Operation Bagration participant Fedor Feshchenko celebrates his birthday – 101 years
The Great Patriotic found him a teenager. At first he worked at a tank factory as a turner’s apprentice, but he always wanted to help the country in battle. It was not easy to do this - workers of military enterprises were exempted from conscription, and their age was not yet suitable.
Energy and cheerfulness of spirit - do not occupy! The participant of Operation Bagration Fedor Feshchenko is one hundred and one years old! With congratulations came public organizations, students of schools and gymnasiums.
The Great Patriotic found him a teenager. At first he worked at a tank factory as a turner’s apprentice, but he always wanted to help the country in battle. It was not easy to do this - workers of military enterprises were exempted from conscription, and their age was not yet suitable. To get around these obstacles, Fedor Feshchenko entered the mining and metallurgical technical school and from there at the age of 17 went to the front. In 1944, his regiment was redeployed to the Belarusian fronts. And already as part of the 3rd Fedor Feshchenko participated in the liberation operation "Bagration". Within a week managed to knock out the invaders from Vitebsk, Orsha, then Borisov. On his birthday, I welcome guests and never get tired of telling about his experiences, again and again reminding of the value of peace.
Fedor Feshchenko, participant of the Great Patriotic War: The people know what war is, and we will do everything to prevent it. We have finally achieved full sovereignty. Sovereignty. We decide our own destiny. We decide how we live. We will defend our chosen way of life and our sovereignty.
Visitors come here often, not just on their birthday. To recharge it, it seems, inexhaustible energy and a positive attitude to life, and on the holiday also with gifts!
