Occupied Pskov. Parade of ROA units. The white-blue-red flag flutters... June 22, 1943

On July 9, 1941, Wehrmacht units entered Pskov. It was the 18th day of the war... From the story of a partisan (a year later): “German orders were posted on the streets of Pskov. The invaders threaten the residents: “For appearing on the street before sunrise - death, for appearing on the street after sunset - also death.” But the frightened population is afraid to leave their houses even during the day. Recently, the Nazis herded all men aged 14 to 65 years into the square and, under threat of death, demanded that they hand over Soviet activists who were conducting underground work in the city. The population listened to all the threats in silence. Nobody uttered a single word. Then the executioners took 150 people out of the crowd and shot them in front of all those gathered. The corpse of a German officer was found in a sewer hatch near the Red Army House building. The Gestapo captured the first 18 civilians they came across and hanged them.”
And on June 22, 1943, a parade of the “Russian Liberation Army” of General Vlasov took place in Pskov. From a report by the local occupation newspaper “For the Motherland”:
“The announcement of the “Declaration of Land Ownership” resulted in a solemn demonstration of the unity and friendship of two peoples: Russian and German. Symbols of this unity are the Russian and German national flags, the huge banners of which flutter today over the square, decorated with young birch trees.

Pskov. June 22, 1943

But it was necessary for twenty-five years to pass, for the poisoned wave of class hatred artificially inflated by the Jews to subside, for a new generation to grow up that did not know the civil war and was able to see with sober eyes. It was necessary for the people to drink to the dregs the cup of humiliation and terrible torture prepared for them by Jewry. It was necessary for the Russian soul, this eternal seeker of truth, to be completely convinced of the vile falsity of Marxist slogans. History moves only forward, and the delusional ideas of the International are powerless to delay the iron tread of the National Revolution. The ninth wave will be terrible for Stalin and his railway masters! It was not without reason that in the last years before the war, having hastily hidden the “invincible teaching” of Marx-Engels-Lenin and his own in his back pocket, Stalin tried to fraudulently clothe the Red Army in national armor. Pathetic effort! To make the Red Army national, Russian, it is necessary, first of all, to destroy Bolshevism and w&d. Stalin did not agree to this and cannot agree to this.
... White-blue-red satin trembles and shimmers under the hot June sun. The one holding the shaft froze like a beautiful statue - the embodiment of faith, love and fearlessness. Those receiving the parade walk around the rows and rise to the podium. The chairman of the German institution addresses the audience:
- Russian peasants and peasant women! You have gathered here today to listen to new good news for you - the declaration on the introduction of personal ownership of land!

Pskov. June 22, 1943

A powerful speaker carries almost every word far across the area. People listen to a spare, laconic, but full of content speech, which speaks of what everyone has become convinced of during this year of fruitful work, under the protection and close friendship of the German army. An elderly worker stands next to me, and his head involuntarily and unnoticed by him nods to the beat of each phrase. During this year, the Germans got to know and love the Russians, and the Russians got to know and love the Germans. The German government does not promise them rivers of milk or banks of jelly; it demands an honest attitude towards work, but does everything possible to ensure that the working people have a good life.
- Long live the free Russian peasant!
A mighty cheer thunders through the ranks of the Russian soldiers and rolls into the crowd. The orchestra plays a tune.
And when, leaving the square, a column of Russian soldiers quickly takes their bayonets at the ready as they move, the old worker taps his foot in admiration:
- Ay, well done! Here they are, our Russians: together with the Germans they will achieve everything.
...The ceremony is over. The national holiday begins. A van loaded to the brim with buns and ice cream drives into the square. A song and dance ensemble and choir perform. Young birch trees rustle softly in the light wind."

Release of the official German newsreel (“Deutsche Wochenschau” No. 670/43/2) with a report on the ROA parade in Pskov.

During the night of July 9, major military operations took place in the Polotsk, Lepel and Novograd-Volyn directions.

In the Ostrovsky direction, our troops consolidated in occupied positions and conducted intensified night searches.

By the end of July 8, battles had broken out in the Sebezh direction, where enemy tank and infantry units sought to break through to the east. The fighting continues.

In the Polotsk direction, stubborn and intense battles continued in the Borkovichi and Ulla areas, during which our troops inflicted heavy losses on the enemy with short counterattacks.

In the Lepel direction, our troops struck the enemy, defeated two of his motorized regiments, destroyed four heavy and light batteries and a significant number of anti-tank guns. The enemy, leaving hundreds of corpses on the battlefield, retreated to the west.

In the Novograd-Volynsk direction, our troops continued to wage continuous, stubborn battles with enemy tank and motorized units, countering their advance to the east.

In other directions and sectors of the front there were no major military operations during the night.

Our aviation attacked enemy motorized units in the Ostrovsky, Lepelsky and Novograd-Volynsky directions and against enemy aviation at its airfields.

In night operations at enemy airfields and in air battles on the night of July 9, our aviation alone in the Lepel, Borisov and Bobruisk directions destroyed 62 enemy aircraft, losing 7 of its own aircraft.

According to updated data, our aviation destroyed 102 enemy aircraft during July 8, losing 10 of our own aircraft.

Enemy tanks appeared from the forest. The battery of the Ensky unit was ordered to repel the tank attack. Having brought the tanks close, the battery opened heavy fire. Gunner Ibragimov especially distinguished himself. He destroyed 11 tanks, including three heavy ones. In total, the Nazis lost 27 out of 64 tanks in the Enskaya battery section that day. Many crews of damaged enemy tanks surrendered without resistance.

With a sudden attack it was necessary to capture the bridge near the town of F. and cut off the enemy’s escape route. This task was entrusted to the units of senior lieutenants Nesterov, Berezhny and Eremenko. At night, the fighters secretly approached the bridge and lay down in the reeds. Here they lay for almost a day. The next day, with the onset of darkness, the assault on the bridge began. The unsuspecting German-Romanian soldiers fled in panic, throwing their weapons. The bridge was blown up.

120 kilometers from Lake Peipus at 4 o’clock in the morning on July 8, three German Yu-88 bombers, having dropped their entire load of bombs into the lake, landed at a Soviet airfield. Captured by fighters from the fighter battalion, the pilots explained their flight to the side of the Soviet troops by their reluctance to fight against Soviet Russia. One of the crew members, gunner-radio operator K., said that the idea of ​​escaping from the German army appeared to the crews of the bomber flight on the very first day of the war. However, the opportunity for the flight presented itself only on July 8. Navigator Sh. cited a number of facts showing that the war against the Soviet Union was extremely unpopular among the flight personnel of the German troops. Sentiments against war with the USSR have intensified even more in recent days, when the Germans were faced with the exceptional tenacity of not only regular Soviet troops, but also the civilian population.

In the Borisov direction, the Enskaya tank unit destroyed two German batteries and captured a group of artillerymen. From the documents found on them, it turned out that the batteries were transferred from the western front. The captured German artillery officer Ludwig W. said: “For the last 8 months, my artillery unit was stationed in Cherbourg. A few days before the start of the war with Russia, we were loaded onto a train and sent, as it turned out later, to the Soviet border.” An interesting detail emerged from the interrogation of the prisoners. While the train was loading, fake wooden guns were installed in place of the batteries. “We arrived at the front,” says Ludwig V., “on Monday, June 23, when hostilities had already begun. Here I met several of my old artillery comrades, who a few days before were still in Dunkirk: Captain Heinrich Ts. and Lieutenant Otto F. I didn’t have to fight the Russians for long.”

The fascist invaders are powerless against the elusive groups of Soviet partisans. German sentries are ordered to shoot anyone who approaches the telegraph poles. The other day, near the village of N., the fascists began to pursue a group of armed partisans who were trying to break the wires. The partisans took the soldiers into the forest, far from the guarded facility, and disappeared. Upon their return, the Germans discovered that the line was still destroyed. The wires were destroyed by the second group of partisans.

In heroic labor, the workers, collective farmers and intelligentsia of the Soviet Union forge victory over the insidious enemy. In the Novoshakhtinsky district, conveyor operator Medvedev, machine operator Voronin and driller Ryaguzov daily fulfill the norms by 250-300 percent or more. At the Sergo Ordzhonikidze plant in the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, turner Efimov, having received an important order that required great skill and precision, completed the task 200 percent by evening. An old turner at the mechanical repair workshops of the Volga-Caspian State Fishery Trust, Yablonsky, the father of three Red Army soldiers, processed two cylinders and one piston in nine hours instead of 27 according to the norm. In the Zaporozhye region, the foreman of the Kirov plant, Comrade Yatsenko, completes the daily task at 1,000 percent. All workers in the leading workshops of the Stalin plant in the Moscow region produce from 130 to 300 percent of the production norm.

The working people of Soviet Ukraine vigilantly and vigilantly monitor the machinations of the enemy and help the Red Army catch spies and saboteurs. Near the Shumi Pole collective farm, five fascist soldiers and officers descended from an airplane. The collective farmers who were watching the plane surrounded the saboteurs, captured them and took them to headquarters. In the city of N., telephone operator Borisova received a call from a public telephone booth from a man. He asked to give him information about the location of some communications enterprises. Borisova suggested that the unknown person wait until she collected the addresses he was interested in, and at that time she reported her suspicions to the police. A few minutes later the “client” was arrested right there in the telephone booth. He turned out to be a fascist saboteur who had landed by parachute the day before.

Throughout July 9, fierce battles of our troops continued against large tank and motorized enemy units, trying to break through in the Ostrovsky, Polotsk and Novograd-Volynsky directions.

In the Ostrovsky direction, our troops are fighting stubbornly, holding back the advance of superior enemy forces.

In the Polotsk direction, the enemy resumed the offensive in the morning. Our troops met the enemy with devastating artillery and machine gun fire and decisive counterattacks. The fight continues. The enemy suffers heavy losses.

In the Lepel direction, our troops inflict successful counterattacks on the enemy.

In the Novograd-Volyn direction, fierce battles between our troops and large motorized mechanized units of the enemy took place all day.

In other directions and sectors of the front, our troops are fighting, holding their positions.

Our aviation operated against enemy motorized units and destroyed his aircraft at airfields.

Our aircraft bombed Constanta, the port and transport in Tulcea and Sulina, and the oil fields of Ploesti.

During the raid on Constanta, 9 of our bombers were met by 14 enemy aircraft. In the air battle that took place, our planes shot down seven enemy planes, losing only one plane.

The tank unit of Senior Lieutenant Yunatsky came into contact with large enemy forces. In the ensuing battle, Soviet tank crews disabled one and a half dozen fascist tanks. At the height of the battle, the gun of Yunatsky’s tank failed. The fearless tanker rushed at the enemy and began to crush him with his powerful tank. One fascist tank overturned due to strong impacts, and several other vehicles were destroyed. Two days later, Yunatsky undertook an even more daring maneuver. Having received a report that the enemy’s artillery was preventing our infantry from turning around, Yunatsky attacked the enemy and broke deep into the rear. Having reached the enemy firing position, the tanks of Yunatsky’s unit began to destroy the fascist guns. Twenty anti-tank guns and one 152mm gun were destroyed by brave Soviet tankers.

A squadron of bombers of the Black Sea Fleet under the command of Captain Tsurtsumiya discovered and attacked enemy ships. The first bombs hit two enemy ships. The ships sank. Then Senior Sergeant Semenov discovered the third ship. The experienced squadron navigator Gorbatov recognized it as a monitor and hit it in one go. After the battle, Captain Tsurtsumiya brought all the planes to his airfield without the slightest damage.

Red Army soldiers of the Ensky Rifle Regiment Payanin and Krestyaninov, fighting with the enemy, broke away from their unit and found themselves deep behind enemy lines. Soon Krestyaninov was wounded. Then Payanin, putting his wounded comrade on his back, began to carefully move away. On the way, Payanin was attacked by the Nazis. Having entered into battle with them, he killed five Germans. The selfless fighter carried his comrade for three kilometers until he joined his own.

The battalion of the Ensky Infantry Regiment, in a battle with Romanian units near the town of K., captured 16 Romanian officers and 589 soldiers. 11 guns, 6 mortars, 12 heavy and 24 light machine guns, 396 rifles, shells, grenades, rifle cartridges and other military property were captured.

During deep reconnaissance of the enemy's rear, our intelligence officers, junior lieutenant Sakharov, and Red Army soldiers Pogodin and Kuritsyn heard a strong explosion. Soon a red glow appeared in the distance. Having quietly crept up to the site of the explosion, the Red Army soldiers saw a large detachment of Soviet partisans near a group of destroyed aircraft. As it turned out from a conversation with the commander of the partisan detachment, Comrade. S., in the clearing there was one of the enemy’s secret airfields. A skillfully camouflaged clearing served as a base for fascist fighters. Three days before the explosion, the airfield was discovered by scouts from a partisan detachment. Soviet patriots prepared for an attack on the airfield for two days. The appearance of the partisans was so sudden that of the Germans present at the airfield, only a few soldiers were saved. As a result of the raid, five aircraft, a fuel supply and an ammunition depot were destroyed.

At the call of Comrade Stalin, the peoples of the Soviet Union are mobilizing all forces to crush and completely defeat the enemy who treacherously attacked our homeland. Workers at the Voikov plant now produce as many structures in one week as they produced in a whole month before the war. The markers of this plant completed in three days a task that previously took 10 days. Miner of the Proletarskaya Krutaya mine in Makeevka, comrade. Sumin gave seven norms on July 6, his day off. Driller of the Moscow plant "Red Proletarian" comrade. Galoshina fulfills the norm daily by 250-275 percent. Designers and technologists of the Leningrad plant named after Egorov vol. Zabuntuev, Grigoriev, Khokhlov, Pyzhov and others were tasked with designing a new unit. Two days later they handed over the finished project, and on July 7 a prototype of the unit was already completed. Collective farmers of the Dnepropetrovsk region organize red carts with grain, fodder, meat, milk and other agricultural products. In the Dnepropetrovsk suburban region, many collective farms are already handing over food to the state as part of the 1942 supplies. In the Chuvash Republic, more than 100 collective farms have fully fulfilled all obligations to the state.

The driver of one of the front-line roads, Comrade. Sulima went on an urgent flight. On the way, the train was attacked by a fascist plane. The driver increased the speed and brought the train into the forest. The plane fell behind, but as soon as the train left the forest, the fascist pilot began firing again. Comrade Sulima continued to lead the lineup. Two Soviet fighters took off near the station. A few minutes later the fascist car crashed to the ground.

The world press ridicules the delusional fabrications of German propaganda regarding “Bolshevik atrocities.” For example, the American newspaper “Daily News” advises its readers to “be suspicious” of German propaganda photographs. Many newspapers openly write that German photographs, which were produced not in Lvov and Kaunas, but in the main headquarters of fascist propaganda and Berlin, are crude fakes and completely betray Hitler’s “photographers.” Back in February and March, Nazi “lovers” of photographs prepared huge quantities of “photos” of captured Red Army soldiers. When sending photographs to foreign newspapers, the expedition of the German Ministry of Propaganda also included photographs depicting captured Red Army soldiers in... winter clothes. Distrust of fascist photographs especially intensified in connection with the distribution by Hitler’s agents of a photograph of the “victorious” German troops who captured the Soviet military flag, which in reality is the flag of young pioneers. The flag features the pioneer emblem and the pioneer slogan “Be Prepared.” Apparently, Goebbels’ agents are going through hard times if they resort to such wretched fakes.

Berlin radio again repeats the lie already exposed by the Soviet Information Bureau that Soviet pilots allegedly use “dum-dum” bullets. Another vile fabrication differs from the one already exposed only in that the new “bullets” cast in Berlin fell, at the will of the lying fascists, not into the train, but into German soldiers. The repetition by the Germans of an already refuted provocative fabrication testifies to the persistent attempt of the Nazis to hide their plans and cover up the traces of their own atrocities. This latest dirty slander by embittered fascists is apparently designed to weaken the impression made on the German people by the heroic actions of Soviet aviation, which successfully thwarted the adventurist plans of the Nazi command.

Occupied Pskov. Parade of ROA units. The white-blue-red flag flutters... June 22, 1943

On July 9, 1941, Wehrmacht units entered Pskov. It was the 18th day of the war... From the story of a partisan (a year later): “German orders were posted on the streets of Pskov. The invaders threaten the residents: “For appearing on the street before sunrise - death, for appearing on the street after sunset - also death.” But the frightened population is afraid to leave their houses even during the day. Recently, the Nazis herded all men aged 14 to 65 years into the square and, under threat of death, demanded that they hand over Soviet activists who were conducting underground work in the city. The population listened to all the threats in silence. Nobody uttered a single word. Then the executioners took 150 people out of the crowd and shot them in front of all those gathered. The corpse of a German officer was found in a sewer hatch near the Red Army House building. The Gestapo captured the first 18 civilians they came across and hanged them.”
And on June 22, 1943, a parade of the “Russian Liberation Army” of General Vlasov took place in Pskov. From a report by the local occupation newspaper “For the Motherland”:
“The announcement of the “Declaration of Land Ownership” resulted in a solemn demonstration of the unity and friendship of two peoples: Russian and German. Symbols of this unity are the Russian and German national flags, the huge banners of which flutter today over the square, decorated with young birch trees.

Pskov. June 22, 1943

But it was necessary for twenty-five years to pass, for the poisoned wave of class hatred artificially inflated by the Jews to subside, for a new generation to grow up that did not know the civil war and was able to see with sober eyes. It was necessary for the people to drink to the dregs the cup of humiliation and terrible torture prepared for them by Jewry. It was necessary for the Russian soul, this eternal seeker of truth, to be completely convinced of the vile falsity of Marxist slogans. History moves only forward, and the delusional ideas of the International are powerless to delay the iron tread of the National Revolution. The ninth wave will be terrible for Stalin and his railway masters! It was not without reason that in the last years before the war, having hastily hidden the “invincible teaching” of Marx-Engels-Lenin and his own in his back pocket, Stalin tried to fraudulently clothe the Red Army in national armor. Pathetic effort! To make the Red Army national, Russian, it is necessary, first of all, to destroy Bolshevism and w&d. Stalin did not agree to this and cannot agree to this.
... White-blue-red satin trembles and shimmers under the hot June sun. The one holding the shaft froze like a beautiful statue - the embodiment of faith, love and fearlessness. Those receiving the parade walk around the rows and rise to the podium. The chairman of the German institution addresses the audience:
- Russian peasants and peasant women! You have gathered here today to listen to new good news for you - the declaration on the introduction of personal ownership of land!

Pskov. June 22, 1943

A powerful speaker carries almost every word far across the area. People listen to a spare, laconic, but full of content speech, which speaks of what everyone has become convinced of during this year of fruitful work, under the protection and close friendship of the German army. An elderly worker stands next to me, and his head involuntarily and unnoticed by him nods to the beat of each phrase. During this year, the Germans got to know and love the Russians, and the Russians got to know and love the Germans. The German government does not promise them rivers of milk or banks of jelly; it demands an honest attitude towards work, but does everything possible to ensure that the working people have a good life.
- Long live the free Russian peasant!
A mighty cheer thunders through the ranks of the Russian soldiers and rolls into the crowd. The orchestra plays a tune.
And when, leaving the square, a column of Russian soldiers quickly takes their bayonets at the ready as they move, the old worker taps his foot in admiration:
- Ay, well done! Here they are, our Russians: together with the Germans they will achieve everything.
...The ceremony is over. The national holiday begins. A van loaded to the brim with buns and ice cream drives into the square. A song and dance ensemble and choir perform. Young birch trees rustle softly in the light wind."

Release of the official German newsreel (“Deutsche Wochenschau” No. 670/43/2) with a report on the ROA parade in Pskov.

The glorious warriors of Soviet aviation, imbued with deep hatred for the enemy, stop at nothing to inflict heavy damage on the fascist vultures.

Fighter pilot junior lieutenant Stepan Zdorovtsev fought a protracted battle with enemy bombers trying to break through to an important military installation. Skillfully maneuvering, he showered the enemy with a hail of bullets until all the cartridges ran out. Then the selfless air fighter, confident in his flying skills, boldly went to ram the German Yu-88 bomber and its crew, but Zdorovtsev remained unharmed.

The same situation arose in an air battle for the Komsomol pilot, junior lieutenant Pyotr Kharitonov, and he also did not leave the battle. Quickly attacking the enemy bomber, Kharitonov cut off its depth rudders with a propeller. The enemy plane crashed to the ground. Kharitonov landed safely at his airfield.

Junior Lieutenant Mikhail Zhukov showed amazing tenacity in air combat. Having entered into a duel with a fascist pilot, Zhukov inexorably pressed the enemy down and, in a dive, eventually drove him into Lake Pskov and drowned him...

The deputy squadron commander for political affairs, senior political instructor Andrei Danilov, entered into battle with nine enemy aircraft. A few moments later, two of them were shot down. Having fired all the cartridges, the fearless pilot directed his car directly at the enemy plane. Andrei Danilov died a heroic death.

What did Hitler and his gloomy gang of pogromists, preachers and diplomats count on? Perhaps he was counting on the fact that the Soviet people would be frightened: “Fathers of the world, there is no beast stronger than a cat, he conquered all of Europe, how can I compete with him..!” Yes, take your hat off your head, yes, hit your feet... The fascists don’t know us well!

You need to know that the Russian people, even in the most difficult and difficult times of their history, never broke their hats in front of the enemy invader, but in extreme cases they took a dung fork and slashed his belly. For the shrine - the Russian land - our people did not spare their lives. Life is dear to us, we are a cheerful people, but dearer to us than life is our homeland, our culture and customs, our language, ours, the firm belief that we have enough strength to defend the USSR and create our own special, abundant, rich in all the gifts of the earth and the human mind a free life, such that every new person, emerging from the mother’s womb into the world, receives a ticket to happiness...

Fascists have nothing to do on our land. Let's kill. In one Russian fairy tale, the peasant Kapiton says to the Tsar:

“Wait, you’ve come at me, then we’ll see which one will play which...”

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What will this new “world” look like, created by the inflamed imagination of the leader of fascism? What will be the social structure of this new “world”, which resurrects ancient slavery buried by history?

Hitler replies: “I will tell you what the future social system will look like: in it there will be a class of masters... in it there will be a mass of different members of the National Socialist Party, arranged in steps, in order of command. These people will enter the middle classes. Further, there will be a huge mass of people without a name, a collection of eternal servants... Even lower we will have a class of conquered foreigners, those whom we cold-bloodedly call modern slaves. And above all this there will be a new, higher aristocracy...”

Only this highest aristocracy has the right to knowledge, technology and science. However, the fascists treat science with contempt. Science is needed only to the extent that it serves the purposes of war and enslavement.

Hitler foresees the question: how can one keep hundreds of millions of slaves in subjection, how can one turn the whole world into slaves?

And he answers very simply. It is necessary that the slaves knew nothing, understood nothing, learned nothing, could not read and write.

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From the Soviet Information Bureau *

The fighting that unfolded on the day of July 7 in the Ostrovsky, Polotsk, Lepelsky, Bobruisk, Novograd-Volynsky and Mogilev-Podolsky (Ukraine) directions continued on the night of July 8 with unabated force.

In the Ostrovsky direction, our units, offering stubborn resistance to the enemy, delayed his advance.

In the Polotsk direction, a persistent and intense struggle with the enemy in the Borkovichi area continues.

In the Lepel direction, the enemy continues to counter the counterattacks of our troops launched in this sector. The fight continues.

In the Bobruisk direction, our units destroyed up to 35 heavy tanks and 2 enemy infantry battalions. All enemy attempts in this direction to force the river. The Dnieper was recaptured with heavy losses. Prisoners were captured.

Intense battles with enemy tank and motorized units continue in the Novograd-Volynsk direction.

To the south of this direction, our troops, with a decisive counterattack on the enemy’s flank and rear, destroyed up to 2 of his infantry regiments.

In the Mogilev-Podolsk direction (Ukraine), our units are engaged in stubborn battles with the enemy trying to break through to the river. Dniester. Thanks to the actions of our troops, the enemy in this direction is destroyed piece by piece.

On the day of July 7, our aviation destroyed 58 enemy aircraft in air battles and at airfields. Our losses per day are 5 aircraft.

Senior Lieutenant Bundyuk was patrolling over one object. Suddenly he saw four fascist planes, which, having flown by, did not notice him. The lieutenant positioned himself at the tail of the enemy planes and flew after them. As he approached, Bundyuk opened fire on the last plane. The plane caught fire and fell to the ground. Taking advantage of the enemy's confusion, Bundyuk shot the second plane, and then entered into battle with the other two and shot down the third plane. The fourth fascist plane did not accept the battle and turned back.

The other day the Ensky unit went on an attack against superior enemy forces. The battle ended with the complete defeat of the enemy. There were 267 killed and 130 wounded German soldiers left on the battlefield. During the battle, fighter Comrade. Dovzhikov, bursting into a group of German officers, stabbed three with a bayonet, the rest ran away. Junior political instructor comrade Petrov stabbed six fascist soldiers to death in a few minutes.

Every day the world press publishes materials highly appreciating the heroic strength and courage of the Red warriors. Outlining the course of hostilities, the Swedish newspaper Gothenburgs Handelstidning writes: “The battles take place on fields many tens of kilometers deep. It came as a surprise to the Germans that Russian units did not stop fighting after German armored divisions broke through their lines into the interior. The Russians are holding out and continuing to fight.” The Berlin correspondent of the Spanish newspaper Alcazar points out that the Russians demonstrate their training and undeniable dexterity, their tenacity and heroism. London Radio, in a special review of the course of military operations, reports: “Even the enemy admits that the Soviet army is fighting with extraordinary courage and resilience. This cannot be considered unexpected, since the Russian people have always been distinguished by exceptional courage.” The English newspapers “Star”, “Evening News”, “Evening Standard” also publish articles that highly value the fearlessness, perseverance and flexibility inherent in the Red Army.

The world press also reports huge losses of German troops.

On the Bessarabian sector of the front, a counterattack by Soviet regiments defeated and drove back part of the Romanian-German troops. In the territory we occupied, in a dense forest, on the edge of which the enemy headquarters was located, the Red Army soldiers of Lieutenant Gavrilenko’s company discovered several dozen corpses of Romanian soldiers. As the prisoners testified, the Romanian soldiers were shot by the German military for refusing to fight against the Soviet troops. The prisoners reported that German assault troops operating in the rear of each military unit mercilessly beat and shot Romanians, Hungarians and Slovaks for the slightest offense. German soldiers take the best food for themselves by force and often rob the Allies' food convoys. Romanians have to live on leftovers from German camp kitchens. One of the captured soldiers said that he witnessed the execution of a Romanian only because he, wounded in both legs, could not stand up and salute the German lieutenant.

The fabricators of lies from the German information bureau are inventing countless wild tales. So, for example, the other day they invented a legend that the Bolsheviks executed 88 thousand doctors in the first five years of Soviet power. This stupid fabrication of fascist propaganda does not even deserve any refutation. It should only be noted that this time the fascist liars reveal their methods of fabricating fables. From the official report of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “On the state of public health for 1916” it is known that in Tsarist Russia there were only 19,785 doctors. Thus, the lying fascists executed each doctor four and a half times. The gentlemen from the German Ministry of Propaganda should learn one old proverb: “Lie, but know when to stop.”

Workers, collective farmers and intellectuals respond with labor enthusiasm to the speech of the Chairman of the State Defense Committee, Comrade Stalin.

At the Novocherkassk plant named after Budyonny, the shift of master Bekrenev from the first days of the war completed the task at 120-150 percent; worker comrade Grishechka exceeds the norm three times. Women of the Rostov region, having escorted their husbands and brothers to the front, replace them on tractors and combines. At the Glubokinsky grain state farm, housewife Ivanova replaced her husband, a tractor driver, who had gone to the front; combine operator comrade Gritsenko was replaced by Komsomol member Pyatskova. The workers of the red capital, in response to Comrade Stalin’s call to selflessly defend their homeland, are increasing labor productivity. The seventh workshop of the P. plant received a special order that had to be completed as soon as possible. Comrade Komsomolets Hare, old production worker comrade. Kolomensky and worker Sukhov worked 30 hours in a row and completed the task ahead of schedule. Comrade Rodionov, a turner at the Krasny Proletary plant, completes his daily task at 305 percent.

Hundreds of Kronstadt workers come to the city blood transfusion center every day. Soviet patriots give their blood to wounded soldiers of the Red Army and Navy. Everything for war! Everything for the front! - this is the motto of Soviet patriots.

During July 8, stubborn fighting continued in the Ostrovsky, Polotsk, Novograd-Volynsky and Beltsy directions. Our units, with the support of artillery, tanks and aviation, launched a number of strong counterattacks, delaying the enemy’s advance.

Fierce fighting broke out in the Ostrovsky direction in the morning, during which our troops repeatedly launched counterattacks. The enemy is suffering heavy losses from artillery fire, aviation and counterattacks from our tank units.

In the Polotsk direction, stubborn battles continue with enemy troops trying to gain a foothold on the northern bank of the river. Zap. Dvina in the Borkovichi region.

In the Novograd-Volyn direction, our troops with great tenacity repulse the advance of large tank units.

In the Balti region, stubborn battles between our troops and enemy infantry and tanks continue.

In the Felciu area, our troops launched a series of powerful counterattacks against the advancing Romanian-German troops. As a result of counterattacks, the enemy was overthrown and retreated across the river in disarray. Prut, throwing away his weapons and equipment.

In the Murmansk, Kandalaksha and Ukhta directions, our troops fought with individual enemy groups that had penetrated our territory.

During the day, our aircraft successfully attacked enemy aircraft at their airfields and inflicted a number of attacks on his tank and motorized forces. During the day, 56 German aircraft were destroyed. Our aviation lost 4 aircraft.

The ships of the Northern Fleet, under the cover of aviation, successfully landed troops to assist units of the Red Army.

In the Hanko area, two companies of the enemy who tried to attack our units were destroyed by mortar and artillery fire.

Aviation of the Danube Military Flotilla bombed enemy transports on the river. There were hits and fires on three vehicles.

Our pilots continue to show examples of heroism and courage. Lieutenant Colonel Nimzowitsch, having tracked down the time and place of landing of 60 enemy aircraft of the Messerschmitt and Heinkel type, took seven of our fighters into the air on July 7. In three passes by the seven, 30 enemy aircraft were destroyed. The seven returned to their airfield without losses.

The bunker of lieutenants Anzharevsky and Shalar was subjected to exceptionally fierce bombardment by aviation and artillery for several hours. The Nazis, confident that the bunker was destroyed, moved towards it. Having brought the German infantry as close as possible, the bunker garrison again opened hurricane fire. The enemy left hundreds of dead and wounded on the battlefield.

A platoon of Red Army soldiers was unexpectedly attacked by the White Finns. Enemy snipers disabled the anti-tank gun gunner. The gun fell silent at the most decisive moment. Taking advantage of this, the White Finns increased their pressure. It was necessary to renew the fire at any cost. Junior Sergeant Egorov crawled towards the gun under enemy fire. The enemy frantically tried to stop the daredevil, firing at Egorov with machine guns. But the brave commander got to the gun, rolled it 10 meters forward and began to shoot the attacking White Finns. The fire from the enemy stopped. The platoon launched a counterattack and took its previous positions.

The Red Army soldiers Smirnov and Rassokhin showed initiative and intelligence. Noticing a group of German motorcyclists who suddenly appeared around a bend in the road, the Red Army soldiers took up a sheltered firing position and opened fire on the first fascists with a light machine gun. The two lead motorcyclists fell to the ground. The rest jumped on the fallen. There was confusion in the enemy detachment. Abandoning their motorcycles, the soldiers fled in panic.

An enemy plane broke through to the front-line railway station K. A fascist pilot on a low-level flight wanted to carry out reconnaissance of station facilities with impunity. He failed to accomplish this: the station’s rifle guards shot down the enemy plane with a friendly volley of rifles. The plane's crew was captured.

Every day brings new news about the heroic struggle of Soviet patriots behind enemy lines. A partisan detachment of 100 people in the Ensky region of Western Belarus attacked German motorized infantry. In the battle with the Nazis, the partisans killed 150 German soldiers. In another area, a partisan detachment, hiding in the roadside bushes, waylaid a column of fascist tanks and pelted them with bottles of burning gasoline. Eighteen large enemy tanks were destroyed.

In India, the movement of solidarity with the Soviet Union is expanding every day. Bombay newspapers published a statement by leaders of the All-India National Trade Union Congress, calling on workers, peasants, students and all progressive forces in India to provide all possible assistance to the Soviet Union.

Mass protests against German fascism continue in Yugoslavia, enslaved by Hitler. Every morning slogans appear on the walls of Belgrade buildings: “Long live the Soviet Union!”, “Down with Hitler!” Soldiers of the Yugoslav army, hiding in the mountains, terrorize the Nazi occupiers with unexpected raids.

The people respond to the call of Comrade Stalin with heroic deeds, selfless work in factories and in the fields. On July 6, the workers of the malleable cast iron workshop of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant fulfilled the plan by 148 percent. Stakhanovites of the Lenin plant in Uryupinsk Samokhvalov and Koshkarev fulfilled three standards per shift. The Lenin's Path collective farm, Kamyzyaksky district, fulfilled the plan for the supply of meat, butter and eggs ahead of schedule. In the Barrikadny district of Stalingrad, 250 women were invited to clean the station tracks. By the specified date, over a thousand housewives came to the station. A Stakhanovite from the Bolshe-Tokmak plant, Zaporozhye region, Yakovenko invented a device that increased labor productivity a hundred times. With the help of this device, Yakovenko fulfilled the shift norm by 10 thousand percent. The drivers of the Syzran locomotive depot, Zaitsev, Akimov and Birbasov, have mastered the specialty of mechanics, and they themselves carry out repairs on the locomotive. 500 young production workers at the Ordzhonikidze Metallurgical Plant systematically exceed the standards. Many of them give two or three norms per day. Female electric locomotive drivers of the Lutugin mine vol. Gutsota, Stashenko, Preusova, Dorotukova fulfill the norms by 200 percent every day. In Donbass, miners of the mine named after. Stalin vol. Sinyakovsky, Trofimenko and Kugatov produce from four to six standards daily.

In recent days, German propaganda has been publishing reports that human corpses have allegedly been discovered in Kaunas, Lvov and some other German-occupied Soviet cities, showing signs of torture. It would be absurd to refute this latest nonsense of fascist “official reports,” because the whole world knows that the Soviet authorities are, in principle, hostile to Hitler’s methods of dealing with the local population, so widely practiced by the Gestapo and the German military. It should only be said that by publishing such forgeries, German propaganda revealed the methods of producing its “official messages.” The German officer Wilhelm G., who went over with his unit to the side of the Red Army, testified that shortly before the attack on the Soviet Union, the Gestapo, together with the Ministry of Propaganda, prepared a wide range of “descriptions of the atrocities of the Bolsheviks.” As for the photographs fabricated by the Germans depicting corpses, it is known that wherever the Gestapo appears, there is no shortage of mutilated corpses. Taking photographs of the results of your own “work” is not particularly difficult. //

• 10th day of defense of the Brest Fortress.
• 6th day of defense of the naval base on the Hanko Peninsula. Enemy troops from the Hanko strike group tried to storm the Soviet naval base on the Hanko Peninsula. The garrison of the base (25 thousand people; Major General S.I. Kabanov) repelled all enemy attacks. The defense of Hanko began, lasting until December 2. The enemy stormed the base 36 times.
• 3rd day of the strategic defensive operation in the Arctic and Karelia.
• The Council of People's Commissars of the USSR adopted a resolution “On expanding the rights of the People's Commissars of the USSR in wartime conditions.”
• The Red Army abandoned Aizpute, Bobrka, Borislav, Varaklyany, Drohobych, Zhidachev, Zolochev, Ogre, Riga.

During the night of July 1, fighting continued in the Murmansk, Dvinsk, Bobruisk and Lutsk directions...

In other directions of the front, night searches by scouts and firefights took place...

The results of aviation actions are being clarified...

...In the Dvina direction, our units are fighting stubborn battles with enemy tanks and infantry...

...In the Minsk direction... our troops, widely using barriers and counterattacks, delay the advance of enemy tank units and inflict a significant defeat on them...

Carrying out a systematic retreat, according to the order, our troops left Lviv...

July 2, 1941. 11th day of the war

• 11th day of defense of the Brest Fortress.
• 7th day of defense of the naval base on the Hanko Peninsula.
• 4th day of the strategic defensive operation in the Arctic and Karelia.

...In the Kulojarvi area and on the Karelian Isthmus, our troops successfully repulse all enemy attacks...

During the day, major battles between our troops and enemy mobile units took place in the Borisov and Slutsk-Bobruisk directions...

In the Lutsk direction, our troops continue stubborn and intense battles in the Rivne area...

July 3, 1941. 12th day of the war

• 12th day of defense of the Brest Fortress.
• 8th day of defense of the naval base on the Hanko Peninsula.
• 5th day of the strategic defensive operation in the Arctic and Karelia.

A speech by I.V. Stalin was heard on the radio:

Comrades! Citizens! Brothers and sisters! Soldiers of our army and navy! I am addressing you, my friends!
...The war with fascist Germany cannot be considered an ordinary war... The purpose of this nationwide patriotic war against the fascist oppressors is not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our country, but also to help all the peoples of Europe groaning under the yoke of German fascism. In this war of liberation we will not be alone... Our war for the freedom of our fatherland will merge with the struggle of the peoples of Europe and America for their independence, for democratic freedoms...

...After the fighting in the Lutsk direction, as a result of which our troops stopped the advance of large enemy motorized mechanized units to Shepetovka and inflicted great damage on them, part of this enemy group tried to break through in a southern direction to Tarnopol...
...The call of the leader of the peoples, Comrade Stalin, caused the greatest upsurge among workers, peasants, intelligentsia, unprecedented inspiration and the will to victory over the German fascist hordes - over the fierce, insidious and cruel enemies of our Motherland and all advanced humanity...

...Only after the enemy brought in fresh reserves did he manage to cross to the northern bank of the river. Zap. Dvina near Jacobstadt and Dvinsk, where fierce battles broke out again...
In the Minsk direction... the enemy cannot stand bayonet strikes from our troops. During the day there were stubborn battles on the river. Berezina...

July 4, 1941. 13th day of the war

• 13th day of defense of the Brest Fortress.
• 9th day of defense of the naval base on the Hanko Peninsula.
• 6th day of the strategic defensive operation in the Arctic and Karelia.
• The Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia decided to start an armed uprising against the fascist occupiers (in July the uprising swept many regions of Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in October - Vardar Macedonia).

Throughout the entire day of July 4, there were fierce battles in the Dvina, Borisov, Bobruisk and Tarnopol directions...

At the same time, major battles developed in the Lepel area...
Fierce and continuous fighting on the river. Berezina is developing unsuccessfully for the enemy...

All day long there were stubborn battles near Tarnopol...

July 5, 1941. 14th day of the war

• 14th day of defense of the Brest Fortress.
• 10th day of defense of the naval base on the Hanko Peninsula.
• 7th day of the strategic defensive operation in the Arctic and Karelia.
• Enemy troops occupied the city of Ostrov.

...In the Polotsk direction the enemy tried to cross the river. Zap. Dvina...
With persistent and fierce battles, our troops in the Tarnopol direction delayed the advance of large motorized mechanized units to the south. On the morning of July 5, the enemy resumed the offensive of motorized mechanized units in the Novograd-Volyn direction...

July 6, 1941. 15th day of the war

• 15th day of defense of the Brest Fortress.
• 11th day of defense of the naval base on the Hanko Peninsula.
• 8th day of the strategic defensive operation in the Arctic and Karelia.
• The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a decree “On responsibility for the spread of false rumors in wartime that raise alarm among the population.” The perpetrators were punished by a military tribunal with imprisonment for a term of 2 to 5 years, unless their actions by their nature entailed a more severe punishment.

...In the Borisov direction, our troops went on the offensive against the enemy’s mechanized units...

In the Bobruisk direction, our troops repulsed numerous enemy attempts to cross the river. Dnieper…

On the Bessarabian sector of the front, our units fought stubborn battles with enemy infantry and tanks...

July 7, 1941. 16th day of the war

• 16th day of defense of the Brest Fortress.
• 12th day of defense of the naval base on the Hanko Peninsula.
• 9th day of the strategic defensive operation in the Arctic and Karelia.
• The troops of the 14th Army of the Northern Front, in cooperation with ships and units of the Northern Fleet, stopped the enemy’s advance in the Murmansk direction, and secured a foothold at the line of the Bolshaya Litsa River and the Musta-Tunturi ridge.
• The Kiev strategic defensive operation of the troops of the Southwestern Front (Colonel General M.P. Kirponos) began against the main forces of Army Group South, which lasted until September 26.
• Pravda published reports of mass formations of militia units in Moscow, Leningrad and other cities of the USSR.
• The Red Army abandoned Balti, Berdichev, Gusyatin, David-Haradok, Zalishchiki.
• An armed uprising began against the occupying forces in Yugoslavia.

During July 7, intense fighting continued in the Ostrovsky, Polotsk, Lepelsky, Bobruisk and Mogilev-Podolsky directions. On the northern sector of the front, our troops fought in the Kandalaksha, Ukhtinsky and Kexgolm directions, inflicting defeats on enemy units that had penetrated our territory...

July 8, 1941. 17th day of the war

• 17th day of defense of the Brest Fortress.
• 13th day of defense of the naval base on the Hanko Peninsula.
• 10th day of the strategic defensive operation in the Arctic and Karelia.
• 2nd day of the Kyiv strategic defensive operation.
• The heroic resistance of the troops of the Western Front, surrounded by the enemy in the area of ​​Nalibokskaya Pushcha, Novogrudok, Stolbtsy, ended: some units broke through and joined their troops, others switched to partisan actions, a significant part of the encircled troops were captured. Of the 44 divisions of the front, 24 were completely defeated by the enemy, the rest lost from 30 to 90 percent of their forces and assets.
• Pravda published a report on the formation of militia units in Kyiv and Tallinn.
• The Red Army abandoned Borshchev and Opochka.

...In the Polotsk direction, stubborn and intense battles continue in the Borkovichi area...

In the Bobruisk direction, our units destroyed up to 35 heavy tanks and 2 enemy infantry battalions...

In the Mogilev-Podolsk direction (Ukraine), our units are engaged in stubborn battles with the enemy trying to break through to the river. Dniester…

July 9, 1941. 18th day of the war

• The troops of the Northwestern Front left Pskov and fought on the line of the Velikaya River, northeast of Pskov, the Cherekha River, northwest of Novorzhev, Idritsa.
• Soviet troops abandoned the city of Zhitomir.
• At the beginning of the war, the front moved from the western borders of the USSR 350-600 kilometers to the northeast and east and passed along the line of Pärnu, Tartu, Pskov, Drissa, Vitebsk, south along the Dnieper River to Rechitsa, then through Novograd-Volynsky, Zhitomir, Berdichev , Staro-Konstantinov, Kamenets-Podolsky, Leovo, the Prut and Danube rivers to the Black Sea. The enemy occupied Lithuania, Latvia, a significant part of Estonia, Ukraine and Moldova. There was a threat of a breakthrough of his troops to Leningrad and Kyiv.
• Enemy troops captured a bridgehead on the northern bank of the Western Dvina River near Disna.

July 10, 1941. 19th day of the war

• The State Defense Committee adopted a resolution on the organization of the main commands of the Northwestern (abolished on August 27), Western (abolished on September 10) and Southwestern (abolished on June 23, 1942) directions.

The Headquarters of the Civil Code transformed the Headquarters of the Supreme Command (SVK) headed by I.V. Stalin; B. M. Shaposhnikov was introduced into the General Headquarters. The troops of the Finnish Karelian Army invaded the territory of Karelia and launched an attack on Petrozavodsk and Olonets. The defense of Karelia began in 1941-1944 by the troops of the Northern (from August 23 - Karelian and Leningrad) Front, the Northern and Baltic Fleets, the White Sea, Onega and Ladoga military flotillas.

• From the line of the Velikaya River, the enemy launched an attack on Leningrad. The Leningrad defensive operation of the troops of the Northwestern (Major General P. P. Sobennikov) and Northern (until August 23; Lieutenant General M. M. Popov), Leningrad (from August 23; Lieutenant General M. M. Popov, from September 5, Marshal of the Soviet Union K. E. Voroshilov, from September 12, Army General G. K. Zhukov, from October 10, Major General I. I. Fedyuninsky, from October 26, Major General M. S. Khozin) and Karelsky ( from August 23; Lieutenant General V. A. Frolov) fronts, Northern (Rear Admiral A. G. Golovko) and Baltic (Vice Admiral V. F. Tributs) fleets. It lasted until December 30 and became the beginning of the Battle of Leningrad of 1941-1944.
• The troops of Army Group "Center" and parts of Army Group "North" from the Dnieper, Western Dvina line launched an offensive against Moscow. The Battle of Smolensk in 1941 began (lasted until September 10) of the Western (Marshal of the Soviet Union S.K. Timoshenko), Reserve (Army General G.K. Zhukov), Central (from July 24; Colonel General F.I. Kuznetsov) troops. and Bryansk (Lieutenant General A.I. Eremenko) fronts.

July 11, 1941. 20th day of war

• Enemy troops captured Vitebsk, a bridgehead south of Orsha and north of Novy Bykhov.
• Counterattacks by troops of the Southwestern Front in the Berdichev area and east of Novograd-Volynsky forced the enemy to suspend the offensive on the approaches to the Kyiv fortified area.
• Enemy tank formations reached the Irpen River (15-20 kilometers west of Kyiv).

July 12, 1941. 21st day of war

• An agreement “On joint actions of the government of the USSR and Great Britain in the war against Germany” was signed in Moscow, marking the beginning of the legal formalization of the anti-Hitler coalition.
• The forward detachments of the Luga operational group of the Northern Front, southwest of the city of Luga, stopped the enemy advancing in the Leningrad direction.

July 13, 1941. 22nd day of the war

• Troops of the 21st Army of the Western Front from the Rogachev, Zhlobin sector began an offensive in the direction of the city of Bobruisk.

July 14, 1941. 23rd day of the war

• The VC headquarters created a front of reserve armies (abolished on July 25).
• In the Leningrad direction, the enemy reached the Luga River 20-35 kilometers east of the city of Kingisepp and captured crossings near Ivanovsky and Bolshoi Sabsk.
• The advanced units of the 21st Army of the Western Front reached an area 25-40 kilometers south and southwest of the city of Bobruisk.

Mechanized units of the 5th Army of the Southwestern Front cut the highway between the cities of Zhitomir and Novograd-Volynsky (30 kilometers west of the latter), pinning down 8 enemy divisions.

• During three weeks of the war, the Soviet Armed Forces lost about 30 divisions, about 3.5 thousand aircraft, more than half of their fuel and ammunition depots, about 70 divisions lost over 50 percent of their personnel. Over 150 thousand enemy soldiers and officers, over 950 aircraft, and several hundred tanks were destroyed.
• Soviet troops launched a counterattack near the city of Soltsy. The enemy was thrown back 40 kilometers to the west.

July 15, 1941. 24th day of the war

• The enemy advanced to the area north of Yartsevo with two tank divisions, occupied Demidov with the forces of a motorized division, and captured the southern part of Smolensk.

July 16, 1941. 25th day of the war

• The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a decree “On the reorganization of political propaganda bodies and the introduction of the institution of military commissars in the Red Army.” On July 20, the decree was extended to the Navy.
• The State Defense Committee decided to build the Mozhaisk defense line, which ran from north to south from the Moscow Sea to the confluence of the Ugra River and the Oka River, which was about 230 kilometers.
• The 1st German Tank Group occupied Bila Tserkva and threatened to bypass the 12th Army of the Southwestern Front from the southwest.
• Soviet troops abandoned the cities of Smolensk and Chisinau.
• The city of Yartsevo is occupied.

July 17, 1941. 26th day of the war

• An operational group of troops under the command of Major General K.K. Rokossovsky delayed the advance of enemy tanks near Yartsevo.

July 18, 1941. 27th day of the war

• The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks adopted a resolution “On the organization of the struggle in the rear of German troops”
• The Council of People's Commissars of the USSR adopted a resolution: “On the introduction of cards for some food and industrial goods in the cities of Moscow, Leningrad and in individual cities and suburbs of the Moscow and Leningrad regions”, “On the delivery of dried vegetables and dried potatoes to the state by collective farms, collective farm yards and individual farms under mandatory supplies"
• An agreement “On joint actions in the war against Nazi Germany” was signed in London between the government of the USSR and the exile government of the Czechoslovak Republic.
• J.V. Stalin sent a message to W. Churchill proposing the creation of a second front against Nazi Germany in northern France and northern Norway in 1941.
• The VC headquarters ordered the formation of the front of the Mozhaisk defense line (abolished on July 30).
• The troops of the 11th German Army crossed the Dniester River and created a threat to bypass the 18th Army of the Southern Front from the south.

July 19, 1941. 28th day of the war

• J.V. Stalin was appointed People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR.
• Soviet troops abandoned the cities of Yelnya and Velikiye Luki.
• German aviation attempted to carry out the first raid on Leningrad. Soviet pilots destroyed 11 enemy aircraft in battle.
• The forces of the 19th Army liberated the city of Yartsevo. This is the first city recaptured from German troops.

July 20, 1941. 29th day of the war

• The 26th Army of the Southwestern Front from the area south of Kyiv went on the offensive against the troops of the 1st German Tank Group. The enemy went on the defensive at the line Fastov, Belaya Tserkov, Tarashcha.

July 21, 1941. 30th day of war

• In response to J.V. Stalin’s message of July 18, W. Churchill announced the impossibility of opening a second front against Germany in northern France and northern Norway in 1941.
• The troops of the Western Front, as a result of a counterattack, liberated the city of Velikiye Luki and threw the enemy back to the southwest.
• Mechanized formations of the Southwestern Front, regrouped from the southern front to the Uman region, launched a counterattack on enemy troops and drove them back 40 kilometers to the north.

July 22, 1941. 31st day of war

• Order No. 241 of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR on the air defense of Moscow was issued.
• Air defense troops repelled the first enemy air raid on Moscow. Until December 22, 122 raids were carried out.
• By the decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, for the defeat of the troops of the Western Front in the initial period of the war, the following were sentenced to death: Commander of the Western Front, Army General D. G. Pavlov, Chief of Staff, Major General V. E. Klimovskikh, Chief of Communications, Major General of the Signal Corps A. T. Grigoriev, commander of the 4th Army, Major General A. A. Korobkov (on September 27, the chief of artillery, Lieutenant General of Artillery N. A. Klich, was sentenced to this punishment). An investigation conducted in 1956 based on investigative materials, as well as an analysis by the General Staff of all available documents, refute the indictment of the Military Collegium. “The court case brought against generals Pavlov, Klimovsky, Grigoriev, Klich and Korobkov was undoubtedly inspired by Stalin I.V. and Beria’s gang in order to deflect responsibility for insufficient preparation to repel an enemy attack.” (TsAMO, f. 8, op. 725588, d. 36, l. 40, 41). Considering the groundlessness of the charges against the generals, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR in 1957-1958 exonerated them posthumously.
• July 20th: the defense of the Brest Fortress ended. For almost a month, its defenders pinned down an entire enemy division, supported by aviation, tanks, and artillery; Most of them fell in battle, some made their way to the partisans, and some - exhausted and seriously wounded - were captured.