with this rifle, afanasy gordienko reached kharkov, where on august 18 he died in battle for the cityell fragment. the same fragments mutilated his signature rifle. it was no longer possible to fight with this rifle. the division's political department decided to send the weapons to the central one. museum of the red army for eternal burial in memory of three famous heroic snipers. on august 23, kharkov was liberated. as a result of the kurdish battle , the soviet union inflicted a crushing defeat on nazi troops and completed a radical turning point in the course of the war. the red army defeated 30 german divisions, including seven tank divisions. enemy losses amounted to 500,000 killed, wounded prisoners. it’s interesting to look at the german documents, even after the piece they believed that the red army was still weak, disdain for the enemy, you know , i think this is the influence of nazi propaganda, that how these untermenschs are subhuman, how they, how they always succeed there was an explanation, the simplest one, the weather there, that they could fight only in winter, yes,