Bilzho about the deranged Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya Mortal Regiment Bilzho

Not long ago, the scandal surrounding the release of the film “28 Panfilov’s Men” died down. Director of the State Archive of Russia Sergei Mironenko said that 28 Panfilov men who stopped 50 in the battle near Dubosekov German tanks, didn't really exist. The film was screened, fans of battle scenes appreciated it and came to terms with the fact that there was one less reason for patriotism, and one more good film about war. And suddenly, like a bolt from the blue, another loud statement concerning yet another history of the period of the Great Patriotic War, on which hundreds of thousands of children were raised in the USSR and Russia. The troublemaker was the famous cartoonist Andrei Bilzho. Discussing mythology in Russian history on the Insider website, he stated that the hero Soviet Union Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya accomplished her feat only because she suffered from schizophrenia.

“Now I’ll tell you a terrible, seditious thing that will blow up the Internet and me, but, thank God, I’m far away now,” the cartoonist began his speech, — I read the medical history of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, which was kept in the archives of the psychiatric hospital named after. P.P. Kashchenko. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was admitted to this clinic more than once before the war; she suffered from schizophrenia. All the psychiatrists who worked at the hospital knew about this, but then her medical history was taken away because perestroika began, information began to leak out, and Kosmodemyanskaya’s relatives began to be indignant that this insulted her memory.”

As history textbooks say, in an attempt to prevent the Germans from attacking Moscow, Zoya and her comrades set fire to houses in the village of Petrishchevo in what is now the Ruza district of the Moscow region. German soldiers were billeted in these houses. Zoya was arrested and executed, but during interrogation she did not tell the Nazis anything that could interfere with the Red Army.

“When Zoya was brought to the podium and was about to be hanged, — continues Bilzho, — she was silent, keeping the partisan secret. In psychiatry this is called “mutism”: she simply could not speak because she had fallen into a “catatonic stupor with mutism,” when a person has difficulty moving, looks frozen and is silent. This syndrome was mistaken for the feat and silence of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Although, in fact, she was probably brave, and for me, as a psychiatrist and a person who treats the mentally ill very cordially, understanding their suffering, this does not change anything. But the historical truth is this: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya more than once spent time in the psychiatric hospital named after. P.P. Kashchenko and was experiencing another attack against the backdrop of a severe, powerful shock associated with the war. But this was a clinic, and not a feat of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, who had been suffering from schizophrenia for a long time.”

As it turned out, Andrei Bilzho was not the first to openly state that with Zoya’s story, not everything was as we used to believe. An article about her on Wikipedia names many facts that diverge from the content of the fiction book “The Tale of Zoya and Shura” by the mother of the heroine Lyubov Kosmodemyanskaya. Absolutely clearly and unambiguously, every visitor to the page reads the following: “According to the testimony of Lyubov Kosmodemyanskaya, as well as some specialists, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was treated for problems with mental disorders... Contrary to the stories of eyewitnesses, archival documents confirming the fact of any treatment of Zoya Komodemyanskaya were not found, and critics cite a version that they were allegedly seized by “two people.”

Until now, no one has held Wikipedia accountable for such information about the folk heroine. I think that it is unlikely that anyone will believe that a graduate of the 2nd Moscow medical institute by specialty “psychiatrist”, candidate of sciences Andrei Bilzho decided in this way to simply troll the patriotic public. The artist, by the way, defended his dissertation on the problems of juvenile schizophrenia and worked for ten years as a psychiatrist in various psychiatric clinics, including the Institute of Psychiatry of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.

Of course, his statements did not go unnoticed. Bilzho is being torn to pieces these days and will continue to be torn for a long time by everyone for whom such an explanation of the heroism of the “Russian Joan of Arc” has become a personal insult. Which of them is more right, we most likely will not know. However, one thing is clear: history is not films and books with beautiful actors and special effects. This is painstaking work in the archives, conversations with eyewitnesses and their descendants, collecting memories, evidence, an attempt to lay out a logically connected chain of events from all this unkempt material. But when politics and propaganda interfere with history, history is rewritten and embellished, and then many people who believed in it are forced to suffer and wish for blood, having exposed the lie.

The details of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya’s feat are well known to us thanks to the press, books and films. But what happened before these events? What was Zoya like before the war - in childhood and adolescence?

Granddaughter of a priest

Zoya was born on September 13, 1923 in the village of Osino-Gai, Kirsanovsky district, Tambov province. Her parents, Anatoly Petrovich and Lyubov Timofeevna Kosmodemyansky, were teachers. Zoya’s father came from a family of clergy, and previously their surname was written as “Kozmodemyansky”. Zoya’s grandfather, Pyotr Ioannovich Kozmodemyansky, was a priest of the Znamenskaya Church in the village of Osino-Gai. In August 1918, he was brutally killed by the Bolsheviks.[С-BLOCK]

In 1930, the Kosmodemyansky family moved to Moscow. It seems that Lyubov Timofeevna’s sister, who served in the People’s Commissariat for Education, got involved here. They settled on the very outskirts of the capital, not far from the Podmoskovnaya railway station (now the Koptevo district).

In 1933, Anatoly Petrovich died. Lyubov Timofeevna was left with two children - Zoya and her younger brother Shura.

"Strange" Zoya

Zoya grew up as an ordinary girl: she studied well, was interested in literature and history. In 1939, the girl was elected Komsomol class group organizer. Zoya suggested that her classmates take on a social workload - after school, work with the illiterate. The Komsomol members accepted her offer, but then began to shirk their responsibilities. At the meetings, Zoya began to work through them, and when re-elections came, she was not re-elected.[C-BLOCK]

After that the girl changed. Her classmate V.I. Belokun later recalled: “This story... had a great effect on Zoya. She somehow gradually began to withdraw into herself. I became less sociable and loved solitude more. In the 7th grade, we began to notice strange things about her even more often, as it seemed to us... (...) Her silence, always thoughtful eyes, and sometimes some absent-mindedness were too mysterious for us. And the incomprehensible Zoya became even more incomprehensible. In the middle of the year we learned from her brother Shura that Zoya was sick. This made a strong impression on the guys. We decided that we were to blame for this.”

The myth of schizophrenia

In issue No. 38 of the newspaper “Arguments and Facts” for 1991, a note by the writer A. Zhovtis “Clarifications to the canonical version” was published, dedicated to the circumstances of the arrest of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. It received a number of reader responses. One of them was signed with the names of doctors of the Scientific and Methodological Center for Child Psychiatry. It stated that in 1938-1939, Zoya was repeatedly examined at this center, and was also in the children's ward of the Kashchenko Hospital with suspected schizophrenia.[C-BLOCK]

However, no other evidence was found that Zoya suffered or might suffer from mental illness. True, quite recently, the famous publicist Andrei Bilzho, a psychiatrist by profession, stated that at one time he had the opportunity to personally become familiar with the medical history of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya at the Kashchenko hospital and that it was removed from the archives during perestroika. [С-BLOCK]

What really happened? By official version, at the end of 1940, Zoya fell ill with acute meningitis and was admitted to the Botkin hospital. After that, she underwent rehabilitation at the Sokolniki sanatorium, where, by the way, she met the writer Arkady Gaidar, who was also being treated there...

After perestroika, it became fashionable to debunk Soviet heroes. Attempts were also made to discredit the name of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, who died as a martyr at the hands of the Nazis, who for many years was considered a symbol of the courage of the Soviet people. Thus, they wrote that many of Zoya’s actions were explained by the fact that she was mentally ill.[C-BLOCK]

This refers to the arson of three houses where the Germans were staying in the village of Petrishchevo near Moscow. Like, the girl was a pyromaniac, she had a passion for arson... However, there was an order signed personally by Stalin to burn ten settlements near Moscow occupied by the Nazis. Petrishchevo was among them. Zoya was not an “independent” partisan at all, but a fighter of a reconnaissance and sabotage group, and carried out the task given to her by the commander. At the same time, she was warned about the possibility of being captured, tortured and killed.

It is unlikely that she would have been accepted into the reconnaissance group if there had been something wrong with her psyche. In most cases, volunteers and conscripts were required to submit medical certificates about the state of health. [С-BLOCK]

Yes, after her death, the name of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was used for propaganda purposes. But that doesn't mean she didn't deserve her fame. She was a simple Soviet schoolgirl who chose to endure torture and death in order to defeat the enemy.

According to some reports, on September 13, 1923, Hero of the Soviet Union Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was born in the village of Osinov Gai in the Tambov region. Although, some historians are convinced that the real date of birth of the partisan is September 8. While performing one of the tasks, Zoya was arrested and executed after long torture on November 29, 1941 in the Moscow region in the village of Petrishchevo. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya became for many a symbol of the heroism of the Soviet people, and many works of writers, artists, playwrights and sculptors are dedicated to her life. Streets in various cities of the country were named after the Hero of the Union. For the partisan's supposed date of birth, below are five myths about her life and death in the name of a great feat.

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya’s parents were hereditary priests, and in 1929 they decided to move to Siberia because they were afraid of reprisals. Olga, Zoya’s sister, who at that time worked in the People’s Commissariat for Education, managed to get an apartment in Moscow, so she soon took all her relatives to the capital. During her school years, the future partisan dreamed of entering the Literary Institute, but all plans changed because of the war.

In 1941, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya joined the ranks of Komsomol volunteers and ended up in a sabotage school. The young girl became a fighter in a reconnaissance and sabotage unit and was soon transferred to the Volokolamsk region as part of a special group. On November 17, the sabotage group received an order to burn ten settlements, among which was the village of Petrishchevo, Moscow Region, so that German soldiers would not have the opportunity to settle in warm houses. While carrying out the mission, Zoya and her comrades came under fire and were forced to disperse. On the night of November 27, Kosmodemyanskaya and two other fighters burned down three houses in Petrishchevo, but during the next arson attempt she was captured. During interrogation, Zoya introduced herself as Tatyana and did not tell the Germans anything. They stripped her naked, beat her with belts, and then led her barefoot outside in the cold for four hours. In addition, during the torture, the partisan’s fingernails were torn out. On the morning of November 29, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was hanged on the street, and not on her chest was a sign “Arsonist of houses.” The partisan walked to her execution with her head held high and shouted to all those gathered that the Germans would be defeated and her comrades would avenge the death of their comrade.

There have always been many outright fabrications and conjectures around the historical person Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, some of which were refuted over time:

Myth one: The Germans hanged a certain Tatyana instead of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

The fact is that during interrogation by the Nazis, Zoya hid her real name and called herself Tanya. According to the testimony of some acquaintances of the partisan, she called herself by this name even before the war, explaining this by the desire to be like Tatyana Solomakha, the heroine Civil War. She was captured by the whites and died after severe torture. The fact that Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya really lay in the grave was reliably learned in 1941. Her body was identified by a classmate and teacher. In photographs of the exhumed corpse, Kosmodemyanskaya’s mother and brother recognized a relative and confirmed her identity.

Myth two: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was born on September 13, but in fact the real date was accidentally changed.

Stalin instructed party leader Mikhail Kalinin to prepare a decree on awarding the partisan an honorary star of the Hero of the Soviet Union. He needed to clarify Zoya’s name and date of birth, for which he called the Tambov region, where she was born. The local resident who answered him said not September 8, when Zoya was actually born, but September 13, the date of registration of the act of recording. As a result, now in all reference books the date of birth of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya does not correspond to reality.

Myth three: According to one version, the German Zoya was betrayed by her fellow soldier Vasily Klubkov, who was a Komsomol organizer of an intelligence school.

According to the information released, Vasily returned to his unit and said that he managed to escape from the Nazis after torture. During the interrogation, the Komsomol organizer began to get confused in his testimony and admitted that Kosmodemyanskaya was detained along with him. He agreed to cooperate with the fascists and gave them a partisan. The Germans released Klubkov, after which he was accused of treason and shot. But historians are convinced that Vasily Klubkov was forced to give such testimony, and in fact he did not betray Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.

Myth four: After the collapse of the USSR, information appeared in the press that Zoya suffered from schizophrenia.

Journalists referred to a document in which it was stated that before the start of the war, a 14-year-old girl was examined at the Scientific and Methodological Center for Psychiatry and was hospitalized in the children's department. Zoya was suspected of schizophrenia, and after the war her medical history was removed from the hospital archives. However, historians were unable to confirm the authenticity of this document. The mother of a partisan said that in 1939 her daughter actually had a nervous illness due to the fact that she could not find mutual language with peers. According to classmates, the girl often “withdrew into herself” and was constantly silent.

Myth five: The remains of another woman were buried in Kosmodemyanskaya’s grave

In the late 80s of the last century, they began to say that near the grave of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, two women were arguing about whose daughter was buried here. One of them bribed local residents to remove the body of the deceased from the burial in order to examine special signs. The woman wanted to prove to the commission for the exhumation of the corpse that her child was buried in the grave. A little later, the adventurer was punished for her act, and experts confirmed that Kosmodemyanskaya’s body was in the grave.

On September 13, 1923, a girl was born, on whose example more than one generation was raised. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya - Hero of the Soviet Union, an 18-year-old schoolgirl yesterday, who withstood the cruelest torture of the Nazis and did not betray her comrades in the partisan movement

Those who grew up and matured during the Soviet Union do not need to explain who she is. Zoya. She became a symbol, an icon, an example of unbending courage and self-sacrifice in the name of the Motherland. It is impossible to even imagine what kind of courage one must have to face certain death and torture. Few modern people could dare to do this.

But Zoya didn’t even think about it. As soon as the war began, she immediately went to the military registration and enlistment office and did not calm down until she was enrolled in a reconnaissance and sabotage group. Its leader immediately warned his fighters: 95% would die. It is likely that after brutal torture. But no one left: everyone was ready to die for their Motherland.

In the 90s, when dramatic changes took place in our country and much of what had previously been hidden and hushed up became known, there were people who wanted to question Zoya’s feat.

Version 1: Zoya was mentally ill

In 1991, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper received a letter allegedly signed by doctors from the Scientific and Methodological Center for Child Psychiatry. They wrote that at the age of 14-15 Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya more than once she was in the children's hospital named after. Kashchenko with suspected schizophrenia. This letter was one of the responses to a previously published article in which the circumstances of Zoe’s death were revised.

Komsomol card of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Source: Wikimedia.org

However, no documents confirming that Zoya suffered from schizophrenia were ever found. Moreover, in the archives they did not even find the names of the doctors who allegedly made this diagnosis to Kosmodemyanskaya’s patient. The only thing that is beyond doubt is the acute meningitis Zoya suffered at the age of 17. With this diagnosis, she was in the Botkin hospital, and then recovered in a sanatorium.

Particularly zealous “fighters for truth” tried to bring the phenomenon of Zoya’s courage under the version of “schizophrenia”: they say that schizophrenics generally do not have fear for their lives, they used this during the war, they formed combat groups from mentally ill people, and they calmly threw themselves in front of the train, to blow it up or they openly approached the headquarters of the fascists and set them on fire... So, they say, Zoya did not feel fear of the Germans, because she was sick: she was in a stupor. But the prosecutors again could not present any evidence of illness.

Some, however, still think that love for the Motherland, perseverance and courage are an abnormality that cannot be explained otherwise than by mental disorders.

Version 2: it was not Zoya who died, but Lilya

Around the same time that the Nazis were killing Zoya, near Moscow, not far from the village of Petrishcheva, another intelligence officer went missing - Lilya (Leilya) Ozolina. Some historians have suggested that it was Lilya who became the heroine who was executed in front of the villagers and who called herself Tanya without revealing her real name. Several points spoke in favor of this version. For example, the identification of the mutilated body by the mother occurred more than a month after death.

One might doubt the objectivity of the inconsolable woman who lost her daughter. But as soon as the first voices were heard in favor of this version, the Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise of the Russian Ministry of Justice carried out a forensic portrait examination, the results of which confirmed the unconditionality of Zoya’s identity.

Version 3: Zoya committed sabotage actions

This, in fact, is not a version, but a clarification of the essence of the task that Zoya received and during which she died. They tried to blame the Hero of the Soviet Union for the biggest mistake of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Joseph Stalin, who decided to apply “scorched earth tactics” to the fascists advancing on Moscow, issuing Order No. 428.

According to this order, Soviet sabotage groups were to destroy all settlements near Moscow so that the Germans would have nowhere to hide from the cold and so that they would not be able to take Moscow.

Today, the criminality of such an order is already clear to everyone, because it left not only the Germans homeless and without a chance of salvation, but first of all the residents of villages near Moscow who found themselves in the occupied territory. But can Zoya be blamed for diligently carrying out an order that she could not help but fulfill?

How Zoe's mother was forced to become a "professional" mother of heroes

Zoya did not have time to get married and have children. However, the descendants of this family still live today: for example, the actress Zhenya Ogurtsova, known to viewers for her role in the TV series “Ranetki” and for her participation in the musical group of the same name, is the great-niece of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. More precisely, her grandfather was Zoe's cousin.

After Zoya’s feat became known and she was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously), and her younger brother Alexander also died and also received the same high rank, Lyubov Timofeevna Kosmodemyanskaya no longer belongs to herself. She was made into a professional “mother of heroes.”

She had to speak without a break in front of soldiers leaving for the front, in front of schoolchildren, workers, participants in the labor front... Of course, she could not tell people what she thought, share her pain: her every word was carefully verified and polished so that the listeners would be inspired by the example Zoya began to fight and work even more selflessly for the glory of the Motherland. Lyubov Timofeevna could not show any “personal” emotions.

After the war she was forced to become a public figure. Lyubov Timofeevna was sent as part of delegations to socialist countries, where she repeated her speech once again. Every day - in public, every day - under the watchful eye of the special services... This went on for almost her entire life. In 1978, Zoya and Shura’s mother died.

A small bronze bust of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya is kept in the house of Zhenya Ogurtsova. Zhenya has known about her brave relative since early childhood. Her mother, Tatyana Anatolyevna, Zoya’s niece, said that her father, as a relative of the Hero, had the right to many benefits, but never used them, because he believed that it was not entirely fair. Apparently, these traits - decency, modesty and hyper-honesty, which many consider abnormal - are hereditary.

Yesterday and today we discussed Andrei Biljo’s post on the disgusting resource The Insider. It seems that Roman Dobrokhotov is in charge there. Remember this blogger?

Biljo, for no apparent reason, began to discuss Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Maybe on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of her death?

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya entered the pantheon of heroes for accepting martyrdom. She was caught during a sabotage operation, she was tortured, and then hanged. Her feat is that she withstood the torture and did not tell the executioners anything. Before her death, Zoya made a legendary speech, calling on the village residents to fight the Nazis and not be afraid of death in this fight.

In Soviet times, every schoolchild knew about the feat of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.
During Perestroika, they began to write about Zoya the exact opposite of what was told at school. Firstly, they began to be indignant that she was carrying out the order to burn houses (stables) in the village. Critics were not interested in the fact that a soldier does not have the right to discuss orders and not carry them out, especially during war.

Today it seems that how could they give the order to burn their villages. But this was an ancient scorched earth tactic, which is used when the position of the defending army is very bad. At stake was the question of the very existence of Russia as an independent state. This is easy to argue today.

Secondly, it was true that they said rather cautiously that Zoya was sick with schizophrenia.
Then these conversations died down.

Now they have resumed again - apparently it has begun new stage the collapse of Russia. Russians should not have their own heroes - Russians can only be victims, and their heroism is propaganda.

And so Bilzho writes: “ I read the medical history of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, which was kept in the archives of the psychiatric hospital named after. P.P. Kashchenko. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was admitted to this clinic more than once before the war; she suffered from schizophrenia. All the psychiatrists who worked at the hospital knew about this, but then her medical history was taken away because perestroika began, information began to leak out, and Kosmodemyanskaya’s relatives began to be indignant that this insulted her memory. When Zoya was taken to the podium and was about to be hanged, she remained silent and kept the partisan secret. In psychiatry this is called “mutism”: she simply could not speak because she had fallen into a “catatonic stupor with mutism,” when a person has difficulty moving, looks frozen and is silent. This syndrome was mistaken for the feat and silence of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Although, in fact, she was probably brave, and for me, as a psychiatrist and a person who treats the mentally ill very cordially, understanding their suffering, this does not change anything. But the historical truth is this: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya more than once spent time in the psychiatric hospital named after. P.P. Kashchenko and was experiencing another attack against the backdrop of a severe, powerful shock associated with the war. But this was a clinic, and not a feat of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, who had been suffering from schizophrenia for a long time».

Bilzho worked for 10 years at the Institute of Psychiatry of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, defended his dissertation on the problems of juvenile schizophrenia. This was in the 80s.
Could he have seen the medical history of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya? If such a story actually existed, then it was part of his scientific interests.
But it’s strange to me that Kashchenko kept such potentially dangerous information. Why wasn’t she seized after the war, when Zoe’s canonization began?

Then, he writes that she was in the hospital several times, but Zoya’s biography is well studied, and she was in the hospital only once, and not in a psychiatric hospital. Did the biographers lie?
Moreover, they could not give her a diagnosis. And they wouldn’t have taken her into military service with such a diagnosis. Something doesn't add up here. True, this was at the time of the massive German offensive, on October 31. Maybe they didn't understand?

Bilzho writes that Zoya fell into a catatonic stupor with mutism - no one mentions this except him. One of her classmates said that she became thoughtful and distant, but this was far from stupor. Or was something else written in the medical history, and the stupor was his assumption?

Could Bilzho remember the details of Zoya’s illness after reading the medical history from the archive? In principle, I could, because you won’t forget this.
But why was he silent for so many years? Why did you need to tell this today? And how to combine mutism with Zoya’s speech before her execution? Also a legend?
Why should we believe him and not all the other people who talked about Zoya and her feat?

Here, for example, is the testimony of witnesses: “The beaten girl was transferred to the Kulikov hut. P.Ya. tells Kulik (maiden name Petrushina, 33 years old):
"I don’t know where they took her from. That night there were 20-25 Germans in my apartment, and at about 10 o’clock I went outside. She was led by patrols - with her hands tied, wearing an undershirt, barefoot and a man's undershirt on top of her undershirt. They told me: “Mother, they caught a partisan.”
They brought her in and sat her on a bench, and she gasped. Her lips were black, baked black, and her face was swollen on her forehead. She asked my husband for a drink. We asked: “Can I?” They said, “No,” and one of them, instead of water, raised a burning kerosene lamp without glass to his chin. But then they allowed her to drink, and she drank 4 glasses. After sitting for half an hour, they dragged her outside. They dragged me along the street barefoot for about 20 minutes, then they brought me back again. So, she was taken barefoot from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. - along the street, barefoot in the snow. All this was done by one German, he is 19 years old. Then this 19-year-old went to bed, and another one was assigned to her. He was more conscientious and took the pillow and blanket from me and put her to bed. After lying down for a while, she asked him in German to untie her hands, and he untied her hands. Her hands were no longer tied. So she fell asleep. She slept from 3 o'clock to 7 o'clock in the morning.
In the morning I went up to her and started talking to her.
I asked: “Where are you from?” The answer is Moscow.
- "What is your name?" - she remained silent.
- "Where is parents?" - she remained silent.
- “Why were you sent?” - “I was tasked with burning the village.”
- “Who was with you?” - “There was no one with me, I was alone.”
- “Who burned these houses that night (and that night she burned three residential buildings where the Germans lived, but they ran out)?” She replied: “I burned it.”
She asked: “How much did I burn?” I answered: “Three houses, and in these yards I burned 20 horses.”
She asked if there were any casualties? I answered no. She said that you [should have] left the village long ago from the Germans. There were Germans during the conversation, but they do not know Russian.».

Bilzho is a more than prosperous person. Veselchak, sybarite, owner of restaurants, lives abroad, is engaged in creativity.
His sociable character, sense of humor, and some ability to draw caricatures gave him the opportunity to flourish in the 90s. He hosted programs on NTV and TV-6 until these channels were closed.
In 2007-2008, he hosted the “Burning Question” program on Channel 5.
For fifteen years he worked at the Kommersant publishing house as the chief cartoonist, and worked at Izvestia. He has published a number of books.
He is 63 years old. There is a wife, a son, two grandchildren. Life was a success.

And Zoya was stripped naked and flogged with belts. For four hours, the sentry periodically took her barefoot in her underwear along the street in the cold. In the morning she was hanged. Kosmodemyanskaya’s body hung on the gallows for about a month, repeatedly being abused by German soldiers passing through the village. On New Year's Day 1942, drunken Germans tore off the hanged woman's clothes and once again violated the body, stabbing it with knives and cutting off her chest. The next day, the Germans gave the order to remove the gallows, and the body was buried by local residents outside the village.

She was 18 years old. He has an older grandson.

And Bilzho is not ashamed, sitting somewhere in Europe (maybe in Venice? He loves her very much), having eaten well, and perhaps drunk, to write that Zoya was just an insensitive log, a mental patient, a vegetable, and not heroine?

No, he is not ashamed, like all other liberals. He considers himself a victim. Surely he thinks that the country owes him. And Zoya owes a debt: she is sick, and everyone praises her - so on you!
And how does the earth carry it? .