“I don’t want to be a burden...”

A participant in the Great Patriotic War committed suicide without waiting for the housing promised by the head of state

In the Muromtsevsky district of the Omsk region, on June 16, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, a disabled person of group I, Vera Vasilievna Konishcheva, committed suicide. According to the testimony of fellow villagers, she drank a bottle of vinegar, leaving a suicide note: "Don't...

In the Muromtsevsky district of the Omsk region, on June 16, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, a disabled person of group I, Vera Vasilievna Konishcheva, committed suicide. According to the testimony of fellow villagers, she drank a bottle of vinegar, leaving a suicide note: "I do not want to be a burden to anyone." The fact of suicide was confirmed by forensic experts.

We talked about the conditions in which a 91-year-old woman lived, who went through almost the entire war as a signalman, from the beginning of 1942 until Victory Day, on May 24 in the article “A century is not necessary for a century.” Vera Vasilievna lived alone in a poorly equipped house - without heating, gas, water. For 2 hours a day, except for weekends, a social worker came, but otherwise she had to cope with the household on her own - to heat the stove, walk with buckets to the column. According to the deputy of the district council Alexander Rakhno, the grandmother was inspired by the president's promise to provide all war veterans with human housing. Rakhno helped collect documents for a housing certificate, but the district administration denied Konishcheva the right to receive it, referring to the fact that she had more than enough living space. Vera Vasilievna wrote a letter to the Omsk Governor L.K. Polezhaev. There was no response from the regional head. Rakhno took a package of documents to V.V. Konishcheva to the regional government, but there, according to him, at that time there were no responsible persons who could accept these papers. Then he sent them to the administration of the President of the Russian Federation. Some time ago, says Alexander Vitalyevich, an order came from there to the regional leadership, redirected to the Muromtsevsky district: “Solve the issue of providing housing and notify ...” But, as it turned out, the head of state is not a decree for district officials. “A few days before my grandmother’s death,” Rakhno recalls, “the administration’s lawyer told me: “We are preparing material for refusal.” It turns out that the municipal government ignored the direct instructions of the president, as well as the law adopted earlier on his initiative (approved by the State Duma on April 16) - on providing housing for veterans, regardless of their property status.

Another Muromtsev deputy, Dmitry Shchekotov, believes that the prosecutor's office is obliged to initiate a criminal case against the first persons of the district under the article "Incitement to suicide." In the region, Dmitry Dmitrievich says, there are still many veterans of the Great Patriotic War living in inhuman conditions: “There are four of them in only two villages in my district, Kurganka and Mikhailovka. And neither the district authorities nor the local authorities care about these people.”