Monument to Marat Kazei description and photo - Belarus: Minsk (Topic)

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The monument to the pioneer hero Marat Kazei was erected in the center of Minsk in the park named after him in 1959. The authors are the sculptor S. Selikhanov, architect V. Volchek.

One of the youngest heroes of the Great Patriotic War, a boy at the age of 12, together with his mother and sister, joined the partisan detachment and became a famous intelligence officer of the headquarters of the brigade named after K. K. Rokossovsky in his native land occupied by the Nazis.

His mother was killed by the Germans, his sister received severe frostbite on her feet and was sent to a hospital in Moscow by plane. Marat was left alone. In an effort to take revenge on his enemies, he showed reckless courage, which made grown men uncomfortable.

Marat Kazei died at the age of 14, having taken an unequal battle with the German soldiers who surrounded him. Having shot all the cartridges, having spent ammunition, he stepped into the thick of the enemies with a grenade in his hand and blew them up with him.

In 1965 Marat Kazei was posthumously awarded the highest military award of the USSR - Hero of the Soviet Union.

The monument depicts the hero's last battle. In one hand, Marat still holds an already useless machine gun, in which there are no more cartridges left, the other has already been raised above his head, bringing up the hated fascists approaching him for the last throw.

In Soviet times, the monument was very famous. Near him they were accepted as pioneers, held solemn lines, laid wreaths, flowers, recited inspired poems. Now it is not so crowded, but in the summer you can often see flowers at the feet of a young hero, who left his life so early, sacrificing it for the sake of his country.

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