During the years of the Great Patriotic War sons and daughters of all republics and all peoples of the USSR fought shoulder to shoulder at the front. Every nation in this war had its heroes.
During the Great Patriotic War, 7998 Russians, 2021 Ukrainians, 299 Belarusians became Heroes of the Soviet Union. The next in terms of the number of heroes are Tatars - 161, Jews - 107, Kazakhs - 96, Georgians - 90, Armenians - 89.
Not much behind the Georgians and Armenians were the Uzbeks - 67 heroes, Mordvinians - 63, Chuvashs - 45, Azerbaijanis - 43, Bashkirs - 38, Ossetians - 33. Next come the Mari, Turkmens, Lithuanians, Tajiks, Latvians, Kyrgyz, Komi, Udmurts, who gave country from 10 to 18 Heroes of the Soviet Union. 9 heroes each came from the German (we are talking, of course, about the Volga Germans) and the Estonian peoples, 8 each from the Karelians, Buryats and Mongols, Kalmyks, Kabardians. Adygs gave the country 6 heroes, Abkhazians - 4, Yakuts - 2, Moldavians - also 2, Tuvans -1. And, finally, representatives of the repressed peoples, such as the Chechens and Crimean Tatars, fought no less bravely than the rest. 5 Chechens and 6 Crimean Tatars were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. About "uncomfortable" nationalities
At the household level, there were practically no ethnic conflicts in the USSR, everyone lived peacefully side by side, and treated each other, if not as brothers, then as good neighbors. However, at the state level there were periods when some peoples were considered "wrong". This is, first of all, repressed peoples, and Jews. Everyone who is even a little interested in the issue of the Crimean Tatars knows the name of Ametkhan Sultan, the legendary ace pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Feats were also performed by representatives of the Chechen people. As you know, in 1942, the call to the front of the inhabitants of the Chechen-Ingush Republic was stopped, but by the end of the summer of this year, when the Nazis invaded North Caucasus, it was decided to call on the front of volunteers from among the Chechens and Ingush. 18.5 thousand volunteers came to the recruiting stations. They fought to the death on the outskirts of Stalingrad as part of a separate Chechen-Ingush regiment. There is often an opinion about Jews that representatives of this ancient people capable, first of all, of intellectual work and commerce, and the warriors of them are so-so. And that's not true. 107 Jews became during the Great Patriotic Heroes Soviet Union. The merit of the Jews, for example, in the organization partisan movement in Odessa. From "natural" numbers to percentages 7998 Russians became Heroes of the Soviet Union during the war years.
At first glance, this number is much more than 6 - that is how many Heroes of the Soviet Union from the Circassians. However, if you look at the percentage of heroes to population, you get a completely different picture. The 1939 census showed that 99,591,520 Russians live in the country. Adyghes - 88115. And it turns out that the percentage of heroes per "capita" among the small Adyghe people is even slightly higher than among the Russians - 0.0068 against 0.0080. The “percentage of heroism” for Ukrainians is 0.0072, for Belarusians – 0.0056, for Uzbeks – 0.0013, for Chechens – 0.0012, and so on. It is clear that the number of heroes in itself cannot be considered an exhaustive characteristic of the national spirit, but the ratio of the number of heroes and the total population says something about the people. If you look at these statistics using the example of the peoples of the USSR, it will become clear that during the war years each of our peoples contributed their share to the overall victory, and it would be flagrant injustice to single out someone.
During the Great Patriotic War, sons and daughters of all republics and all peoples of the USSR fought shoulder to shoulder at the front. Every nation in this war had its heroes.
The peoples who had the most heroes
During the Great Patriotic War, 7998 Russians, 2021 Ukrainians, 299 Belarusians became Heroes of the Soviet Union. The next in terms of the number of heroes are Tatars - 161, Jews - 107, Kazakhs - 96, Georgians - 90, Armenians - 89.
Other nations
Not much behind the Georgians and Armenians were the Uzbeks - 67 heroes, the Mordvinians - 63, the Chuvash - 45, the Azerbaijanis - 43, the Bashkirs - 38, the Ossetians - 33.
9 heroes each came from the German (we are talking, of course, about the Volga Germans) and the Estonian peoples, 8 each from the Karelians, Buryats and Mongols, Kalmyks, Kabardians. Adygs gave the country 6 heroes, Abkhazians - 4, Yakuts - 2, Moldavians - also 2, Tuvans -1. And, finally, representatives of the repressed peoples, such as the Chechens and Crimean Tatars, fought no less bravely than the rest. 5 Chechens and 6 Crimean Tatars were awarded the title of Heroes of the Soviet Union.
About "uncomfortable" nationalities
At the household level, there were practically no ethnic conflicts in the USSR, everyone lived peacefully side by side, and treated each other, if not as brothers, then as good neighbors. However, at the state level there were periods when some peoples were considered "wrong". These are, first of all, the repressed peoples, and the Jews.
Everyone who is even a little interested in the issue of the Crimean Tatars knows the name of Ametkhan Sultan, the legendary ace pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Feats were also performed by representatives of the Chechen people. As you know, in 1942, the conscription of residents of the Chechen-Ingush Republic to the front was stopped, but by the end of the summer of this year, when the Nazis invaded the North Caucasus, it was decided to call volunteers from among the Chechens and Ingush to the front. 18.5 thousand volunteers came to the recruiting stations. They fought to the death on the outskirts of Stalingrad as part of a separate Chechen-Ingush regiment.
There is often an opinion about the Jews that the representatives of this ancient people are capable, first of all, of intellectual work and commerce, and the warriors from them are so-so. And that's not true. 107 Jews became Heroes of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War. The merit of the Jews, for example, in the organization partisan movement in Odessa.
From "natural" numbers to percentages
7998 Russians became Heroes of the Soviet Union during the war years. At first glance, this number is much more than 6 - that is how many Heroes of the Soviet Union from the Circassians. However, if you look at the percentage of heroes to population, you get a completely different picture. The 1939 census showed that 99,591,520 Russians live in the country. Adyghes - 88115. And it turns out that the percentage of heroes per "capita" among the small Adyghe people is even slightly higher than among the Russians - 0.0068 against 0.0080. The “percentage of heroism” for Ukrainians is 0.0072, for Belarusians – 0.0056, for Uzbeks – 0.0013, for Chechens – 0.0012, and so on. It is clear that the number of heroes in itself cannot be considered an exhaustive characteristic of the national spirit, but the ratio of the number of heroes and the total population says something about the people. If you look at these statistics using the example of the peoples of the USSR, it will become clear that during the war years each of our peoples contributed their share to the overall victory, and it would be a flagrant injustice to single out someone.
During the Great Patriotic War, sons and daughters of all republics and all peoples of the USSR fought shoulder to shoulder at the front. Every nation in this war had its heroes.
The peoples who had the most heroes
During the Great Patriotic War, 7998 Russians, 2021 Ukrainians, 299 Belarusians became Heroes of the Soviet Union. The next in terms of the number of heroes are Tatars - 161, Jews - 107, Kazakhs - 96, Georgians - 90, Armenians - 89.
Other nations
Not much behind the Georgians and Armenians were the Uzbeks - 67 heroes, Mordvinians - 63, Chuvashs - 45, Azerbaijanis - 43, Bashkirs - 38, Ossetians - 33. Next come the Mari, Turkmens, Lithuanians, Tajiks, Latvians, Kyrgyz, Komi, Udmurts, who gave country from 10 to 18 Heroes of the Soviet Union. 9 heroes each came from the German (we are talking, of course, about the Volga Germans) and the Estonian peoples, 8 each from the Karelians, Buryats and Mongols, Kalmyks, Kabardians. Adygs gave the country 6 heroes, Abkhazians - 4, Yakuts - 2, Moldavians - also 2, Tuvans -1. And, finally, representatives of the repressed peoples, such as the Chechens and Crimean Tatars, fought no less bravely than the rest. 5 Chechens and 6 Crimean Tatars were awarded the title of Heroes of the Soviet Union.
About "uncomfortable" nationalities
At the household level, there were practically no ethnic conflicts in the USSR, everyone lived peacefully side by side, and treated each other, if not as brothers, then as good neighbors. However, at the state level there were periods when some peoples were considered "wrong". These are, first of all, the repressed peoples, and the Jews. Everyone who is even a little interested in the issue of the Crimean Tatars knows the name of Ametkhan Sultan, the legendary ace pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Feats were also performed by representatives of the Chechen people. As you know, in 1942, the conscription of residents of the Chechen-Ingush Republic to the front was stopped, but by the end of the summer of this year, when the Nazis invaded the North Caucasus, it was decided to call volunteers from among the Chechens and Ingush to the front. 18.5 thousand volunteers came to the recruiting stations. They fought to the death on the outskirts of Stalingrad as part of a separate Chechen-Ingush regiment.
There is often an opinion about the Jews that the representatives of this ancient people are capable, first of all, of intellectual work and commerce, and the warriors from them are so-so. And that's not true. 107 Jews became Heroes of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War. The merit of the Jews, for example, in organizing the partisan movement in Odessa is enormous.
From "natural" numbers to percentages
7998 Russians became Heroes of the Soviet Union during the war years. At first glance, this number is much more than 6 - that is how many Heroes of the Soviet Union from the Circassians. However, if you look at the percentage of heroes to population, you get a completely different picture. The 1939 census showed that 99,591,520 Russians live in the country. Adyghes - 88115. And it turns out that the percentage of heroes per "capita" among the small Adyghe people is even slightly higher than among the Russians - 0.0068 against 0.0080. The “percentage of heroism” for Ukrainians is 0.0072, for Belarusians - 0.0056, for Uzbeks 0.0013, for Chechens - 0.0012 and so on. It is clear that the number of heroes in itself cannot be considered an exhaustive characteristic of the national spirit, but the ratio of the number of heroes and the total population says something about the people. If you look at these statistics using the example of the peoples of the USSR, it will become clear that during the war years each of our peoples contributed their share to the overall victory, and it would be a flagrant injustice to single out someone.
The topic is not slippery, in my opinion the topic is controversial .... since national affiliation is not always unambiguous ...
ABOUT VALOR, ABOUT FEATS, ABOUT GLORY
To the publication of Lev Yarutsky's brochure "Greeks - Heroes of the Soviet Union"
The peoples of the former Soviet Union, who participated in the defeat of Nazi Germany, are still scrupulously
count how many holders of the Golden Star they have nominated from their ranks. These names are justly
a source of pride for the nations inhabiting the post-Soviet space.
For a long time it was believed that of the Greeks, only one person was awarded the highest award for military prowess -
Ilya Fedorovich Takhtarov. Ten years ago, when Lev Yarutsky's pamphlet "Prominent Greeks" was published,
residents of Mariupol", among its twenty characters there were already three Heroes: Takhtarov was joined by K.Ya.Talakh and
G.Ya.Bakhchivandzhi. And in the new book of the famous local historian there are already 16 of them (!), and among them one four times Hero
of the Soviet Union, two were awarded the Gold Stars twice, and one was not only a holder of the Gold Star, but also
full cavalier Order of Glory. True, the author did not limit himself only to the Mariupol Greeks, but embraced
all their fellow tribesmen who inhabited the former Soviet Union.
Many will be surprised, and some may be shocked, that the brochure "Greeks - Heroes of the Soviet Union" opens
essay on the famous Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov. How, was the great Russian commander
Greek?!
Yes, the father of Georgy Konstantinovich in the village of Strelkovka was called Kostya the Greek, the marshal himself spoke about this. AND
although very scarce biographical information has come down to us about Konstantin Zhukov, the author of the brochure convincingly
argues why he opens the list of Greek Heroes with an essay on the four times Hero of the USSR.
IN Soviet time the word "Greek" in the notorious fifth column of the questionnaire threatened with all sorts of restrictions in
civil rights. It was an obstacle to admission prestigious university, in graduate school, slowed down
professional growth and promotion. Under these conditions, in the passports of people with pronounced
Greek surnames in the column "nationality" appeared the word "Ukrainian" or "Russian". In a number of cases, there were
True, there are legitimate grounds for this: persons born from mixed marriages avoided the nationality of the “second
varieties”, and chose the “profitable” nationality by one of the parents.
This happened to Pavel Khristoforovich Dubinda, Hero of the Soviet Union and full cavalier of the order.
Glory. In the encyclopedia "Heroes of the Soviet Union" he passes as a Ukrainian - by his mother. But his father was a Greek, and
P.Kh.Dubinda is the son of two peoples - Ukrainian and Greek.
Lev Yarutsky, based on published in last decade documents, restored the original
nationality of Heroes. For example, a world-famous polar explorer I.D. Papanin, brothers V.K. and K.K. Kokkinaki,
purebred Greeks, but in the reference book they are listed as Russians. The Russians also recorded the general of the army
V.Ya.Kolpakchi, and Anatoly Ratfopullo, who has repeatedly stated both verbally and in print that he is a Greek, is also ranked among
"older brother".
Like the previous eleven books by Lev Yarutsky, the brochure "Greeks - Heroes of the Soviet Union" was written
freely and uninhibitedly, in a lively and figurative literary language.
