headquarters of the supreme high command put before the command of the western and kalinin fronts the an offensive and hard sychev operation. the most important features. it was supposed to be suddenness. at the same time, in the very canon of the operation on july 28, stalin, as people's commissar for defense, signed decree number 227, which became one of the most important and cruelest documents of the war in the order. in particular, it was said from now on by the iron law of discipline. for each commander, red army soldier, firing a worker , there must be a requirement, not a step back, without an order from the high command early in the morning 30 july, the enemy's front line of defense sank in the school. after a simultaneous volley of 10 divisions of katyushas on the entire front, a breakthrough, our infantry and tanks launched an offensive. however , the rain that began did not make it possible to support our infantry from the air, the artillery tanks lagged behind due to impassability, stuck in the mud. combat vehicles. enemy artillery was burned, however, by the end of the f