Galina Agafja Andreevna Kuzmenko
"Galina" Agafya Andreyevna Kusmenko ( Russian Галина Андреевна Кузьменко ; Ukrainian Галина Андріївна Кузьменко * 1892 in Pischtschanyj Brid , Kherson Gubernia , Russian Empire ; † 23. March 1978 in Taras , Kazakh SSR ) was a Ukrainian anarchist . She became known as a partner of Nestor Machno .
Galina Kuzmenko was born in Pishchanyj Brid in the west of what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Kirovohrad . Until she met Nestor Makhno in 1919, Galina worked as a teacher. In 1921, after the suppression of Machnovshchina by the Bolsheviks , she accompanied Machno into exile and stayed in France after his death in 1934. During the Second World War she was deported to Germany for forced labor . After the liberation by the Red Army , she was sentenced to ten years in prison in the USSR and interned in the DubrawLag special camp. After her release in 1954 until her death in the 1970s, she lived in Kazakhstan.
literature
- Alexander Berkman : The Bolshevik Myth. Verlag Edition AV , Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-936049-31-9
Web links
- makhno.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of Galina Kusmenko on http://pavlogradruth.narod.ru , accessed on April 23, 2016 (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuzmenko, Galina Agafja Andreevna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kuzmenko, Galina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian anarchist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pishchanyj Brid , Kherson Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1978 |
| Place of death | Kazakh SSR |