The site of the TV channel "Star" publishes the cycle of articles about the Great Patriotic War of 1941– 1945 of the writer Leonid Maslovsky, based on his book "Russian Pravda", published in 2011. In his author's materials, Maslovsky, according to him, exposes "the myths on the events of the Great Patriotic War exposed to Russia and shows the greatness of our victory." The author notes that in his articles is going to "show the non-departious role of the West in the preparation of Germany to war from the USSR." The third of July 1941 I. V. Stalin appealed to the people on the radio, starting speech with the following words: "Comrades! Citizens! Brothers and sisters! Fighters of our army and fleet! I appeal to you, my friends! The treacherous military attack of Hitler's Germany on our homeland, started on June 22, continues. "Stalin did not hide the excitement, said the truth, strengthened faith in the coming victory. "Despite the heroic resistance of the Red Army, despite the fact that the best divisions of the enemy and the best parts of his aviation are already broken and found their grave on the battlefields, the enemy continues to climb ahead, throwing new forces to the front. Hitler's troops managed to capture Lithuania, a significant part Latvia, Western part of Belarus, part of Western Ukraine. Fascist aviation expands the districts of its bombers, exposing bombardments Murmansk, Orsha, Mogilev, Smolensk, Kiev, Odessa, Sevastopol. Over our homeland hung a serious danger. How could it happen that our glorious Red Army passed the fascist troops a number of our cities and districts? Is the German-fascist troops really are invincible troops, how are they tirelessly fascist brandy propagandists about it? Of course not! History shows that there is no invincible armies and did not happen ... The same should be said about the current German-fascist army of Hitler. This army did not meet even serious resistance on the continent of Europe. Only in our territory she met serious resistance. And if as a result of this resistance, the best divisions of the German-fascist army were broken by our Red Army, it means that the Hitler's fascist army can also be broken and will be divided, as Napoleon and Wilhelm's army were broken. "Dealer I. V. Stalin Analyzes the reason for the temporary success of fascist Germany, the feasibility of concluding a non-aggression Covenant in 1939, saying that Germany, violating the pact, exposed "himself in the eyes of the whole world as a bloody aggressor ... That's why our entire valiant army, our entire valiant naval Fleet, all our falcon pilots, all the peoples of our country, all the best people in Europe, America and Asia, finally, all the best people in Germany - brand the treacherous actions of the German fascists ... and see that our business is right that the enemy will be divided that we Must win. In force of the war imposed to us, our country entered into a mortal fight with his worst and insidious enemy - the German fascism ... what is required in order for the face Sewing the danger that hung over our homeland, and what measures do you need to take to defeat the enemy? First of all, it is necessary that our people, Soviet people understand the whole depth of danger, which threatens our country, and renounced the complaunt, from carelessness, on the sentiment of peaceful construction, quite understandable in pre-war time, but the harmful currently, when the war is fundamentally Changed the position. The enemy is cruel and inexorable. "Stallin explains the goals of the enemy, calls for stopping being carefree, mobilize himself and rebuilding all his work on a new, military manner," not knowing the mercy of the enemy ", prevent whins, cowardice, panic and desertion." Peoples of the Soviet Union Must rise to protect their rights, their land against the enemy. Red Army, Red Fleet and All Citizens of the Soviet Union must defend each Soviet Earth's span, fight the last drop of blood for our cities and villages, to show courage, initiative and a mustache, peculiar to our people, "said Stalin then The Red Army was injured, about strengthening the rear, about the help of our fighter battalions in the fight against saboteurs, enemy paratroopers, about the need to depart the entire mobile railway train, not to leave the enemy of valuable property, food, fuel, to invite all the cattle, on the creation of partisan detachments, On the nature of our war as the War of the "National Domestic" and the liberation, that "we will have faithful allies", about the transfer of all the completeness of the authorities in the state to the State Committee to the State Committee, about the need to solve around the party and the government to defeat the enemy, For victory. In the end of the speech, I. V. Stalin appealed to the people with calls: "All our si Lians - to support our heroic red army, our glorious Red Fleet! All the forces of the people - in the defeat of the enemy! Forward, for our victory! ". The people believed in their strength, the country's strength, in victory. She believed Stalin, as believed to be a native father. Researcher O. A. Platonov writes: "In fact, in his appeal to the people, Stalin outlined the program of nationwide struggle against the enemy. Its simple and accessible language allowed to convey many important tasks of war to the heart and the mind of many Russian people. The moral value of his speech was huge. The words "our business right, the enemy will be divided" became the main slogan of the whole of the Great Patriotic War. Hardness and confidence in the victory inspired Russian people. "Everyone of 1941 on the strength of Soviet people, the poet and writer S. V. Mikhalkov wrote:" We want to recognize or do not want to recognize today, but it is his speech that began With the words "brothers and sisters! "Forty-first caused unprecedented enthusiasm in people of various ages. They went to call points by volunteers. Vera in the Word is a huge faith, if his authoritative person says. And the fact that Stalin has been for millions of an authoritative person, can deny it either by the scorement Or by evil intent. "But today they are also writing about Stalin on evil intent, and about the disorderly flight of our troops in the summer of 1941. Estimated domestic war flared up, absorbing more and new territories of the USSR. Twenty-sixth of September 1941 in the summary of the German Supreme Command reported About the victory near Kiev. It was said that 665 thousand people were captured, 3,718 guns and 884 tanks were captured. He did not write about these statements, but with the beginning of restructuring they began to penetrate into many historical works and even textbooks. Russian historians denied these Information, indicating that before the beginning of the Kiev operation in the South-Western Front, there were 677,085 people. By the end of the operation Only in the front connections that avoided the environments and moved with the battles on the rear binds, there were 150,541 people. If you consider that the troops of the south-western front during fierce fighting, almost all September, suffered large losses, a significant number of troops escaped the environment, considerable The part broke through the enemy ring, the Germans could be captured under Kiev no more than 50 thousand people. The South-West and Bryansky fronts were actually stopped by Romn the offensive of the troops of Guderian, but a tank blow from the Kremenchug bridgeheads secretly focused four German tank divisions Guderian eventually decided the outcome of the battle of the southwestern front near Kiev in favor of the German troops. The Kiev battle was won by the Germans by stopping the offensive in the Moscow direction and unfolding Guderian's tank divisions to the south, to Kiev. About Kiev Defensive Battle of A. M. Vasilevsky wrote: "The enemy has succeeded an expensive price. The Red Army in the fierce battles defeated the ten personnel diaper divisions. He lost more than 100 thousand soldiers and officers. The loss of the enemy continued to grow. For more than a month, the Soviet troops of the "Center" army team in the Kiev direction were held back. It was very important for the preparation of the battle near Moscow. "Thekiev defensive battle lasted from July 7 to September 26, 1941. Our troops near Kiev were to death. Wehrmacht did not see such a resistance in any of the wars unleashed by Germany. Hitler's favorite Feldmarshal Pon Side wrote: "Kiev is a brilliant success. But the Russians, as they stood in front of me were inepent, and stand, and I don't know whether to smash them. "After the fall of Kiev, it was harder to keep the defense Odessa, which for 73 days fought with 18 German and Romanian divisions, and only on October 16, our Parts organizedly left the city. The high schools did not give rest and the Crimea, from which our aviation could destroy the Romanian oil crafts. Therefore, on October 18, the German fascist troops began the offensive and by mid-November took the territory of Crimea, except the city of Russian Glory - Sevastopol. In 1941, Sevastopol was not able to Germans. The Red Army and the Black Sea Fleet defended the city of 250 days, from October 30, 1941 to July 4, 1942. The Molensky battle continued from July 10 to September 10, 1941. It was one of the reasons for changing the Barbaross Plan. Smolensk battle, which turned on the front up to 650 kilometers and to a depth of 250 kilometers, threw the Hitler's Lightning War Plan against the USSR. Soviet troops caused a heavy damage to the Center for Army "Center". In World War II, the fascist troops were first forced to go to defense in the main direction. In addition, thanks to the Smolensk battle, the Hitler's command did not risk transferring the 3rd tank group for the attack on Leningrad. Smolensk battle, as well as the battle near Kiev, allowed the Soviet command to win the time to prepare the defense of Moscow and the subsequent defeat of the enemy in the Moscow battle of 1941-1942.Smolenskoye and Kiev battles proceeded at the same time, and they can be called one operation, temporarily Stopped the offensive of the German fascist hordes to Moscow. Military units, most distinguished in the Smolensk battle, was awarded the title of Guards. These were the first guards compounds in the Red Army. In the Yelninsk operation, which took place during the Smolensk battle, our troops who did not have the advantages in numbers, but superior opponents in the number of artillery guns, on August 30, 1941 were transferred to the offensive, German defense broke out, freed The town of Yelny, defeated by one motorized and seven infantry divisions of the Wehrmacht, was eliminated by the Yelninsky protrusion, threatening the left wing of the western front troops, the Germans dropped the Germans river, freed the significant territory of their native land and captured a lot of prisoners. As well as Smolensk battle, July 10 began a battle for Leningrad. On this day, the fascist troops began an offensive directly to Leningrad. We barely had enough strength to defend the city. To prevent the cutting down of Leningrad on land from the territory of the USSR, our troops failed, but also to close the ring of the environment. They did not allow German armies. To stop the Germans on the approaches to Volkhov, Volkhovskaya HPP and under Tikhvin, the BGK rate allocated four divisions to help, 20 thousand of them The fighters were immediately transferred by air, and the rest - Ladoga military flotilla. This fact indicates that our army and solid management, and airplanes, and the ships of the military flotilla in Ladoga Lake were sacred. The saints are the warriors who fell in the war, the winners who returned from the front home, are the holy workers who have governed weapons in the rear. For more than seven centuries, Europe went to Russia, but to overcome in battle Russia could not - did the "mysterious Russian souls" turned out for Europe. And in the army of Hitler there were all European peoples, except for Serbs and Greeks, and even the British were sitting on their islands. And they all killed our men, women, children. Hitler, German General Headquarters, theoretically, everything was correctly calculated: German troops quickly split the Soviet Arms near Leningrad and Kiev and join the armies coming to Moscow. But he did not take part that he was not Europe before him, but heroic Russia. In this case, the experience of war in Europe did not benefit, but in the harm of Germany. To be continued… Opinions expressed in the publications of Leonid Maslovsky are the opinions of the author and may not coincide with the views of the site of the TV channel "Star".

Chairman of the State Committee of Defense I.V. Stalin spoke on the radio with appeal to the Soviet people, which outlined the program to combat the German-fascist invaders.

By decision of the main command rate, Major General P.P. The couples came to the command of the arms of the North-Western Front.

The troops of the Western Front led battles for crossing the r. Berezina in the districts of Chernywava, Berezino and south.

To the outcome of the day, the coming Romanian-German troops seized the bridgeheads on the northeast bank of the river. Prut east of Botoshani and in the area of \u200b\u200bIasi, from where they later led the offensive in the general direction to Mogilev-Podolsky.

The heroic 23-day defense of Mogilev with Soviet troops and folk militia detachments with a number of over 12 thousand people.

The formation of national militia detachments from the civilian population began in the garrisons of the Northern Fleet. The detachments expressed a desire to go most of the local component of the Northern Fleet.

The Central Committee of the CP (b) of the SCSR of the Ukrainian SCR was ordered to all regional parties and regional executive committees of the republic, located on the right bank of the Dnieper, evacuate all the valuable property of collective farms, state farms, MTS, industrial enterprises, schools of FZO and craft schools.

German troops occupied Driss, Lesten, Zhlobin, Rogachev in Belarus; In Ukraine - Ternopil, Berezhany, Balekhov, Valley, Nadvornaya; In Latvia - Valdemarpils, Gulbene, Kandava, Sigulda, Talsi.

From the speech I. Stalin on the radio

Comrades! Citizens!

Brothers and sisters!

Fighters of our army and fleet!

I appeal to you, my friends!

The treacherous military attack of Hitler's Germany on our homeland, started on June 22, continues. Despite the heroic resistance of the Red Army, despite the fact that the best divisions of the enemy and the best parts of his aviation are already broken and found themselves a grave on the battlefields, the enemy continues to climb ahead, throwing new forces to the front. Hitler's troops managed to capture Lithuania, a significant part of Latvia, the western part of Belarus, part of Western Ukraine. Fascist aviation expands the districts of its bombers, exposing bombardments Murmansk, Orsha, Mogilev, Smolensk, Kiev, Odessa, Sevastopol. Over our homeland hung a serious danger.

How could this happen that our glorious Red Army passed the fascist troops a number of cities and districts? Is the German-fascist troops really are invincible troops, how are they tirelessly fascist brandy propagandists about it?

Of course not! History shows that there is no invincible armies and did not happen. Napoleon's army was considered invincible, but it was divided alternately by Russians, English, German troops. The German army of Wilhelm during the first imperialist war was also considered an invincible army, but she has several times tolerated defeats from Russian and the Anglofranzian troops and, finally, was divided by the Anglo-French troops. The same must be said about the current German fascist army of Hitler. This army did not meet even serious resistance on the continent of Europe. Only in our territory she met serious resistance. And if, as a result of this resistance, the best divisions of the German-fascist army were broken by our Red Army, it means that the Hitler's fascist army can also be broken and will be divided, as Napoleon and Wilhelm's army were broken.

As for the fact that part of our territory was still captured by the German-fascist troops, then this is due mainly to the fact that the war of fascist Germany against the USSR began under favorable terms for German troops and unprofitable for Soviet troops. The fact is that German's troops as the country leading the war were already entirely unmobilized, and 170 divisions abandoned by Germany against the USSR and the USSR moved to the borders were in a state of complete readiness, expecting only a signal to perform, while Soviet troops needed More abused and move to the borders. There was a considerable importance here and the fact that fascist Germany unexpectedly violated the non-aggression pact, concluded in 1939 between it and the USSR, not believable with the fact that it will be recognized as the entire world of the striker. It is clear that our peace-loving country, not wanting to take the initiative of the violation of the Covenant, could not become a path of treachery.

May ask: how could it happen that the Soviet government went to conclude the Covenant on nonsense with such treacherous people and monsters like Hitler and Ribbentrop? Wasn't it allowed here from the Soviet government a mistake? Of course not! The nonsense pact is a pact of the world between the two states. It was such a pact that suggested us Germany in 1939. Could the Soviet government abandon such a sentence? I think that no peace-loving state can refuse a peace agreement with a neighboring power, if even such monsters and cannibals, like Hitler and Ribbentrop, are standing at the head of this power. And this, of course, under one indispensable condition - if the peace agreement does not hurt either directly nor indirectly territorial integrity, independence and honor of a peace-loving state. As is known, the nonsense pact between Germany and the USSR is precisely such a package.

What did we win by concluding a nonsense pact with Germany? We have provided our country world for one and a half years and the possibility of preparing their forces to unscrew if the fascist Germany would risk attack our country against the Covenant. This is a certain win for us and loss for fascist Germany.

What did you win and what did the fascist Germany lose, trusting the pact and committing an attack on the USSR? She achieved this some winning position for his troops for a short term, but she lost politically by exposing himself in the eyes of the whole world as a bloody aggressor. There can be no doubt that this short military gain for Germany is only an episode, and a huge political win for the USSR is a serious and long-term factor, on the basis of which the decisive military successes of the Red Army in the War with Fascist Germany<...>

What is required in order to eliminate the danger that hurt over our homeland, and what measures do you need to take to defeat the enemy?

First of all, it is necessary that our people, Soviet people understand the whole depth of danger, which threatens our country, and renounced the complaunt, from carelessness, on the sentiment of peaceful construction, quite understandable in pre-war time, but the pernicious currently when the war radically changed the war position<...> The case goes, so about life and death Of the Soviet state, about the life and death of the peoples of the USSR, about being to the peoples of the Soviet Union free or fall into enslavement. It is necessary that Soviet people understand this and stop being carefree so that they mobilize themselves and rebuilt all their work on a new, military manner who does not know the merger of the enemy.

It is necessary, further, so that in our ranks there was no place to nodes and shorts, panicers and deserters, so that our people do not know fear in the struggle and selflessly went to our domestic liberation war against fascist enslavers. Great Lenin, who created our state, said that the main quality of Soviet people should be courage, courage, ignorance of fear in the struggle, willingness to beat along with the people against the enemies of our Motherland. It is necessary that this magnificent quality of the Bolshevik becomes the property of millions and millions of the Red Army, our Red Fleet and all the peoples of the Soviet Union.<...>

Red Army, Red Fleet and All Citizens of the Soviet Union must defend each Soviet Earth's brand, fight the last drop of blood for our cities and villages, show courage, initiative peculiar to our people<...>

With a forced waste of parts of the Red Army, it is necessary to invade the entire mobile railway composition, not to leave the enemy of a single steam locomotive, not a single car, not to leave the enemy or a kilogram of bread, nor a liter of fuel. The collective farmers must treat all cattle, to pass under the preservation of government agencies to remove it into the rear districts. All valuable property, including non-ferrous metals, bread and fuel, which cannot be exported, should definitely be destroyed.

In busy, the enemy areas need to create partisan detachments, horse and hiking, create sabotage groups to combat parts of the enemy army, to incite the partisan war everywhere and everywhere, for explosion of bridges, roads, spoons of telephone and telegraph communications, fabrics, warehouses, warehouses. In the captured areas, create unbearable conditions for the enemy and all of his accomplices, pursue and destroy them at every step, disrupt all their events.

The war with fascist Germany cannot be considered the usual war. She is not only a war between the two armies. It is at the same time the war of the entire Soviet people against the German fascist troops. The purpose of this National Patriotic War against the fascist oppressors is not only the elimination of the danger, which hung over our country, but also assistance to all the peoples of Europe, moaning under the IGAR of the German fascism. In this liberation war, we will not be alone. In this great war, we will have faithful allies represented by the peoples of Europe and America, including in the face of the German people, enslaved by Hitler's refrains. Our war for freedom of our Fatherland merges with the struggle of the peoples of Europe and America for their independence, for democratic freedoms. It will be a single front of the peoples behind the freedom to enslavement and the threat of enslavement by the Nazi Army Hitler. In this regard, the historical performance of the Prime Minister of Great Britain Churchill about the help of the Soviet Union and the US Government Declaration on the willingness to assist our country, which can only cause gratitude in the hearts of the Peoples of the Soviet Union, are quite understandable and indicative.

Comrades! Our forces are innumerable. The coming enemy will have to make sure of this soon. Together with the Red Army, many thousands of workers, collective farmers rose, the intelligentsia to the war with the attacked enemy. Million masses of our people will rise. Workers of Moscow and Leningrad have already begun to create a crowded folk militia to support the Red Army. In each city, which is threatened by the danger of the invasion of the enemy, we must create such a national militia, raise all the workers to the struggle, in order to protect their freedom to their chest, their honor, their homeland in our Patriotic War with German fascism.

In order to quickly mobilize all the forces of the Peoples of the USSR, the State Defense Committee has been created treated at our homeland, a state defense committee has been created in the hands of which the entire fullness of power in the state is now concentrated. The State Committee of Defense has begun to work and calls on all the people to rally around Lenin-Stalin's party, around the Soviet government for selfless support for the Red Army and Red Fleet, to defeat the enemy, for victory.

All our forces are to support our heroic red army, our glorious Red Fleet!

All the forces of the people - in the defeat of the enemy!

Forward, for our victory!

Chronicle of events in Leningrad

Some areas of the Leningrad region [then the territory of the current Novgorod and Pskov regions was included in the Lenignan region - approx. The author] began to be called front-line. At the bush meetings of the Secretarians of the Rural Party, convened on July 3, the regional parties were indicated: in case of an enemy, fighter battalions and detachments remain in place and fight against the enemy rear.

Raykomy immediately started organizing forest bases, preparation of caches with food and clothing. More than four thousand rifles and explosives have been issued under threat of enemy invasion.

Leningrad becomes more and more like a frontal city. Enrolled in the 1st Volunteer Division received an order to appear in the barracks. The barracks were some school buildings and premises of those who fledged institutions of the Kirov district. The division headquarters is located in the Gorky Culture Palace.

The militia receive grenades and cartridges. Rifles at all are not enough. There is a lack of experienced commanders. Of the 1824 commanders of all degrees in the division of the Kirov district, there are only 10 personnel military.

Memories of David Josefovich Ortenberg, responsible editor of the newspaper "Red Star"

On the eve of late in the evening I called the secretary of the Central Committee of the party A.S. Shcherbakov.

- How's the newspaper?

- End. Soon the band will go under the press, "I reported cheerfully.

- Delay the first strip. It will be important, material, - Alexander Sergeevich warned.

It happened often. These are now central newspapers, as a rule, are printed from the evening to quickly sleep to readers. And in wartime, the rotary machines were completely launched in the morning.

This explained by many reasons. One of the mains was that Stalin worked almost all night and the General Staff, the Machinery of the Central Committee of the Party, TASS, Sovinformbüro, and, consequently, adapted to this routine. Late came and reports from the fronts.

Tell us someone then about today's schedule of newspaper, we probably would consider it fantastics. It is not for nothing that the editorial pains saved the anecdote about a certain newspaper "Terek", which allegedly not only was done in the older times, but y spread a day ahead. The boys who sold this newspaper were called as if on the streets with a cry:

- "Terek" for tomorrow! .. Tomorrow news! ..

But jokes anecdotes, but the matter is. In anticipation of an important material, it was necessary to release a place for him on the first strip. And there he also stood an important. In any case, it is that I did not want to postpone the following newspaper numbers. So, an inevitable flutter and other bands.

I especially wanted to keep in the room a message from the Leningrad Front about the air taranas fighter pilots and Kharitonov. Skobarichin and Mashlin were famous for the Khalhin-goal, boldly the tails of Japanese bomber tails swooping their cars. We wrote a lot about them in the "Heroic Krasnoarmeyskaya". And now the younger lieutenants of healthy and haryton distinguished themselves. I wanted their names to thunder on all fronts, throughout the country.

Nail numbers I considered the essay on Lieutenant Victor Zhigya, who took three columns under the heading "Heroes of the Patriotic War." With this heading, we, too, continued the traditions of the "heroic Krasnoarmeyskaya". There she was called: "Heroes of Halhin-goal."

On the immense front from the Barents to the Black Sea every hour, dozens, hundreds and thousands of heroic exploits were performed every minute. It would seem that it is easier to lead the section "Heroes of the Patriotic War." But in reality it was not easy. Try to get to the hero, if he has not yet come out of the battle, and if it is wounded and evacuated in a deep rear? And another and head folded ...

I have already mentioned that we did not immediately let go to the current army Ilyenkov. I then said that there is an important thing for him in the editors. And meant just this section - "Heroes of the Patriotic War"; Similar category Vasily Pavlovich led in the "heroic campaign" in the winter of 1939-1940.

I went somehow Ilenkov to the editorial secretariat, I saw how there were tormented over headlines for essays about the heroes, and expressed the right idea:

- Do not wise. You just need to make the name of the hero in the title. In every feat, the main thing is a person. And let everyone remember his name ...

So since then. First of all, the essays of Ilyenkov himself were printed with such headlines: "Fighter-fighter fighter", "Battalion Commissioner of Staples", "Artillerist Evgeny Zolyavin".

In the heading "Heroes of the Patriotic War" invested their work, their soul and many other redheads. Materials published under this heading, as a rule, belonged to Peru writers than, probably, the sustainable sympathies of our newspaper readers were determined. Of course, not everyone has answered high criteria, other essays were too informative, they liked more on extended correspondence - newspaper hurry affected. But they played their role, glorifying the courage and the valor of the front-line.

Writers then worked not to a remote future, but on the need for a day, for combat. Nevertheless, much has increased the time check. In the essays printed "red star", we can say, from the fire of fighting, you can find and subtly written landscape, and battle scenes, and the characters of people, colorful speech. Such works entered later in the books.

Transrest and signing three bands of the newspaper, I phoned with Peter Pospelovy and Lvov Rovinsky - editors of the Truth and Izvestia, asked if they did not know what an important material for which the first strip was reserved. No, they knew no more than me.

It was possible only to assume that the performance of Stalin was possible. That was waiting for everything from the first days of the war and wondered why such a performance was postponed.

I went to the Glavfurn and confirmed a gueside. It was necessary to immediately return to the editor. There will be responses. Usually journalists were collected. But the journalists remained small in the editorial - almost all on the fronts. Writers helped. Ilya Ehrenburg, Lion Slavin, Vasily Ilenenkov, Boris Galin, Semyon Kirsanov, Nikolai Bogdanov, Semyon Tregubs rushed to the near Moscow airfields, on the fire positions of the Zenitchikov, who covered the capital, to the spare shelves, for calling points, in hospitals.

I wanted to send to the telegram to front-line correspondents - to connect them to the urgent business. Conducted several options for such telegrams with foggy hints. However, the events did not decide. It was hoping that experienced journalists themselves advocate about responses in a timely manner.

Night on the outcome - soon 5 o'clock in the morning, and nothing is still not. Is it not postponed by the expected performance of Stalin? I called the director TASS Ya.S. Havinson. He schitril: did not say "yes" nor "no". Wait, they say.

Stalin spoke at 6 am 30 minutes. More than once I listened to his speeches and on the radio, and at meetings in the Kremlin. But none excited me as it. Already the first Stalinist words literally pierced the soul: "Comrades! Citizens! Brothers and sisters! Fighters of our army and fleet! I appeal to you, my friends! .. "

He himself was noticeably worried about why Georgian accent was clearly heard, more often and more than ever, there were pauses.

Gorky truth sounded in his words. He answered very frankly on burning issues, who worried our whole people then.

Of course, later, a decade after the war, a lot was revealed deeper, our mistakes, miscalculations and the first military failures are explained more. But the fact that we heard then from Stalin, shed a clear light on what happened and what was happening, and most importantly - strengthened from Soviet people a sense of optimism, faith in their own strength.

An hour later we received the text of Stalin's speech. At about nine in the morning, the rotation threw the first thousand copies of the "Red Star" with this very important document.

Morning message July 3

During the night, on July 3, fierce battles of our troops were continued with motor-mechanized opponents in the Borisov direction and in the Kremenets region, Zbarazh, Tarnopol. At the rest of the front, there were night searches for scouts and battles of local importance.

On the Borisov direction, the advanced parts of the enemy were repeatedly tried to cross the river. Berezina. However, these attempts were extended by the actions of our troops.

After the battle in the Lutsk direction, as a result of which our troops stopped the promotion of a major motomet of the enemy on Shepetovka and caused them a big damage, some of this grouping of the enemy tried to break through in the southern direction to Tarnopol. All night our troops stubborn battles restrained the promotion of this grouping of the enemy's troops. Fights continue.

Our aviation in air battles during July 2 destroyed 61 opponent's aircraft, losing 28 aircraft.

Today, at six o'clock thirty minutes, the Chairman of the State Committee for Defense I. V. Stalin, who called on the peoples of the Soviet Union, our Valiant Red Army and the Navy, our Sokolov pilots to the dedicated domestic liberation war against fascist enslavers, to complete defeat Enemy, to victory.

The call of the leader of the peoples of Comrade Stalin caused the greatest rise among the workers, the peasants, the intelligentsia, an unprecedented inspiration and the will to victory over the German-fascist hordes - over the people, insidious and cruel enemies of our Motherland and all advanced humanity. In cities, factories, railways, in Soviet institutions with enthusiasm picked up the call of the leader.

Workers and employees of the Moscow Factory "Red Defense" at the rally dedicated to the speech by the Chairman of the State Committee of the Defense Comrade Stalin, declared his full prepaid for breasts to defend their homeland. "We, women," said Tov. Grishakina, - We will replace our fathers, husbands, sons in the work front, give all our strength to the defense of the Fatherland from the fascist hordes. We are confident by the victory over a cunning enemy. "

Mintings and collections of workers pass in Leningrad, Kiev, Kharkov, Rostov-on-Don, Sverdlovsk and hundreds of other cities and regions of the country.

In Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, many tens of thousands of workers are recorded by volunteers to the national militia to support the Red Army.

Expressing the thoughts and feelings of all Soviet people, the mechanic of one of the Moscow factories. Muravchev stated in his speech at the rally: "The Great Stalin calls on the Soviet people to fight against bloody fascism. No and there can be no such citizen in our country, who would not answer the call of the leader. All our people rose to apply a fatal strike on the enemy, united in an uncomply and mighty force around the Soviet government, around the native Bolshevik party and the beloved leader of our comrade Stalin. "

Soviet troops with great resistance and courage are fighting for freedom and honor of our Motherland. Red warriors are struggling to the last drop of blood for the right thing, for the Soviet power, for the vital interests of all progressive humanity.

Many newspapers of England, USA, Turkey, Sweden, Japan and other countries are written about the exclusive heroism of the Red Warriors: "Fights on the Eastern Front are extremely fierce. Red soldiers defend with exceptional perseverance, courage and courage. Fights in the East are even more fierced than last year's battles in the west against the French and the British. " "The Soviet soldier has exceptional battle qualities. He stubbornly fights to the last cartridge. OP is able to quickly build trenches or disguised posts on any earth. "

The bravery and dedication of the fighters of the Red Army were demonstrated in front of the world in the first days of the fight against fascist invaders. The fighters of the Red Army courageously defend each span of Soviet land, heroically fight for Soviet cities and villages, showing courage, initiative and a mustle, peculiar to the Great Soviet people.

Eleven fascist aircraft took the course at the airfield, where the division of senior lieutenant Starikov was located. Four Soviet fighters instantly rose into the air. Pilot cars Ivanova and Filimonov rushed to the middle of enemy aircraft. A few minutes later, one German fighter burned on Earth. The rest, without taking the battle, turned back, rarely dropped bombs. From the fragments of one of the bombs, the Soviet bomber cooked for departure was caught. The slightest delay could lead to an explosion of a bomb load. Voinchnik 1st Rang Leutin, Senior Lieutenant Tatarchuk and Politruk Makeev with a danger to life instantly hung the fire and prevented the danger of explosion of the aircraft.

The enemy tank group with the support of aviation and artillery forced the N River and went to the attack on our artillery division. The commander of the division Captain Sinyavsky ordered the direct vendor to shoot enemy tanks. The artillery officers destroyed 37 tanks.

Fascist troops seek to throw small parachuterates to our rear for sabotage purposes, which are systematically destroyed by our parts and fighter battalions.

In the area N. Observers reported to the captain Andreev about the appearance of aircraft. The captain recognized the enemy transport aircraft. After 10 minutes, the Red Army was surrounded by a plot, where, by the assumption of the captain, German parachutes could land. Soon 80 parachutists headed by an officer were captured.

The workers of the Moscow Plant named after Lepse announced the Stakhanov Watch until the final defeat of the fascist hordes.

Moscow enterprises are widely deploying movement for the combination of professions. Workers and workers seize the second specialty to replace the comrades who have left Pa Front. Dozens of workers of the Moskabel plant without separation from the main work learn a locksmith; Working TT. Sorrow, Makarov and others work simultaneously with turner and milloverr. At the factory named after Malenkova, women who serve in the evenings learn to work on machines.

Evening message July 3

During July 3, our troops led fierce battles at Dvinsky, Minsk and Tarnopol directions against large motor-mechanized, parts of the enemy.

Everywhere, the enemy meets the resistance of our troops, destructive fire of artillery and crushing blows of Soviet aviation.

On the battlefield there are thousands of German corpses, flaming tanks and knocked out opponent aircraft.

On the Dvina direction, large battles at the turn took place during the day at the turn. Zap. Dvina, especially persistent and fierce in the areas of Jacobstadt and Dvinsk.

Only after the enemy led the fresh reserves, he managed to cross the north bank. Zap. Dvina at Jacobstadt and Dvinsk, where fierce battles again flared.

On the Minsk direction the enemy as a result of the resistance of our troops, significant losses endured.

The enemy does not endure bayonets of our troops.

During the day there were stubborn battles on the river. Berezina, where our troops with joint blows of infantry, tanks, artillery and aviation cause a significant defeat.

The battles have established that the enemy tanks avoid combat clashes with our heavy and medium tanks, and where our fighters appear, the domination in the air quickly moves to them.

Our aircraft drove strikes through the motor-mechanized parts of the enemy on the recharges through Zap. Dvina on Bobruisk and Tarnopol directions.

The results of air bonds are specified.

Speech on the Radio Chairman of the State Committee of Defense I. V. Stalin caused a new raising of nationwide patriotism. All over the country - from Tallinn to Vladivostok - many years have passed from Tallinn to Vladivostok. Millions of fiery Soviet patriots, inspired by the speech of Comrade Stalin, are determined to defend each Soviet Earth's span and fight the last drop of blood for our cities and villages, fighting selflessly and mercilessly to the complete defeat and destroy the fascist barbarians.

Workers, peasants, intellectuals are served tens of thousands of statements with a request to send to the ranks of the acting Red Army or enroll in the national militia. Speaking at the rally of workers and employees of the "Red Bogatyr" plant, the old personnel of Claudia Ivanovna Gureesva simple words Expressed the general opinion of the Redobogaturs: "My husband is a participant in the battle with Belofinnam. Now he hits fascist dogs on the front. I will give all strength to produce, work without donating hands on defense. But I am always ready to take a rifle, grenade and beat the enemy to full destruction. " Participants in the multi-thousand rally of workers and employees of the Tashkent Textile Combine solemnly swore sacred to fulfill all the instructions of the Comrade Stalin, selflessly be disciplined to work in production.

The speech of the leader caused a new approach of Soviet patriotism in collective farms and state farms of the country. The collective farmers and the collective farmers of the Yaroslavl region organize the calls with vegetables with dairy products. The collective farmers of the Pervomaisky district delivered to the batch point of about 30 litter of flax from their stocks. Many collective farms of Poshekhono-Volodar, Uglich, Nerekhtsky and other regions ahead of schedule performed the annual supply plan for milk and meat. The collective farmers of the Irkutsk region unanimously make decisions on early fulfillment of all obligations to the state. Many collective farms decided to immediately start passing bread to the state in the account of the supply of 1941 from last year's reserves. Collective farm them. Voroshilova has already passed the state of 6.000 pudders of bread, the collective farm "Giant" - 4.500 pounds.

Millions of Soviet patriots at the front and in the rear are ready to defend their homeland, their honor and freedom to the last drop of blood and help the Red Army ridge the enemy.

The bombers of the part, which commands the Colonel Efimov, headed to the enemy's territory. Lead navigator Senior Lieutenant Suslov brought air ships accurately to the target. Rightly emerging from the clouds, the aircraft attacked the enemy airfield. No plane of the enemy had time to climb into the air. After the bombardment of the airfield, the link turned around and flew on, deep into the enemy territory, for exploration of new military facilities. Soon the observer noticed the opponent's autocolonna. The enemy re-crushed reinforcements and ammunition. The link of the aircraft rushed to the enemy. The autocolonna was scattered and partially destroyed. All aircraft returned to their base.

In the deep rear of the enemy every day the facts of sabotage are rapidly. At the Skoda factories, many artillery guns were recently ruled. In the Netherlands, a new German chemical plant, originated by Dutch patriots, was completely destroyed. In Norway, 11 cars with military loads of the Germans blown up. Polish residents, hiding in roadside forests, shots from guns break through holes in tanks, in which oil is transported from Romania to Germany.

Began reports on the actions of partisan detachments in the Soviet districts captured by the enemy. Here is one of such facts. According to the narrow-chain branch towards the front, the composition with ammunition for the German artillery was promoted. On the way of promoting the composition of the protection, he noticed thick smoke, and then the flame that raged on both sides of the railway canvase. Wanting to smoke a dangerous zone on a complete move, the driver developed a greater speed. Manovr failed: in the very center of the forest fire, the path turned out to be littered by burning trees. When the train guard began to scatter the barrier, shots from shotguns and a manual machine gun came on the way. The bold attack of the partisan was crowned with complete success: the train with ammunition exploded; The team accompanied cars is destroyed. Partisans - brave Soviet patriots - managed to hide in time.

The fascist references of the city of Lahti in Finland announced that they would pay the pilots a thousand Finnish brands for each shot down Soviet aircraft. Judging by the latest reports from the front, the Finnish pilots do not burden the cass of the municipality of the city of Lahti. This, apparently, was calculated for the "generous" municipality: the patriotic gesture was made without any money risk.

Shine lies of the German military reports now became well-known. So, for example, a military browser of the American newspaper "Post Meridim" declares in one of his recent articles: "The German Information Bureau deserves a glory that it is moving into three races faster than German troops. Last autumn, this agency shot down English aircraft three times more than the number that the British had. Another famous American newspaper "Chrischen Sayens Monitor" rightly notes: "German radio communications are intended to confuse world public opinion."

I can not pass by the disgrace. So I want to take part!

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About Stalin's speech. The name "Brothers and sisters ..."
We very often accuse him of a disastrous delay in the first days of the war. Although at that time, little could be done without accurately known from the places, especially since there were quite responsible persons. We had to respond to the debt on the instructions. And such instructions could not be. Shaposhnikov was an experienced military. In the absence of "red envelopes" in the safes of local authorities. I do not believe party and CC.
So here. Could this be delayed to be caused by the preparation of this speech itself?
About Stalin is not accepted to speak well, nevertheless, no dog has gone out about that. Who was the author of the text itself. Not a secret. With almost all political leaders. The period. With the exception of the Bolsheviks and, perhaps, Cherchil, their speeches wrote special people. If there was no suspicion to all all the ears about the intellectual insolvency of the leader. However, this is not.
Those. Suddenly, after ten days, a panic from nowhere appears a speech stunned the whole country. Speech, which has become a large program document.
This is strange. It's impossible.
However, for a person whose library consisted of 20 thousand volumes of which 6 thousand had his personal marks such a completely possible. And logical.
Think. Choose questions to which you want to answer. Justify your answer. Enable instructions for practical actions. Refire a performance. And all this was done by one person, not a group of psychologists, analysts, consultants.
Serious job.
Decent admiration.
At the same time, one should not forget about the colossal psychological pressure, which could not have an environment and general psychological situation in the country. Shock and panic that swept the country's top, and most of the population. Fear of late.
I give this document, in many respects determined the course of events.
Second question. Why did she enter the title of the name brothers and sisters?

vivovoco.rsl.ru/vv/rare/ogonyok/stalin.htm.
Speech on radio

Chairman of the State Defense Committee

I.V. Stalin

Comrades! Citizens! Brothers and sisters! Fighters of our army and fleet!

I appeal to you, my friends!

The treacherous military attack of Hitler's Germany on our homeland, started on June 22, continues. Despite the heroic resistance of the Red Army, despite the fact that the best divisions of the enemy and the best parts of his aviation are already broken and found their grave on the battlefields, the enemy continues to climb ahead, throwing new forces to the front. Hitler's troops managed to capture Lithuania, a significant part of Latvia, the western part of Belarus, part of Western Ukraine. Fascist aviation expands the districts of its bombers, exposing bombardments Murmansk, Orsha, Mogilev, Smolensk, Kiev, Odessa, Sevastopol. Over our homeland hung a serious danger.

How could this happen that our glorious Red Army passed the fascist troops a number of our cities and districts? Is the German-fascist troops really are invincible troops, how are they tirelessly fascist brandy propagandists about it?

Of course not! History shows that there is no invincible armies and did not happen. Napoleon's army was considered invincible, but it was divided alternately by Russians, English, German troops. The German Army of Wilhelm during the first imperialist war was also considered an invincible army, but she has several times tolerated defeats from Russian and English troops and, finally, was divided by the Anglo-French troops. The same must be said about the current German fascist army of Hitler. This army did not meet even serious resistance on the continent of Europe. Only in our territory she met serious resistance. And if, as a result, the best divisions of the German fascist army were the best divisions of the German-fascist army, it means that the Hitler's fascist army can also be broken and will be divided, as Napoleon and Wilhelm's army were broken.

As for the fact that part of our territory was still captured by the German-fascist troops, then this is due mainly to the fact that the war of fascist Germany against the USSR began under favorable terms for German troops and unprofitable for Soviet troops. The fact is that the troops of Germany, as the country leading, were already fully abused, and 170 divisions abandoned by Germany against the USSR and moved to the borders of the USSR were in a state of complete readiness, expecting only a signal to perform, while Soviet troops need It was still mobilized and moved to the borders. There was a considerable importance here and the fact that fascist Germany unexpectedly and treacherously violated the non-aggression pact, concluded in 1939 between it and the USSR, not believable with the fact that it will be recognized by the entire world of the striker. It is clear that our peace-loving country, not wanting to take the initiative of the violation of the Covenant, could not become a path of treachery.

May ask: how could it happen that the Soviet government went to conclude a non-aggression Covenant with such treacherous people and monsters like Hitler and Ribentrop? Wasn't it allowed here from the Soviet government a mistake? Of course not! The nonsense pact is a pact of the world between the two states. It was such a pact that suggested us Germany in 1939. Could the Soviet government abandon such a sentence? I think that no peace-loving state can refuse a peace agreement with a neighboring power, if even such monsters and cannibals are standing at the head of this power, such as Hitler and Ribentrop. And this, of course, under one indispensable condition - if the peace agreement does not hurt either directly nor indirectly territorial integrity, independence and honor of a peace-loving state. As is known, the nonsense pact between Germany and the USSR is precisely such a package.

What did we win by concluding a nonsense pact with Germany? We have provided our country world for one and a half years and the possibility of preparing their forces to unscrew if the fascist Germany would risk attack our country against the Covenant. This is a certain win for us and loss for fascist Germany.

What did you win and what did the fascist Germany lose, trusting the pact and committing an attack on the USSR? She achieved this some winning position for his troops for a short term, but she lost politically by exposing himself in the eyes of the whole world, like a bloody aggressor. There can be no doubt that this short military gain for Germany is only an episode, and the huge political gain for the USSR is a serious and long-term factor, on the basis of which the decisive military successes of the Red Army in the war with fascist Germany should be deployed.

That is why our entire valiant army, the whole of our valiant naval fleet, all our falcon pilots, all the peoples of our country, all the best people in Europe, America and Asia, finally, all the best people in Germany - branded the treacherous actions of the German fascists and sympathetically belong To the Soviet government, approve the behavior of the Soviet government and see that our business is right that the enemy will be divided that we must win.

By virtue of the war imposed to us, our country entered into a mortal fight with his worst and cunning enemy - German fascism. Our troops are heroically fought with the enemy, armed with teeth with tanks and aviation. The Red Army and the Red Fleet, overcoming numerous difficulties, are selflessly fighting for each Soviet land's span. The main forces of the Red Army, armed with thousands of tanks and aircraft enter the battle. The courage of the soldiers of the Red Army is unparalleled. Our opposite enemy is growing and grows. Together with the Red Army, the entire Soviet people rises to the defense of the Motherland.

What is required in order to eliminate the danger that hurt over our homeland, and what measures do you need to take to defeat the enemy?

First of all, it is necessary that our people, Soviet people understand the whole depth of danger, which threatens our country, and renounced the complaunt, from carelessness, on the sentiment of peaceful construction, quite understandable in pre-war time, but the pernicious currently when the war radically changed the war position. The enemy is cruel and inexorable. He aims to capture our lands. Polished our later, the capture of our bread and our oil mined by our work. He aims to restore the authorities of the landowners, restoring tsarism, the destruction of national culture and national statehood of Russian, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Moldovan, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis and other free peoples of the Soviet Union, their numbness, Their transformation into slaves of German princes and barons. The case goes, therefore, about the life and death of the Soviet state, about the life of the death of the peoples of the USSR, about being to be the peoples of the Soviet Union free, or fall into enslavement. It is necessary that Soviet people understand this and stop being carefree so that they mobilize themselves and rebuilt all their work on a new, military manner who does not know the merger of the enemy.

It is necessary, further, so that in our ranks there was no place for nods and shorts, panicers and deserters so that our people do not know fear in the fight and selflessly went to our domestic liberation war against fascist enslavers. Great Lenin, who created our state, said that the main quality of Soviet people should be courage, courage, ignorance of fear in the struggle, willingness to beat along with the people against the enemies of our Motherland. It is necessary that this magnificent quality of the Bolshevik becomes the property of millions and millions of the Red Army, our Red Fleet and all the peoples of the Soviet Union.

We must immediately rebuild our whole work on a military way, all subordinate to the interests of the front and the tasks of organizing the defeat of the enemy. The peoples of the Soviet Union are now seeing that the German fascism will be unproduced in his mad malice and hatred towards our homeland, which provided all workers free work and well-being. The peoples of the Soviet Union should rise to protect their rights, their land against the enemy.

The Red Army, the Red Fleet and all citizens of the Soviet Union should defend each Soviet Land of Soviet Earth, fighting the last drop of blood for our cities and villages, to show courage, initiative and a surge characteristic of our people.

We must organize the comprehensive assistance to the Red Army, to ensure the reinforced replenishment of its ranks, to ensure its supply to everything necessary, to organize rapid promotion of transports with troops and military loads, widespread help.

We must strengthen the rear of the Red Army, subordinating the interests of this case all their work, to ensure the reinforced work of all enterprises, produce more rifles, machine guns, tools, cartridges, shells, aircraft, organize the protection of factories, power plants, telephone and telegraph communications, to establish local air defense .

We must organize a merciless struggle with all sorts of rear disorganizers, deserters, panickers, rumors spreaders, destroy spies, saboteurs, enemy parachutists, providing quickly promoting our fighter battalions. It should be borne in mind that the enemy of Couples, the Chiter, is experienced in the deception and spread of false rumors. You need to take into account all this and do not succumb to provocations. It is necessary to immediately betray the court of the military tribunal of all those who prevent their panicity and cowardice to the cause of defense, without looking at the face.

With a forced waste of parts of the Red Army, it is necessary to invade the entire mobile railway composition, not to leave the enemy of a single steam locomotive, not a single car, not to leave the enemy or a kilogram of bread, nor a liter of fuel. The collective farmers must treat all cattle, to pass under the preservation of government agencies to remove it into the rear districts. All valuable property, including non-ferrous metals, bread and fuel, which can not be exported, must be unconditionally destroyed.

In busy, the enemy areas need to create partisan detachments, horse and hiking, create sabotage groups to combat parts of the enemy army, to incite the partisan war everywhere and everywhere, for explosion of bridges, roads, spoons of telephone and telegraph communications, fabrics, warehouses, warehouses. In the captured areas, create unbearable conditions for the enemy and all of his accomplices, pursue and destroy them at every step, disrupt all their events.

The war with fascist Germany cannot be considered the usual war. She is not only a war between the two armies. It is at the same time with the great war of the entire Soviet people against the German fascist troops. The purpose of this National Patriotic War against the fascist oppressors is not only the elimination of the danger, which hung over our country, but also assistance to all the peoples of Europe, moaning under the IGAR of the German fascism. In this liberation war, we will not be alone. In this great war, we will have faithful allies represented by the peoples of Europe and America, including in the face of the German people, enslaved by Hitler's refrains. Our war for freedom of our Fatherland merges with the struggle of the peoples of Europe and America for their independence, for democratic freedoms. It will be a single front of the peoples behind the freedom to enslavement and the threat of enslavement by the Nazi Army Hitler. In this regard, the historical performance of the Prime Minister of Great Britain Churchill on the help of the Soviet Union and the US Government Declaration on readiness to assist our country, which can only cause gratitude in the hearts of the Peoples of the Soviet Union, are quite understandable and indicative.

Comrades! Our forces are innumerable. The coming enemy will have to make sure of this soon. Together with the Red Army, many thousands of workers, collective farmers rose, the intelligentsia to the war with the attacked enemy. Million masses of our people will rise. Workers of Moscow and Leningrad have already begun to create a crowded folk militia to support the Red Army. In every city, which is threatened by the danger of the invasion of the enemy, we must create such a national militia, raise all workers to the struggle, in order to protect their freedom to their chest, their homeland in our Patriotic War with German fascism.

In order to quickly mobilize all the forces of the Peoples of the USSR, to repel the enemy, treacherously attacked our homeland, the State Defense Committee was created, in the hands of which the entire fullness of power in the state is now concentrated. The State Defense Committee has begun to work and calls on all the people to rally around Lenin - Stalin's party, around the Soviet government for selfless support for the Red Army and the Red Fleet, to defeat the enemy, for victory.

All our forces are to support our heroic red army, our glorious Red Fleet!

All the forces of the people - in the defeat of the enemy!

Forward, for our victory!

Joseph Stalin

Brothers and sisters! I appeal to you, my friends. About first person war

Summary of the General Command

Red Army for 22.VI. 1941.

With a dawn on June 22, 1941, regular troops of the German army attacked our border parts at the front from the Baltic to the Black Sea and drove on them during the first half of the day. In the afternoon, German troops met with the advanced parts of the field troops of the Red Army. After the fierce battles, the enemy was removed with big losses. Only in the Grodno and Krysto-Polish directions, the enemy managed to achieve minor tactical success and take the town of Calvaria, standing and Ceghanovets (the first two 15 km and the last 10 km from the border).

Aviation of the enemy attacked a number of our airfields and settlements, but everywhere I met a decisive rebuff of our fighters and anti-aircraft artillery, who caused the big losses to the enemy. We are shot down 65 opponent aircraft.

Speech by radio V. M. Molotova

Citizens and Citizens of the Soviet Union!

Soviet government and his head of com. Stalin instructed me to make the following statement:

Today, at 4 o'clock in the morning, without the presentation of any claims to the Soviet Union, without declaring the war, German troops attacked our country, attacked our borders in many places and subjected to bombing from their aircraft. Our cities - Zhytomyr, Kiev, Sevastopol, Kaunas And some others, more than two hundred people were killed and injured. The raids of enemy aircraft and the artillery shelling were also committed from the Romanian and Finnish territory.

This unprecedented attack on our country is unparalleled in the history of civilized peoples of treachery. The attack on our country was made, despite the fact that between the USSR and Germany, the non-aggression agreement was concluded and the Soviet government and the Soviet government fulfilled all the conditions of this contract. The attack on our country was committed, despite the fact that in all the time the actions of this contract, the German government never could have submitted any claim to the USSR to fulfill the contract. All responsibility for this robber attack on the Soviet Union entirely falls on the German fascist rulers.

Already after the attack, the German ambassador in Moscow, Schulenburg, at 5:30 minutes after 30 minutes, made me how the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, a statement on behalf of his Government that the German government decided to speak with the War against the USSR in connection with the concentration of the units of the Red Army in Eastern German border.

In response to this, I was stated on behalf of the Soviet government that until the last minute the German government did not make any complaints about the Soviet government that Germany attacked the USSR, despite the peace-loving position of the Soviet Union, and thereby fascist Germany is an attacker.

On behalf of the Government of the Soviet Union, I should also state that in any paragraph our troops and our aviation did not allow the border violations and therefore the statement made by the Romanian Radio statement made this morning, which allegedly Soviet aviation fired Romanian airfields, is a solid lies and provocation. The entire lies and provocation is the entire Guitler Declaration, trying to compare the accusing material about non-compliance with the Soviet Union of the Soviet-German Covenant with the Soviet Union.

Now that the attack on the Soviet Union has already happened, the Soviet government is given to our troops order - to beat off the robbery attack and expel the German troops from our homeland.

This war is imposed on us by the German people, not German workers, peasants and intelligentsia, the suffering of which we understand well, but by clicking the bloodthirsty fascist rulers of Germany, enslaved French, Chekhov, Polyakov, Serbs, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Greece and other nations .

The Government of the Soviet Union expresses unshakable confidence that our valiant army and fleet and bold falcons of Soviet aviation will fulfill the debt to the homeland, before soviet peopleAnd the aggressor will be crushing.

Not the first time, our people have to deal with the attacking of the accusatory enemy. At one time, on the campaign of Napoleon to Russia, our people responded to the Patriotic War and Napoleon suffered a defeat, came to his collapse. The same will be with the accusatory Hitler, who announced a new campaign against our country. The Red Army and all of our people will again behave for a victorious Patriotic War for their homeland, for honor, for freedom.

The Government of the Soviet Union expresses firm confidence that the entire population of our country, all workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, men and women will take apprecatory consciousness to their duties, to their work. All our people now have to be cohesive and one, more than ever. Each of us must demand from themselves and from other disciplines, organizations, dedication worthy of this Soviet Patriot to ensure all the needs of the Red Army, Fleet and Aviation to provide victory over the enemy.

The government encourages you, citizens and citizens of the Soviet Union, even more closely to rally their ranks around our glorious Bolshevik party, around our Soviet government, around our great leader Tov. Stalin.

Our business is right.

The enemy will be broken.

Victory will be ours.

Message of Soviet Informbüro

During the 24th of June, the enemy continued to develop an offensive in Shaulian, Kaunas, Grodno-Volkovysk, Kobrin, Vladimir-Volyn and Brodsky directions, meeting the stubborn resistance of the Red Army's troops.

All opponent's attacks on the Shaulian direction were repulsed with big losses for him. The counterdasters of our mechanized compounds on this direction are crushed by the tank parts of the enemy and completely destroyed the motor bottle.

HA Grodno-Volkovysk and Brest-Pin directions are fierce battles for Grodno, Kobrin, Vilna, Kaunas.

In the Brodsky direction, stubborn battles continue the fights of large tank compounds, during which the enemy applied severe defeat.

For the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of June, Soviet aviation lost 374 aircraft, baked, mainly at the airfields. Over the same period, Soviet aviation in the battles in the air shot down 161 German aircraft. In addition, according to approximate data, at least 220 aircraft destroyed at the opponent's airfields.

Evening message of the Soviet Informbureau

During the day July 1, our troops led stubborn battles in Murmansk, Kexgolm, Dvinsky, Minsk and Lutsk directions. In the rest of the directions and sections of the front, our troops kept the State Registration and led the fight against the enemy who tried to break it.

In the Murmansk direction, our troops of fierce battles are delayed promoting superior enemy forces.

At the Kexholm direction, the opponent in several places passed into the offensive and tried to go deep into our territory. The decisive confruders of our troops attack the enemy were repulsed with large losses for him.

At the Dvina direction, our parts are working hard fights with tanks and infant infantry, counteracting his attempts to break through to the river. Zap. Dvina.

On the Minsk direction there are fights with moving parts of the enemy. Our troops, widely applying barriers and confrudars, delay the promotion of the tank parts of the enemy and cause a significant defeat.

In Lutsk, our troops stopped the offensive of major opponents. In multi-day battles in this direction, the enemy suffered large losses in human composition and material part.

By carrying out a planned waste, according to order, our troops left Lviv.

After clarifying data on the actions of our aviation, it was found that on June 30, 56 German aircraft were shot down, of which 50 in air battles. Our losses are 17 airplanes.

Speech by I. V. Stalin on Radio

Comrades! Citizens!Brothers and sisters!Fighters of our army and fleet!

I appeal to you, my friends!

The treacherous military attack of Hitler's Germany on our homeland, started on June 22, continues. Despite the heroic resistance of the Red Army, despite the fact that the best divisions of the enemy and the best parts of his aviation are already broken and found themselves a grave on the battlefields, the enemy continues to climb forward, throwing new forces to the front. Hitler's troops managed to capture Lithuania, a significant part of Latvia, the western part of Belarus, part of Western Ukraine. Fascist aviation expands the districts of its bombers, exposing bombardments Murmansk, Orsha, Mogilev, Smolensk, Kiev, Odessa, Sevastopol. Over our homeland hung a serious danger.