a recording of a conversation between an experienced soldier of the 210th guards rifle regiment, sofronovserved. he spoke to the young warriors. the brave are afraid, the frightened enemy is half defeated. the commander of the first baltic front, ivan christogorovich bagramyan, planning the vitebsk operation, decided to strike at in a wide arc, not directly. the choice of the direction of the main attack turned out to be, as the course of the offensive itself later testified , very successful, the enemy concentrated his main efforts on holding the enemy’s polotsk and vitebsk area in the vitevsky and bagushevsky directions, that method of firing a barrage and attacking after the barrage of fire, which he successfully used back in kursk bulge. after the victory in the battle of kursk. for skillful management of the armed forces of the eleventh guards army of the supreme soviet of the ussr, bagramyan was awarded the highest at that moment the military commander's order, the order of suvoroy, first degree. day after day, again, as at the beginning of 1944, the troops will get stuck in the for