Will Khabirov save common soldier Ryan Nikiforov (crossed out) from his mother?

The mother of seven sons, milkmaid Nina Nikiforova, sent 5 of them to the war. First, one son went to the war under contract – his legs were broken in a dugout, and he died in the hospital from his wounds. After that, four sons went to the war altogether – they also died.

Kamenka, Bishbulak districts

Nina Dmitrievna says that she is worried, but she will send the rest of her sons – “if it is necessary.” She also has 17 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. It is not yet known whether she also wanted to send them to the war.

In March, the milkmaid was invited to the capital of the republic: in the  Woman – Mother of the Nation competition she was awarded the medal named after Rabiga Kushaeva, an activist of the Bashkir women’s movement, who was initially among the Bashkir national movement, like her brother Kharis Yumagulov and husband Khafiz Kushaev, and after the victory of the communists began to work for them, including as an inspector of the Department of Orphanages at the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR.

Whether Rabiga wanted it or not, but in those orphanages the children were raised in complete obedience to the leader and the party – their lives belonged entirely to the state, and not to themselves. Just as Nina Nikiforova’s children (in her opinion) belong to the state. If the national ideas that Rabiga, Hafiz and Haris initially adhered to had won, Nina Dmitrievna would not have had to talk to their portraits instead of her sons, because for the people of Bashkortostan there would be no Russia and its imperial wars.