Victor Gryaznov February 4, 2016
The kamikaze in Siberia
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Vasya Iko — "a wind of gods"
In the village Dzerzhinsk Krasnoyarsk region in post-war years there lived the former Japanese pilot suicide bomber whom locals named on the Russian harmony Vasya.
Task failure
During the Great Patriotic War pilots - suicide bombers were generally used for destruction of surface ships of the opponent. According to the American sources, during World War II of the kamikaze sank 45 and put about 300 fighting courts out of action.
Vasya Iko was born in Japan in February, 1926 Was called and served in the Air Force 1 years and 5 months. In the last flight it rose in August, 1945 - it had a task to dive with killing freight on strategic object in the USSR.
However in air in the Japanese soldier internal fight began: between a debt and fear of death, between the received installation and common sense. I won against a self-preservation instinct - Vasya put the plane in the Soviet airfield.
Court. Captivity. Three years in the Siberian camps. Then the Soviet authorities defined a place of the settlement of the Japanese - the regional center Dzerzhinsk Krasnoyarsk Krai.
Love to the Russian women
In Siberia Vasya grew roots quickly enough: hardworking and persistent, without effort I learned Russian and I settled the stove-setter on a local boiler room. The Japanese and the foreman of construction crew managed to work. According to the former colleagues, I was very competent expert. Home Vasya wasn't torn - why if there he was waited for certain by the death penalty?Женился Вася Ико в 1952 году на русской девушке. Вместе они прожили 35 лет, родили трех дочерей, а те им - 6 внуков.
Now to Japanese Vasya's spouse of 79 years, she lives alone and conducts simple subsidiary farm. Says that about the Japanese past of the late husband doesn't know anything.
- In family life he was the excellent owner and the careful father. One had a shortcoming - strongly for the Russian women was eager. As in the people speak, still that "walker". Long time it had a mistress, even the daughter to her managed "to cook up"! - telling about this fact, the granny tastefully swore.
According to the spouse, for many years Vasya Iko achieved permission to visit to Japan for a meeting with relatives. Only in the late eighties it could meet the sister. It was succeeded to stay for a while in the country of the Rising Sun only 6 days.
As Vasya's wife was expressed, "he had to scram from there carelessly". That he worried then what feelings had, it is difficult to tell. After the end of war 61 years passed. Time erased many contradictions. For those who sent it to death, he remained the traitor, the deserter. For us, Russians, he is the deserter who prevented destructions and death of people.
P.S. Unfortunately, didn't remain any photo of Japanese Vasya. According to his spouse, it very much didn't like to be photographed.
"AIF" - the REFERENCE
The kamikaze - "a wind of gods". According to a legend, troops Chinghiz khan didn't manage to intrude in Japan because of intervention of the highest forces. The crossing built from a huge number of boats and floorings laid on them had to serve as the floating bridge for transition of a cavalry from the continent on Japanese islands. Suddenly begun hurricane destroyed it. From here went: the kamikaze - a hurricane - "a wind of gods".
Victor GRYAZNOV
The Dzerzhinsk - Krasnoyarsk
Arguments and the facts on Yenisei 06.09.2006
Kamikazes set fire to the American ship.
Then I wrote the scenario and shot the documentary which on out of competitive display 11 international festivals in Kansk gained the diploma
Iko's Takudz with the sister in Japan.
Generally conversation with the kamikaze's spouse at the initial stage at me didn't develop. I am not a doctor to make diagnoses, but in my opinion, the granny was in slight marasmus, and perhaps took a jaundiced view to journalists. The neighbor rescued a situation. The garrulous old man who approached several minutes later. Odette it was in a padded jacket, kersey boots, on the head a cap of a style 50 - x years of the last century. Generally he about Takudzi Iko told everything that knew. The granny already looking at it I
Takudzi Iko's spouse.
Neighbor Takudzi Iko
Younger daughter Takudzi Iko.
When there was an idea to shoot the movie, I thought, as without photo of the main character. It to me was sent by the younger daughter Tatyana. Subsequently I met it and made conversation video which included in the movie. It works in regional library. Pretty woman. I told about the father that he was very hardworking. Itself, without drawings I learned to put furnaces. - I filled with smoke the first which it brought together. It was necessary to sort it and after the carried-out recalculations, to put anew. In many villages of the area, some furnaces still serve the owners and those with gratitude remember the former pilot - the suicide bomber.
She told also that the father was tormented very strongly by nostalgia. At the moments of revelations, I said that if possessed literary abilities, would tell to people history of the drama. That worried that gained …
In 1944 the first group of the kamikaze was created. They were addressed by the admiral Onisi. It depicted a picture so that the highest military country leaders powerlessly and that the special hope is laid on pilots - suicide bombers. They have to break the war course. The first attacks caused an essential los
The kamikaze's plane on low-level flight reached the American ship
to the American ships. In connections the panic began. But over time Americans learned to reflect attacks of the kamikaze. Through heavy protecting fire of antiaircraft guns, very seldom planes reached the purpose. Japanese too replaced tactics, started approaching the ships at low height, on low-level flight
Pilots - suicide bombers before a fighting departure.
Originally in groups recruited only volunteers and only those who had no children. One Japanese strongly wanted that her husband got to group of the kamikaze, but it didn't take as they had two children. To achieve
the purpose, the woman killed the juvenile children. The American command from this news felt shock and coded information.
At school of pilots - suicide bombers at the instructor very complex challenge How to train pilots for suicide. Here speech of one psychologist: "So you fly up to the purpose. You can already consider rivets onboard the enemy ship. Suddenly before you there is a face of your mother. She doesn't cry. No. In total, as always. Then you hear a sound as though the crystal vase broke. You aren't present more"
The Syusuy project had to become deification in the movement of the kamikaze. Pilots should operate the jet plane - a shell, for defeat of the purposes on the western coast of the USA. In 1944 when the outcome of war was predetermined, in the 3rd Reich hearings about the punishment weapon, a miracle - the weapon began to be exaggerated more intensively. The leadership of Japan appealed to allies to share drawings of the new weapon. The ground was located in the suburb of the city of Matsumoto of prefecture of Nagano. The place was chosen ideally as the town was reliably covered by mountain ranges from both coasts. Technical documentation was sent through Spain on the submarine. Having overcome part of a way the submarine sank. It was succeeded to rescue not all drawings. The first tests which are carried out in the middle of the summer of 1945 terminated unsuccessfully, the pilot was lost as the jet plane had no catapult. The initial plan, use of the new weapon for attacks of the western coast of the USA, was changed. It was necessary to rescue the territory from bombings by its flying fortresses of B - 29 which height of flight made 10000 meters, and Japanese 8000. Capitulation of Japan gave up as a bad job the Syusuy project.
Unfortunately, in Japanese society attempts to revive a fanatical aura round pilots - suicide bombers are periodically made. Books are written and movies are shot. The doctrine about a certain historical mission of Japan - "to collect eight corners under one roof" brought the country to a suicide cult.
As a subject sad as at us in Russia, suicide a grave sin and to finish on a major note, I will tell the old, forgotten joke. It not absolutely to a place, but is mentioned in it by "kamikaze".
So:
Stierlitz received an encryption from the center: "Prepare for transfer to other region. Your new secret-service pseudonym - "Kamikaze".
"Everything is clear", - Stierlitz thought, - "transfer to Georgia"
Iko's Takudz on Red Square in Moscow.
Krasnoyarsk - Dzerzhinsk - Denisovo