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residents and guests of belarus, traveling around our country, do not always know that somewhere nearby, unnoticeable from the road, there are impressive monuments dedicated to the events of the great patriotic war. these events did not necessarily take place in large cities ; often a small village or field turned out to be the site of heroic battles and terrible human tragedies. such places remember the exploits of our people, remember the genocide of the belarusian people, remember the price at which victory was achieved. near the village of rakovichi, svetlogorsk district, gomel region, this belarusian offensive

operation became one of the largest in the entire history of mankind. in the fourth year of the great patriotic war, the soviet troops faced the task of liberating the belarusian lands from the nazi occupation. to solve this problem, the commander of the first belarusian front, general rakosovsky, proposed an offensive with two main blows. this was an unprecedented, extremely risky step, but marshal zhukov supported it. stalin was puzzled, but after thinking it over, he decided to trust the military genius of the commanders. let me explain, according to military science, the strongest solution is always - this is one blow.

it is unproductive to strike twice, the power of each blow is weakened. the operation was named after the legendary russian commander who fought napoleon, pyotr ivanovich bagration. it was 1944. army group center of the wehrmacht had been committing outrages in occupied belarus for 3 years. thousands of belarusian villages had already been burned down, the most humiliating secrecy. trucks and other military equipment moved only at night with their headlights off. during the day, the vehicles stood camouflaged. this process was controlled from the sky. planes, if the pilot noticed equipment below, dropped a drink, it was a conditional signal - to strengthen camouflage, also covertly, it was necessary to defuse extensive minefields. let me explain, the demining of one's own

minefields is a sure sign of the beginning of an offensive, therefore, so that the enemy would not guess, the sappers did not remove the mine itself from ...

but the most incredible plan was prepared by general pavel batov. he noticed that the enemy almost did not guard the district swamps. the nazis believed that there was no point in guarding those places where it was impossible not only to drive, but even to walk. it was there that batov decided to conduct on the water quagmire, not even infantry guns, tanks, multi-ton machines. on the site of the british moss swamp, now wheat fields, but in june forty-fourth it was

a deep swamp, four kilometers long and 2 kilometers wide. it was here that in 20 days the soldiers of the red army together with the partisans built log causeways. for the passage of tanks, gad - this is such a flooring through the quagmire for horses and equipment, and the soldiers themselves overcame the swamp in macro-stomps, this is a second sole for boots woven from willow twigs, the already crazy plan was complicated the impossibility of laying corduroy roads without the risk of being exposed, so the prepared logs were sunk. and only at the beginning of the offensive , under the artillery cannonade, the logs were hastily knocked down right in the swamp.

on the night of june 24, soviet aviation subjected the fascists' front defense to a heavy bombardment. at 7:00 in the morning, the infantry and tanks began to take up their initial position in the offensive zone. at 9:05, the corps attacked the front line of the german defense and captured the first trench. on june 26, in the area of ​​parishchi, mikhail panov's 1st guards tank corps crossed the swamps along the constructed gade and rushed deep into the territory occupied by the enemy. during the operation

, many significant events took place, but the breakthrough along the gade laid in the swamps was of decisive importance. after the return of parichi, the rapid liberation of belarusian cities began. bobruisk was freed from the fascists in 3 days, then sludsk, minsk was liberated in 6 days. in another direction of the offensive, our soldiers returned turov, took pinsk drogichin, reached brest, where the germans held out for only 2 days. after

the liberation of minsk, columns of captured enemies were driven towards moscow. 50 thousand nazis captured during operation bagration were marched through moscow. a march of prisoners took place. they did not remove the insignia of military distinction from the prisoners, they closed the procession with a field machine, demonstratively washed away traces of fascism from the soviet streets. this march showed the whole world the inevitable imminent victory of the ussr. for 68

against 180 thousand soviet soldiers. on the front of 1,100 km fought 4 million people on both sides, more than 7,500 tanks, over 7,100 aircraft. the monument was erected at the location of the forward units of the 65th army of general batov. sculptor valery kondratenko based the composition on two arrows, two blows aimed at one point. under them is a group of advancing soviet soldiers, figures of ponov, zhukov,

rakosovsky and batov, as well as partisans and sailors of the dnieper flotilla. having received a slap on the wrist, the germans were unable to come to their senses until berlin itself, and operation bakration entered textbooks as the most successful offensive operation of the 20th century.

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