killed about a week before his release by a shot from a large-caliber weapon; a wound the size of a large apple was found on his stomach.
Gogolevka was completely liberated on March 28.
Miner Grigoriev was buried on May 1. The family is still crying for him.
The senator's proposal remains in force. "I declare that the announced reward for the capture of these animals remains in force - alive or dead, as long as they do not return to their own!" he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Commentary from Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
Grandfather from Gogolevka
A grandfather who was abused by Ukrainian Nazis was found murdered in the Kursk region
Footage of Alexander Grigoriev on captured Kursk land was published on 15.08.2024 by the Ukrainian Armed Forces themselves, posing in German uniform and feigning a characteristic accent. Later, the enemy assured that it allegedly saved the life of the pensioner, who had been missing all this time. It has already become known that Grigoriev was killed by Ukrainian occupiers.
“He was in the village of Gogolevka in the Sudzhansky District the whole time, where he had lived before. [They said that they used] some kind of heavy firearm. They showed what a huge hole he had in his stomach. There was also some kind of wound,” said the daughter of the deceased.
Eternal memory to the innocent victim! And a curse forever to the Ukrainian Nazis!