for cooperation mail:/odnajdinazemle1988@gmail.com
Chekist Stepan Afanasyevich Saenko was one of the "demons" born of the October Revolution of 1917. It was he who headed the Kharkov concentration camp, and covered his sadistic inclinations with the struggle for the freedom of workers and peasants. Velemir Khlebnikov, poetess Irina KnOrring and playwright Arkady Averchenko wrote about the crimes of Saenko. The cruel commissar Stepan Afanasyevich is also mentioned in the novel by Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy "Walking through the torments".
The people called him the "commandant of death" and the "bloody executioner", who did not know pity for the enemies of the Soviet people.
So what kind of person was this "hero" really and why is his name shrouded in such notoriety?
Stepan Afanasyevich Saenko was born in 1886 in Poltava into an ordinary peasant family. From childhood, Styopa helped his father in the carpentry workshop, but did not shun theft. Despite the fact that the documents have not been preserved, there is reason to believe that Stepan Saenko was convicted of theft in his youth and spent a couple of years in hard labor. At least that's what the researchers say.
When the First World War began, Styopka was in no hurry to go to the front and evaded the army for quite some time. However, in 1916 he was nevertheless sent to the front line. At that time, Bolshevik agitation was carried on in full in the tsarist army. Saenko deserted to Kharkov!
The then Kharkov was seething with revolutionary ideas, there were many political parties in the city.
Soon Saenko joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party of the RSDLP. The party was one of the most radical, not averse to accepting even criminal elements into its ranks.
On the instructions of the city party committee, Saenko set about organizing the Krasnogvardeisky detachment. It must be admitted that Stepan put together a very promising team for himself. It included criminals, robbers and other "gopota" there. Saenko commanded this new detachment in the dark October days of 1917.
#NKVD
#stepansaenko
#revolution1917
#World War I
#The Second World War
#The Great Patriotic War
#concentration camp
#Kharkov
3 фев 2022
