On the eve of the 70th anniversary Great Victory I also wanted to make a small contribution to the glorification of the feat of our grandfathers. AT recent times here and there lies are heard about our victory: either we didn’t win the war, or the allies won it, or the Ukrainians alone. So in order to avoid similar cases reversing history, I think that it is necessary to remember and talk about that war and the heroism of our people as much as possible. So by May 9th I will try to tell you how I can more stories about the Great Patriotic War.
The ingenuity of Russian soldiers of the Second World War
1. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the USSR experienced a huge shortage military equipment, weapons and especially tanks.
In this regard, it was decided for very emergency cases to convert ordinary tractors into tanks. So, during the defense of Odessa, 20 tractors sheathed with armor sheets were delivered against the Romanian units besieging the city.
Placed a bet on psychological effect, since the tractor attack was carried out at night with headlights and sirens on. The effect exceeded all expectations - the Romanians fled.
For such effects, as well as for the fact that dummies of heavy guns were sometimes installed on the tractor, the soldiers nicknamed them NI-1, which stood for “Fright - 1”.
2. Unlike german army Soviet soldiers were very poorly trained in military affairs, and sometimes had no knowledge at all. Therefore, in battle, wrong, fatal decisions were often made. But sometimes there were exceptions. The crew of the KV-1 tank: Senior Lieutenant Zinoviy Grigoryevich Kolobanov, driver foreman N. Nikiforov, gun commander senior sergeant A. Usov, radio machine gunner senior sergeant P. Kiselnikov and junior driver N. Rodnikov August 19, 1941 for three hours of battle destroyed 22 enemy tanks. This is an absolute record of the Second World War, and subsequent wars.
Senior Lieutenant Zinoviy Grigorievich Kolobanov After detailed consideration The battle turned out to be carried out according to all the rules of the military art of that time. The crew of the KV-1, seeing a column of German tanks on the nearest road, without thinking twice shot the “head” and “tail” of the column itself, and after that, calmly, as in a shooting range, began to fire at enemy vehicles captured by their own tanks. The Germans resisted and the tank of our soldiers received 135 hits from German shells, but despite this, it still remained in service and continued to fight.
The crew of the KV-1 tank 3. The ingenuity of our Soviet snipers during the fighting on the Upper Don made it possible to destroy the entire German mortar unit without loss. The Germans set up a well-defended position in a ravine, the area around which was completely open and well shot through.
But despite this, at night, two Soviet snipers made their way to the ruined farm nearby to the ravine. In order not to be noticed by the Germans, the snipers set fire to the ruins of the farm and settled in the old stove of the destroyed house. In the morning under them well-aimed shots the entire German unit perished, never realizing that they were being fired upon from an old stove located in the center of the burning village.
4. During the Second World War, a Soviet radio station operated on Krestovsky Island in Leningrad, broadcasting on the same frequency as the official Finnish radio. As you know, Finland was then at one with Hitler. And just imagine, during the broadcast of the Finnish official radio, a Soviet announcer speaking pure English unceremoniously intervened in the programs Finnish. He shone with wit, for example, when the Finnish announcer said the phrase “please listen to the news”, the Soviet one immediately added: “Well, that is, not news, but fresh Goebbels lies”, added a point of view to the news release Soviet side and told jokes about Hitler.
Among the Finns, news with a Soviet announcer was very popular, but among the Finnish and German leadership on the contrary, they provoked attacks of aggression. Throughout the war, the Germans fired artillery at woodland on Krestovsky Island, where, as they assumed, the transmitting antenna was located. In fact, the cable from one of the 15 barrage balloons over the island served as the antenna. But the Germans did not understand where the antenna was, and maybe they understood, but they could not destroy it.
5. During the blockade of Leningrad to this city German command sent out spies. They were equipped according to the first class: documents, passwords, addresses. But all of them were caught after the first check of documents.
The Germans could not come to terms with such failures and sent the best minds: they picked up the texture of paper, shades of paint, revealed secret icons, but all in vain. Ordinary Soviet patrols, which may have consisted of semi-literate Asian peasants, spotted forged documents at a glance. And only after the war, the Germans learned the secret of "genuine" Soviet documents.
Everything turned out to be very simple. The Germans are a very neat nation and paper clips were made of stainless steel. While real Soviet paperclips were rusty.
6. The case of the stalled KV-2 - at the beginning of the war, the tank with the thickest armor and the most powerful weapons. In one of the battles, the KV-2 tank was left to cover the front line, after all the ammunition had been shot, the tankers had to leave the battlefield, but did not have time - the tank stalled.
The Germans surrounded the tank, tried to capture the tankers, but they, in turn, tightly closed from the inside. Then, without thinking twice, the Germans drove two tank T-III, attached the KV-2 and tried to drag it to their location. But then, unwittingly, the Germans brought in the Soviet KV “from the pusher”. After that, our tank calmly dragged both German tanks to its location. The crews managed to jump out while they were being dragged.
7. In 1943, during the fighting near Nevel, a small soviet division turned out to be on the edge of a wedge that crashed into German positions. The Germans made every effort to destroy this unit, it posed the danger of a flank attack on their positions.
Knowing that the Nazis are preparing a strike, the commander Soviet detachment ordered to dig trenches towards the enemy at a distance of 100 meters with equipment on their tops fortified dugouts. At night, all the soldiers left their positions, hiding in equipped trenches, and German mortars hit the whole day empty space. And when the German infantry went to the Russian positions "processed" by its artillery, the Soviet soldiers met it with a hurricane of fire in the neutral zone - finally causing panic in the ranks of the attackers.
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Soldier tales - immutable attribute Russian folklore. It just so happened that our army fought, as a rule, not "thanks", but "despite". Some frontline stories make us open our mouths, others...
Soldiers' tales are an invariable attribute of Russian folklore. It just so happened that our army fought, as a rule, not "thanks", but "despite". Some front-line stories make us open our mouths, others cry out “come on!?”, but all of them, without exception, make us proud of our soldiers. miraculous rescues, ingenuity and just luck - in our article.
With an ax to the tank
If the expression "field kitchen" only causes you to increase your appetite, then you are not familiar with the history of the Red Army soldier Ivan Sereda.
In August 1941, his unit was stationed near Daugavpils, and Ivan himself was preparing dinner for the soldiers. Hearing the characteristic clang of metal, he looked into the nearest grove and saw a german tank. At that moment, he had only an unloaded rifle and an ax with him, but Russian soldiers are also strong in their ingenuity. Hiding behind a tree, Sereda waited for the tank with the Germans to notice the kitchen and stop, and so it happened.
Wehrmacht soldiers climbed out of the formidable car, and at that moment the Soviet cook jumped out of his hiding place, brandishing an ax and a rifle. The frightened Germans jumped back into the tank, expecting at least an attack by an entire company, and Ivan did not dissuade them from this. He jumped on the car and began to beat on its roof with the butt of an ax, when the taken aback Germans came to their senses and began to shoot at him from a machine gun, he simply bent his muzzle with several blows of the same ax. Feeling that the psychological advantage was on his side, Sereda began to shout orders to the non-existent reinforcements of the Red Army. It was last straw: a minute later, the enemies surrendered and, under the gunpoint of a carbine, went to the side Soviet soldiers.
We woke up a Russian bear
Tanks KV-1 - pride Soviet army the first stages of the war - had the unpleasant property of stalling on arable land and other soft soils. One such KV was not lucky enough to get stuck during the retreat of 1941, and the crew, faithful to their work, did not dare to leave the car.
An hour passed, German tanks approached. Their guns could only scratch the armor of the “asleep” giant, and having unsuccessfully shot all the ammunition into it, the Germans decided to tow the “Klim Voroshilov” to their unit. We fixed the cables, and two Pz III with with great difficulty moved the HF.
The Soviet crew was not going to give up, when suddenly the tank engine, groaning in displeasure, started up. Without thinking twice, the towed one himself became a tractor and easily pulled two German tanks towards the positions of the Red Army. The puzzled Panzerwaffe crew was forced to flee, but the vehicles themselves were successfully delivered by the KV-1 to the very front line.
Correct bees
The fighting near Smolensk at the beginning of the war claimed thousands of lives. But more surprising is the story of one of the soldiers about the "buzzing defenders."
Constant air raids on the city forced the Red Army to change their positions and retreat several times a day. One exhausted platoon was not far from the village. There, the battered soldiers were greeted with honey, since the apiaries had not yet been destroyed by air strikes.
Several hours passed, and enemy infantry entered the village. The enemy forces outnumbered the Red Army several times and the latter retreated towards the forest. But they could no longer escape, they had no strength, and harsh German speech was heard very close by. Then one of the soldiers began to turn over the hives. Soon a whole buzzing ball of angry bees was circling over the field, and as soon as the Germans approached them a little closer, a giant swarm found its prey. The enemy infantry screamed and rolled across the meadow, but could not do anything. So the bees reliably covered the retreat of the Russian platoon.
From that world
At the beginning of the war, fighter and bomber regiments were divided and often the latter flew on a mission without air protection. So it was on Leningrad front, where the legendary man Vladimir Murzaev served. During one of these deadly missions, a dozen Messerschmites landed on the tail of a group of Soviet IL-2s. It was a bad thing: the wonderful IL was good for everyone, but did not differ in speed, therefore, having lost a couple of planes, the flight commander ordered to leave the cars.
Murzaev was one of the last to jump, already in the air he felt a blow to his head and lost consciousness, and when he woke up, he mistook the surrounding snowy landscape for the Gardens of Eden. But he had to lose faith very quickly: in paradise, for sure, there are no burning fragments of fuselages. It turned out that he lies just a kilometer from his airfield. Having hobbled to the officer's dugout, Vladimir reported on his return and threw a parachute on the bench. Pale and frightened fellow soldiers looked at him: the parachute was sealed! It turns out that Murzaev was hit on the head by a part of the plane's skin, but did not open his parachute. The fall from 3500 meters was softened by snowdrifts and true soldier's luck.
Imperial cannons
In the winter of 1941, all the forces of the Red Army were sent to defend Moscow from the enemy. There were no extra reserves at all. And they were required. For example, the sixteenth army, which was bled dry by losses in the Solnechnogorsk region.
This army was not yet led by a marshal, but already by a desperate commander, Konstantin Rokossovsky. Feeling that without a dozen more guns, the defense of Solnechnogorsk would fall, he turned to Zhukov with a request for help. Zhukov refused - all forces were involved. Then the tireless Lieutenant General Rokossovsky sent a request to Stalin himself. Expected, but no less woeful, the answer came immediately - there is no reserve. True, Iosif Vissarionovich mentioned that there may be several dozen mothballed guns that took part in Russian-Turkish war. These guns were museum pieces assigned to the Dzerzhinsky Military Artillery Academy.
After several days of searching, an employee of this academy was found. The old professor, practically the same age as these guns, spoke about the place where the howitzers were stored in the Moscow region. So, the front received several dozen old cannons, which played an important role in the defense of the capital.
"To the fright"
During the retreat Soviet troops in 1941, one of the KV-1 tanks ("Klim Voroshilov") stalled. The crew did not dare to leave the car - they remained in place. Soon German tanks approached and began to shoot at the Voroshilov. They shot all the ammunition, but only scratched the armor. Then the Nazis, with the help of two T-IIIs, decided to tow soviet tank to your part. Suddenly, the KV-1 engine started up, and without thinking twice, our tankers set off in the direction of their own, dragging two enemy tanks in tow. German tankers managed to jump out, but both cars were successfully delivered to the front line. During the defense of Odessa, twenty tanks, converted from ordinary tractors, sheathed in armor, were thrown against the Romanian units. The Romanians did not know anything about this and thought that these were some of the latest impenetrable models of tanks. As a result, among Romanian soldiers Panic set in and they began to retreat. Subsequently, such “transformer” tractors were nicknamed “NI-1”, which meant “for fear”.
Bees against fascists
Non-standard moves often helped to defeat the enemy. At the very beginning of the war, during the fighting near Smolensk, one Soviet platoon was not far from the village, where there were honey apiaries. A few hours later, German infantry entered the village. Since there were much more Germans than the Red Army, they retreated towards the forest. There seemed to be no hope of escape. But then one of our soldiers came up with a brilliant idea: he began to turn over the hives with bees. Angry insects were forced to fly out and began to circle over the meadow. As soon as the Nazis approached, the swarm attacked them. From numerous bites, the Germans squealed and rolled on the ground, and the Soviet soldiers at that time retreated into safe place.
Heroes with an ax
There were amazing cases when one Soviet soldier managed to stand against the whole German division. So, on July 13, 1941, Dmitry Ovcharenko, an ordinary machine-gun company, rode a cart with ammunition. Suddenly he saw that a german detachment: fifty machine gunners, two officers and a truck with a motorcycle. The Soviet soldier was ordered to surrender and was taken for interrogation to one of the officers. But Ovcharenko suddenly grabbed an ax lying nearby and cut off the head of the fascist. While the Germans were recovering from the shock, Dmitry grabbed the grenades that belonged to the dead German and started throwing them at the truck. After that, instead of running, he took advantage of the confusion and began to swing his ax to the right and left. Surrounding people fled in horror. And Ovcharenko also set off in pursuit of the second officer and also managed to cut off his head. Left alone on the "battlefield", he collected all the weapons and papers available there, did not forget to grab the officer's tablets with secret documents and maps of the area and delivered it all to the headquarters. His amazing story the command believed only after they saw the scene with their own eyes. For his feat, Dmitry Ovcharenko was presented to the title of Hero Soviet Union. There was another interesting episode.
In August 1941, the unit where the Red Army soldier Ivan Sereda served was stationed not far from Daugavpils. Somehow Sereda stayed on duty in the field kitchen. Suddenly he heard characteristic sounds and saw an approaching German tank. The soldier had only an unloaded rifle and an ax with him. It remained only to rely on their own ingenuity and luck. The Red Army soldier hid behind a tree and began to watch the tank. Of course, soon the Germans noticed deployed in the clearing field kitchen and stopped the tank. As soon as they got out of the car, the cook jumped out from behind a tree and rushed to the Nazis, brandishing his weapon with a menacing look - a rifle and an ax. This attack so frightened the Nazis that they instantly jumped back. Apparently, they decided that there was still a whole company of Soviet soldiers nearby. Meanwhile, Ivan climbed onto an enemy tank and began to beat on the roof with an ax. The Germans tried to shoot back with a machine gun, but Sereda simply hit the muzzle of the machine gun with the same ax, and it bent. In addition, he began to shout loudly, ostensibly calling for reinforcements. This led to the fact that the enemies surrendered, got out of the tank and dutifully set off at gunpoint in the direction where Sereda's comrades were at that time. So the Nazis were taken prisoner.
There are legends about the ingenuity of Russian soldiers. It was especially pronounced in harsh years Great Patriotic War.
"To the fright"
During the retreat of the Soviet troops in 1941, one of the KV-1 tanks ("Klim Voroshilov") stalled. The crew did not dare to leave the car - they remained in place. Soon German tanks approached and began to shoot at the Voroshilov. They shot all the ammunition, but only scratched the armor. Then the Nazis, with the help of two T-IIIs, decided to tow the Soviet tank to their unit. Suddenly, the KV-1 engine started up, and without thinking twice, our tankers set off in the direction of their own, dragging two enemy tanks in tow. German tankers managed to jump out, but both vehicles were successfully delivered to the front line.
During the defense of Odessa, twenty tanks, converted from ordinary tractors, sheathed in armor, were thrown against the Romanian units. The Romanians did not know anything about this and thought that these were some of the latest impenetrable models of tanks. As a result, panic began among the Romanian soldiers, and they began to retreat. Subsequently, such “transformer” tractors were nicknamed “NI-1”, which meant “for fear”.
Bees against fascists
Non-standard moves often helped to defeat the enemy. At the very beginning of the war, during the fighting near Smolensk, one Soviet platoon was not far from the village, where there were honey apiaries. A few hours later, German infantry entered the village. Since there were much more Germans than the Red Army, they retreated towards the forest. There seemed to be no hope of escape. But then one of our soldiers came up with a brilliant idea: he began to turn over the hives with bees. Angry insects were forced to fly out and began to circle over the meadow. As soon as the Nazis approached, the swarm attacked them. From numerous bites, the Germans squealed and rolled on the ground, while the Soviet soldiers at this time retreated to a safe place.
Heroes with an ax
There were amazing cases when one Soviet soldier managed to stand against an entire German unit. So, on July 13, 1941, Dmitry Ovcharenko, an ordinary machine-gun company, rode a cart with ammunition. Suddenly he saw that a German detachment was moving straight towards him: fifty machine gunners, two officers and a truck with a motorcycle. The Soviet soldier was ordered to surrender and was taken for interrogation to one of the officers. But Ovcharenko suddenly grabbed an ax lying nearby and cut off the head of the fascist. While the Germans were recovering from the shock, Dmitry grabbed the grenades that belonged to the dead German and started throwing them at the truck. After that, instead of running, he took advantage of the confusion and began to swing his ax to the right and left. Surrounding people fled in horror. And Ovcharenko also set off in pursuit of the second officer and also managed to cut off his head. Left alone on the "battlefield", he collected all the weapons and papers available there, did not forget to grab officer tablets with secret documents and maps of the area, and delivered it all to headquarters. The command believed his amazing story only after they saw the scene with their own eyes. For his feat, Dmitry Ovcharenko was presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
There was another interesting episode. In August 1941, the unit where the Red Army soldier Ivan Sereda served was stationed not far from Daugavpils. Somehow Sereda stayed on duty in the field kitchen. Suddenly he heard characteristic sounds and saw an approaching German tank. The soldier had only an unloaded rifle and an ax with him. It remained only to rely on their own ingenuity and luck. The Red Army soldier hid behind a tree and began to watch the tank. Of course, soon the Germans noticed a field kitchen deployed in the clearing and stopped the tank. As soon as they got out of the car, the cook jumped out from behind a tree and rushed to the Nazis, brandishing his weapon with a menacing look - a rifle and an ax. This attack so frightened the Nazis that they instantly jumped back. Apparently, they decided that there was still a whole company of Soviet soldiers nearby.
There are legends about the ingenuity of Russian soldiers. It manifested itself especially brightly in the harsh years of the Great Patriotic War.
"To the fright"
During the retreat of the Soviet troops in 1941, one of the KV-1 tanks ("Klim Voroshilov") stalled. The crew did not dare to leave the car - they remained in place. Soon German tanks approached and began to shoot at the Voroshilov. They shot all the ammunition, but only scratched the armor. Then the Nazis, with the help of two T-IIIs, decided to tow the Soviet tank to their unit. Suddenly, the KV-1 engine started up, and without thinking twice, our tankers set off in the direction of their own, dragging two enemy tanks in tow. German tankers managed to jump out, but both vehicles were successfully delivered to the front line.
During the defense of Odessa, twenty tanks, converted from ordinary tractors, sheathed in armor, were thrown against the Romanian units. The Romanians did not know anything about this and thought that these were some of the latest impenetrable models of tanks. As a result, panic began among the Romanian soldiers, and they began to retreat. Subsequently, such “transformer” tractors were nicknamed “NI-1”, which meant “for fear”.
Bees against fascists
Non-standard moves often helped to defeat the enemy. At the very beginning of the war, during the fighting near Smolensk, one Soviet platoon was not far from the village, where there were honey apiaries. A few hours later, German infantry entered the village. Since there were much more Germans than the Red Army, they retreated towards the forest. There seemed to be no hope of escape. But then one of our soldiers came up with a brilliant idea: he began to turn over the hives with bees. Angry insects were forced to fly out and began to circle over the meadow. As soon as the Nazis approached, the swarm attacked them. From numerous bites, the Germans squealed and rolled on the ground, while the Soviet soldiers at this time retreated to a safe place.
Heroes with an ax
There were amazing cases when one Soviet soldier managed to stand against an entire German unit. So, on July 13, 1941, Dmitry Ovcharenko, an ordinary machine-gun company, rode a cart with ammunition. Suddenly he saw that a German detachment was moving straight towards him: fifty machine gunners, two officers and a truck with a motorcycle. The Soviet soldier was ordered to surrender and was taken for interrogation to one of the officers. But Ovcharenko suddenly grabbed an ax lying nearby and cut off the head of the fascist. While the Germans were recovering from the shock, Dmitry grabbed the grenades that belonged to the dead German and started throwing them at the truck. After that, instead of running, he took advantage of the confusion and began to swing his ax to the right and left. Surrounding people fled in horror. And Ovcharenko also set off in pursuit of the second officer and also managed to cut off his head. Left alone on the "battlefield", he collected all the weapons and papers available there, did not forget to grab officer tablets with secret documents and maps of the area, and delivered it all to headquarters. The command believed his amazing story only after they saw the scene with their own eyes. For his feat, Dmitry Ovcharenko was presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
There was another interesting episode. In August 1941, the unit where the Red Army soldier Ivan Sereda served was stationed not far from Daugavpils. Somehow Sereda stayed on duty in the field kitchen. Suddenly he heard characteristic sounds and saw an approaching German tank. The soldier had only an unloaded rifle and an ax with him. It remained only to rely on their own ingenuity and luck. The Red Army soldier hid behind a tree and began to watch the tank. Of course, soon the Germans noticed a field kitchen deployed in the clearing and stopped the tank. As soon as they got out of the car, the cook jumped out from behind a tree and rushed to the Nazis, brandishing his weapon with a menacing look - a rifle and an ax. This attack so frightened the Nazis that they instantly jumped back. Apparently, they decided that there was still a whole company of Soviet soldiers nearby.
Meanwhile, Ivan climbed onto an enemy tank and began to beat on the roof with an ax. The Germans tried to shoot back with a machine gun, but Sereda simply hit the muzzle of the machine gun with the same ax, and it bent. In addition, he began to shout loudly, ostensibly calling for reinforcements. This led to the fact that the enemies surrendered, got out of the tank and dutifully set off at gunpoint in the direction where Sereda's comrades were at that time. So the Nazis were taken prisoner.
