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Οrder of the Day no. 270
By: National Bolshevik Date: July 30, 2016, 9:10 am
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Order of the Supreme Command of the Red Army on August 16, 1941,
No. 270; "On the responsibility of the military for surrender
and leaving weapons to the enemy"
Not only our friends, but also our enemies are forced to
acknowledge that, in our war of liberation from German-Fascist
invaders, that elements of the Red Army, the vast majority of
them, their commanders and commissars conduct themselves with
good behavior, courageously, and sometimes – outright
heroically. Even those parts of our army who, by circumstances
are detached from the army and encircled, preserve the spirit of
resistance and courage, not surrendering, trying to cause more
damage to the enemy and to leave the encirclement. It is known
that such parts of our army continue to attack the enemy, and
take every opportunity to defeat the enemy and break out of
their encirclement.
Deputy Commander of the Western Front, Lieutenant-General
Boldin, while in the 10th Army near Bialystok and surrounded by
German-Fascist troops, organized from deep in the enemy's rear
Red Army troops, who fought for 45 days behind enemy lines and
made their way to the main forces of the Western Front. They
destroyed the headquarters of two German regiments, 26 tanks,
1,049 passenger vehicles, transport vehicles and staff cars, 147
motorcycles, five batteries of artillery, four mortars, 15
machine guns, eight machine guns, one airplane at the airport
and a bomb arsenal.
More than a thousand German soldiers and officers were killed.
On 11 August Lieutenant-General Boldin struck the Germans from
behind, broke through the German front, united with our troops,
and led out of the encirclement 1,654 personnel and officers of
the Red Army, including 103 wounded.
The commissar of the 8th Mechanized Corps, Brigade Commissar
Popiel and the commander of the 406th Rifle Regiment, Colonel
Novikov, have fought out of encirclement with 1,778 soldiers.
During a bitter battle with the Germans, the Novikov-Popel group
travelled 650 kilometres, causing huge losses to the enemy's
rear.
The commander of the 3rd Army, Lieutenant-General Kuznetsov and
Member of the Military Council, Army Commissar 2nd Rank Biryukov
fought out of encirclement with 498 soldiers and officers of the
3rd Army, and led out of encirclement the 108th and 64th
Infantry Divisions.
All these and many other similar facts show the resilience of
our troops; the high morale of our soldiers, commanders and
commissars.
But we can not hide that recently there have been some shameful
acts of surrender. Certain generals have been a bad example to
our troops.
The commander of the 28th Army, Lieutenant General Katchalov who
– together with his headquarters troops – was surrounded, showed
cowardice and surrendered to the German fascists. However, the
headquarters of Katchalov came out of encirclement, a small
group from the encirclement of Katchalov's group, and Lt.-Gen.
Katchalov chose to surrender – chose to defect to the enemy.
Lieutenant-General Ponedelin, commander of the 12th Army was
encircled by the enemy, but had ample opportunity to get through
them, as did the vast majority of his army. But Ponedelin has
not shown due persistence and will to win, was panicked,
frightened – and surrendered to the enemy, deserted to the
enemy, thus committing the crime against the country of breaking
a military oath.
The commander of the 13th Rifle Corps, Major General Kirillov,
was surrounded by German-Fascist forces and, rather than to
fulfill his duty to the country, entrusted to him to organize
stubborn resistance of the enemy and to move out of
encirclement, deserted the field of battle and surrendered to
the enemy. As a result the 13th Rifle Corps was broken, and some
of them without serious resistance surrendered.
It should be noted that in all the above situations some
military council members, commanders, political workers, special
section members, that were present in the encirclement, showed
an unacceptable distraction, shameful cowardice and did not even
try to become motivated to prevent Katchalov, Ponedelin,
Kirillov and others to surrender to the enemy.
These shameful facts surrender our sworn enemy suggests that the
Red Army, bravely and selflessly protect them from their vile
invaders Soviet Motherland, there are unstable, cowardly,
cowardly elements. And these cowardly elements are not only
among the Red Army, but also among the commanding staff. As you
know, some commanders and political workers by their behavior,
not only at the front of the Red Army did not show a sample of
courage, strength and love of country, and vice versa hide in
crevices in the offices are busy, do not see and do not observe
the field of battle, and when the first serious challenges to
combat shrink from the enemy, tear off his insignia, a deserter
from the battlefield.
Can we put up with in the Red Army cowards, deserters who
surrender themselves to the enemy as prisoners or their craven
superiors, who at the first hitch on the front tear off their
insignia and desert to the rear? No we can not! If we unleash
these cowards and deserters they, in a very short time, will
destroy our country. Cowards and deserters must be destroyed.
Can we assume battalion commanders and commanders of regiments,
who hide in crevices during combat, do not see the battlefield,
and make no progress on the field of battle are regimental
commanders and battalions? No we can not! These are not
commanders of regiments and battalions, they are impostors.
If such impostors are unleashed, they soon turn our army into a
into a massive bureaucracy. These impostors should be
immediately dismissed from office, reduced in post to the rank
and file, transferred, and if necessary shot on the spot, before
appointng in their place bold and courageous people from the
ranks of junior command personnel or soldiers.
I order:
That commanders and political officers who, during combat tear
off their insignia and desert to the rear or surrender to the
enemy, be considered malicious deserters whose families are
subject to arrest as a family, for violation of an oath and
betrayal of their homeland.
All higher commanders and commissars are required to shoot on
the spot any such deserters from among command personnel.
Encircled units and formations to selflessly fight to the last,
to protect materiel like the apple of their eye, to break
through from the rear of enemy troops, defeating the fascist
dogs.
That every soldier is obliged, regardless of his or her
position, to demand that their superiors, if part of their unit
is surrounded, to fight to the end, to break through, and if a
superior or a unit of the Red Army – instead of organizing
resistance to the enemy – prefers to become a prisoner they
should be destroyed by all means possible on land and air, and
their families deprived of public benefits and assistance.
Division commanders and commissars are obliged to immediately
shift from their posts commanders of battalions and regiments,
who hide in crevices during battle and those who fear directing
a fight on the battlefield; to reduce their positions, as
impostors, to be demoted to the ranks, and when necessary to
shoot them on the spot, bringing to their place bold and
courageous people, from among junior command personnel or those
among the ranks of the Red Army who have excelled.
This order is to be read in all companies, squadrons, batteries,
squadrons, teams and staffs.
Headquarters of the Supreme Command, Red Army
Chairman of the State Defence Committee J. STALIN
Deputy Chairman of the State Defence Committee V. MOLOTOV
Marshal S. BUDYONNY
Marshal S. TIMOSHENKO
Marshal B. SHAPOSHNIKOV
General of the Army G. ZHUKOV
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