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5 unknown Russian heroesHISTORY NOV 30 2018 GEORGY MANAEV...4. Georgiy Sinyakov, the 'Soviet Schindler'A Russian doctor helped save thousands while held in a German prison of war camp.Georgiy Sinyakov, 38, was drafted in June 1941 as a military doctor, but in October 1941 he was captured by the Nazis and sent to Stalag III-C, which was 80 km east of Berlin. There, he became a camp doctor after passing a kind of “examâ€: barefoot in the cold over the course of 4 hours he masterfully operated on someone’s abdomen.Sinyakov decided to act to save as many prisoners as he could. His method was simple: he treated wounded and infected patients, but often reported to the Germans that the medication didn’t work and that the patient died. At night, dead bodies were taken out and dumped into a ditch. Then, the ‘dead’ patients had a chance to escape to Soviet territory, (Sinyakov and his accomplices supplied the escaping prisoners with hand-copied maps and a compass).Read more at: https://www.rbth.com/history/329611-5-unknown-russian-heroes
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