of which they have already cursed the day when they entered the website of the ukrainian embassy more than once, they hope for bird luck, that they will be lucky stay alive and earn at least a return ticket home, as for the ukrainian authorities, all these categories of wild geese are for them . just a consumable opportunity to extend your own fire. in parallel, stuffing his pockets with money from washington and brussels, the war did not crush such cases to the most enemy breeds. attention says, moscow we are transmitting an important

government message, citizens and women soviet union today at 4:00 in the morning without any declaration of war, the german armed forces attacked the borders of the soviet union by the time yuri levitan informed the citizens of the vast soviet union this terrible war had already left with might and main. the first casualties were already known to the first heroes who fought to the end against the advancing enemy and at the same time there were reports that too many were forced to retreat, sometimes succumbing to the general

panic of the first hours of the german invasion. and more often simply does not have the means to resist. these were infantrymen and artillerymen, to whom pilots and tankers did not deliver ammunition in time, whose combat vehicles died. after the very first raids, fascist aviation, but the enemy still did not easily come in his way, border guards stood up like a wall. one of the participants in the defense of the brest fortress. worse is the memory of the germans. the order to retreat the soldiers offered the border guard, who remained in their memory as an unknown hero, to depart with them, but he refused, there was still a several full disks with cartridges for machine guns. and he said, this is my outpost and my post, as long as i'm alive and i won't leave here. the brest fortress is one of

the most striking examples of the heroism of soviet soldiers . after its final conquest, for which the fascists needed truly colossal efforts, hitler brought the leaders of the italian fascists, benito musolini fuhrer, to the ruins of the defeated bastion. i wanted to show him the strength of the nazi army. after all, even the centuries-old stones of the fortress were turned into small crumbs after multi-day shelling, his other attention. on the floor of the destroyed walls, the defeated citadels were attracted by the inscription, they explained to him that it was not done by the hands of the soviet soldiers of the defenders of the fortress, then the musli did not ask to transfer one of them to him. motherland is dying, but i do not give up. although it’s impossible, the brest

fortress held out more than the entire french army during world war ii, but they just didn’t do everything and blew it up and let gases in there. we filmed on the ground where the fierce battles really took place. when our border outposts were the first to meet the armada of fascist equipment of a multi-million army. and when i read the script, i was first of all bribed, there was a human destiny. there was a piercing moment of expectation of a terrible misfortune. i remember the scenes when marina leftova and vera sotnikova act as

the wife of these two officers to bury the dead soldiers. artilleryman anatoly shuluchko still remembers what he saw at the frontier post by the time his artillery battalion came to the aid of the border guards, the outpost held already an hour an hour against regular german units armed with artillery and tanks. the tanks had already surrounded the outpost, and they forced only one machine gun to work, the entire outpost died, the people were their commander. for this, the head of the outpost died. here at the machine gun was the wife of the head of the outpost, the son of 12 years old. and one soldier. here are the three alive from the whole composition. i turned my weapon around. two tanks knocked out went

side by side, there were seven pieces, in addition to two anti-tank, two high-explosive and three anti-throw. and then the soldier had to roll the gun to the side and lie down, taking up defense against german tanks and machine guns. with pistols and carbines in their hands. as a gunner, i had a pistol, and the rest had carbines, and we had already drunk off the attack of the submachine gunners. and our cavalrymen were in the horse ranks, since there were no cartridges. the commander of the regiment, major breykel, led the water attack on his saber, drove the germans out of the border for 8 km, and then barely escaped from there. it was already surrounded by a tank, but it was still knocked out. god, a shell for cannons was brought up by an artilleryman only on the second day, simply,

because the ammunition depot, due to some logically incomprehensible reasons , was located several kilometers from the location of the unit itself, and therefore the carts were sent because of the ammunition to turn around faster, they simply could not. when the artillerymen finally had shells, they provided our soldiers received such artillery support that they were able to hold the border in this area for another five days, they took lvov 60 km away. at that time, we only had a team to retreat, and we already essentially retreated at night during the day, stopped and took up defense resisted, because during the day it was impossible to retreat, the reaction was choking german aviation. in those first days of the war, it generally worked, exceptionally accurately and not without reason, even before the fateful day of june 22, german reconnaissance aircraft constantly flew over the soviet border, however, by order from moscow,

they were not touched by the order of the fortieth year, so that aircraft that violated the border. a good order was received to force landings at their airfield. well, what kind of pilot will even go to the enemy’s airfield, if we go, it seems that it only opens, of course, did not follow the instructions. these followed their brother on their way to their territory on the morning of june 22, anatoly korol and his comrades, the pilots, also did not receive orders to shoot, moreover, if they wanted to open fire on the enemy, then it would be simply impossible to do so. that the day before the start of the war, an order came to dismantle the weapons aircraft. a command was received to prepare for the exercises, around july 19,

weapons were removed from the aircraft and unexpectedly at 4:00 around wednesday combat readiness. well we believed that this would be an exercise, however, at 4:30 in the morning , germans from schmidt appeared over the airfield and opened fire, that there was nothing to try, just drive the enemy away, stupid and extremely dangerous, but there weren’t a couple of options. dima fisted the commander. he noticed this plane, as there were no weapons. but this plane, shot down at the cost of the forced heroism of our pilot, was only a reconnaissance aircraft after 5 minutes. the airfield on which part of anatoly the king was based was subjected to severe bombardment. and the germans bombed. so exactly what was perfectly clear, they clearly know where and what are located. and how to inflict the greatest

harm on the enemy's intelligence really did a lot on the eve of the war. it should be noted directly that they were good. the location, of course, of our border outposts is known. these were excellent reference points for artillery for enemy aircraft in the future. they went where without for the warehouse pasha 's camp tent. it was in the forest. they are on all these points. somewhere at 6:00 there, with a beggar, i was imprisoned until dawn. i saw the border of the border all on fire on june 22, and the peremyshy border detachment and the ninety-ninth the infantry division was driven out of the city of przemysl , but on the night of june 23, a combined detachment of border guards

under the command of a captain. sprinkling water jointly with the 99th division, bitch. the divisions knocked out the germans from the soviet part of przemysl a, and then just for the first time in the western press it was published that the russians were advancing. german strategists allocated from 15 to 30 minutes to capture the line of soviet frontiersaurs. they calculated that the length of the section of the new border of the ussr, which was the first to be attacked, was 4.000 520 km 62 a person, namely, this was the composition of the average soviet must protect six eight, and sometimes 10 km of the state border, while according to the draft soviet field charter of the thirty-ninth year, 11 km were considered the defense zone of an entire rifle division armed, including artillery, but the germans knew that from heavy weapons. at each

outpost there are only tank machine guns. maxim and a pair of degtyarev light machine guns, the main armament is three-line rifles, meticulous germans, nikolai kononenko was not mistaken, who met dawn on june 22 at the soviet border along the river, a pond in bessarabia is remembered for sure. how many people were at his outpost and what were they armed with in this outpost, only 45 people were armed with a machine gun. why three, because the head of the torrent of the virgin assistants, uh, the political instructor in these, it means there were machine guns, and the rest is so three-deneevich to the germans. it was obvious that in such a composition and with such weapons, the frontier post was physically unable to defend the border from the regular army, but the very first minutes of the battle showed that these calculations not worth a penny. divisions, so to speak, regiments,

for example, the french army, after the start of the war, surrendered, threw out a white flag, what did the border guards say there forced how much to force a person? well, 30 50, maximum. of course, they count on it, but they made a mistake here. this, it seems to me, was the first signal that, in the end, the german troops were waiting for big trouble, despite the weak armament, the outpost held out for one hour or more in the baltic border district. after after 25 caught on loudly repulsed the attack. let them set up a fire sack for the german advanced units for several hours, they camouflaged themselves along the road and set up machine guns. and when the german forward patrol entered and he was completely shot, when the german offensive began, the commander of the fifteenth frontier post. novikov was on patrol. realizing that something terrible is happening. he took up defensive positions in the hollow of an oak tree

, disguised himself, like a milet to do only border guards with him, he had a degtyarev machine gun and a good supply of ammunition and for 22 june. on this section of the border, the germans could not pass only at night, seriously wounded, he was captured by the germans. they took him to the territory of poland, and here he died. i must say that the germans really appreciated how the soviet border guards resisted, and therefore, after a very short time, an order was issued that approximately reads as follows: border guards should not be taken prisoner, destroyed on the spot, if there were border guards or sailors against them. they were always very, very afraid of them. here was such the case is already on the karelian front. for about the forty-second year now, the german officer of the command forward, the offensive. athena answers him. let the germans advance. he went forward again, and then he saw a green cap. oh, you say the border guards hid behind a stone, but the sniper shot him.

a poignant shot when two soldiers are exhausted, and alone, having lost all the soldiers, the wounded raises the pillar of the border of the soviet union for sure. they won't survive. we understand this, because the germans have long gone far on the bridge, and nevertheless. they protect our earth to the last bullet. but the most offensive for the border guards was that they knew better than anyone about the timing of the start of the war, because the border intelligence was reliable and accurate. and most importantly, the border guards repeatedly reported their findings to moscow to the border intelligence.

she revealed the training of the german troops, their gradual deployment of occupying these positions, the border guards knew perfectly well that everything was going on in a big war. well , however, leadership is the country's top leadership. it i still thought that it would be possible to delay not succumb to provocations. somewhere a few days before the start of the war was. the engine of our bordering country can be seen and tractors and, possibly, tanks were approaching. they were slow to report this to their superiors, but i 'll tell you, i didn't take much. they say this is not an impression. this means that immediately at about 4 o'clock at four about 5 minutes past five they opened mortar artillery wars. however, for another 3 days, the border outpost of nikolai kononenko managed to restrain the enemy. and it's full of heroism the war was in complete isolation from the world, communication, which,

in the old fashioned way, was not conducted through radios, but the germans destroyed the telephone wires in the first place, otherwise for a long time so much wired communication intercepted everything, as they began to fire at the wires , at the beginning they thought what was it? well, just some kind of provocation, you know. what lives, by the way, so that some researchers do not say there was no radio communication at the beginning of the war, and our pilots in the air were forced to exchange signs in order to somehow understand each other voice and means he looks at you through the windshield . will you show? what to do in the naval aviation regiment, in which alexander bliznyakov served , they learned about the beginning of the war only from the radio broadcast at

the moment when vyacheslav molotov addressed the people and they would deal a crushing blow to the aggressor, once it rains, victory will be ours, but even after that there are still two whole days combat vehicles were on the ground, the pilots went crazy with inaction, because they perfectly understood that somewhere there was a battle going on, somewhere people were dying, whom they could help, why no one gave them orders to attack the enemy? why because there was almost no connection with stalin where he was stamped

. well, that is, we were on the second day, we flew back and worked on the ships in the port on the third morning. of course, we boil the radio listening to heard. your tough fights and so on. there, then enemy aircraft attacked a number of our airfields and settlements, we beat up sixty-five enemy aircraft. sov inform iron ragged badly armed and elementary hungry ours the soldiers continued their retreat. yes, and what was left for them, if no one even in the leadership really understood what was happening and how it all

happened, perhaps the headquarters lecturer came to us and began to read a prayer to us, and today's situation. he left, thank god the commissar was smarter than him. he later said that you don’t believe this crazy for naval aviation, and indeed the navy of the soviet union is at war. started more or less

organized. the reason was simple, the ships were ordered to disperse in advance, and to disguise themselves with a sea plane, and most importantly , this order was carried out in a timely and organized manner for this simple reason of serious losses. in the first hours of the war, the fleet and naval aviation did not carry aviation. we also disguised ourselves as germans. as a matter of fact, they don't touch ours. here in this devastating first raid of 1,500 aircraft. they destroyed, and the rest of the misfortune remained unsuccessful, fought enemies who met the enemy on the sea borders of our motherland, grigory oh just in june began the passage of his undergraduate practice on the leningrad council ship. they set sail even before the start of the war, the terrible news caught them at the exit from the baltic , they were to turn around and to kronstadt shri

pardon fields of our family fields to the germans, who managed to set the world like soup with dumplings and it was then the baltic sea. matrosov let the smell they became a task. that's it, let's put a milestone and we will destroy it, they destroyed it with explosions, german aircraft operated at sea. frankly , the germans painted on their planes. red stars. and so the vigilance of the sailors was deceived. only when the ship came under bombardment was it established. it is clear that as a result, during the evacuation of soviet troops and stalin in the waters of the baltic, thousands of soldiers died in the air of the enemy, whose soldiers they tried to transport by ships to the mainland from the ship of grigory the pogrena were saved. i placed watchmen

on the bridge as a sailor. they had it so lie down and watch them if you see a ball flying, it's a bomb, so on us, if the egg is a bomb, we 'll go against us, and 78 planes flew one by one one behind them, when i was left alone there on the bridge and alive, the rest all went to the next world. i alone became a cannon sailor, shot back from teapots, but in the court, on which he defended the bomb, it nevertheless landed in a huge hole in the board. gushed, ice water. the baltic ship tilted and began to sink, and it was not he alone that day, german planes shot down several of our ships, the surviving soldiers jumped into the water, but the german planes finished them off and there, as if having fun, they flew in again. again and opened fire from machine guns on

defenseless living targets flew away, they only dealt with almost everyone and those who escaped after their raid were convinced. all the same, they will not swim to the shore, but then a miracle happened 280 m. and when he sank, he sank. it's about 7 minutes later. i counted on about me there were 7 people in total who helped. dolphins helped us, they came, they are smart animals, and they have no money. they come to the rescue in time of trouble, and after a while our boats appeared and pulled out of the water everyone who managed to survive in that terrible meat grinder, the rescued sailors swore revenge, they were eager to fight on them, they died here, and there was no replacement. so they began to form detachments of marines from them, of course, at first the sailors grumbled, it was none of their

business, grigory pogrebnoy also applied to this, becoming a marine. he realized that what he had experienced then on that searching ship was child's play compared to a bayonet charge in comparison. well, yes, but the sailors will not give up on the rivers and the fight was in this fight. he jumped me with a bayonet, but i didn't even felt it, you know. how many fragments of my body are still 16 more fragments sitting in the neck and i did not feel when they came out of there. today i feel them, this is a very terrible thing for children, hand-to-hand combat by chen toy about that cool bayonet , the germans, as a rule, were generally drunk and drunk, and

so the germans were building ice, it was good solid, otherwise it was already in december and after such a shock or hand-to-hand was both our corpses and the corpses of the germans. the man, sparing in words, could not describe the horror of the bayonet charge for them. it's no matter how strangely, a woman, a front-line poet, yulia drunina, did, who wrote, i only once saw hand-to-hand combat once in reality and a thousand times in a dream. whoever says that it's not scary in the war, he did not know anything about the war. practically looking into the eyes, because if one on one, it is still possible, so to speak, to make peace by force, but when you are expanded and you don’t know who it is, or whether it will

stab me, otherwise it’s very fear, but that no less. i was strong when the shells for his forty-five ran out. he raised his reckoning. they say not scary not scary, nothing like that was scary. i think it's my hair. this is how you will stand when i was walking with a carbine, a carbine, no bayonet, and i got a german. such a healthy german came across. well, of course, i knew the tricks of recapturing a rifle from a german, but it hit the wrong hand, right here. to me in one shooting. they broke my arm, the audience does not know about it. they broke my arm. the fracture was serious. here was a completely shoulder-length cast and

came up. excuse me that after 30 years, my political instructor often walks this secret in his left hand with newspaper. this is just to justify the bent arm, moreover, when they shot the hand-to-hand combat scenes, the stuntman left me so much that he broke the cast. they cut him up and took me to the hospital. i had to put on a new cast, my arm hurt like hell, but oddly enough, i'll help. today, the actors, these real physical sufferings of his, allowed him to play authentically, because the constant pain gave him the opportunity, at least to some extent , to feel what our soldiers experienced and so on. do you know goosebumps? yes, i have there is a cinematic war, a real war, maybe we were lucky for his generation that we were not in the forty-first on the border guards

fought for the latter, but the cartridges ran out, then the beggar did not surrender to such an attack and captured these events, so that the border guard surrendered they preferred to surrender. death is the people were it actually was the guard. although still guards units. we didn’t have them appear in such a battle near moscow, and here it is. in fact, it was better than the happiness of our armed formations restrictions ordinary work, then vulnerable large posts in the cities we lived in the military town of belarus just before the war, the thirty-seventh thirty-eighth had to once newspapers and there was photographed a border outpost just a week before the start of world war ii, this photograph struck the then future story to anatoly ponomarev in that they are depicted. she wore real epic knights, tall, broad-shouldered, with

open, intelligent faces, beautiful, strong in soul and people's body. and it caught my eye, and then my father was still alive, i say, and some kind of special selection, so that he was, of course, there was a border. this is 2-3 km, sometimes even less, the border strip abroad should be verified people, so the selection was just very, very thorough, so the border troops in this regard and not by chance showed themselves perfectly during the years of world war ii. the enemy was advancing in our unit somewhere with fights somewhere at the pace of frank drape. what does he call? did the veterans themselves leave? here vast russia and only the border guards retreated with a concrete hope for the very near future. the fact is that the border that they heroically defended from the enemy was new. it appeared only in the

thirty-ninth year. after hitler took over poland and our troops occupied the territories of western ukraine and western belarus , the new border was not yet fully equipped and poorly fortified. but the old one with its powerful defensive structures is well thought out competently, rebuilt and beautifully armed could become for the enemy. a much more serious obstacle on the mister river there were very good defensive structures. there were concrete risk values ​​and there were even shelters for tanks. came there was nothing. there was no limit to the amazement of the border guards; they left these fortifications, advancing to new frontiers, on june 28, 1940, just a year ago,

but in this short period, all weapons on the fortification lines were completely dismantled. now to the enemy. they could only oppose your personal heroism. in ukraine, the greatest feat was accomplished by flying from lopatin from vladimir to the volodinsky border detachment. the head of the thirteenth outpost in 2013 held on to all offers to surrender. after that, in denial after 13 days. they just blew up the famous group of lieutenant kaimanov, who also kept the defense completely surrounded for a week, and then made a march and went out to their own weapons and taking all their wounded already along the territory of the enemy retreated in parallel with the border guards and regular army units and if the past ones led. well, the defenders of the border, even leaving the defense lines, acted competently and clearly, the retreat of other units was often much more tragic. we saw a terrible picture of the retreat,

it was especially a pity for the mays on god who was called in the month of may, they were not absolutely prepared. they hid under the car, standing on the highway, and then the retreating units flew into asi bombila, they encountered examples of amazing heroism and much more rare, but from that, no less shameful examples of outright cowardice to some village. i think it was on the river. we look at the elephant of western belarus. our car is a semi, only a jeep, it cannot move into a ford. the river asks for something, guys help. don't worry, we'll all go. take off your boots into the water and push the car . the soldiers took off their shoes and left their boots. to the body. gazika, piled on and pushed the stuck truck

to the other side, only the driver did not slow down there, without slowing down, he rushed away from the front line. not only quitting soldiers who helped him, but also taking away their shoes barefoot. and here is one where they were shooting here and there, i was shooting back, different commands were given, and the germans were throwing. the average, retreating troops of the former white guards dressed in the uniform of soviet officers gave you fake commands, and so on and so forth, tushino flew via, and all this mass of people played along with the terrible bombers and led to colossal deaths. ivan the tradesman still can not forget the terrible bombardment that he miraculously survived under the villages, kryukovo, he then commanded the so-called sanitary line instructor. i am an orderly riding and so, therefore, we

must make a halt near the village to the hand. once the area and at first dawn for the treatment of fascist shooters instead of schmidt fok and wulfs and began to bomb our floor, the doctors did not have time to provide assistance to one, as other dead and wounded bandages fell to the ground around them. soon ran out of other dressings, too, there was no chaos left and confusion seized the people. i know that i need to run to the meeting by plane. and here it was earlier, well, the killed koscheys start screaming for help, how can? i indicated help and lay towards the plane and under a large boulder. i was wounded,

experienced border guards helped the retreating units of the red army find the right way to get to their own through forests and swamps, but they could not give them a drink and feed them, they could not explain to the confused soldiers. why is everything so and not otherwise? why there is nothing to eat and drink, and most importantly, why there is nothing to fight with, did not understand what was happening, and those who, in the terrible days of the beginning of the war, served in the far east on the border with china, behind which stood a multimillion japanese kwantung. the army's announcement of the start of the war found many on that sunday summer day , june 22nd, at rest. but the hero of the soviet union vasily minakov remembers that the alarm instantly gathered everyone in the unit quickly to defeat, there for 20-30 minutes we got there, the planes hung bombs, they gave us. it has already been prepared in japan

the facilities of one base where they were built, aircraft carriers should have hung 500 kg and bombs, high-explosive and readiness pass the day passes two, our commissar arrives at the electric worker and announces that japan has removed us ready. we sat for 15 days to start a war, and every time listen on the radio, how we were looking for in the west recedes to the heart of blood. it was poured only in the grodno and krestynopol direction, it was possible to achieve minor tactical research and take the first two fifteen kilometers of the stoyanov calvary and

the last one at 10 km from the border, and on december 7, 1941 . japan struck an american naval position made their choice in favor of war with russia first squadron 4th minor torpedo regiment of the air force of the pacific front was sent to the front. we were told you are flying to the front. justify the confidence of our regiment, but they took part in the battles when the first days of general confusion and misunderstanding had passed. the army was reorganized and the resistance of its enemies increased many times over. however, the topic, it was poorer to think that if it were not for some, frankly speaking, strange circumstances, then everything could

have gone differently from the very beginning. you made us the war alarm, so they called it precisely in the tanks drove to their points, where someone was supposed to be and stood. we slutsk stood in this to us. they even brought food there when we arrived. they gave the command to remove the batteries and put them on charge. and i just had to step into the outfit after the day turn and tell my commander. in the same place, all the batteries will not be charged at the same time the commander. confirmed at the same time all the batteries to charge simply nothing. then why shoot everything at once, such is the order. there was an answer, some commanders managed to convince the leadership that it would be wiser remove only part of the batteries. those that really stand up for charging. the rest can be dismantled tomorrow, but most argue.

the army just didn't exist. this is how the orders are executed, they are discussed. however, later these instructions began to be perceived by the soldiers as an outright betrayal. we were still sleeping, and the german planes at four o'clock. they have already started bombing our park. as a result of this raid, almost all 34 tanks in pavel moroz's division burned down then there was only one standing, covered with a tarpaulin, guarded by an armed soldier. the rest of the vehicles, the bt-7 tanks, were equipped with aircraft engines and drove. they are good at her place and fast. they just refueled not with diesel fuel, but with gasoline, and of course. as a result of the bombing, they flared up like matches, they had to retreat, and the sky fought.

uh, that is, uh, those tank corps that we have mechanized, when the corps that we had were called, in most cases they did not have the required number of vehicles, a tank of such pieces, of course, good, but without a fever and without ammunition. he cannot fight during the retreat , german aviation and banal hunger were the most pestering. in the first days of the war, the confusion was so great that they really could not organize. even the food, the outgoing parts of the collective farmers in those fields through which the army was moving, milked the dead cows, and then went out to the roadsides to give the soldier milk to drink. that was the only food. true, once at a broken airfield.

before that, and after that, i have never seen such large vats of two meters in diameter in my life. stood, in one tub they poured buckwheat porridge into briquettes, and in the last one they already gave out there was not a spoon , did not want anything, who took it in a cap. and who in the shirt of this porridge did not leave hope, no one doubted that no matter how hard it was. now the enemy will be defeated. and victory is still, no matter what, will be ours. the enemy will be defeated, victory will be ours. we each

listened to the order of levitan, he had a voice like he would sing the order of the supreme commander-in-chief. nobody in the world could do that. no one could speak like levitan spoke and his voice, which had become familiar and familiar during the war, acted calmingly, even when the reports reported losses and defeats, he carried the main hope for victory and on its altar the soviet people were ready, without hesitation, to lay the most valuable of their lives right it was impossible to procrastinate against this people, because it is impossible to defeat him. they delayed the performance of the fascists gave the opportunity to individual parts of the army to prepare and meet the fascists more worthily precisely on new frontiers. it's a sacrifice

these were certainly not in vain. and glory to those who gave their lives 90% of the irretrievable losses in the border troops are those who are considered missing. it was only possible to calculate that on april 1, 1942, they were killed and died. leotran 3.684. border guards were missing 35,000 298 border defenders were captured in total 136 people. eternal memory to the soldiers of the great war as

soon as the battle died down, another order sounds and the postman goes crazy looking for us, the red rocket takes off, the machine gun hits tirelessly and, so we need one victory, one for all. we will not stand alone at all for the price. we won't stand for the price come on.