Readiness of Kyrgyzstanis to Defend the Motherland
On the very first day of the war, June 22, 1941, the Communist Party and the Soviet government appealed to the people with a call to stand up for the great achievements of October. “Our cause is just. The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours!”—these slogans of the party instilled in the peoples of the USSR faith in their strength, in the triumph of the righteous cause, expressing their unwavering confidence in the victorious outcome of the duel imposed by the Hitlerite invaders.
The news of the war did not cause confusion or dismay among the Soviet people. They responded to the villainous act of aggression with an explosion of deep indignation and outrage. At mass rallies and meetings held in all cities, auls, and villages, workers, collective farmers, and the intelligentsia of Kyrgyzstan, like all Soviet people, unanimously expressed their determination to spare no effort, labor, or even life to defend the Soviet system, to fight the sworn enemy until complete victory.
In the village of Rybachye on June 22, more than three thousand workers from the port, the "Zagotzerno" office, the oil base, clerks, housewives, and people of various professions and nationalities gathered for a rally. The resolution adopted there stated: “We declare to our party, to our government our readiness to stand up for the defense of the Motherland. No life for the damned fascists!”
“We declare ourselves mobilized and take the obligation to work with doubled energy at our posts, to produce as much metal as the front requires,”—this was the response of the workers of the Kadamjai Antimony Plant to the call of the Motherland. On the second day of the war, a meeting of women was held here, attended by 130 housewives—wives of workers, clerks, and engineering and technical workers of the mine. They demanded to be trained in production processes so that they would be ready to replace their husbands, brothers, and sons.
People of all ages, professions, and nationalities besieged military enlistment offices, demanding to be sent to the active army as volunteers. For example, a member of the "Kum-Aryk" collective farm in the Kalinin district of the Frunze region, Ak-chike Jalbaev, addressed the district military commissioner: “I am 57 years old, the father of nine children, one of my sons is in the Red Army, and I want to fight against the hated German fascism alongside my son and beat it until it is completely destroyed.”
On June 22-23, 1941, only 270 applications were submitted to the Frunze city military enlistment office. 250 miners from the Kyzyl-Kiya mine went to the front as volunteers. About 140 patriots from the Tien Shan region, including those not subject to conscription, appeared at military enlistment offices and argued that they should be sent to the front as soon as possible.
In the statements and speeches of workers, collective farmers, and the intelligentsia, there was an unwavering determination to defend the socialist achievements, repel the bandit attack, and achieve complete victory over fascism. In the face of the greatest danger, they rallied even more closely around the Communist Party and the Soviet government, demonstrating a deep understanding of their patriotic and international duty.
The Beginning of the Great Patriotic War