heroically defended their lines in order to clear their rear from the partisan-polatsko-lepel zone, the gitkeritestempts. then, by the spring of forty-four, the fascists were undertaking and developing the next, next operations to destroy the polotsk partisan zone. tasked. destroy the civilian population who eat bread for nothing, drive the working population and children to germany, and use the territory for agricultural land, these operations had a very lyrical name, drizzling rain, spring festival, well, as they are, the start of the operation was planned for april 11. and the nazis planned to implement all their plans in 10 days, that is, on april 21, the partisan zone should not have existed, of course, the command of the partisan zone learned about these plans , to repel the punitive operation, the partisans carefully prepared, the total length of the defensive lines was 230 km, the entrances were destroyed, bridges were destroyed, entrances were littered with mined roads. the partisan battle against the polotsk-lepel partisan zone was the largest in the history of the great patriotic war; 6