There is no doubt that the 1941 Red Square military parade was the most special military parade in the history of the world military parade - because it was the only military parade of all the parades to date that after the end of the parade, all the officers and men under parade went directly to the front line.
On June 22 of that year, Nazi Germany launched the Barbarossa Project, which simultaneously dispatched a million troops to launch a blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union on a front of more than 1,800 kilometers. At this time, the Soviet Union had just experienced the Great Purge and the Soviet-Finnish War, and the army was seriously hit. In just a few months, nearly 100 divisions in its European part had lost their effectiveness, and the Germans had pushed under Moscow.
At this time, the hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army troops in Siberia on the eastern front became the lifeline of the Soviet Union, which was almost useless. Fortunately, the famous red spy Sorge learned that Japan would not start a war against the Soviet Union in the near future. Thus these Red Army, transported by the trains of the Trans-Siberian Railway, moved to Moscow.
It was November, the 24th anniversary of the October Revolution. As is customary, the Soviet Union celebrates this day with a grand military parade. However, the German army has already arrived in the city, is it still necessary to hold a military parade?
After careful consideration, Stalin made a resolute decision – the parade would be held as usual! All the officers and men on parade were from the Red Army, which was about to go to war, and all the weapons they carried, whether rifles, pistols, cannons or even airplanes, were all live ammunition!
Hitler did not react until the deafening Russian slogan "Ulla" sounded on the radio that he understood what had happened. Hitler immediately rushed to the telephone and ordered his men to connect to the headquarters of the German Army Group Center on the Moscow front. He first severely reprimanded Marshal von Bauer, commander of Army Group Center, and then asked the commander of the 2nd Air Force of the Luftwaffe to answer the phone, give the latter 1 hour to atone for his sins, and demand that the Scene of the Moscow Military Parade be blown up!
Despite the heavy snow in the sky and not suitable for flying, the German aircraft took off forcibly, and when they approached the skies over Moscow, they were violently blocked by Soviet fighters and anti-aircraft artillery units, and even a number of Soviet MiG-1 fighters crashed directly into the German aircraft. As a result, none of the German bombers could fly over Red Square.
In the ensuing battle, a man named Vasily. Georgievich. Before his death, Klochkov's soldiers were martyred after destroying eighteen tanks, and before the sacrifice, he left a famous sentence that still makes people tear up: Comrades, although the Soviet Union is vast, we have nowhere to retreat, because behind us is Moscow!