"Considering her age, the red tape seems blasphemous." The court is delaying the case of recognizing a 93-year-old Ryazan woman as a home front worker.
Evdokia Protasova from the Ryazan village of Dubrovichi had to submit a lawsuit to recognize her as a home front worker. With her daughter Elena They tried to achieve this status on their own, but to no avail. The Ryazan District Court postponed the case indefinitely. This was reported by a deputy of the Dubrovichi rural settlement. Konstantin Smirnov.
The December 5 hearing was postponed without setting a date due to the alleged failure to obtain documents from Protasova's previous place of residence, the Irkutsk archive, for over a month. According to Smirnov, this merely indicates the court's failure to make adequate efforts. Meanwhile, the documents have already been requested by the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Ryazan Region and are located in Ryazan, as stated in the lawsuit.
The deputy asked the chairman of the Ryazan Regional Court Elena Sapunova take measures to ensure the prompt consideration of Protasova's case out of respect for old age and the difficult fates of older generations of our compatriots.
“Of course, there’s no way to even imagine what the court might actually expect, but given the applicant’s age, such red tape seems blasphemous,” сообщил He is Sapunova.
Protasova talks about her childhood told as follows:
"Mom wanted to save us from starvation and dug up a bucket of frozen potatoes. 'Good people' immediately reported it, and they came for Mom. They put her on a horse and took her away. And we stood, six children, by the gate and watched. There were no orphanages or shelters back then, and no one cared about us either. If we died, that's where we belonged. We were the children of enemies of the people."
Her father had been taken away even earlier, and he died some time later in a Magadan camp. From adolescence, Evdokia had to work on a collective farm and care for her siblings.
She needs home front worker status to receive travel benefits to Magadan. She still dreams of finding her father's grave.