he recalled: “i saw budyonny , who, as it seemed to me, was in a state of prostration. when his father came to him, he began to convince him that there was no need to defend these tangerine groves, he had to leave. the front commander could not clearly explain where which units were located, who commands them. by order of beria, many commanders were removed from their posts. budyonny was recalled to moscow. mountaineers from all fronts were urgently called up to the caucasus. well -equipped sabotage groups were created from them. things got better supplying the army. however, all these measures could not immediately change the situation at the front. the germans sent elite units of the wehrmacht's 49th mountain rifle corps to conquer the caucasus. among them. there was also the famous

edelweiss division, considered the pride of the third reich. it mainly recruited indigenous people from the mountainous regions of bavaria and austria. alpine jaegers, as the germans called them, were trained in combat tactics in the inaccessible highlands. the germans cherished their mountain special forces and did not use them in battles on the plain even in the most difficult periods war. a division that included people who knew firsthand what a city is. it was formed in garme shartam kirhi. this is bavaria, these are the alps. these are people who know how to ski, these are people who have been involved in mountaineering to one degree or another. hunters who hunted in the mountains there on mountain coasts were often included there. plus the soldiers are shorter, stockier, and more resilient. that is, in this division there were southern ones. germans, bavarians,

who knew the mountain conditions well, they lived in them, who are you, wandering musicians, we don’t have a bright leader, a legendary musical quartet and an irresistible troubodour, this is my group, no, my fans, where were you before, why have i never seen you? i fell in love with the princess, but the king interferes with our love, we can’t do without deception, the vaults of palaces lure me after you, freedom will never be replaced, it’s gone, call the cent, accepted, grab them, the fairy tale you’ve been waiting for. “donkey, me, a dog, a cat,

a cockerel, they called themselves the bremen town musicians, i actually sing too, the bremen town town musicians. let’s look before everyone else, let’s meet, veronica pavala vosnitsova, your new boss, and this is a female corpse with blunt trauma to the skull.

edelweiss - these were very highly professional units, mountain herers, they were sometimes called, they had a special emblem on the mountain cap, edelweiss, this is a flower, yes, that grows high in the mountains, the training was very serious, preference was given to the skill of navigating mountains, the ability to operate in small groups, very serious physical training, because almost most of the ammunition and other equipment they carried it on themselves. because there were even

areas where no mules could pass; naturally, there were no cars to speak of at altitudes of 300 m. at the beginning of september 1942, two.

died in bottomless cracks of glaciers, died from bullets that overtook them from the nazis. at the beginning of september 1942, the germans managed to take control of the main passes of the caucasus range. the advanced units of the wehrmacht broke through to the southern slopes of the caucasus mountains. and were now only 40 km from sukhumi, but to transfer large forces through the mountain gorges, the germans were unable to do so, and the wehrmacht’s advance towards the black sea stopped. why are passes bad? passes are bad because, firstly,

you need to get to them, and secondly, they are very convenient to defend, that is, a battalion may not allow a regiment to enter there. the passes are narrow, the passes are terribly inconvenient, plus the defending troops know. terrain, that is, the problems are very big, and as soon as operation delweiss, which meant taking control of the main caucasian ridge, it generally failed, yes, they took the head, they took everything, but but it was not possible to enter the operational space, then it was decided to strike at novorossiysk, that is, this is a deviation from the main attack, but in the event of the capture of novorossiysk, a route opens to... along the coast to batumi, which compensates for the fact that the caucasian passes were shut up ridge. novorossiysk is a key city, it’s not for nothing that even during the existence of our main base back in the soviet union , sevastopol, there was also a very significant

military unit there, part of this navy, which was based there, because novorossiysk, despite its very unfortunate geographical position in terms of rose winds and storms that occur there and not very deep bays, it has an important geopolitical position, geographical position, because it actually allows you to control the entire northern black sea coast and the sea of ​​azov, which very important, so their attack in these directions was absolutely natural. on september 7, 1942, the germans broke through to the northern outskirts of novorossiysk and entered the city. general evdokim maltsev recalled. painting it turned out to be generally unsightly. the commander’s firm hand was not felt , the branches of the troops acted essentially on their own, the headquarters had no contact with many units, the soldiers fought heroically with the advancing enemy, but there was no relationship between them, there was no single and

clear defense plan, the reserves were used up. on september 9, the wehrmacht occupied most of the western regions of novorossiysk. soviet troops retreated to the eastern shore of tsemes bay. the last line of defense lay near the walls of cement factories, october and proletarian. german troops stormed it, regardless of losses. in one of the freight cars that blocked the path of the nazis, 10,000 bullet holes would later be counted. there is not a single intact tree left in the area. however, the germans were unable to advance beyond this line . having learned about the failure of the offensive, hitler removed welgel malist from command of the anistra army group absolutely soberly, absolutely clearly, having determined the situation that is developing in the caucasus, he absolutely clearly reports: the offensive must be

stopped immediately, we must take the positions we are in, because if we now go where we are going, a partisan movement will begin in our rear. as in the balkans, they will start hitting us along routes that we cannot cover, our troops along these mountain roads, as in the balkans, will be stretched along the entire front, we will be vulnerable. they will hit us in the rear and we will lose, for which he will be immediately dismissed. after this, hitler appoints adolf hitler as commander of the army group. that is, on that at the moment, adolf hitler is the commander of army group a, and personally directs the actions of army group a from his headquarters. probably , after all, one of the main strategic mistakes of the germans was the personal initiative of hitler, who, as you and i know, headed the headquarters. defense and not being a military man, very often , let’s say, he made voluntaristic decisions, to put it mildly, yes, that he divided

this group into two directions, he was from the group that was supposed to storm the north caucasus and go there further, further, he singled out the group was sent to stalingrad; this dispersion of forces, considered by many experts, became fatal for the germans from the point of view of the battle for the caucasus, in the occupied territories of the caucasus. among themselves would make it easier for the german command to dominate them. even before

the outbreak of world war ii, german intelligence services established close ties with political emigrants from transcaucasia. in 1941, the armenian, azerbaijani and georgian legions were formed from them. they wore wehrmacht uniforms with special stripes. in total over the years. five newspapers were published in national languages ​​for local residents in germany. special organizations were also created, such as the north caucasian national committee, which, under the control of the abwehr, recruited local residents.

due to the fact that stalin personally, uh, said that they were not trustworthy. in 1943

, stalin ordered the deportation of those peoples of the caucasus who, in his opinion, did not sufficiently support soviet power. in total , they were forcibly transported to central asia over half a million people were evicted. those who survived would be allowed to return to their homeland only in the late fifties. during the great patriotic war , over 2 million natives of the caucasus served in the red army. the mountaineers fought the nazis on all fronts, from the black sea to the baltic. some went to war with their entire families. the whole country knew about the feat of the seven gazdanov brothers from the ossetian village of dzuarikau. the brothers were not destined to return home. their parents, asakhmat and tasso gazdanov, could not survive this

grief. the mother's heart stopped after the third funeral. the brothers' father died on the doorstep of the house, having received news of the death of the last seventh son. during the german occupation, about 200 partisan detachments operated in the caucasus. but in chechnya alone , 18,000 volunteers signed up for the people’s militia. in azerbaijan , tens of kilograms of gold, almost a ton of gold, were collected for the needs of the army. hundreds of thousands of caucasians built defensive lines; by the autumn of 1942 they had dug 660 km of ditches, which is approximately half of the total length of the caucasian mountains by the end of october 1942, the german

offensive in the caucasus had finally run out of steam. gathering all their strength, the germans decided to strike. the decisive blow to ardzhanikidze was to reach the georgian military road that led to transcaucasia. on november 2, german tanks broke through the defensive lines on the outskirts of the city and captured the village of gisel. the commander of army group a, general von kleist, said: the fate of vladikavkaz is decided. a direct road to the capital of transcaucasia opens before the victorious german army. teflis. concentrating in gezel 150 tanks, the germans tried to break through to the center of ardzhanikitsa. reserves from the northern group of troops were sent to meet them. our units constantly launched counterattacks. it was here that the twenty-four-year-old junior sergeant of the nkvd regiment, pyotr borbashov, accomplished his feat. during one of the attacks

, our soldiers were forced to lie down under heavy machine-gun fire from an enemy pillbox. barbashov crawled to the enemy firing point and covered the embrasure with his body. as a result , the line was in our hands. during the battles for gisel, the advanced german units suffered huge losses and were forced to retreat. in one of the reports, wehrmacht general mackensen wrote: the four-day battle of gisel ended in the complete defeat of the third tank corps. persecution of ours. troops continue, the soviet command was able to concentrate the required number of troops, pull up, use the relief conditions, terrain conditions, while the germans, as always, had very stretched lines of communication, they did not receive oil, and what is most important, the germans did not receive warehouses,

because the goal of kleist, when he beat the greenhouse, was to capture the warehouses. fuel, he was running out of it, and the german command , this is the flaw in the planning of the german command, it was already planning an operation based on fuel that would be captured from the enemy, which would later be everywhere in 1944, 1945, which in itself was nonsense planned, here he was also present such planning, they did not capture him, in november 1942... an american delegation visited north ossetia in led by the personal representative of us president roosevelt, patrick jay hurley. he became the first foreigner whom moscow allowed to visit the battle zone on the soviet-german front. having visited positions near the villages of dzuarikao and allaagir, hurley said. and where do soviet

soldiers get the strength to fight well? notice how tough the fight is. can withstand, there are few of them anymore, but how strong they are in spirit, they are confident in their victory, yes, these are excellent soldiers, real warriors. in the caucasian direction, the germans are starting to have very big problems with the fact that they there is absolutely not enough troops. the distances are large, even if there are not very many soviet troops, but there are not enough of our own, plus the difficult relief, difficult landscape, the german troops ended up in...

hitler no longer had the reserves to hold the caucasus. soviet troops went on the offensive along the entire front. within a week , mozdok, pyatigorsk, krasnodar, cherkessk, stavropol and armavir were liberated. nazi flags were dropped from the top of elbrus. an officer of the edelweiss division, adolf von ernsthausen, wrote: “unheard-of tension reigned.” in our camp, we were oppressed understanding that this enterprise, which began as an easy walk with the singing of birds , could easily end in a catastrophe, a military one... the successes of recent months have clearly made us overly self-confident. we underestimated the russians and mistakenly assumed their resistance was broken. now they

stood here, quite ready to repel the advance of our division, which before that could bring the devil himself out of hell. during the offensive, soviet troops advanced 400 km. in february 1943.

the battle for the caucasus is over to add this to the asset to say that

our victory was very long, difficult, very bloody, because we liberated all the occupied territories, we did not give the most important thing , it did not work out, but nevertheless we can seize the oil fields for ourselves, neither in mozdok, nor in grozny, especially in baku, and we, most importantly, did not let them take stalingrad. the defeat of the wehrmacht in the caucasus put an end to hitler's strategic dreams. without new volumes of oil, germany could no longer conduct large offensive operations. her allies turkey and japan finally abandoned plans to attack the soviet union. german general kurt von tipelskerch wrote. the result of the offensive was amazing. prestige of germany.

we will take on this case, it will be an honest detective story.

i welcome you, dear friends, to our next release of the author’s program besagon tv, it will be called milpardon under the blanket. milpardon in french, a thousand apologies. i think you will understand why we called our program that, but as usual.