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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1948.
M
Y son went off to become a soldier at the moment of the greatest peril to Moscow. It was a moment when the love of Russia stirred in inany hearts despite the hatred they had harboured for the Soviet regime. The Com munist propaganda knew how to exploit the patriotic upsurge of the people. Oleg, too, was eager to come to the defence of the fatherland, but I hoped that he would first get adequata training in the Red Army.
know
"Mamochka, how will I where you're going to be?" he ask ed at parting.
to
"And I won't know. where reach you, Olya," 1 cried. We or ranged that I would try to make my way to Gorki, formerly Nizhni- Novgorod, where one of my sisters was living, and that we should keep in touch through her.
last Communist officials
!
"Go and join the partisans," was their farewell shot to me. never handled a ride.
The head of
I had
one neighbouring village Soviet tried to persuade me to remain behind and nwalt the Germans. "Why are you leaving?" he argued.
"They won't last where you're going." This peasant had even disobeyed the government order to drive the stock of the collective form into the interior. Instead he turned all the cattle loose.
Mrs Oksana Kasenkina's Own Story
"Come carly tomorrow morning difficully. for travelling expanses."
olaborate mansion housing the fine Barnaul, in western Siberfa, I was "What kind of a unit are you` in?" Library and museum," and all the then told:
I asked, holding back my tears with other buildings, had been burned to the ground, with the exception of
"There are all kinds In it, from one corner of the brick structure. I That day the sky of Moscow was riffraff to sons of bourgeois," Oleg found Ossipova, a former resident filed with smoke from the burning explained, "It'll be a shock brigade." sill there, had turned all white, She of confidential archives in innumer- But why don't they put you in told me that the Red Army had able government quarters. The wind uniform? And why don't they give taken over after my departure, and whirled charred papers in the air, you'
Training?" I cried. set are to the Institution, In ac- Everybody saw that the Communist
they are taking us to cordance with Stalin's scorched bureaucrats were in a state of panic. Vladimir where they promised us earth policy, at the approach of the Many openly expected the end of everything, and then we will be all Germans.
Soviet rule.
right," he tried to reassure me.. But - From other people who had aur- Towards evening there was an air I could no longer restrain my vived the occupation I heard tales raid alarm. We ran to the nearest emotions. of German atrocities. The people shelter in the Byeloruss underground.. "Now don't you cry, and don't your who remained behind were decimat railway station. There we spent the waste your strength on pitying me. ed, maltreated, and robbed by the night. The following morning, we know how to take care of myself," German "liberators" as they had made our way to the Commissarlat he continued to console mio,. "I never been
loathed of Education. Outside there by the
were want you to think of yourself and Communists.
cars loaded with trucks and costs. save me all the worry about you,” None of the officials WDS in- alde. Commissar Potemkin and all his aides and staff had Ded. Over night a tremendous change had come ovar Mosocw,
even
Subsequently I encountered I colonel who, upon discovering that I had taught at Tuchkovo, remarked nonchalantly:
"So that's where you lived, eh? I put the torch to it myself. That was some collection of books you had there."
At three of. us
Directors of fac
cried,
Red Army was throwing Into action, at least in one sector, Oleg's detach- ment, consisting, mostly of raw youths.
In December I received a note from the boy asking me to send him was not getting enough to
cat. 1 sent him a parcel of biscuits.
Then camo a postcard. Oleg wrote that his group was preparing to carry out a very important. mission and that the fate of many of the boys would depend upon its outcome,
ARS KASENKINA, the eighth chapter of whose MRS
thrilling story of escape from the Soviet terror appears today, is shown here in an old photograph with her two children, now dead, when the Kasenkina family was living in Slavyansk. The girl, Sylvestra, died of a heart ailment shortly after this photo was made. The boy is Oleg, who was killed on the
Olog At The Front Leningrad front during World War II. Mrs
EG went off, and I broke down watching him disappear into the Kasenkina today describes how Oleg went to war.
sleet. He wrote to me from Vladi- tories and heads of departments had mir that his detachment was being Until the last hour, when the Ger-
deered ears, and fed castward. After two days in the capital, where emptied their treasuries. comman sent off to Moscow for equipment mans were already within artillery of the
Workers and employees abandoned they were outfitted with winter uni. ronge and when rumours evacuation of Moscow
Fire In The Sky were flying
to their fate. Only the
dis- building forms, the special unit was thick and fast, I clung to our school.
remained In the patched to the Volhov sector of the DUT I nover really anticipated superintendent
Mascow Soviet.
Leningrad front without any other I could not bear the thought of such an end on the day-October
"We have no abandoning it to the invaders. The 16, 1941-when I started out in the
money," my com- preparation, and I panion to leave direction of Moscow.
My sen
wroto ma twice from explaining reproached me for showing such sen o'clock thai moraing six
that we had received our appoint Volkhov. He had not received timentality,
teachers left our school, each carry the morning for travelling funds,
ments and had been told to come in there any military training of con- sequence. Already it was bitterly ing a bundle of essential belongings. The old man shook his head, waved cold. It was the beginning of one of The already wintry sky was alive with fery activity. The Germans all the big shots were escaping, and The Germans were desperately try-
his arm in the direction in which the cruellest winters of the century.. were reported to have enveloped took pity upon us two women. He ing to encircle and take Leningrad.
three sides. They Moscow from
gave us all, he could spare, 150 Against their powerful machine the were directly behind us.
roubles each, with the advice: Our party split up, and at, six-
"Go as far as you can with this." 11s crossed the o'clock three of
reached the Moskva River and
Plunderers Shot suburban station of Kubinka. From there we got to Moscow by tram. URING the next few days, while
I had virtually no
money, and DURING the went with one of my companions to bound for Gorial, the centre of Mos report to the Commissariat 01 Education in the building of the
cow took on the aspect of a deserted BITTLY Three years later revisited Moscow Soviet. After some Inter city, except for marching Tuchkovo, and to my horror found views and conferences with aides to units. Occasionally one heard
the nothing but rubble and ruins where Commissar Potemkin, I was assigned explosion of a bomb and the roar
The to a teaching post in the city of highways leading out of the the school had once been.
a collapsing.
On the structure.
city, ruthless measures were being taken to stop in their tracks looters who were fleeing with caravans of goods The booty would be taken away and the plunderers shot on the spot, He got work as a sports reporter To add to the nightmare, barri- on a newspaper but he was deter-cades were being thrown up on the mined to become a
singer, being main arteries in the outlying districts much stimulated by the success or through which the Germans were Bing Crosby. Ho secured small expected to advance upon the city.
overturned street engagements, hunted and haunted Barrels, week-end 1 recent а read two books, One was "The
dance band leaders, organised his furniture, all kinds of wreckage murdered my child as surely as if he Gathering Storm" by Win-
so-selling campaign as relentlessly were piled into these hasty and had been shot in the back by the
NKVD. ston Churchill, and the other was
03 Were vertain of his success Primitive defences although he was not
On October
Yet I never abandoned hope that "The Voice" by E. J. Kahn, jun. They
too certain of
when old TC- his next meal... made an interesting contrast, fac
sidents were convinced that Mosesw he would come back. During the both Mr. Churchill and Mr. Franic
Nature had east han in a mould mans, I got close enough to a train Soviet Union and in America, know- taken by the Ger- ensuing years, while the, war was was as good
still en and since its end, in the Sinatra must be numbered among thing between a sister and a grand- of helpless, gentie futility. His scheduled to leave for Gorki, and the human phenomena of this age. mother called by destiny to attend drooping shoulders, his wistful smae was swept onto its platform
ing that the Germans had taken When, Mr. Churchill travels he is to the mortal needs of a god. They his eager boyish even and unruly the surge of a frenzied mob. It was myself going with the prayer that by millions of Russian prisoners, I kept cheered by enthusiastle crowds and are grateful to her. Not Jealous. hair, his hesitant bewildered fcot, a human ant-hill, with people cling Oleg is alive and would turn up. protected by goodnatured police. A few months ago a radio station his sweet bravery in the face of a
ing to the roofs and windows of the When Mr. Sinatra emerges from conducted a "Why I like Frank cold, indifferent world...That cars, Wedged in
Throughout that ferce winter in the police Sinatra contest. Among the essays was as people saw him; that is how between two end platforms, 1 zome- Leningrad front began to pour in.. the passageway Gorki, when the wounded from the theatro or a restaurant make baton charges and Mr. Sinatra submitted was one that read: they see him to-day, •
how managed to reach Gorki, some ning all the hospitals and all the barely escapes with his life. Buttons "I think he is one of the greatest are torn from his clothes, and even things that ever happened to Teen
SUPERIORITY COMPLEX
buildings My sister astounded me upon my hospitals, I was constantly
converted into ancred person is not immune Age America. Wo were the kids that
on the never got much attention, but he's OW was anyone to know that he arrival with the announcement that alert for some message about my made us feel like we're something had a Napoleonic superiority Oleg had already been there looking
I was one of many teachers, among: He gives us sincerity in return for complex that made him feel himself our faithfulness.”
above all vocal rivals even when he
whom there was a contingent from Sinatra was born in 1917, the zon could not secure ди audition. He
Leningrad, who had sought refuge in of an Italian immigrant and his wife. would conquer the entertainment The father did some
his
VER
WHY DO
I
THEY MOB
SINATRA?
from the clutching, frenzied hands
of his admirers.
Thus it will be seen that in this modern world, in this age of the common man, the lesser is the greater at any rate in the emotional
by BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP
300 miles away.
for me.
Ominous Words
cars,
That was the last word I ̧had' from him. The food parcel was returned to me unclaimed. On January 12, 1942, I was called to the local office
of the Commissarlat of War. There
I was handed the announcement: "Oleg Kasenkin-missing to tion."
There was no further information. But at that Instant I felt, only the way a mother can, that they had
school
esteem of the American public. Mr. prize fighting, became a bow world. He would be the leader of a joy to hearing from my son Gorki, All daytima school work was
Churchill could never hope to rouse
མ
modern children's crusade. Perhaps,
before
as soon as I came at Gorki discontinued, but evening classes sucif hysterical adulation as the then a shipyard worker, and is now some day, he might be the leader of lasted but a fleeting moment. Even were improvised instead. I divided had time to lay down my my time between giving courses at n a captain in the Hoboken Fire America. And, when he comes on the gentieman known as The Voice.
during the day. Department. Being Italian and also stage to sing, his fans shriek man use belongings in my sister's apartment, night and doing hospital relief work
Oleg is in the NKVD's special a Itoman Catholic, young Frankie ngement because he seems so forlorn she dropped the ominous words: was badgered and bullied 08 ទ and self-distrusifu).
2,000 FAN CLUBS
THE
THERE
is something significant in, member of the despised minorities. Like Hitler he experienced resent this, something worth more than
ment at an early stage, satirical comment.
In Germany the Kaiser wore a fierce moustache and was always in uniform, but his people saw him go into exile without a tear or a curse. On the other hand Hitler was the underdog, the third rate artist who could not sell his paintings, the cor- poral who was never considered for a commission, the little man who understood the feelings of all other little men in Germany. He is not as dead to-day as was the Kaiser when he crossed the Dutch frontier 1018.
in
With that strict accuracy which one associates with publicity agents, Mr. George Evans (who controls Sinatra's publicity) admits that there are 40 million Sinatra fons in the U.S.A. and 2,000 fan clubs.
Sinatra recelves 8,000 letters a week, mostly from girls, although fow are of an amorous nature. His followers are glad that he married a young woman whom he had known from childhood. When last year Mr. and Mrs Sinatra quarrelled and separated for a week his adorers pleaded with him to forgive and forgot. In fact, Mrs. Sinatra and the two children (a daughter of seven and a son of three) receive 2,000 letters a week on their own account. Psychologists say that the bobby- soxers regard Mira. Sinatra as some-
NANCY
HELLO, BEAUTIFUL
Who Could Be Sweater?
HI
GORGEOUS
THE VOICE:
and
up
the
My job was to write medical histories of the cases. Laing. AN I do now in this marvellous fabulous cleanliness, equipment, care hospital in New York, with its and humane personnel, I shudder to
the battlefields of Broadway
No wonder Sinatra looks beyond add my detachment. He left his I asked her to send a telegram to Hollywood, for those victories have him telling him of my safe arrival. been won. In 1944 he stumped the I knew he would come to see me recall the neglect of our wounded country for Roosevelt, which caused ht the first chance.
and the gruesome sights I witnessed'
his devoted followers to wear but- What's this NKVD unit?" I in- with a bleeding heart... tons proclaiming: "Frankle's for quired with trepidation.
F.D.R. and so are we" Sinatra has Isn't he in the regular army?”, preached tolerance from the public! platform, and he may even issue his edict on the eve of the Presidential poll.
"Why
Tongues Loosened
THE catastrophe
which Russian arms had suffered at the front, with the Germans at the gates of Moscow, Leningrad and in the depths tongues. Although every wspital and. of the Ukraine, loosened many its vigilant
the boys commissars, the gave vent to the mood of the army. "Where is our preparedness, for which we made all those sacrifices
Reluctantly my sister revealed what she had learned from Oleg, that the Red Army had organised under the supervision of the NKVD Meanwhile he does the tremolo on factors, slackers, and sons of poll special punitive battalions for male the G string of his voice, singing tical transgressors. It was now clear loneliness and unrequited love, the hungry, troubador from the Bronx that the military authorities had who sends young women
caught up with Oleg's family his- into a
is the iron clad Soviet swoon
and keeps his accountants tory, It hard at work finding now invest-Practice to visit upon the innocent during the five-year plans?" they
children the "sins" of their parents. ments for his money.
murmured. "Where is our equip- "Wasn't It enough for them to kill ment? Why couldn't they even pro- my Demyan?" Ierled out. "Must vide us with enough food and they also destroy my son?"
cigarettes?. Why weren't we ready?" KAHN'S book is not as im-
Within
a week Oleg showed up in were some of the questions raised. portant es "The Gathering response to the telegram. He had
"Imagine not having enough. Storm, "but it deals with a pheno-got leave come to bid me goodbye, rifles!" one of the boys exclaimed. menon which is worth the study of conditions at the time, he had only action to meet a German attack with
and what with the
travelling "We were suddenly "thrown the psychologist and the historian.
M
IS IT DECAY?
15 minutes left to spend with
me one rifle for every ten men,"
into
Is the glorification of the common- place a sign of health-or decay? Is before catching a return train.
It might have been the voice of It was the end of October. Snow my own Olog. "Was that how he there any connection between the hysterical adulation of Sinatra in was falling, a cold and penetrating met his end?" was the thought that:
wind was blowing. I expected Oleg haunted America and the dismissal of
me. Churchill by the electorate in 10457 to show up in uniform. My heart
Those
are the questions which ank within me when I saw the boy Have emerged · from my weekend all wearing his summer clothes and reading of two books dealing with a pair of sticakers.
་་་
(Mrs Kasenkina continues her story tomorrow).
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