"The Second World War profoundly changed human history."
After the start of World War II, the fate of several countries around the world changed, and the original world pattern was quickly broken. War is like a huge, emotionless meat grinder that cuts off the lives of countless people and shatters the hopes of countless people.
"Although the Soviet Union is big, there is no way back, and behind it is Moscow."
When the Iron Hooves of the German Army came all the way to the territory of the Soviet Union, the Red Army immediately launched a desperate resistance.
At that time, although the Soviet Union strengthened the country in all aspects through the Second Five-Year Plan, because the time of the German offensive was only known the day before the outbreak of the war, and the German offensive was extremely fierce, the Soviet army could only retreat at the beginning.
As the Germans pushed the front all the way forward, and the casualties of the Red Army increased at a very rapid rate, seeing that war was about to break out in Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union,
The Soviet commander-in-chief had to issue a series of cold orders, saying that if the situation was exceptional, he could shoot at the elderly, women and children if necessary
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Menacing
"The 70 divisions of the Soviet army fought bloodily for 10 days, and the Red Army broke through a small number of times, and more than 660,000 people were annihilated."
Throughout world war II, the German army advanced very smoothly for the most part.
By the time of the attack on the Soviet Union, the Germans had already captured Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, France and other countries, and after failing to achieve the planned victory in the war with Britain, Germany brazenly tore up the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact.
Because the war came unexpectedly, under the fierce attack of the German army,
"The Fall of Large Swaths of Territory of the USSR"
The lives of countless heroes and soldiers died rapidly in the war.
In the absence of the anticipated Determination of the German Army to attack, the headquarters of the Soviet Armed Forces gave parts to the troops because they did not know enough about the specific conditions of the front line
"Untruthful and unexecutible commands."
These orders contributed to some extent to the defeat of the Soviet side in the first 15-18 days of defensive warfare at the beginning of the war. The Germans, on the other hand, managed to penetrate about 450 kilometers into Soviet territory. When the situation is already very serious, and because the leadership is divided on the direction of the war, the combat soldiers are still unable to make the most effective decisions.
In the face of the gradual defeat of the Soviet Red Army, the Soviet high command had to hastily revise the previously drawn up battle plan based on certain erroneous intelligence, from a defensive line to a strategic defense.
But even so, many of them are planned
"None of the strategic defensive campaigns were conducted."
In most cases, the warriors were forced to take passive combat action under the ferocious attack of the enemy.
The fierce offensive of the German army made the Soviet side realize the seriousness of the problem, and under the leadership of the leadership, the Soviet Union quickly prepared for a full-scale war of resistance.
In order to maximize the preservation of its living forces, the Soviet Union persisted and succeeded in the already extremely difficult situation
"Evacuate most of the industrial enterprises to the east."
This provided an extremely important guarantee for the human and material support for the follow-up of the war.
Cold command
"On the question of greed for life and fear of death and treasonous surrender and the measures taken to prohibit such acts."
Before the outbreak of the Soviet-German War in World War II, the Soviet Union had launched military operations against parts of the surrounding area. At that time, the unity within the Soviet Union was not solid enough to a certain extent because of ethnic issues.
In order to maximize the consolidation of the military and reverse the situation as quickly as possible, the Soviet commander issued some seemingly cold orders. In Order No. 270 of 16 August 1941, for those deserters,
"Their family members will be arrested as relatives of oath breakers, traitors and deserters."
On the surface, the order is a more extreme way to prevent the occurrence of defections. But if we dig deeper into the situation of the army at that time, we can find that after this order, the number of defectors not only did not decrease, but greatly increased.
In fact, the initial orders issued because they did not understand the actual situation and insisted on holding their positions had already caused some people's hearts to be shaken.
while
"If an officer or soldier does not organize an active resistance to fight back against the enemy, but chooses to surrender, then they can be eliminated by any means taken from the air or on the ground."
After these orders were issued, soldiers who did not want to participate actively in the battle, because they felt that the Soviet military was too cold, and more and more wanted to defect.
Two months after Order 270 was issued, soviet prisoners of war rapidly increased by 1.3 million. Some of these prisoners of war directly formed other armies and began to turn their guns to the motherland. In contrast to these soldiers, the Already determined Red Army became more and more determined. They stayed firmly at their posts and bought extremely effective time for the transfer of personnel in the country.
"The war went on to the third weekend"
At that time, the Soviet Red Army, under the insistence of the Red Army on the front line, and with the timely reinforcement of the front line by the living forces in the rear, it will finally stabilize the defensive line.
Because they had long been aware of the many disadvantages of away combat, the German army first thought of a fast attack, and in order not to let the attack fall into anxiety, the German army even began to drive the old people and children in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union to the front of the troops.
Fearing that the Red Army would be shaken by this, on September 21, 1941, the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Union issued Order No. 29799, indicating
"Whether voluntary or forced accomplices"
When facing them, we must not be soft-hearted, but must strike hard.
The situation is reversed
"The Germans found it difficult to capture Moscow and shifted the focus of their offensive."
The series of orders issued in the course of the battle, although they may seem cold, are almost all aimed at defending the national territory and leaving as much living force as possible.
In fact, to a certain extent, it was precisely because of these orders that the Soviet side was able to realize the actual gravity of the situation at that time and the importance and necessity of completing the task of national defense.
As the war continued, the Soviet side was gradually able to understand the reality of the war and began to use its own home advantage, while the Germans slowly tasted the difficulty of away combat.
After the Germans realized the great difficulty of occupying Moscow and thus shifted the focus of their offensive to the Caucasus, the Germans were swift
"Sweeping the entire Caucasus region"
But the Red Army, which began to operate flexibly, was able to rely on the local terrain to pull the short-term operations that the Germans hoped for into long-term tug-of-war. When the German army was caught in a bitter battle in many parts of the Soviet Union, the Soviet side finally began to break free from the quagmire of gradual defeat.
When the assistance of Britain and other countries was gradually implemented to the Soviet side, and the industrial transfer and other measures carried out by the Soviet side in advance to preserve the living forces began to gradually show results, the Soviet counteroffensive officially began. In 1942, the Soviet Red Army
"Launched a pincer offensive on both sides of the Germans and surrounded the Axis forces"
The war caused heavy casualties among the Germans and their allies.
This battle at Stalingrad, along with other battles of the same period, formed a turning point in World War II. After this, the Red Army began to pursue the victory, while the German front was forced to retreat continuously.
As the allies' strength came into play, and as the Red Army increasingly regained its rhythm of operations, since the Soviets recaptured Kharkov in August 1943,
"The Germans never launched a strategic offensive on the Soviet-German battlefield again."
brief summary:
"Stop the war with war, although the war can also be fought."
War is the most ruthless, when the iron hooves of the enemy's invasion set foot on the land under the feet of the people, when countless compatriots began to be engulfed by the flames of war, all calm had to be broken.
Seeing that the German army was about to attack the capital Moscow, before the Battle of Moscow, the Soviet commander had to issue a series of cold orders.
Whether it was Order No. 270 severely punishing family members or Order No. 29799 shooting at the elderly, women and children, the fundamental purpose was to maximize the stability of the Red Army's defensive line. These orders laid an important foundation for the post-war mobilization of the Red Army and the subsequent war to a certain extent.