Phrases by V. F. Margelov
“Anyone who wears, or has ever worn, blue shoulder straps with airborne emblems will proudly pronounce the words all his life: I AM A PATRONOUSER!”
“A paratrooper is a concentrated will, a strong character and the ability to take risks.”
“Airborne forces are courage of the highest class, courage of the first category, combat readiness number one.”
“Anyone who has never left an airplane, from where cities and villages seem like toys, who has never experienced the joy and fear of a free fall, a whistle in the ears, a stream of wind hitting the chest, will never understand the honor and pride of a paratrooper.”
“Only a paratrooper knows the true price of life. For he looks death in the eye more often than others.”
“Any paratrooper should be such that young women, admiring him, if not give themselves to him, then at least think about it.”
“In case of war, the guys in blue berets will be thrown into the jaws of the aggressor, with the goal of tearing this jaws apart.”
“My first shot is on target!”
“If you can’t drink vodka, drink water; if you can’t drink water, eat earth!”
“Paratroopers are people who can go gray or remain forever young in people’s memories.”
“Airborne forces are courage, perseverance, success, pressure, prestige.”
“The jump is not an end in itself, but a means of entering into battle.”
“This is exactly the case when the commander, commander, military leader found his Troops, and the Troops found their Commander”
“Margelov and the Airborne Forces are inseparable!”
“To sit in the saddle, your butt is enough, but to stay in the saddle, you also need your head.”
“Even death is not an excuse for not following a combat order.”
“Knocked down - fight on your knees, if you can’t walk - attack while lying down.”
“There are patrons - there is food!”
“From any heights - into any heat!”
“Any task, any time!”
“A paratrooper must know only two operations of mathematics: subtract and divide.”
“Don’t get in the way of the paratrooper - you risk becoming a mystery to the surgeon.”
“These guys in blue berets cannot be broken, they cannot be scared mentally and physically. Even though I’m 68, I’ll go anywhere with them. We will cut out half of Romania in one night, and take over Europe in a week. It’s just a pity that they only serve for 2 years, otherwise I would have turned them into real thugs.”
“As for Margelov, it is known that nothing can scare this man. He will crawl, but he will carry out the order on time.”
War with Germany
Literally three days before the start of the Great Patriotic War, Vasily Filippovich Margelov (his biography says that his real name is Markelov) receives a new army appointment. He becomes the regimental commander of the first motorized rifle division, based in Berezovka.
With the beginning of hostilities against the Nazis, a Soviet officer was appointed to the post of commander of the first special ski regiment of KBF sailors.
In general, Margelov went through the entire war, rising to the rank of major general. Under his leadership there were regiments and divisions. His fighters fought on a variety of fronts, and he himself established himself as an experienced, energetic, fearless and demanding commander, able to show courage by personal example in critical situations.
A short biography of Vasily Filippovich Margelov also tells us that this man’s whole life was full of trials. He had eight wounds, two of which were very serious.
Margelov's aphorisms
An incident occurred in Spain. When the bulls were released onto the city streets, unknown guys in vests shouted “FOR THE VDV. "drove them back...))))
Yesterday there were three holidays: Railwayman's Day, Airborne Forces Day and Ilyin's Day. Imagine the condition in which the railway worker Ilya, who served in the Airborne Forces, was by the evening!)))))
They say that such an incident happened to V.F. Margelov. The duty officer calls him from the police station and says: “Vasily Filippovich, we detained two of your drunken paratroopers here in the city. “To which Margelov answered him: “...no, these are not my paratroopers!” and hung up. A short amount of time passes, and the phone rings again in Margelov’s house. The policeman says in an excited, excited voice: “Vasily Filippovich! Two of your paratroopers, who were detained by a police squad today and taken to the police station, sobered up, beat the squad, destroyed the duty station, broke a window and ran away through it. “And then V.F. Margelov said: “Yes! These are my paratroopers!”
A long time ago, in the hot nineties, my wife served in the Airborne Forces. No, living with her is not dangerous, even simple, But the stupidity still remains in my head.
She doesn't hit bottles on her head, breaking them beautifully with her hand. He will clench his fist and hit you like a baton, but he cleans up the fragments after himself.
She was a parachute handler. Responsibility, of course, is an eye-opener. Fold the lines without mixing anything up. And she jumped herself seventeen times.
On the second of August, the wife laces up the ankle boots, the vest - the T-shirt, the worn beret. Tattoo: in a cloud, like a heart - Parachutist, AN twelfth, dawn.
He puts the keys and documents on the table, waves from the doorway: “Wait for me, man!”... And off to the park. Fountains, beer, incidents, But at nine he returns like a bayonet.
We'll have a drink together, two former soldiers. I even know my wife’s main toast: “Come on, brother!” Although you are from a construction battalion, but no one except us! And who, if not us?”
What is the main holiday in August? Of course - AIRborne Forces DAY! We celebrate it throughout the whole country, Concerts are on TV...
Men in vests walk along the streets, And their flag flies with pride, Takes a blue one with a star on the plaque, To the heroes - all the blessings of life...
Russian landing force - you have no equal in the world! You are courage, bravery and honor! There are no cooler men on this vast planet, Don’t go to Russia with anger!
Otherwise, see for yourself how the Motherland sings in your souls... Therefore, it’s better not to be angry with the Russians, After all, each of them is a PATRIOT.
Joke. Two patients in a cast are talking in the surgical ward. 1st-What happened to you? 2nd - The car hit me. And you? 1st - I identified myself. I walked down the street. I see two men hugging and kissing. I told them, “Are you blue p...s, completely crazy?”...But it turned out that it was the day of the Airborne Forces.
✔ Airborne Forces Day and Gay Pride are combined! Just what is this strange smell? These are gays... they realized with fear why men need their butts!) © zulnora
The reserve guard sergeant, putting on his best suit, took vodka, bread and a glass and all of yesterday's pay. I bought flowers so that there would be two for everyone. Having caught a car for eight hundred, he said: “Let’s go to the cemetery!” He took out a pack of Elam from his trousers and whistled with his right lung, taking a deep drag: A splinter lodged in the lung from a cunningly hidden tripwire...
"Great, pincers!"
— Vasily Filippovich had a difficult childhood and youth. What episodes from that period did he remember most often?
— At the age of 16, in Ekaterinoslav, the future Dnepropetrovsk, he went to work at the Kalinin mine. When the team was breaking through a new drift, a collapse occurred. The miners were cut off from the outside world. For three days without water or food, they chiseled away at the rock in the hope of getting out of the dungeon. Some sat already exhausted, others simply prayed. Father and three miners continued to wield pick and shovel. Even then his will to win was evident. On the fourth day after the next blow, they saw the light... My father remembered these days in the dark mine very often.
— Tell us about the ski trip from Minsk to Moscow, which your father organized as a cadet.
— He then studied at the Minsk Military School. He was the foreman of a machine gun company. For excellent shooting he received a personal self-loading pistol TK from the Tula designer Korovin. In 1931, on the eve of the 17th Congress of the Communist Party, cadets decided to organize a high-speed ski race from Minsk to Moscow to greet the party congress.
My father had good physical fitness. Before he was drafted into the army, he worked as a forester, rode a lot and went skiing. During that transition, he personally selected people. We walked for several days on simple army skis and boards, in boots, and with Budenovka boots on our heads. The load was such that all the longitudinal grooves on the skis were erased. But the cadets arrived in Moscow on time. Years later, Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Yakubovsky said to his father: “Do you remember, Vasily, how you didn’t take me on a ski trip?” His father turned down fellow student Vanya Yakubovsky because of his poor skiing skills, despite the fact that they were friends. And then he laughed it off: “But you became a marshal!”
— Vasily Filippovich could have become a pilot, he studied at a pilot school in Orenburg, mastered the U-2 multi-purpose biplane. Why didn't your flying career work out?
— Before being drafted into the army, my father wanted to become a tank driver. But it turned out to be too big for those cars. My father entered flight school in December 1932, but did not study there for long. At that time, the cadets used a reworked song about Budyonny and Voroshilov, which they performed to the tune of a song about the Cavalry Army. Dad was once sitting in a classroom, cleaning a pistol and singing in a low voice:
“If you were sitting, Budyonny, on a horse,
I would have held on by the tail with Voroshilov together.
You should sit on the mare, don’t fly on the Liberty,
You're boring, fucking boring."
And then the commissar appeared at the door... In general, my father was expelled from the flight school, given a reprimand along the party line. He returned to the Minsk Military School, from which he recently graduated with honors. Became a platoon commander.
— How did it happen that at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he commanded a disciplinary battalion?
— It was on the Leningrad Front. My father had the Finnish war behind him, he commanded a reconnaissance ski battalion, and during one of the raids he captured General Staff officers. When disciplinary battalions began to be formed, the most experienced, trained commanders were placed at their head.
So in October 1941, my father headed the 15th separate disciplinary battalion. He accepted the disbat in a very unique way. In the dugout intended for the command, the criminals settled down and established their own rules. They sat, drank moonshine, and greeted the new commander with abuse. The father immediately hit the thieve who was sitting at the head of the table in the ear. Everything immediately became clear to everyone else.
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There were many military officers in the disbat, including senior ones, as well as junior commanders and soldiers who stumbled, violated orders in some way, or became cowardly. My father relied on them. We fought together.
The battalion was preparing for the defense of Leningrad, the soldiers were digging in in their area. And Georgy Zhukov, who was appointed commander of the Leningrad Front, came to the front line. Seeing how cleverly the defensive line was arranged, he called his father and said: “Major, here you must stand to the death, the Germans must not break through to Leningrad. No one but you will do this." Dad repeated in a whisper: “Nobody but us.”
Thus, the future motto of the paratroopers was born on the front line.
The “disciplinarians” loved the commander for his courage and justice. More than once they saved the life of their battalion commander. My father told how once, during an artillery shelling, he came out into the open and was immediately knocked down and covered by three of his fighters with their bodies. They protected their commander from shrapnel. This attitude had to be earned.
“They say that somehow Major Vasily Margelov managed to convince the sailors to change their black peacoats to dark green ones. Was?
— The situation on the outskirts of Leningrad has become difficult. The command decided to remove the sailors of the Baltic Fleet from the ships and form regiments from them. My father was appointed commander of the 1st Special Ski Regiment. When he joined the regiment, the sailors greeted him unkindly, saying that the infantry had come to command the sailors. Dad quickly got his bearings, when everyone somehow lined up, he said: “Great, claws!” And they realized that he knew something about maritime affairs. In a short time, my father managed to gain their trust.
On Ladoga they paved the “road of life.” Snow fell in autumn. They decided to dress the sailors in khaki trousers and pea coats of a dark green color. But they refused to dress up as “infantry.” And this was already direct disobedience to the order. The father turned to them: “Brothers, I respect your naval traditions, but let’s change your clothes. In your pea coats you will be like black crows in the snow, a good target. And I need you alive.” Reluctantly, they agreed, but still left the vest and cap.
The father recalled the subsequent events with great pain. Due to the incompetent command, almost the entire landing force, 800 people, died in the Shlisselburg operation. The sailors fought to the death. They fought hand-to-hand for more than a day. But there was no support from either infantry or artillery. The father was seriously wounded. Then the case of the commander and commissar of the 80th division was considered by the tribunal. My father came to the hearing on crutches as a witness. Divisional commander Frolov and commissar Ivanov were sentenced to death.
Years later, having become the commander of the Airborne Forces, remembering the prowess of the “brothers” on the Leningrad Front, my father ensured that the paratroopers received the right to wear vests. But to emphasize their belonging to the sky, the stripes on their vests became blue.
— Why did Vasily Margelov receive the title of Hero of the Soviet Union?
- For crossing the Dnieper and taking Kherson. This was in March 1944. My father’s division was then stationed on the left bank of the Dnieper. The Germans strongly fortified the right bank to prevent our troops from crossing. My father carefully prepared the division for a breakthrough. The training took place on a nearby lake. The order was this: to cross the Dnieper according to the situation. One night my father couldn’t sleep. He came out of the dugout, it was pouring rain, and a squally wind was blowing. The Dnieper has just become free of ice. My father thought that in such bad weather the Krauts had taken refuge in shelters; clearly no one was waiting for them. And I decided to start crossing.
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He called the commander of the right-flank 149th Infantry Regiment and asked which company he had the most prepared? It turned out that the company of machine gunners of senior lieutenant Semyon Gumenyuk. The soldiers were alerted. The father said: “Sons, let’s go to the right bank, whoever is with me, take a step forward.” The whole company stepped up, 67 people. They managed to break through with heavily loaded boats. When we jumped out to the right bank, a bayonet attack began. The company fortified itself on a small bridgehead. And a massive attack was launched on this patch. For three days they fought off one attack after another. But there was still no reinforcement. Ammunition was running out. Twice they radioed for their own artillery fire. Of the 67 fighters, 14 survived. But their breakthrough allowed first one regiment of the division to cross under heavy fire to the right bank of the Dnieper, and then others. They began to develop an offensive along the Dnieper and took Kherson. My father's 49th division became known as Kherson, and he received the title of Hero.
— My father liberated Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria. Participated in the Victory Parade. Did you remember those events?
“I always spoke about this with great pride.” One combined regiment was assembled from the entire 2nd Ukrainian Front. And the front commander at the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945 entrusted his father with command of this combined regiment. In the first rank were ten guardsmen from his 49th division.
Quotes about paratroopers and airborne forces
Airborne forces are courage, perseverance, strength and victory. Airborne troops are designed to carry out targets behind enemy lines, destroy enemy groups and other complex tasks. Airborne Forces Day is a memorable day. August 2 marks the birthday of the Soviet Airborne Forces. Airborne troops are designed to carry out missions behind enemy lines to disrupt command and control, capture and destroy ground elements of high-precision weapons, disrupt advances, disrupt the work of the rear and communications, as well as cover (defense) certain directions, areas, open flanks, block and destroying landed airborne troops, breaking through enemy groups and performing other tasks.
The best quotes about the Airborne Forces
“Anyone who wears, or has ever worn, blue shoulder straps with airborne emblems will proudly pronounce the words all his life: I AM A PATRONOUSER!”
“A paratrooper is a concentrated will, a strong character and the ability to take risks.”
“Airborne forces are courage of the highest class, courage of the first category, combat readiness number one.”
“Anyone who has never left an airplane, from where cities and villages seem like toys, who has never experienced the joy and fear of a free fall, a whistle in the ears, a stream of wind hitting the chest, will never understand the honor and pride of a paratrooper.”
“Only a paratrooper knows the true price of life. For he looks death in the eye more often than others.”
“Any paratrooper should be such that young women, admiring him, if not give themselves to him, then at least think about it.”
“In case of war, the guys in blue berets will be thrown into the jaws of the aggressor, with the goal of tearing this jaws apart.”
“My first shot is on target!”
“If you can’t drink vodka, drink water; if you can’t drink water, eat earth!”
“Paratroopers are people who can go gray or remain forever young in people’s memories.”
“Airborne forces are courage, perseverance, success, pressure, prestige.”
“The jump is not an end in itself, but a means of entering into battle.”
Hero Rewards
General Margelov was awarded a great many awards during his life, which are extremely difficult to list. Among them are not only the regalia of the USSR, but foreign orders and medals. The highest title he was awarded is, of course, Hero of the Soviet Union.
In addition, monuments to Vasily Filippovich were erected in his native Dnepropetrovsk, as well as in Omsk, Tula, Ryazan, St. Petersburg, Ulyanovsk and other cities and villages.
Today, the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation has the “Army General Margelov” medal.
In February 2010, a bust of the general was erected in Kherson as an eternal tribute to his memory. Also, a memorial plaque has now been hung on the house in which he lived for twenty years in the capital of the Union.
The date of death of the famous military man is March 4, 1990. He was interred at the Novodevichy cemetery, which is located in Moscow.
Vasily Filippovich Margelov. Phrases
“Anyone who has never left an airplane, from where cities and villages seem like toys, who has never experienced the joy and fear of a free fall, a whistle in the ears, a stream of wind hitting the chest, will never understand the honor and pride of a paratrooper.” V. F. Margelov
“Anyone who wears, or has ever worn, blue shoulder straps with airborne emblems will proudly pronounce the words all his life: I AM A PATRONOUSER!
“A paratrooper is a concentrated will, a strong character and the ability to take risks.”
“Airborne forces are courage of the highest class, courage of the first category, combat readiness number one.”
“Any paratrooper should be such that young women, admiring him, if not give themselves to him, then at least think about it.”
“In case of war, the guys in blue berets will be thrown into the jaws of the aggressor, with the goal of tearing this jaws apart.”
“My first shot is on target!”
“If you can’t drink vodka, drink water; if you can’t drink water, eat earth!”
“Paratroopers are people who can go gray or remain forever young in people’s memories.”
“Even death is not an excuse for not following a combat order.”
“There are cartridges - there is food!”
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Quotes from paratrooper No. 1 Vasily Filippovich Margelov
“Anyone who wears, or has ever worn, blue shoulder straps with airborne emblems will proudly pronounce the words all his life: I AM A PATRONOUSER!”
“A paratrooper is a concentrated will, a strong character and the ability to take risks.”
“Airborne forces are courage of the highest class, courage of the first category, combat readiness number one.”
“Anyone who has never left an airplane, from where cities and villages seem like toys, who has never experienced the joy and fear of a free fall, a whistle in the ears, a stream of wind hitting the chest, will never understand the honor and pride of a paratrooper.”
“Only a paratrooper knows the true price of life. For he looks death in the eye more often than others.”
“Any paratrooper should be such that young women, admiring him, if not give themselves to him, then at least think about it.”
“In case of war, the guys in blue berets will be thrown into the jaws of the aggressor, with the goal of tearing this jaws apart.”
“My first shot is on target!”
“If you can’t drink vodka, drink water; if you can’t drink water, eat earth!”
“Paratroopers are people who can go gray or remain forever young in people’s memories.”
“Airborne forces are courage, perseverance, success, pressure, prestige.”
“The jump is not an end in itself, but a means of entering into battle.”
“To sit in the saddle, your butt is enough, but to stay in the saddle, you also need your head.”
“Even death is not an excuse for not following a combat order.”
“Knocked down - fight on your knees, if you can’t walk - attack while lying down.”
“There are cartridges - there is food!”
“From any heights - into any heat!”
“Any task, any time!”
“A paratrooper must know only two operations of mathematics: subtract and divide.”
“Don’t get in the way of the paratrooper - you risk becoming a mystery to the surgeon.”
“These guys in blue berets cannot be broken, they cannot be scared mentally and physically. Even though I’m 68, I’ll go anywhere with them. We will cut out half of Romania in one night, and take over Europe in a week. It’s just a pity that they only serve for 2 years, otherwise I would have turned them into real thugs.”
Behind the "Centaur" - "Reactaur"
After the war, having graduated from the Voroshilov Military Academy, Vasily Margelov commanded the 76th Guards Chernigov Red Banner Airborne Division, and in 1950 in the Far East he headed the 37th Guards Airborne Svirsky Red Banner Corps.
And then unexpectedly came a call to Moscow. According to some reports, in June 1953, Vasily Margelov participated in the arrest of Lavrenty Beria, and then guarded him in the General Staff bunker.
“My father never talked about it, it was all so secret.” But there is indirect evidence that Georgy Zhukov ordered him to Moscow. I took him into this group, and his father participated in the arrest of Beria,” says Vitaly Vasilyevich.
A year later, Vasily Margelov was appointed commander of the Airborne Forces.
— My father accepted troops in May 1954. Under his command, the infantry became truly winged. The Airborne Forces received the An-22 Antey and Il-76 aircraft, new parachute systems, and an assault rifle with a shortened barrel and a folding stock. Five new airfields and excellent shooting ranges were built.
They began to land not only people, but also artillery, military equipment, cars, and field kitchens. But after landing, the paratroopers found themselves scattered within a radius of several kilometers from their tracked combat vehicles and spent a lot of time finding them and starting to move. Then my father thought about a way to land the crew directly in the vehicle. The risk was huge, but the gain in time was colossal.
— A complex with a multi-dome parachute system and a special platform for landing a combat vehicle, called “Centaur,” has been tested many times. For two years, special pile drivers were used to drop cars with people, who simulated their landing by parachute. Special space chairs were developed for the crew.
The method was revolutionary. Many were categorically against the innovations that Margelov tried to introduce.
“But Defense Minister Andrei Grechko treated my father very well and helped him in many ways, despite the resistance of the staff. And when Dad finally convinced him to allow the landing of the equipment along with the crew, Grechko asked: “Which of the paratroopers will land inside the vehicle?” - the father took a step forward and said: “I am!” My father was already over 60 at the time. He was confident in the success of the tests. But the Minister of Defense “slowed him down” and said: “Don’t mess it up.”
He forbade the commander of the Airborne Forces to risk himself. Then Dad said that his youngest son, paratrooper Alexander Margelov, would take his place in the crew. By that time, Sasha had graduated from the missile department of the Moscow Aviation Institute, then as an external student from the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School and the Military Academy of Armored Forces, and entered service in the scientific and technical committee of the Airborne Forces. I prepared very seriously for these experiments. At the medical commission they wanted to “hack him to death” just to prevent this landing. But Grechko gave the go-ahead. Everything worked out. The release of the BMD-1 airborne combat vehicle from the An-12 military transport aircraft on January 5, 1973 was successful. It has been proven that paratroopers can engage in combat immediately after landing.
For a long time there was a story that all this time Vasily Filippovich Margelov kept a loaded pistol in his pocket in case of failure, and when everything went as expected, he gave that only cartridge as a souvenir to his son.
“This didn’t happen,” says Vitaly Vasilyevich categorically. “The fact that the day before he gave Alexander his naval vest, which he had kept since the war, and during the landing at the command post he smoked a pack of White Sea Canal, is true. And the story with the Mauser is a fiction. This even somewhat impoverishes the image of the father. The journalists came up with a story about the patron, and his wife Annushka, Anna Alexandrovna, liked it.
Three years later, Major Alexander Margelov and Lieutenant Colonel Leonid Shcherbakov set a new record. On January 23, 1976, they parachuted inside the BMD-1 using a parachute-rocket system called “Reactavr”. Their car fell over the edge of the cargo hatch and went down 800 meters. For some time the paratroopers flew upside down. The brake and then the main parachutes opened. The car was swinging like a pendulum. Radio communication failed... We were guided by the altimeter device. When we landed, we immediately removed the car from the platform, went through an obstacle course, and carried out firing.
But the paratroopers received the title of Heroes of the Russian Federation only 20 years later, in August 1996.
— First one marshal died, then another, the papers for the award were lost somewhere. My father did not interfere in these matters,” Vitaly Vasilyevich continues to say. — And in 1996, Alexander Lebed, who was then the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, reminded President Boris Yeltsin of this first landing in the world. He agreed that the paratroopers were actually heroes. They risked more than the astronauts then, and the president ordered the preparation of a corresponding decree.
Vasily Filippovich Margelov still had his favorite weapon from the front - the Mauser, which he never parted with.
“Once we were sitting at my father’s dacha, and he said: “You know, son, don’t be offended, but I’ll give the Mauser to Sashka.” I agreed with this.
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Career
In 1931, Margelov was appointed platoon commander of the regimental school. And at the beginning of 1933, he returned to his native educational institution, also to the position of platoon commander.
Vasily Filippovich Margelov, whose biography is full of various key dates, became the commander of the company of machine gunners in May 1936.
Since January 25, 1938, he has held the post of head of all intelligence of the Eighth Infantry Division named after Dzerzhinsky of the Special Military District of Belarus.
MARGELOV Vasily
In the event of war, guys in blue berets will be thrown into the jaws of the aggressor, with the goal of tearing this jaws apart. — Vasily Margelov
Airborne troops are courage of the highest class, courage of the first category, combat readiness number one. — Vasily Margelov
Even death is not an excuse for failure to comply with a combat order. — Vasily Margelov
A paratrooper is a concentrated will, a strong character and the ability to take risks. — Vasily Margelov
A paratrooper must know only two operations of mathematics: subtract and divide. — Vasily Margelov
If you are knocked down, fight on your knees. You can’t get up, you have to step while lying down. — Vasily Margelov
Only a paratrooper knows the true value of life. For he looks death in the eye more often than others. — Vasily Margelov
Any task - at any time! — Vasily Margelov
Any paratrooper should be such that young women, admiring him, if not give themselves to him, then at least think about it. — Vasily Margelov
Don't get in the way of the paratrooper - otherwise you risk becoming a mystery to the surgeon. — Vasily Margelov
There are cartridges - there is food! — Vasily Margelov
From any heights - into any heat! — Vasily Margelov
Knocked down - fight on your knees, if you can’t walk - attack while lying down. — Vasily Margelov
To sit in the saddle, your butt is enough, but to stay in the saddle, you also need your head. — Vasily Margelov
Anyone who has never left an airplane, from where cities and villages seem like toys, who has never experienced the joy and fear of a free fall, a whistle in the ears, a stream of wind beating on the chest, will never understand the honor and pride of a paratrooper. — Vasily Margelov
Anyone who wears, or has ever worn, blue shoulder straps with paratrooper emblems will proudly pronounce the words all his life: I am a paratrooper! — Vasily Margelov
Milestones in the life of a commander
The father of the Airborne Forces was born on December twenty-seventh, 1908. Vasily Margelov is a native of Ukraine, because his hometown is present-day Dnepropetrovsk (at that time Yekaterinoslav). He came from a simple working-class family. Vasily's father was a metallurgist. In addition to the future military leader, the family had three more sons and one daughter. Naturally, they lived quite poorly. The head of the family was forced to work day and night in the foundry. All children were active helpers around the house. Vasily Margelov was accustomed to work from a very early age and went to work early. His first profession was leatherworking, and a little later - working in a mine, where he pushed trolleys filled with coal. In 1921, the young man graduated from parochial school. And in 1923 he became a member of the Komsomol.
In 1925, he was assigned to Belarus as a forester. He took this work extremely responsibly, daily inspecting the many kilometers of land, both in winter and summer. Thanks to his zeal and dedication, poaching completely disappeared in his area.
The year 1927 was marked for the young man by his election to the position of chairman of the working committee of the timber industry enterprise. He is also approved as the head of the tax commission and a candidate member of the party.
