correspondent vasily grosman wrote: i thought i saw a retreat, but not only did i not see such a thingld not even imagine it. exodus, bible. the cars move in eight rows, a warrior bursting out of the mud with dozens at the same time trucks, crowds of pedestrians with bags, bundles, suitcases. having defeated three soviet fronts, german troops rushed to kalinin, present-day tver. stalin's purges, rakosovsky was arrested on a false denunciation, spent almost 3 years in the dungeons of the nkvd, he was released in 1940, and already in october 1941, rokosovsky received an order to stop the german offensive on moscow at any cost. gathering the remnants of the surviving armies, he organized several centers of defense along the leningrad and volokalamsk highways. on his orders there were the locks of the istra reservoir were blown up. these measures delayed the german advance. having received news of the defeat of three soviet fronts, stalin urgently summoned another world war i veteran, general georgy zhukov, from leningrad. arriving at the front, zhukov was unable to find most of the army h

instead of pushing the stuck... correspondent off the bridge, vasily grosman wrote.arts beating them. soviet directors of many enterprises put their families on trucks and took them out of the capital. that's when it started. the population rushed rob a store. many drunken people appeared on the streets, carrying rings of sausage and rolls of fabric under their arms. things happened that were unthinkable. just 2 days ago , rumors were spreading that stalin and the government had fled moscow. according to the evacuation plan, joseph stalin was actually supposed to leave moscow on october 16. lavrente beria has already ordered the preparation of a special staff for the commander-in-chief. until a certain point , it was unclear whether moscow would be surrendered. the german offensive in september-october was generally threatening. were in kuibushev several dachas were prepared for stalin, offices were prepared there for stalin, so that they would be equipped, but stalin decided to stay in moscow. his train , which stood at the belmanovskaya outpost, was ready , but sta

vasily grosman wrote: “hearing russian speech, the old people run towards the troops and silently crynt women say: “we thought that we would sing and laugh when we saw our people, but only grief accumulated in our hearts that tears flowed from our eyes.” considered the last operation of the battle of the dnieper, this is the corsul shreshchanskaya operation. in the last days of the battle of the dnieper on december 15 , 1943, the trial of nazi criminals began in kharkov. in the building of the former opera house , three german servicemen and one soviet collaborator appeared in court. they were accused of killing several hundred soviet citizens, some of whom were killed with particular cruelty while on the move. gas chambers, so-called gas chambers. the defendants argued that they were only following orders and therefore did not deserve capital punishment. however, on december 18, the court found them guilty and sentenced to death. the next day, in front of tens of thousands of kharkov residents, the criminals were hanged in the blagoveshchensky bazaar square. this is the kharkov proce

soviet correspondent vasily grosman recalled: “severe frosts, creaking snow.”s of our advance there are frozen germans, we didn’t kill them, they were killed by frost, they are wearing thin boots, thin tunics. a few months ago, paulus's soldiers were preparing to celebrate a grand victory. in letters home, they proudly reported that they were the first reached the banks of the volga, which hitler hastened to declare the new border of the third reich in the east. now the former conquerors were faced with labor camps and work to restore what they had destroyed. the scale of the stalingrad disaster was initially hushed up by german propaganda. the leaders of the reich feared panic. the gestapa even confiscated and burned the farewell letters that the doomed soldiers of the sixth army sent to their families in germany, but this did not help. in mid-february 1943, german diplomat ulrich von hassel wrote down in his own. the last few weeks have been characterized by the most serious crisis that we have ever experienced in the war, this crisis has struck the whole of

vasily grosman wrote: “hearing the russian speech, the old people run towards the troops and cry silentlyhought that we would sing and laugh when we saw ours, but so much grief has accumulated in our hearts that the tears themselves flow from the eyes . the last operation of the battle of the dnieper is considered to be the karsusch operation, this is where the germans suffered a complete disaster, it became clear, because everything, well, everything had already failed, that is, the battle for the dnieper is the same battle that, well let's just say this is kursk the battle and stalingrad - this is the beginning of a turning point in the war, and the battle is just days away. three german servicemen appeared, one was a soviet collaborator. they were accused of killing several hundred soviet citizens, some of whom were killed with extreme cruelty in mobile gas chambers, the so-called gas chambers. the defendants argued that they were only following orders and therefore did not deserve capital punishment. however, on december 18, the court found them guilty and sentenced them to death. the