Battering ram is a weapon of the brave. Part 2. Melee fighters named "Farewell, Motherland!"
Contrary to the cold logic of the Germans, their common sense and military calculation, the well-oiled Hitlerite death machine now and then stumbled over the same obstacle: a simple Russian soldier, very often almost a boy, who barely managed to graduate from a military school, having learned to shoot aimingly in exercises and did not receive no fighting skills, but with a burning desire to protect his land and destroy those who encroached on it.
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The country learned about the exploits of many soldiers and officers years after the Victory from the inhabitants of the cities and villages they defended. The details of the battle were restored from the divisional headquarters archives and private diaries abandoned by the Nazis during the defeat and retreat, in which the neat Germans, not without amazement at the courage of the Soviet soldiers, made entries about repelling attacks by one person or a small group left in the rearguard to “block the path enemy and give the opportunity to retreat Soviet units.
Artillery was formed as a collective branch of the armed forces. In the history of World War II, there are many cases when one or two people remained alive at the gun, who continued to successfully fight.
Chief Lieutenant of the 4th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht Friedrich Hönfeld wrote in his diary: “July 17, 1941. Sokolniki, near Krichev. An unknown Russian soldier was buried in the evening. He fought alone, hitting our tanks and infantry with a cannon. It seemed that the battle would never end. His courage is amazing …"
And there is one warrior in the field when he is tailored in Russian!
Heinz Guderian, Colonel General, favorite and one of Hitler's main advisers, master of European lightning wars, skillfully and easily, like a knife through butter, led his army through all of Europe, conquering it with blitzkriegs. Heinz-Hurricane, Heinz Bystry, as his colleagues called him, occupied Poland in less than a month, France in 37 days, and in the fall of 1941 he hoped to iron the paving stones of Red Square with tank tracks.
However, contrary to the cold logic of the Germans, their common sense and military calculation, Hitler's well-oiled death machine now and then stumbled over the same obstacle. This obstacle was a simple Russian soldier, very often almost a boy, who barely had time to graduate from a military school, learned to shoot aimingly in exercises and did not receive any combat skills, but had a burning desire to protect his land and destroy those who encroached on it. Such was Nikolai Sirotin, whom Friedrich Hönfeld mentioned in his diary.
On July 17, 1941, nineteen-year-old Kolya Sirotin, being left "alone in the field," covering the retreat of his comrades, refuted all generally accepted tactical and technical calculations, engaging in battle with a tank column of more than 50 vehicles. The novice gunner built his own battle strategy. The knocked-out Nazi tanks burned one after another, like candles, creating a jam for the advance of other armored vehicles, thereby creating an illusion for the enemy that the column had come under artillery fire from an entire battery.
Moving deeper into the territory of the Soviet Union, the Germans will meet with such fighters more than once, and Guderian will have to convince himself again and again of the illogicality, unpredictability and incredible courage of ordinary Russian lone soldiers who easily gave their lives, covering the retreat of comrades, defending a small fortress, a village, the village, the approaches to Moscow - in the name of saving their people.
Frequent mention of the definition of "simple" does not imply the social or intellectual degree of the hero, but his military status. The peculiarity of Russian bravery and courage, characteristic of men and women who inhabited the expanses from the Baltic to the Sea of Okhotsk, was nurtured for many centuries in the cold urethral steppe, in order to reveal itself in future generations by the heroic deeds of experienced warriors and hairless boys who not only did not smell gunpowder, but also did not have time to know the woman.
The Germans buried Nikolai Sirotin with all military honors, saluting as a sign of respect for his courage. Near the grave of Sirotin, a small cemetery was formed in two rows, on which, under hastily knocked together white birch crosses, the enemy soldiers and officers who died during shelling from a single gun hidden in a wheat field remained forever in the Belarusian land.
A similar feat was accomplished by the Cossack artilleryman Stepan Dmitrievich Perederiy, who for more than three hours held the fascists with artillery fire on the outskirts of Krasnodar. When one of the tanks overturned the gun, the soldier jumped into a truck standing next to him and rushed into a frontal attack, ramming the tank with a car. It was only a direct hit from a shell that stopped him. Local residents persuaded the Germans to give them the body of the deceased artilleryman, hearing in response: “Take it. Your soldier is a big hero! Stepan Perederiy, who was born in a village not far from Krasnodar, defended his small homeland, preventing the offensive and giving his troops the opportunity to withdraw.
Heinz Guderian, who dreamed of holding a blitzkrieg in Russia and becoming a field marshal, was not lucky. He lost the war to ordinary Soviet guys - the Ivanovs, Sirotins, Orlovs, Perederiy … whose military rank barely reached the rank of sergeant or corporal, who, at the age of 19-20, had not yet had time to really start life, start a family, but already in 1941- m proved to Swift Heinz that such a people cannot be defeated. And after 4 years they convinced the whole world of this.
Nordic character, persistent …
Deceived and induced by oral Hitler, the German people blessed their sons to seize new territories, the radius of which was expanding month after month in the direction of the East. Without even informing the junior officers of the plans, the German command by night marches pushed its troops to the Lithuanian border like chess pawns.
The most implausible rumors circulated among the soldiers and junior commanders. The infantryman Gottfried Evert recalled the purpose of the transfer to the East: “The Soviet Union had to give us a passage through the Caucasus to Persia and from there to Africa. The fact that we would attack Russia did not even occur to anyone. A few hours before the start of the operation - the attack on the USSR, Hitler's appeal was read out to the German troops and ammunition was issued.
Already in the first hours of the war, faced with the resistance of Soviet soldiers and officers stationed along the western border of the Soviet Union, Hitler announced early in the morning to his people that the hostilities that had begun in the East for the "living space" so necessary for the Aryan nation had their own specifics. Barely awakened, the Germans clearly underestimated the next Hitler's military promotion. And he himself could hardly imagine what he had drawn his army and people into.
The term "living space in the East", enshrined by the National Socialist propaganda and the leaders of Nazism, implied the settlement of Eastern Europe by the Aryans. The crazy sound idea, as well as the term "living space" itself, appeared in the Wilhelmian era, that is, during the time of Kaiser Wilhelm I, and was clearly formed by the expression of Otto von Bismarck: "Onslaught to the East" (Drang nach Osten).
Hans Grimm added fuel to the fire of a future war with his political bestseller Volk ohne Raum, published in 1926. In it, the author convinced the reader that if Germany does not expand its territories, then its people will be doomed to starvation. Himmler liked the idea of German "expansion" so much that he quickly concocted the "Ost" ("East") plan, which was based on the liberation of the Slavic territories through the large-scale deportation of the "racially undesirable" population, its enslavement and economic exploitation.
The Nazis, revealing themselves to the fullness of the unrealized properties of their natural vectors, gave Himmler's plan additional meanings. The "Ost-idea" was replete with anal-sound deficiencies and consisted in an attempt to cover them at the expense of anthropogenetic inferences about the natural inequality of peoples and the Nordic racial superiority of the Germans.
In practice, it was realized by the creation of a network of experimental concentration camps, where, among other things, they "worked out new methods of sterilization on prisoners - radiation, chemical, mechanical …" using the methods of the notorious Nazi criminal Dr. Josef Mengele, who became the founder of the research center in Auschwitz. Mengele and his "experimenters" not only tarnished eugenics with their inhuman experiments, but also hammered the last nail into the lid of its coffin, stopping the development of this science necessary for mankind for many decades.
To this was added the Nietzschean theory of the superman, stubbornly imposed on the Nazis by Friedrich Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth, who took over the entire legacy of her unhealthy brother. The museum-archive she created was declared by Hitler the center of National Socialist ideology, providing the quirky Nazi sister not only with fame, but also with a comfortable existence.
The biological and psychological characteristics of the "breed" of people inhabiting the territories of Eastern Europe and especially the USSR did not correspond to the idea of anal-sound carriers of Hitler's morality, Nazi cultural studies with underdeveloped visual vector properties, on whose concept of mythical Aryans esoteric Nazi mysticism began to flourish. deeply penetrating the religion, science and art of the Third Reich. The Slavs, with their reckless and half-wild nature, did not fit into the concept of Ariosophy, and therefore were subject to total extermination.
War without rules
The conquest of the "living space" of Eastern Europe with the attack on the USSR was initially seen as a "war without rules." "The German soldier confronts the enemy, whose army, I must admit, does not consist of human beings, but of cattle, of animals" (from the speech of A. Hitler, June 22, 1941).
The first hours of the war and the suddenness of the attack really caught the Soviet military by surprise. German bombers, flying low over the ground, dropped bombs on the sleeping barracks, on which there were inscriptions: "Russian eggs", with a smirk watched the half-clothed soldiers rushing in all directions and the inaction of the enemy's air defense.
However, in the second half of the day on June 22, 1941, the situation changed, forcing Hitler to shudder from the first large-scale losses and facts retold by participants and eyewitnesses of "the specifics of the war for living space, so necessary for the Aryan nation" (from the speech of A. Hitler, June 22, 1941 g.). Those convinced that the military demarche here is very different from the experience of the French campaign, where it will not be possible to conduct military operations as quickly as in Europe on bicycles. First, because of the damned Russian roads. Secondly, because of the snipers who came from nowhere. Thirdly, because of the scattered military groups found in the rear, which in the near future will become the basis of the first partisan formations.
“On the eastern front I met people who could be called a special race … already the first attack turned into a battle for life and death,” recalled tanker Hans Becker. On the first day of the war, 9 Soviet pilots rammed, sacrificing themselves in the name of Victory, which will come only four years later. The Germans called Soviet pilots fatalists who fought without any hope of victory or survival.
Having passed half of Europe and accustomed to the idea that the enemy was surrendering in a hopeless situation, the Germans assumed that they would meet the same thing with Soviet soldiers and officers, residents of villages and cities. In the very first days of the war, such a familiar West European collaboration, with no less enthusiasm expected from those whom the "crusaders" of the Wehrmacht went to the East to "liberate", entering "into battle with world Bolshevism", in fact turned into a complete opposite.
“Better to deal with 30 in battle! Americans than with 5 RUSSIANS!"
General Guderian, January 1954
It was not fanaticism and fear of their commissars that forced the soldiers and officers to fight to the last bullet, defending their temporary positions in the wheat field, letting in a column of tanks, and then opening fire on it.
The Russians also joined the "war without rules", they threw white flags over besieged fortresses, villages and settlements, but as soon as the enemy sent a company there, it was immediately destroyed by the besieged fighters.
Corporal Hans Teuschler: “The Russians were raised by shots while sleeping, so the first prisoners came in underpants … but they quickly came to their senses and began to organize a stubborn tough defense. It soon became clear, between 05:30 and 07:30 in the morning, that the Russians were fighting behind our front lines … forming pockets of defense. They were advancing on us without artillery preparation and even officers, shouting in hoarse voices … unarmed people rushed with sapper shovels and died in dozens. They fought to the end and were not going to retreat. If this is not heroism, then what is it?"
The Germans' lack of understanding of the Russian urethral-muscular mentality made them believe that the commissars were driving the soldiers to such death, but the same Germans in their memoirs testify that they did not see officers among the attackers. The Russian muscular army, even if it is left without a commander and is fragmented, but at the same time has already been driven out of its state of balance, that is, monotony, is capable of violently resisting the enemy on its own.
“You just can't believe it until you see it with your own eyes. The soldiers of the Red Army, even while burning alive, continued to shoot from the burning houses”(officer of the 7th Panzer Division).
On the very first day, by order of Marshal von Bock, troops were withdrawn from the territory of the Brest Fortress, which, according to the Nazis' plan, was to fall in a matter of hours. This was the first retreat of the Nazis in the Great Patriotic War, with personnel losses equivalent to the losses of soldiers and officers during the capture of Poland and "for all six weeks of the French campaign."
The blitzkrieg conceived by the German General Staff, the advantage of which was always a surprise attack and the art of maneuver, also had a powerful psychological effect. Waiting for senseless losses, unable to withstand the onslaught, whole armies were crushed. Demoralized soldiers, left without their skin mentors capable of command, voluntarily surrendered to the mercy of the victor, entrusting themselves and all their military property to him.
Such was the experience of previous military victories in Europe, where Western flexibility and skin benefit-benefit prevailed. The stronger was the bewilderment, disappointment, fear and unwillingness of the Germans from the first hours of the 1941 war, despite the rapid advance of some of their units across the territory of the USSR, to get bogged down in local battles.
Until the last bullet
The fanatical resistance of the Russians crossed out all military canons, broke all ideas, forcing the Germans to lag far behind the planned plan, spending exorbitant forces to a greater extent to consolidate their goals than to conquer them.
The initial lack of enthusiasm among German soldiers and junior officers to fight Soviet Russia was replaced by a complete understanding that something was not going as usual. The Germans were frightened by the extremely complex landscape unusual for Europeans, its endless scope, where any company or division was visible at a glance, and mortal danger lurked in every house, country road, and ravine.
But the most incomprehensible was the Russian mentality of "insidious, cruel partisans and female geeks", along with men who blew up bridges, derailed trains, set fire to German headquarters and hangars (from the order of the commander of the 6th Army, Field Marshal von Reichenau "On the behavior of the troops in the East ").
The German troops were taught that they were “interested in extinguishing fires of only those buildings that should be used for the parking of military units. Everything else, which is a symbol of the former domination of the Bolsheviks, including the buildings, must be destroyed. No historical or artistic value in the East matters (from the order of the commander of the 6th Army, Field Marshal von Reichenau of December 10, 1941)
This fragment of the order, developed 40 days before the start of the war with the USSR, additionally confirms the "scorched earth" tactics that were threatened to destroy all life on the Slavic territories. It was no accident that the German infantrymen were afraid of the Russians, who were capable of crushing the enemy in the most cruel way. But the sonic madness of anal ideologues and the ambitiousness of the German skinning commanders now and then ran into communal mental values alien to their understanding, “it is better to perish than to surrender”, incomprehensible either with the mind or the heart.
The priority of the general over the particular, including the lack of a sense of the value of one's own life, is the nature of a person with a urethral vector. Urethralists easily give their lives for their people, receiving the highest pleasure from this bestowal. In the cold steppes and dense forests, on a landscape of little use for survival, millennia ago, the first future Russian urethral-muscular mental values were laid.
The spirit of Genghis Khan's urethral freelance, brought from the Mongolian steppes, firmly rooted in the Russian land, multiplying by the muscular power of our heroes. All growing generations were brought up on the example of the ancestors who laid down their heads for their Fatherland. Inspired by the united collective psychic of their people, they shared with him all his hardships and victories, considered it happiness to give their lives for the advancement of the pack into the future.
On the other hand, it would be incorrect to assert that all men and women who heroically gave their lives in war have a natural urethral vector. The bold actions of many of them were influenced by the urethral-muscular worldview, which was imprinted with a characteristic mental superstructure.
System-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan, using the term "mental superstructure", explains it as follows. Born in the conditions of any country or brought there in early childhood, a child, regardless of its natural vectors, acquires the properties of a collective mental, characteristic of its people, its characteristics, values and traditions.
The upbringing of a person within the framework of the urethral-muscular mentality and the sense of responsibility built on the basis of collectivism, when “one for all and all for one”, is capable of pushing Matrosov to the bunker, and Talalikhin to the ram. This seems to the representatives of the Western world an unjustified risk and senseless action, and to the Russians it is a natural patriotic duty dictated by vital necessity.
It was, is and always will be. The lack of understanding of the Russian mental specifics is once again leading the West to rash attempts to invade the Slavic world and the desire to place its geopolitical accents in it. We have to doubt the rationality and competence of Western analysts and again make sure that Russian history has not taught them anything.
