Pore Mosulishvili

Pore Mosulishvili (ფორე მოსულიშვილი; Pore Mossulishvili) (July 20, 1916 – December 3, 1944) was a Georgian soldier and partisan in the Italian resistance movement. He was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valor and the title Hero of the Soviet Union for actions during the Second World War.

Biography
Pore (Krist'epore) Mosulishvili (father's name - Nikolozi) born in July 20, 1916 to Kvemo Machkhaani, Municipality of Sighnaghi, Kakheti, Georgia, died December 3, 1944 to Lesa, Novara, Italy.

In 1939, Pore was recruited in the Red Army. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, he completed his duty with great courage, so that the appointment is earned on the field to non-commissioned officer.

In 1944 Pore Mosulishvili was captured by the Germans, who incorporate it into a special department and transfer it in Italy with other soviet and Czechoslovak prisoners. The department has completed of territorial garrison and of antiguerilla and, Pore Mosulishvili, a platoon of ex-prisoners is displaced in the Novarese, to Stresa.

Brigade Garibaldi
In the Stresa Pore Mosulishvili been worth the situation, it is put in contact with the partisans of the 118th Brigade Garibaldi and September 7, 1944, with another 36 ex-Georgian prisoners, passes, weapons and luggage, in the rows of the Italian Resistance. In the 2nd Battalion of the 118th one, the Georgians stand out undergone by the boldest actions. At 9 in October 14 they announce to the defence of the republic partisan of the Ossola. On October 26 it is between the protagonists of the attack that the 2nd Battalion leads against a train of Fascist ones and that concludes with the elimination of 23 supporters of the fascist Republic of Salo.

In the November the Fascists decide to unshoe a violent counteroffensive in the zone of the Mottarone-Vergante, in low Verbano, operative sector of the Brigade "Servadei". The partisans separate in little groups, to resist better the forces attack soverchianti.

There is also the commander of the 2nd Battalion in the group of Pore Mosulishvili.

Altruistic suicide
On December 3, 1944 Pore Mosulishvili, together with sixteen guerrillas has been surrounded by Germans in one small hut which have demanded: "If the commander surrenders, the others we will spare. Otherwise all we will destroy!"

The commander of this group Edo Delgrato didn't move, as well as other partisans.

Then Pore Mosulishvili who was already wounded, has disarmed companions and that will keep their life, has thrown out their weapon from a hut.

Then Pore Mosulishvili left to enemies and has shouted it: "I am the Commander, but to get in a captivity at you I prefer death!"

Next instant the brave guerrilla has turned before the right hand hidden for a back, in which he had a pistol. He has shouted at last: "Viva l'Italia! viva i partigiani! viva liberta!" ("Live the Italy! live the partisans! living freedom!"), then it has brought a pistol to the temple and has shot...

Other sixteen guerrilla remained are live. They have been taken prisoner, and in April, 1945 were released by the Italian partisans.

Pore Mosulishvili is buried in Arona.

Rewarding (after death)
On February 28, 1970 president of Italy Giuseppe Saragat has signed the decree on Musolishvili Phore Nikolaievic gratifying (Pore Mossulishvili) (after death) the Gold Medal of Military Valor. The Italian government has wanted to recognise so in him a symbol of the international antifascist solidarity. From this point of view, the life and the death of Pore Mosulishvili are really models.

On May 5, 1990 the decree of the President USSR "for courage and the devotion, shown in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", Starshina Mosulishvili Pore Nikolaevich appropriates a rank of the Hero of the Soviet Union.

Pore Mosulishvili is awarded the Order of Lenin, awards of Order of the Patriotic war of 1st degree, Glory of 3rd degree. Lenin's award and a medal Gold Star (№ 11620) has been transferred to storage to relatives of the Hero.

List of places named after Pore Mosulishvili

 * Museo Baita della Libertà (Belgirate))
 * Via P. Musolishvili - 28832 Belgirate (Vb)
 * Pore Mosulishvili House Museum
 * Pore Mosulishvili street in Tbilisi

Literature

 * Il fascino del leggendario. Moscatelli e Beltrami: miti resistenti , Filippo Colombara, in "l'impegno" a.XXVI n. 1, Istituto per la storia della Resistenza e della società contemporanea nelle province di Biella e Vercelli, 2006
 * (geo) Eduard Sikharulidze - სიკვდილითა სიკვდილისა დამთრგუნველი, Tbilisi, Sabtcota sakartvelo, 1988, ISBN 5-529-00329-X
 * (geo) თოვლიანი დღის ნათელში (მოთხრობა-მენიპეა)
 * (rus) Miho Mosulishvili, Light of snow day, 2006
 * (rus) Кавалери ордена славы трёх степеней. Биограф. словарь. М.: Воениздат. 2000