Usewalad Rodska

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Curt von Gottberg , Usewalad Rodska and Michas Ganko (from left to right)

Usewalad Rodska ( Belarusian Усевалад Родзька , Łacinka : Usievaład Rodźka ; born June 21, 1920 in Chuchavichy, in what is now Luninez Rajon , Belarus ; † 1946 in Minsk ) was a Belarusian political activist and independence fighter in the anti-Soviet partisan movement in Belarus, one of the anti-Soviet partisans Second World War. During the German occupation of Belarus in World War II, Rodska collaborated with the Nazis and became captain of the Dallwitz airborne battalion .

Life

Usewalad Rodska was born in a village in Polesia that was under Polish occupation during the Polish-Soviet War , and after the Peace of Riga , his homeland became part of the Polish Voivodeship of Polesia . Rodska attended a Polish secondary school in Nawahrudak until 1938 . He was then drafted into the Polish Army and became a non-commissioned officer at the military school in Zombrowe. Rodska took part in the Polish-German War in September 1939, where he suffered burns and was captured. In 1940 Rodska was released.

Rodska was together with Winzent Hadleuski and Michal Wituschka head of the illegal Belarusian Independence Party founded in 1941 . At the first meeting of the Belarusian Independence Party, Rodska reported on the atrocities of the Nazis in Poland and initiated the inclusion of aid to Jews in the party program.

In the spring of 1941 he became the head of the Kraków branch of the Belarusian Committee, a Belarusian civil self-help organization in Poland. From July 1941 Rodska headed the Belarusian city government in Vitebsk and was active in the Belarusian Central Council , where he concentrated on the Belarusian youth work. In his work, Rodska cooperated with the defense , which is described as a tactical step in the fight against the Soviets on the part of the Belarusian Independence Party, since the attempt to establish contact with Western allies failed.

After the head of the Belarusian Independence Party, Winzent Hadleuski, was executed by the Nazis, Rodska became the de facto head of the illegal party.

From March 1944 Rodska was captain and in command of the 15th battalion of the White Ruthenian Home Guard . According to some information, Rodska was working on the organization of an anti-German uprising planned for the summer of 1944 in Minsk, but it did not take place.

After the establishment of the Dallwitz airborne battalion from former members of the Belarusian Home Guard and other Belarusian volunteers, Rodska was one of the officers as captain and later received the rank of major. He supported the admission of all Belarusian political and military units to the Russian Liberation Army under Andrei Andreevich Vlasov .

After the disbandment of the Dallwitz airborne battalion, Rodska came illegally with his group from the Czech Republic to Białystok in eastern Poland (then part of the Belarusian SSR) and organized a Belarusian anti-Soviet underground movement and anti-Soviet partisan units there. Rodska was arrested by the Soviets in Poland in either June 1945 or autumn 1946 . In 1946 he was sentenced to death in Minsk and executed .

Rodska was posthumously awarded the title of major general from the government-in-exile of the Belarusian People's Republic .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Antonio J. Munoz, Oleg V. Romanko: Hitler's White Russians. Collaboration, Extermination and Anti-partisan Warfare in Byelorussia, 1941-1944. Europa Books, Bayside NY 2003, ISBN 1-891227-42-4 , p. 447.
  2. ^ Andrew Wilson : Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship , Yale University Press, New Haven 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-13435-3 . P. 108
  3. ↑ According to the memories of Anton Schukielojtz, a member of the Belarusian Independent Party and later an activist of the Belarusian diaspora in the USA: Зянон Пазьняк. Гутаркі з Антонам Шукелойцям - p. 59
  4. ↑ a b Сяргей ЁРШ. УСЕВАЛАД РОДЗЬКА - Наша Ніва. May 11, 1998 [Siarhiej Jors. Usievaład Rodźka - Nascha Niwa , May 11, 1998]
  5. ↑ РОДЗЬКА Ўсевалад (1920-1946?) - Беларускі нацыяналізм. Даведнік [RODŹKA Usievaład (1920-1946?) - Belarusian nationalism. Manual]
  6. ↑ Родзька Ўсевалад - Антысавецкія рухі ў Беларусі (1944-1956). Даведнік [Rodźka Usievaład. Anti-Soviet Movement in Belarus (1944-1956): Handbook]
personal data
SURNAME Rodska, Usewalad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Родзька, Усевалад
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian political activist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Tschuchavichy , Second Polish Republic
DATE OF DEATH 1946
Place of death Minsk , Soviet Union