Marat Kazey
Soviet-Belarusian partisan and child soldier of WW2
Marat Ivanovich Kazey (Russian: Марат Иванович Казей, Belarusian: Марат Іванавіч Казей; 10 October 1929 in Stankovo village, Koidanova (now Dzyarzhynsk) District, Minsk Region, BSSR, USSR – 11 May 1944 in Khoromitskie village, Uzda District, Minsk Region, BSSR, USSR) was a Soviet partisan, scout, pioneer-hero, and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union.
Biography
His father Ivan Georgievich Kazey was a communist activist who served for 10 years in the Baltic Fleet. He did military service on the battleship Marat, after which he named his son Marat. Then he worked at the Dzerzhinsk machine-tractor station, headed the training courses for tractor drivers, was the chairman of the comrades court. In 1935 he was arrested for "sabotage", rehabilitated posthumously in 1959.
Mother Anna Aleksandrovna Kazey was also an activist, she was a member of the election commission for elections to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Like her husband, she was subjected to reprisals, was arrested twice on charges of "Trotskyism", but was released. Despite the arrests, she continued to actively support the Soviet regime. During World War II, she hid wounded partisans and treated them, for which in 1942 she was hanged by the Germans in Minsk.
After the death of his mother, Marat and his older sister Ariadna in November 1942 went to the partisan detachment named after the 25th anniversary of October Revolution.
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