Interview with Tatiana Markovskaia, - Veteran of the Lelchitsky Partisan Brigade (Soviet-German War) -, Conducted in Mirhorod, Poltava Region, Ukraine, 9 August 2008 (mix of RU,BE,UKR)

Abstract

Tatiana Markovskaia, ethnic Roma, was born probably in 1927. She joined the Lelchitsky Partisan Brigade at the end of 1942. The interview describes the atrocities of the Soviet "forect soldiers" - torture and murder of prisoners of war, the shooting of a woman whose fault was that she infected the commander of the detachment with an STD, and extrajudicial killings of former policemen (already in the territories occupied by the Red Army) - as well as drunkenness and debauchery, reigning in the ranks of those whom the neo-Soviet propaganda still calls "people's avengers" and participants of resistance - in fact - a kind of special forces, an advanced detachment of Stalinism at war.