Igor Stanislavovich Prokopenko
On both sides of the front. Unknown facts Great Patriotic War
Preface
Kyiv, Lvov, Odessa, Riga... Cities military glory. In each of them - for half a century exactly - there are dozens of monuments to the victims of fascism. Not so long ago people came to these monuments to mourn those tortured by the Nazis. Today, doing this is unfashionable, politically incorrect, and unsafe. Banners with swastikas, torchlight processions, arms raised in a fascist salute. It's not a dream. This is our former homeland...
In the twentieth century in Europe, not only Germans suffered from Nazism. But only here - in Ukraine, in the Baltic states - the one who swore allegiance to Hitler is today the subject national pride. In the splendor of SS regalia they parade through Riga, Kyiv, Lvov. Without turning around, they pass by monuments to the victims of Nazism and solemnly bow banners with swastikas to the Freedom Monument. This is called the revival of Nazism. But is it not too cannibalistic a method for state self-identification of the former Soviet republics with the fearful silence of the majority?
They say that if the past is forgotten, it comes back again. And it came back. Bloody sacrifice in Odessa. Bombing of Donbass. Thousands of people were tortured, shot, thrown into mines. And this is happening today.
Recently a survey was conducted in Japan, and the incredible turned out to be true: it turned out that more than half of Japanese youth today believe - atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Soviet Union. Can you imagine how invincible force propaganda must be to knock the name of the true criminal out of the heads of those whose parents burned in the radioactive inferno? But this is distant Japan. What do we have?
For many years, such concepts as “The Great Patriotic War”, “Great Feat”, “Great Victory” were abstract concepts for us. A duty tribute to the distant past. Once a year there is a movie “about that war” and festive fireworks. But Maidan broke out. And suddenly it turned out that there is nothing more relevant than “that war.” Because the heirs of the heroes of the Great Victory - as soon as the first blood was shed - were instantly divided into “Colorados” and “Banderaites”. For Russians and Germans. Right and wrong. What a terrible grimace of history.
It's easier for the Japanese. The fact that they will one day find out that the atomic bombs were dropped on them by the Americans, not the Russians, will not make their grief for the dead any less. And we? Russians, Ukrainians, Balts? What can help us make it easier for everyone? Knowledge of history. Data.
There is such a journalistic technique. When it is necessary to attract a reader or viewer with unexpected information, the phrase is used: “Few people know...” In our case, this common technique is the only way make us see the world, not sweetened by Hollywood and legends about the “great ukrov”. So there you go! Few people in Ukraine, in Russia, in America, by the way, also know that the “good uncle” who nurtured Hitler in literally This word was the creator of the American automobile miracle - Henry Ford. Hitler quotes him in “ Mein Kampf" It was he, the American billionaire, who stuffed German Nazism money. It was his factories, until the opening of the second front, that produced brand new Fords every day for the needs of the Wehrmacht.
What Stepan Bandera tried to build independent Ukraine, - This is true! But not all of it. Of those who today in Ukraine sculpt from it national hero, few people know what kind of Ukraine he built. And there is an answer. Ukraine “without Muscovites, Poles and Jews.” Do you feel the chill of Auschwitz in the hollow of this paternal call? And here is another quote: “If to create Ukraine it is necessary to destroy five million Ukrainians, we are ready to pay that price.” That is, Ukraine in Bandera’s way is nothing more than typical Nazi state, created according to the patterns of the Third Reich.
Today, the centenarians of the Wehrmacht, somewhere near Cologne, probably raise a glass of schnapps every day for victory. Who would have thought that not even half a century would pass before the Nazi Bandera’s password would fly over Babi Yar in Kyiv, where thousands of Ukrainians were tortured by the Nazis: “Glory to Ukraine.” And the polyphonic response of his accomplices, who half a century ago flooded Ukraine with the blood of Ukrainians, Jews, and Poles: “Glory to the heroes.”
The book you hold in your hands is years of work. large quantity journalists of the program " A military secret" Here are just the facts. Known and forgotten, recently declassified and never published. Facts that will allow you to see history in a new way bloody war, which claimed 50 million lives of citizens of our country, and, perhaps, understand why it was the victory in this war that divided one nation according to nationality.
First hit
The small border town of Bialystok. April 1941. Almost two years have passed since the day the Germans occupied Poland, and therefore anxiety does not leave the streets of the town. People stock up on flour, salt, and kerosene. And they are preparing for wartime. The people do not understand anything about big political games Soviet Union and Germany, but in the evenings everyone listens to news from Moscow.
Signing of the Pact by Molotov and Ribbentrop
Vyacheslav Molotov makes fiery speeches about victory from the podium Soviet diplomacy, however, he understands that the war will soon begin. The pact signed by him and Ribbentrop is no longer valid. The People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs holds several secret meetings with the leadership Nazi Germany and signs a number of documents on Soviet-German relations. At one of the meetings, he reminds Hitler of the protocol that was signed on August 23, 1939.
Sergei Kondrashov, lieutenant general, in 1968–1973 deputy head of the First Main Directorate KGB USSR, recalls: “The night before, Molotov had a conversation with Stalin, and they, in the name of delaying the stage of the war, decided to agree to this protocol, which actually divided the spheres of influence between Germany and the Soviet Union. The protocol was prepared over one night, the night from the 22nd to the 23rd. There were no minutes of negotiations. The only thing is that Vyacheslav Mikhailovich had a notebook in which he recorded the progress of the negotiations. This Notebook has been preserved, it is clear from it how the agreement was reached. In fact, the protocol was first initialed and then ratified. So there can be no doubt about the authenticity of this protocol. There really was a protocol. It is difficult to say how much he corresponded to the political intention to delay the war. But in fact the protocol led to the division of Poland. This to some extent delayed the war with the Soviet Union. Of course, politically he was extremely disadvantageous to us. But at the same time it was one of last attempts Stalin to delay the onset of war."
Nameless fighters
On September 1, 1939, exactly a week after the signing of the protocol, Hitler's troops invade Poland. Stalin gives the order to the chief commander of the Red Army to cross the border and take protection Western Ukraine And Western Belarus. However, Hitler violates the secret protocol and in April 1941 makes claims of a territorial, political and economic nature to the Soviet Union. Stalin refuses him and begins general military mobilization. The Main Intelligence Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the Soviet Union receives the government's order to send several of our illegal immigrants to Germany.
In Bialystok, in the intelligence department of the headquarters of the Western Military District, our intelligence officers undergo individual training. The legends have been worked out. Very soon they should leave for Germany. Their task is the secret military strategies of Nazi Germany, and most importantly, Plan Barbarossa, a plan for the deployment of military operations against the Soviet Union.
One of them was Mikhail Vladimirovich Fedorov. He is also Lieutenant Vronsky. He is Mr. Stephenson. He is also an employee of the Service foreign intelligence"SEP". Year of birth: 1916. Since 1939 - employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR. From 1941 to 1944 he carried out a secret mission in Poland and Belarus. In 1945, on instructions from the GRU, he left as an official diplomatic representative of one of the countries of Eastern Europe to England, worked for more than 20 years in Western Europe as an illegal intelligence officer, performing tasks of special national importance. Colonel of the KGB of the USSR.
On the night of June 22, the day before our scouts were sent to Germany, the war began. German troops, violating all agreements, invaded the territory of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Vladimirovich Fedorov This is how he describes the first hours of the war: “I remember the day the war started well. Four o'clock in the morning. Hour difference between Moscow and Polish city Bialystok. There's a roar, explosions, planes are flying. I ran out into the street. I saw German planes bombing the station. This is correct - from their point of view. Station - so that not a single train leaves Bialystok. The owner of the apartment also stood up, everyone around began to stir, everyone jumped out into the street. War. They are already shouting: “War.” The Jews were especially frightened. There were many Jews in Bialystok; there were Jewish weaving factories there. And people were afraid, they already knew that Hitler was exterminating Jews. My mistress immediately burst into tears and lost consciousness on the street. Her husband and I brought her a chair. They lifted her onto a chair and sat her down. She sits and her head drops.”
Igor Stanislavovich Prokopenko
On both sides of the front. Unknown facts of the Great Patriotic War
Preface
Kyiv, Lvov, Odessa, Riga... Cities of military glory. In each of them - for half a century exactly - there are dozens of monuments to the victims of fascism. Not so long ago people came to these monuments to mourn those tortured by the Nazis. Today, doing this is unfashionable, politically incorrect, and unsafe. Banners with swastikas, torchlight processions, arms raised in a fascist salute. It's not a dream. This is our former homeland...
In the twentieth century in Europe, not only Germans suffered from Nazism. But only here - in Ukraine, in the Baltic states - the one who swore allegiance to Hitler is today a source of national pride. In the splendor of SS regalia they parade through Riga, Kyiv, Lvov. Without turning around, they pass by monuments to the victims of Nazism and solemnly bow banners with swastikas to the Freedom Monument. This is called the revival of Nazism. But is it not too cannibalistic a method for state self-identification of the former Soviet republics with the fearful silence of the majority?
They say that if the past is forgotten, it comes back again. And it came back. Bloody sacrifice in Odessa. Bombing of Donbass. Thousands of people were tortured, shot, thrown into mines. And this is happening today.
Recently, a survey was conducted in Japan, and the incredible was revealed: it turned out that more than half of Japanese youth today believe that the Soviet Union dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Can you imagine how invincible force propaganda must be to knock the name of the true criminal out of the heads of those whose parents burned in the radioactive inferno? But this is distant Japan. What do we have?
For many years, such concepts as “The Great Patriotic War”, “Great Feat”, “Great Victory” were abstract concepts for us. A duty tribute to the distant past. Once a year there is a movie “about that war” and festive fireworks. But Maidan broke out. And suddenly it turned out that there is nothing more relevant than “that war.” Because the heirs of the heroes of the Great Victory - as soon as the first blood was shed - were instantly divided into “Colorados” and “Banderaites”. For Russians and Germans. Right and wrong. What a terrible grimace of history.
It's easier for the Japanese. The fact that they will one day find out that the atomic bombs were dropped on them by the Americans, not the Russians, will not make their grief for the dead any less. And we? Russians, Ukrainians, Balts? What can help us make it easier for everyone? Knowledge of history. Data.
There is such a journalistic technique. When it is necessary to attract a reader or viewer with unexpected information, the phrase is used: “Few people know...” In our case, this common technique is the only way to make us see the world around us, not sweetened by Hollywood and legends about the “great ukrov”. So there you go! Few people in Ukraine, in Russia, in America, by the way, also know that the “good uncle” who nurtured Hitler in the literal sense of the word was the creator of the American automobile miracle - Henry Ford. This is what Hitler quotes in Mein Kampf. It was he, the American billionaire, who fed German Nazism with money. It was his factories, until the opening of the second front, that produced brand new Fords every day for the needs of the Wehrmacht.
The fact that Stepan Bandera tried to build an independent Ukraine is true! But not all of it. Of those who today in Ukraine are molding him into a national hero, few know what kind of Ukraine he built. And there is an answer. Ukraine “without Muscovites, Poles and Jews.” Do you feel the chill of Auschwitz in the hollow of this paternal call? And here is another quote: “If to create Ukraine it is necessary to destroy five million Ukrainians, we are ready to pay that price.” That is, Ukraine, in Bandera’s way, is nothing more than a typical Nazi state, created according to the patterns of the Third Reich.
Today, the centenarians of the Wehrmacht, somewhere near Cologne, probably raise a glass of schnapps every day for victory. Who would have thought that not even half a century would pass before the Nazi Bandera’s password would fly over Babi Yar in Kyiv, where thousands of Ukrainians were tortured by the Nazis: “Glory to Ukraine.” And the polyphonic response of his accomplices, who half a century ago flooded Ukraine with the blood of Ukrainians, Jews, and Poles: “Glory to the heroes.”
Kyiv, Lvov, Odessa, Riga... Cities of military glory. In each of them - for half a century exactly - there are dozens of monuments to the victims of fascism. Not so long ago people came to these monuments to mourn those tortured by the Nazis. Today, doing this is unfashionable, politically incorrect, and unsafe. Banners with swastikas, torchlight processions, arms raised in a fascist salute. It's not a dream. This is our former homeland...
In the twentieth century in Europe, not only Germans suffered from Nazism. But only here - in Ukraine, in the Baltic states - the one who swore allegiance to Hitler is today a source of national pride. In the splendor of SS regalia they parade through Riga, Kyiv, Lvov. Without turning around, they pass by monuments to the victims of Nazism and solemnly bow banners with swastikas to the Freedom Monument. This is called the revival of Nazism. But is it not too cannibalistic a method for state self-identification of the former Soviet republics with the fearful silence of the majority?
They say that if the past is forgotten, it comes back again. And it came back. Bloody sacrifice in Odessa. Bombing of Donbass. Thousands of people were tortured, shot, thrown into mines. And this is happening today.
Recently, a survey was conducted in Japan, and the incredible was revealed: it turned out that more than half of Japanese youth today believe that the Soviet Union dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Can you imagine how invincible force propaganda must be to knock the name of the true criminal out of the heads of those whose parents burned in the radioactive inferno? But this is distant Japan. What do we have?
For many years, such concepts as “The Great Patriotic War”, “Great Feat”, “Great Victory” were abstract concepts for us. A duty tribute to the distant past. Once a year there is a movie “about that war” and festive fireworks. But Maidan broke out. And suddenly it turned out that there is nothing more relevant than “that war.” Because the heirs of the heroes of the Great Victory - as soon as the first blood was shed - were instantly divided into “Colorados” and “Banderaites”. For Russians and Germans. Right and wrong. What a terrible grimace of history.
It's easier for the Japanese. The fact that they will one day find out that the atomic bombs were dropped on them by the Americans, not the Russians, will not make their grief for the dead any less. And we? Russians, Ukrainians, Balts? What can help us make it easier for everyone? Knowledge of history. Data.
There is such a journalistic technique. When it is necessary to attract a reader or viewer with unexpected information, the phrase is used: “Few people know...” In our case, this common technique is the only way to make us see the world around us, not sweetened by Hollywood and legends about the “great ukrov”. So there you go! Few people in Ukraine, in Russia, in America, by the way, also know that the “good uncle” who nurtured Hitler in the literal sense of the word was the creator of the American automobile miracle - Henry Ford. This is what Hitler quotes in Mein Kampf. It was he, the American billionaire, who fed German Nazism with money. It was his factories, until the opening of the second front, that produced brand new Fords every day for the needs of the Wehrmacht.
The fact that Stepan Bandera tried to build an independent Ukraine is true! But not all of it. Of those who today in Ukraine are molding him into a national hero, few know what kind of Ukraine he built. And there is an answer. Ukraine “without Muscovites, Poles and Jews.” Do you feel the chill of Auschwitz in the hollow of this paternal call? And here is another quote: “If to create Ukraine it is necessary to destroy five million Ukrainians, we are ready to pay that price.” That is, Ukraine, in Bandera’s way, is nothing more than a typical Nazi state, created according to the patterns of the Third Reich.
Today, the centenarians of the Wehrmacht, somewhere near Cologne, probably raise a glass of schnapps every day for victory. Who would have thought that not even half a century would pass before the Nazi Bandera’s password would fly over Babi Yar in Kyiv, where thousands of Ukrainians were tortured by the Nazis: “Glory to Ukraine.” And the polyphonic response of his accomplices, who half a century ago flooded Ukraine with the blood of Ukrainians, Jews, and Poles: “Glory to the heroes.”
The book you are holding in your hands is the many years of work of a large number of journalists from the Military Secret program. Here are just the facts. Known and forgotten, recently declassified and never published. Facts that will allow us to see in a new way the history of the bloodiest war, which claimed the lives of 50 million citizens of our country, and, perhaps, to understand why the victory in this war divided one nation along national lines.
First hit
The small border town of Bialystok. April 1941. Almost two years have passed since the day the Germans occupied Poland, and therefore anxiety does not leave the streets of the town. People stock up on flour, salt, and kerosene. And they are preparing for wartime. The people do not understand anything about the big political games of the Soviet Union and Germany, but in the evenings everyone listens to the news from Moscow.
Signing of the Pact by Molotov and Ribbentrop
Vyacheslav Molotov makes fiery speeches from the podium about the victory of Soviet diplomacy, but he understands that the war will soon begin. The pact signed by him and Ribbentrop is no longer valid. The People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs holds several secret meetings with the leadership of Nazi Germany and signs a number of documents on Soviet-German relations. At one of the meetings, he reminds Hitler of the protocol that was signed on August 23, 1939.
Sergei Kondrashov, lieutenant general, in 1968–1973 deputy head of the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, recalls: “The night before, Molotov had a conversation with Stalin, and they, in the name of delaying the stage of the war, decided to agree to this protocol, which actually divided the spheres of influence between Germany and the Soviet Union. The protocol was prepared over one night, the night from the 22nd to the 23rd. There were no minutes of negotiations. The only thing is that Vyacheslav Mikhailovich had a notebook in which he recorded the progress of the negotiations. This notebook has been preserved, and it is clear from it how the agreement was reached. In fact, the protocol was first initialed and then ratified. So there can be no doubt about the authenticity of this protocol. There really was a protocol. It is difficult to say how much he corresponded to the political intention to delay the war. But in fact the protocol led to the division of Poland. This to some extent delayed the war with the Soviet Union. Of course, politically he was extremely disadvantageous to us. But at the same time, this was one of Stalin’s last attempts to delay the onset of war.”
Nameless fighters
On September 1, 1939, exactly a week after the signing of the protocol, Hitler's troops invade Poland. Stalin gives the order to the main commander of the Red Army to cross the border and take Western Ukraine and Western Belarus under protection. However, Hitler violates the secret protocol and in April 1941 makes claims of a territorial, political and economic nature to the Soviet Union. Stalin refuses him and begins general military mobilization. The Main Intelligence Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the Soviet Union receives the government's order to send several of our illegal immigrants to Germany.
In Bialystok, in the intelligence department of the headquarters of the Western Military District, our intelligence officers undergo individual training. The legends have been worked out. Very soon they should leave for Germany. Their task is the secret military strategies of Nazi Germany, and most importantly, Plan Barbarossa, a plan for the deployment of military operations against the Soviet Union.
One of them was Mikhail Vladimirovich Fedorov. He is also Lieutenant Vronsky. He is Mr. Stephenson. He is also an employee of the Foreign Intelligence Service “SEP”. Year of birth: 1916. Since 1939 - employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR. From 1941 to 1944 he carried out a secret mission in Poland and Belarus. In 1945, on instructions from the GRU, he went to England as an official diplomatic representative of one of the countries of Eastern Europe, and worked in Western Europe as an illegal intelligence officer for more than 20 years, performing tasks of special national importance. Colonel of the KGB of the USSR.
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70 years ago, soldiers of the Red Army hoisted the Soviet flag over the Reichstag. The Great Patriotic War, which claimed millions of lives and broke millions of destinies, ended with the unconditional victory of the USSR over Nazi Germany...
The book you are holding in your hands is an example of real Russian documentary. The author visited Germany and former Soviet republics, met with participants and eyewitnesses of the terrible events of 1941-1945 to show both sides of this monstrous war. This is a story about heroes and traitors, about ordinary soldiers and officers, about pain and mutual assistance.
What did the enemy believe? How did the German propaganda machine work and how difficult was it to fight it? What price are we still paying for great victory? After all, more than half a century has passed, and the consequences of some Stalinist decisions still affect our relations with our closest neighbors - Ukraine, Georgia, and the Baltic countries. The author of the book tried to figure out whether it was possible to avoid some fatal mistakes, and in this he is helped by participants in military operations, historians and former employees intelligence services
FRACTURE.
At the beginning of January 1942, a strange calm established itself on all fronts. The Germans were waiting to see how the counteroffensive would develop Soviet troops near Moscow. Among the most brilliant in reports from the front Soviet generals, who fought near the capital, called the name of General Vlasov. His 20th Army continued to advance. German divisions fled, abandoning equipment and machinery. The key point of Hitler's defense - Solnechnogorsk - fell.
By the end of January, the Red Army had liberated 11,000 settlements. The enemy was driven back almost 200 kilometers from the borders of Moscow. Stalin withdrew the demand for the opening of a second front. He decided that after the victory near Moscow it was possible to win the war without the help of the allies. It was planned to do this, despite huge losses The Red Army in 1941 - more than 3,000,000 people killed, wounded and captured.
On January 10, 1942, a directive letter from Headquarters was signed by Stalin. It set the task of completing the defeat of the enemy by the end of 1942. In January, the Red Army went on the offensive along the entire front line.
Content
Preface
Chapter 1. First Strike
Chapter 2. Fracture
Chapter 3. Head to head
Chapter 4. Not childish games
Chapter 5. A story of love and exploration
Chapter 6. Mysteries of the Third Reich: Otto Skorzeny
Chapter 7. The Face of the Enemy
Chapter 8. Victory is just around the corner
Chapter 9. A holiday with tears in our eyes
Chapter 10. On the wolf's trail
Chapter 11. Winners are not judged
Afterword.
70 years ago, soldiers of the Red Army hoisted the Soviet flag over the Reichstag. The Great Patriotic War, which claimed millions of lives and broke millions of destinies, ended with the unconditional victory of the USSR over Nazi Germany...
The book you are holding in your hands is an example of real Russian documentary. The author visited Germany and the former Soviet republics, met with participants and eyewitnesses of the terrible events of 1941–1945 to show both sides of this monstrous war. This is a story about heroes and traitors, about ordinary soldiers and officers, about pain and mutual assistance.
What did the enemy believe? How did the German propaganda machine work and how difficult was it to fight it? What price are we still paying for this great victory? After all, more than half a century has passed, and the consequences of some Stalinist decisions still affect our relations with our closest neighbors - Ukraine, Georgia, and the Baltic countries. The author of the book tried to figure out whether it was possible to avoid some fatal mistakes, and in this he is helped by participants in military operations, historians and former intelligence officers.