holy war, patriotic songs of the great patriotic war period, music by alexander alexandrov, words by vasily lebedev kumach. the song was first performed on june 26, 1941 at the belarusian railway station by the red banner ensemble of the red army song and dance of the ussr. from october 15, 1941, the holy war began to be heard daily on the all-union radio. tanks

and motorcycles enter the village, occupy all the wells, drive out the residents wherever you want, there is a barn where they undress, well, this scream, the din and everything else, that is, it is immediately clear that they have arrived occupiers. they were all self-satisfied, so brave, arrogant, that means that’s it, stalin is kaput, russ is kaput, moscow is kaput, that means everything, everything is kaput, we got water there like a bastard, because... they

didn’t let anyone in the wells, so, somewhere on july 10, one of the fascists came and took the buckets from us, and then in the evening, around 19:00, apparently they received the order to leave, the buckets were not returned, my mother said, how can we live without a bucket? village, well, i decided to somehow return these buckets, so... a cart approaches, he pokes around there, that’s it, i got these buckets grabbed it, well, while he was there grabbing the rifle, or run, i was a fast, athletic boy, so i ran away with these godras for about two kilometers, there was a big forest there, there was a small one, in the forest, and i’m sitting, somewhere at 12:00 night or a little later, i don’t know, mom calls, but doesn’t speak already at ...

the house, that’s when these policemen, bendera men, were walking, well, mother thought as usual, the germans were laying eggs there, they shot her right away, all the children , that means on the stove, she ended up at the bottom, they were shooting, but she only had a tangential wound in the arm, here she is she came running covered in blood and told me what the nazis had done, her tears dried up.

the pain and grief will subside, but never, never will hatred go out in our hearts, the great, sacred hatred for murderers and executioners, there was one traitor in the whole village, here... right there he, it means, put on this fascist bandage, the flag is over hanged it with his hut, which means this fascist, well, that means he represented the nemen government, walked around the courtyards, collecting taxes in favor of this germany, well , he was drunk like that, which means his apanas they called, in the fall... at the end of may, the partisans

ambushed 5 km from this village, well, they destroyed it, that means. that means they organized a duty there, if they go to notify who ran away and at 4 o’clock here, it means knock, run away, they are coming, but they jumped in on motorcycles, and there, in order to

get into the forest, you have to cross the field, well, the women run away, and i was told by those who fought during the civil war that if a machine gun fires, get it. that means they shot everyone who came across them, and in the evening only cats and dogs are running around, the remaining ones, whom they could not support, and the pipes, as in the domestic twelfth year,

as in a civilian family.

go out to the railway under the guise of picking mushrooms and see if there are patrols, if there are guard dogs there, in case something happens, well, it seems because the detachment needs to know who to fight with, the boy is picking mushrooms, i had everything in the basket, well, i always knew where is the swamp, because if there is a dog, then only the swamp.

tanks, of course, are needed by the front, but in the partisan forests there is also a real war. laid down, well, it’s in a fever, that’s it, you understand, if you don’t him, then he is yours, when

they raised their hands, muter, that means kinder, then we didn’t shoot at them anymore, when he raised his hands in advance, that’s all, when he’s against you, so what’s the difference, he’s enemy. the last serious blockade was on march 18, 17-18, 1944, so they removed a division from the front, these frames were terrible for us, they photographed everything, then they passed it on, so we saved. with difficulty during this last blockade, they were a thunderstorm

for the invaders, people's avengers everywhere they sowed panic, destroyed their viterovsky accomplices, traitors to their homelands. on june 26, we... united with the troops of the second belarusian front, the third shock army, the commander was gorbatel, garbatov, a powerful commander walked with a stick after being wounded, and if you dug in poorly, he...

naturally, it would have been easier for the germans, this one operation bogration would not have ended with such success. belarusian offensive operation bagration, large-scale offensive operation of the great patriotic war, time of june 23 to august 29 1944. on the soviet side , 1,200 people took part in the operation, excluding rear units, on the german side, 849,000 people, including support personnel and rear units. during the operation there was.

the first baptism of fire was already in the armed forces, this is bobruisk, this is an operation, there... a large group had settled in , which means it had to be destroyed, well, we were in the infantry, the artillery is working, that’s it, the commander is already in command, prepare to roll, you must go together, you have a machine gun , they already gave you all this, and fire at side, so that the enemy does not understand, there is strong mortar fire at the height, during

the first time i got a shell shock, it’s more likely that it was all in the mortar, because i don’t know, there’s a flash in the eyes, you immediately fall, well, you’re lost for a while consciousness. the wounded and sick are sent back to their units after recovery. after i was treated, considering that i still have seven classes, air defense, there is such a thirteenth corps, new radar stations were created to detect aircraft hundreds of kilometers away,

so they trained me a little and...

the day when there were no hostilities, this became part of the system, and i don’t know of a single, so to speak, case when it was possible for this inspection not to have taken place, which means our self-instructor didn’t ask, didn’t check to see if you had a haircut, and this is all justified, because the germans created this here on purpose... oh, chief, well, this is all german, which means it’s a bacteriological weapon, and with burning hatred in the heart , we enter the territory of the hated enemy in order to finish off the wounded german beast, his own pearl. on october 15, i was already in east prussia, wow! "retribution

fell on germany! i was surprised by the architecture, what was not broken, what remained, what was surprising was that they were bowing, these women, these german impressions, that they understood what their husbands, maybe their children, had done, they they already understood, it was already hitler, kaput, and no nails, that is.”

suffering, enough torment, enough killing, war is the greatest disaster, the greatest, there cannot be a more terrible disaster, this disaster is not only for those in the trenches sitting, this is for children, for the whole generation, this is a terrible thing, she still sometimes dreams, which means you wake up in horror.

early in the morning of july 3, reconnaissance tanks moved at high speed towards minsk, they broke into the city in the region. observatory, but the road further was blocked by german artillery. hitler's command sought to hold minsk at any cost. there were three infantry and

one tank divisions of the wehrmacht in the city, as well as three regiments of ss men urgently transferred from poland. operating in the minsk region the partisans reported to the soviet command. the government house, the building of the central committee of the party of belarus and the district officers' house are hastily mined and preparing for an explosion. that's why it was. a decision was made to speed up the movement of tank units to minsk and send mine clearance units along with them. the task of the tank units was to break into the city without getting involved in battles on the approaches and to recapture the government building from the enemy. the commanders of the tank brigades were assigned the following combat missions. colonel losik's fourth guards tank brigade to advance along moscow-minsk highway with access to the observatory area. guards tank brigade of colonel blygin.

they were blocked by german artillery, the lead vehicle was hit, its crew was wounded, and the commander of the vehicle, captain pavel korovnikov , had his leg torn off; the following tank, junior lieutenant frolikov, jumped straight onto the enemy battery and destroyed it. without slowing down, the combat vehicle continued to move forward, destroying the german self-propelled gun ferdinand and an anti-tank gun. soon the famous phrase was heard on the radio: “i i am in frolikov." on the north-eastern outskirts of minsk, the defensive positions are not completely occupied by the enemy. i continue to carry out the combat mission. general burdeyny gave the order

to begin the assault. combat vehicles burst into minsk behind frolikov's tank. having destroyed the enemy group near the town of ostroshit, from the north units of the third guards kotelnikovsky tank corps under major general vovchenko also moved to minsk. soon, the advanced units of the fifth guards tank corps reached the northern outskirts of minsk. army of marshal rotnistrov. they were helped to get to the capital of belarus by soldiers of the first minsk partisan brigade, who led the tankers through swampy forests. in addition to tankers , infantrymen, artillerymen, mortar men, and signal engineers took part in the liberation of the city. the commanders of formations and units of the eleventh guards and thirty-first army, who burst into the city almost simultaneously with the tankers, skillfully led the battle. and... of them by landing on tanks, among them was the commander of the second battalion of the 673rd infantry regiment, 220th rifle division, senior

lieutenant dudin. his battalion cleared the enemy from the territory from the observatory to yakubakollos square, the building of the red army house, the government house, the railway station, captured a large number of vehicles, warehouses with food and military equipment, and dzyudin’s deputy, senior lieutenant mysinsky. led a group of fighters who hoisted red flags over the liberated buildings of minsk. senior sergeant afanasy lyapustin hoisted two flags at once: one above the railway station building, the second at plinth of the monument to lenin, near the government house. senior sergeant vasily mityukov installed a banner on the balcony of the government house, senior sergeant arsenty skiba, above the building of the officers' house, lieutenant mikhail chetveryakov above the city council building. at the height of the battle

, a leaflet was passed from hand to hand, in which he said: a systematic retreat of enemy troops was being organized here, prevented the approach of reserves. the partisans made their contribution to the overall victory, they inflicted significant blows on the enemy’s communications, disrupted communications, forward detachments of soviet troops behind enemy lines saved government buildings, enterprises, airfields and other important objects from destruction. in the liberated areas of minsk, partisans posted guards at important facilities and warehouses

with trophies. the fighting in minsk continued until late in the evening. the nazis desperately resisted, stubbornly fighting for every street, for every house. by the end of july 3, the main group of formations of the fourth army of german troops found themselves cut off from the escape routes and trapped in a ring east of minsk. in more than 100,000 enemy soldiers and officers were surrounded. minsk was under occupation for 1,100 days. by the time of liberation , only 70 houses survived in its historical center, and out of 250 residents, only 50,000 remained alive. the germans literally razed the city to the ground. this is what marshal georgy zhukov recalled. the capital of belarus was unrecognizable. for 7 years i commanded a regiment and brigade in minsk, i knew every street, all the most important buildings, bridges, parks, stadiums and theaters well. now everything was in ruins. and in place of residential areas what remained were vacant lots covered with piles of broken

bricks and debris. the most difficult impression was made by the people, the residents of minsk, extremely exhausted and emaciated; many had tears rolling down their cheeks. 52 units and formations that distinguished themselves during the liberation of the city were given the honorary names of minsk. in honor of the liberation of the capital of belarus, a salute was given in moscow with 24 artillery salvoes from 324 guns. and on july 16, a parade of partisans took place in liberated minsk. in which 30,000 people took part, walking in one of its columns, a member kommunar detachment, vasily morokhovich remembered this day forever. overgrown and emaciated partisans marched between the destroyed and burned houses of minsk. in their hands they had the most amazing collection of weapons from the then fighting armies, riddled with weapons that blacksmiths had made in the forests, they were greeted with delight, they walked proudly,

with awards on their chests, they were winners. the minsk offensive operation became one of the key stages of operation bagration, as a result of which it was possible to encircle the entire german group. they hit the minsk kosel 18 enemy divisions. hitler demanded that the command of the encircled group do everything to get out of the encirclement. but the fascist troops failed to escape. as a result , the enemy lost more than 72 thousand people killed. many historians regard it as a disaster for the wehrmacht, and some as the final defeat of the nazis.

good afternoon, the holiday news channel of the television news agency continues, we, polina shuba and sergey lugovsky will tell you how the country celebrates the main national holiday. let's move to iconic places on map of belarus so that everyone can feel the atmosphere of independence day, happy holiday belarus.