Poster "In the name of companions"

Poster from the series of the exploits of Soviet soldiers during the great Patriotic war. Artist N. N. Gorbach. The plot of this poster is associated with the feat ion Soltys. Poster A3, the reverse net. The state of preservation is good.

Ion (John) Sidorovich Soltys (5 September 1923 — 11 Feb 1945) — hero of the Soviet Union, a machine gunner 548 th infantry regiment (116 th infantry division, 52 army, 1 St Ukrainian front), the red army. Born September 5, 1923 in the village of Kuzmin Kamensky district is now the Republic of Moldova in the family of a shepherd. Ukrainian. Graduated from primary school. He worked on the farm.

When the war began, and entered the village, the Germans went to fight in the guerrilla unit. Met on the road construction Kuzmin—stove with Secretary Kamenskaya underground organization. Then began to distribute leaflets in the villages of Kuzmin, Ocnita, pear with news from the front. March 18, 1944, the vanguard of the red Army and partisan detachment under the command of Yakov Bulgakov Mukhina liberated the village Kuzmin.

In April 1944, the ion along with cousins Maxim and Yemelyan was drafted into the army. In early may 1944 after training in a reserve regiment 2 first Ukrainian front from marching the company was sent to the front. Baptism Soltys received during the crossing of the Dniester river in the district Rybnitsa-Rezina. They liberated the Germans from his village. In the first battle was wounded and taken to hospital in Checheny village, Rezina district. After the treatment, which lasted two months, sent to 548 th infantry regiment.

The red ion Soltys in battle February 11, 1945, during the breakthrough of enemy defenses in the village of Luisenthal on the beaver river (now in the city Kedzierzyn-Kozle, Poland) one of the first to overcome the river and the fire covered the crossing of the river company. In the battle for Luisenthal grenades suppressed a machine-gun of the enemy. However, another machine gun, hidden in the bunker and continued to fire. Soltys, already being wounded, gathered his last strength, and closed the embrasure with his body. The cost of life contributed to the implementation of the combat mission unit. He was buried on the battlefield.