I remember how we were driven into the very swamps, it was freezing, wet feet were driving the ships, black planes were circling overhead, they bombed for a long time , the only thing that saved me was that in the swamp the shells exploded without fragments, as i remember now, bombs were flying, right after them there are leaflets floating around calling for people to surrender, but no one is giving up, of course. Not to gather, occupied, does not mean broken, the rapid pressure of the nazi troops in the first days of the great patriotic war allowed the enemy to occupy belarusian lands, but he caused fierce resistance, the scale of which literally set the ground on fire under the feet of the invaders and brought that same great victory closer, i was born in the boryslovsky district, this is the minsk region, the village of lyubatovshchina, well, it was already 13 years old, the war began. What kind of germans, i thought, are these dzekars, not past, real people, just for. It was a good
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Holding the Line at Smolensk: The Red Army s Bloody Attempt To Stop the Nazi Juggernaut
In Smolensk during the summer of 1941, the Soviet Red Army attempted to slow Hitler s Operation Barbarossa.
Here s What You Need to Know: The Red Army suffered over 600,000 casualties, including almost 400,000 men taken prisoner.
After crushing the first-line Soviet armies in brutal three-week cauldron battles at the border, the steamroller of German Army Group Center continued deeper into Soviet territory during the opening days of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, which began on June 22, 1941.
The twin armored spearheads of Army Group Center were Panzer Group 2 under the command of General Heinz Guderian and Panzer Group 3 under extremely capable tank general Hermann Hoth. Their coordinated offensive on July 10, 1941, unleashed the Battle of Smolensk, a bloody struggle around the ancient Russian city that was to last two long months.