First convocation of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz SSR: Only 17 deputies returned from the front
vb.kg – Ekaterina Ulitina. The first convocation of the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz SSR remained in history as a convocation of hero deputies. Of the entire convocation, 54 deputies went to the front during the Great Patriotic War, and only 17 returned home. Candidate of Historical Sciences, Vice-Rector of KRSU Leonid Sumarokov spoke about this part of the history of the Kyrgyz parliament, speaking at an international online conference: «Problems of falsification of history at the present stage: causes, mechanisms, tools and political consequences».
Leonid Sumarokov spoke about the results of his historical research described in the book «Front Roads of People's Deputies», which talks about the deputies of the Kyrgyz SSR of the first convocation.
–Of the 284 deputies of the Supreme Council of the first convocation of the Kyrgyz SSR, 54 deputies took part in the hostilities, 17 of them returned home on May 9, 1945, 20 people died, and 16 – went missing. Of the 54 deputies, not a single one chickened out or left the battlefield – honor and praise to the first Kyrgyz parliament. And the conclusion is that we can give a worthy answer to the falsifiers only thanks to our spiritual and moral unity, which was demonstrated by the deputies of the first convocation of the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz SSR. Today we lack this, which is why redivisions have appeared," Leonid Sumarokov emphasized.
He also noted that its guardians themselves are partly to blame for attempts to falsify the history of the Second World War.
–The fact is that at some point we probably forgot that our heroic history, the field of historical memory, needs to be constantly filled and nourished. We always appeal to the feat of the 28 Panfilov men and the Panfilov division in general, which fought near Moscow, but the history of Kyrgyzstan in the same battle near Moscow is much broader. For example, the fortieth rifle brigade also fought in the Volokolamsk direction or the cavalry division of Colonel Anatoly Vasilyevich Stalenkov – deputy of the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz SSR of the first convocation. Nurlan Bozoev – a deputy of Kyrgyzstan who died in battles near Rzhev, in the city of Bely in December 1942, needs to be added to the Panfilov heroes. If we look for names as much as possible, talk about the fate of WWII participants, our history will be more intense, and we will raise a generation that will be really proud of its past, the historian is sure.
