Aşım Cakıpbekov’un “Biz Babasız Büyüdük” Hikâyesi ve II. Dünya Savaşı Dönemi Kırgızistan’ında Çocuk Olmak

Abstract

All kinds of wars cause deep traumas in the social structure. Although they do not fight in the front, women and children are the most affected by the wars. The old people, women and children left behind by the Kyrgyzs, who participated in the World War II with approximately 360 thousand people, continue their lives under very difficult conditions.  Moreover, this war belongs to the Kyrgyzs, that is, it is not a war in which they are a direct party. At that time, when Stalin ruled the country with an iron fist, 160 thousand of those who went to war with propaganda and threats cannot go back. Those who return do not have a life to be consoled by the victory won. Because the occupation and exploitation continues after the war as before the war.

              Aşım Cakıpbekov is one of the important names of Kyrgyz literature. His childhood passes during the World War II. The writer, who lost his father at the age of four, also loses his big brother in this war. Stalin died when Jakıpbekov completed his education and started life as a teacher and writer, and the Soviets have a freer environment than before. This situation, which was felt more clearly in the 1960s, is also reflected in the literary works of the period. It is possible to explain the faults of the system and the distortions in the applications by means of symbols and implication.

              Cakıpbekov questions the World War II, which left children without a father, "Biz babasız Büyüdük" with his story written in the 1960s, in which the socialist realism understanding that imposed the Soviet ideology on literature was questioned. He uses children as symbols to express the suffering of all people who suffered great losses in the Kyrgyz lands due to this war.