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The third flare ( Belarusian ракета Трэцяя, Russian Третья ракета Tretja raketa ) is an amendment to the Belarusian writer Vasil Bykaŭ from 1961. The translated by Mikhail Vasilyevich Gorbachev into Russian text was in 1962 appearing twice a month in the magazine 13 Roman newspaper printed .
At the beginning of the German-Soviet war , the young Belarusian Lasnjak learned from the partisans what bravery means: Whoever is overrun or surrounded by the attacker does not surrender, but fights to the last cartridge.
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- prehistory
Lasnjak fought as a partisan in his native forests in 1941. Workers track down his unit in the Vitebsk area near a village and betray them to the Germans. The partisans fight until they run out of ammunition and can withdraw. Lasnjak was shot in the thigh. The next day, the partisans have to watch a crime from a distance . The men, women and children of the village are killed by the enemy: a "column of armored personnel carriers and off-road vehicles" runs over the villagers.
- overview
July 1944: The first-person narrator Kanonier Lasnjak - he does not share his first name - serves in the Red Army on the Romanian front near Pruthn under the veteran artilleryman Sergeant Markel Ivanovich Shautych together with five young men - all simple soldiers - at a gun in an anti - tank battery . During an advance of the Germans, the battalion commander Hauptmann Trozki, almost the entire operating team and also Ljussja, a young girl in the rank of non-commissioned officer and a medic in the battery, are killed. Only Lasnjak and the young loading gunner Lyoschka Sadaroshny survive of the gun operation.
The good-natured tank destroyer Wachtmeister Shautych, father of four children, cannot tolerate Lyoschka Sadaroshny's indolence and negligence on duty, but confines himself to one or the other lecture. Otherwise, everyone likes to listen to Lyoschka's fairy tales - concerning love adventures - with a smile next to the fire position in the evening . It looks like the idiot Lyoschka is also lucky with Lyussja. That goes Lasnjak over the hat string. Didn't he keep an eye on the beautiful girl?
It is getting serious. The Germans demine alleys. German tanks bring death. Sergeant Shautych falls. Richtkanonier Popov, a Yakut , takes command at the 4,5er Pak . The front is broken. Lyoschka sees the crew at a lost position and is the only one to withdraw. Popov has no orders to withdraw. Somebody has to report the commander's death to Captain Trozki. Lyoschka goes voluntarily. Why? The first-person narrator has a bad guess that he initially keeps to himself. Popov continues to fight; forces an enemy vehicle column from their alley into the minefield. The ammunition is running out.
Instead of Lyoshka, Lyussja comes back with an order from the battalion commander: Blow up ammunition and go back, because enemy tanks have enclosed the 44th regiment. When asked, Lyussja meekly added that Lyoschka had stayed behind in the hospital because of a slight wound. Enemy infantry advance from the neighboring cornfield. Popov falls. Lasnjak has to take command and continues to fight; wants to take revenge on the Germans for the murdered Belarusian compatriots. Lyussia fights with gun in hand; bravely stands by Lasnjak's side. When two seriously wounded, dying, thirsty for a sip of water, she fetches some water in a half-empty canteen from the baggage of a fallen German and, in this failure, steals a rocket pistol with three signal cartridges .
The gun is out of action. Lasnjak can make the cannon ready to fire again. When the weapon fails completely, Lasnjak does not surrender, but continues fighting with a few remaining hand grenades and throws back a German hand grenade. The latter meets. Lasnjak wants to protect Lyussja. Lyussja confesses to Lasnjak that Lyoschka's "wound" was a tiny scratch. Lasnjak's above-mentioned bad assumption is confirmed: The "wounded man" is a coward; a rascal.
Lyussia falls in the fight. Lasnjak, now really lost in the firing position, fights all alone for everyone - for Shautych, for Popov ... for Lyussja and for three other fallen comrades on the Pak. He only has the three rounds in the rocket pistol. Lasnjak shoots an approaching German on fire, shoots at other German attackers whose weapons suddenly fall silent. SAU-100 self-propelled guns counterattack. Lyoschka appears in her retinue with two cookware and, as if nothing had happened, invites them to dinner. Lasnjak shoots Lyoschka Sadaroshny the third flare in the face.
filming
- 1963 Soviet Union , Belarus film: The third flare , a film by Richard Nikolajewitsch Viktorov with Stanislaw Lyubschin as gunner Lasnjak, Georgi Schschonow as sergeant Shautych, Nadezhda Mefodjewna Semenzowa as Lyussja and Leonid Alexandrovich Dawydow-Subotsch as Lyoshka Sadaroshny.
German-language editions
- Wassil Bykow: The third flare. Two stories. Translated from the Russian by Dieter Pommerenke. Publishing House Culture and Progress, Berlin 1964 (German first edition)
- The third flare. From the Russian by Corrinna and Gottfried Wojtek . S. 5–152 in Wassil Bykau: Novellas. Volume 1. Verlag Volk und Welt. Berlin 1976 (1st edition, edition used)
Web links
- Full text
- Entry at fantlab.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ be: Міхаіл Васілевіч Гарбачоў (Belarusian)
- ^ Translations of M. Gorbachev into Russian (Russian)
- ↑ ru: Роман-газета
- ↑ Edition used, p. 44, 2nd Zvu
- ↑ Edition used, p. 112, 19. Zvo
- ↑ Russian САУ-100
- ↑ ru: Беларусьфильм
- ↑ ru: Третья ракета (фильм)
- ↑ ru: Викторов, Ричард Николаевич
- ↑ Russian Желтых
- ↑ ru: Семенцова, Надежда Мефодьевна
- ↑ ru: Давыдов-Субоч, Леонид Александрович