The holiday is over, but we always remember our heroes. The monstrous incident took place on July 13, 1941 in the vicinity of the town of Arctic fox (both the number 13 and the name of the settlement - everything coincided!), Then an excerpt from the award order:
“On July 13, 1941, from the Arctic region, the Red Army soldier Ovcharenko was carrying ammunition for the 3rd pulrota, being 4-5 kilometers from his unit. In the same area, the Red Army soldier was attacked and surrounded by two vehicles consisting of 50 German soldiers and 3 officers. Coming out of the car, the German officer ordered the Red Army soldier to raise his hands up, knocked the rifle out of his hands and began to interrogate him.
The Red Army soldier Ovcharenko had an ax in the cart. Taking this ax, the Red Army soldier chopped off the head of the German officer, threw three grenades near the standing car. 21 German soldiers were killed, the rest fled in panic. Following the wounded officer, Ovcharenko, with an ax in his hands, pursued him and in the garden of Cape Pesets, caught him and chopped off his head. The 3rd officer managed to escape.
Comrade Ovcharenko was not at a loss, took the documents from all the killed, from the officers, maps, tablets, a diagram, notes and presented them to the regiment headquarters. I delivered the cart with ammunition and food to my company on time …"
How could this happen
Despite its seeming improbability and the strange name of the settlement, this is most likely a real story: the Aryans-yubermens lost their vigilance and really got what they deserved. Fifty Nazis is a clear exaggeration, the capacity of the "Ganomag" is 10 … 12 freaks, along with the crew. If the truck, then more, 15 people in one … In reality, there were 20-30 eccentrics with the letter M. They see - a cart with one subhuman is going. They stopped, the Ainu was official and went to interrogate the Russian Mongol, or, most likely, he simply decided to make fun of him (what did he want to ask him? How to get to the library?), The rest got out some in need, some to drink, who to ventilate their heads. And, along the way, they barked out the moment of Dostoevshchina, when their too talkative officer was planted with a tomahawk between his eyes. It is clear that Ovcharenko did not take off the officer's head, he was not a samurai, most likely, he simply hacked his grandmother, like Raskolnikov.
The ax is not a rifle, the shot is not heard, and if Ovcharenko was also successfully planted, then the fascist did not have time to gasp. Fussing near the cart, the comrades of the murdered man could be regarded as giving a portion of slaps in the face to a sluggish Red Army soldier. Or maybe they didn't even look in their direction, because they did not meet a cavalry division, but one crumpled and deadly tired Sancho Panza. If someone watched, they were 100% dumbfounded by what they saw, then the film "Rimbaud" had not yet been filmed and such 3D-effects were a novelty: "What kind of chaos is this !? He did not say a word, immediately with an ax in the scoreboard."
Our fighter, having eliminated the obstacle on the right, grabs three grenades from the cart and throws them towards the German picnic on the side of the road. Imagine, you are sitting on a July day in the company of normal boys from the correct area, your friend left the botanist to frown and then a pomegranate falls in front of you. It is not known what flashed through the heads of the stunned Nazis at this moment, one can only assume:
a) Donnerweather! ("Damn it!!!")
b) Aaa, an ambush, there are a lot of them!
c) However, lemons look strange in this barbaric country….
Whatever they thought there, it exploded terribly. The Germans, some of them, some of them fell to the ground. Surely, none of the fascists could have imagined that some "downtrodden child of the East" (the definition of Slavic brothers according to Goebbels) would be SO offended by the simple question: "Do you have what? And if I find it?"
The ending is logical: which of the Fritzes was killed, who escaped. Except for one officer who lacked impressions and decided to see if he could run fast with his butt half torn off. Our hero caught up with the German Paralympic athlete and made him like Pope Carlo Pinocchio. I did everything right - why run around the gardens of the settlement of Arctic foxes, after all, it was not you who planted the rutabagas, it is not for you to trample it.
Further, the laws of drama come into effect: only one survived. After the perpetrated bloody bath, the Red Army soldier Ovcharenko collected credible trophies and drove on on his own business, which he had quite a few, unlike the German gouging, who dangled with unclear goals in places where they were not welcome.
Nails would be made of these people … there would be no stronger in the world of nails
Ovcharenko Dmitry Romanovich - riding machine-gun company of the 389th rifle regiment of the 176th rifle division of the 9th Army of the Southern Front, a Red Army soldier.
Born in 1919 in the village of Ovcharovo, nowadays Troitsky district of the Luhansk region of Ukraine, into a peasant family. Ukrainian. Graduated from 5 classes. He worked on a collective farm.
In the Red Army since 1939. Member of the Great Patriotic War since 1941.
The riding machine-gun company of the 389th Infantry Regiment (176th Infantry Division, 9th Army, Southern Front) Red Army soldier Dmitry Ovcharenko distinguished himself in defensive battles near the capital of Moldova - the city of Chisinau.
On July 13, 1941, while delivering ammunition to the company, the fearless warrior entered into battle with a group of Nazis. Showing courage and resourcefulness, he destroyed over twenty enemy soldiers and officers in hand-to-hand combat with grenades and hand-to-hand combat. The ammunition was delivered to the company on time.
By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 9, 1941, for the exemplary fulfillment of combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, the Red Army soldier Ovcharenko Dmitry Romanovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal …
The courageous fighter did not have a chance to live up to the bright Victory Day … In the battles for the liberation of Hungary, D. R. Ovcharenko was mortally wounded. Died in hospital from his wounds on January 28, 1945.
Everlasting memory! Forgive us, Dmitry Romanovich, for the fact that we are not like that….
