The trap (Bykau)

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Wassil Bykau in 1944

The trap ( Belarusian Пастка, Russian Западня Sapadnja ) is a novella by the Belarusian writer Wassil Bykau from 1964. The text, which was translated into Russian by Mikhail Wassiljewitsch Gorbachev in the same year, was published in 1964 in issue 19 of the twice-monthly Roman newspaper .

German-Soviet War : The only Russian , the new head patting MPi - Schützenkompanie Captain Arlawez not in the question asked by the enemy trap.

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The first assault by the Russians on the fortified position of the Germans failed. Platoon leader Lieutenant Klimchanka lets his anger run wild at his direct superior, Captain Arlawez. Unheard of. How can his soldiers be insulted as cowards! The opponent should be surprised with the next attack. Lieutenant Klimchanka wants to show the captain. Before the 22 riflemen on his platoon have reached the first enemy shelter , they are not allowed to throw themselves. Lieutenant Klimchanka does not urge his subordinates. As an experienced platoon leader, he knows that he can only get the fighters carried away by setting an example. So he stormed ahead and was wounded in the enemy trench during the second attack and was the only one of the rifle company to be captured.

Contrary to his assumption, his last hour has not yet struck. In the enemy rear he is interrogated by the officer Boris Schwarz-Tscharnou, a Russian defector. When Lieutenant Klimtschanka brusquely refuses the demand to persuade his people to overflow over the loudspeaker, he is punished by Schwarz-Tscharnou with targeted punching strokes. Lieutenant Klimchanka remains firm - even when he is sent off from the foremost enemy trench, poorly dressed, in the direction of his company. The Germans do not shoot Lieutenant Klimchanka. The Russian soldiers, however, greet him with shouts: “Traitors! Defector! ”And staff officer Petuchou wants to bring the newcomer to court martial without buttons on his clothing or trousers belted with a Wehrmacht belt . In this precarious situation, Captain Arlawez prevails. He orders his company to conduct the third attack and orders the contrite Lieutenant Klimchanka to his platoon. Lieutenant Klimchanka takes command. One gives him his quilted jacket and another hands him his MPi.

filming

  • 1966 Soviet Union , Belarus film The Trap , short film by Leonid Vladimirovich Martynyuk with Yuri Alexandrovich Kusmenkow as lieutenant Klimtschanka and Igor Komarov Nikititsch than its counterpart Black Tscharnou.

German-language editions

  • The trap. Translated from the Russian by Ruth Henkel . S. 191-239 in Wassil Bykau: Novellen. Volume 1. Verlag Volk und Welt. Berlin 1976 (1st edition, edition used)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Translations of M. Gorbachev into Russian (Russian)