in historical works about the Great Patriotic War, there are many pages that did not like to stop your reader's attention and hung the Order of the authors of "Memories and Reflections".Though it was something to think about, but somehow I did not want to remember.The reasons are clear - these pages are terrible and shameful.
One of these little-known story - the story of Vyazemskij "pot".Few people know how much worse it is than, for example, the battle on the Volga.
From any history textbook, even Soviet, it is known that the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad lost army of General Paulus, consisting of twenty-two divisions.So, the Red Army suffered losses of Vyazma somewhat larger.The environment has got grouping of three armies, the loss amounted to, according to conservative estimates, 380 000 people were killed, 600,000 Red Army soldiers were captured.The number of divisions, landed in Vyazemskij "pot" and ceased to exist as well 37. The nine armored brigades, one artillery regiment of thirty-reserve of the High Command destroyed completely.
But that's not all.Vyazemskaya disaster had its consequences: the destruction of such a large military group discovered by German troops on the direct road to Moscow, which had to quickly cover the militia forces and cadets, poorly trained and equally poorly armed.Almost all of them were killed, adding five-digit numbers in the piggy sad loss of our nation in the war.
Fights Vyazma began in October 1941.The fact that the German General Staff is planning a major offensive, the Soviet command to guess, but it is expected it between the 19th and 16th armies, which were concentrated power in the future trapped in Vyazemskij "pot".It was a mistake, hitting the enemy struck the south and north, from the cities and Roslavl Dukhovshchina, beating defensive positions of Soviet troops of the Western Front and surround them.As a result of classical ohvatnogo maneuver has a high concentration of troops on narrow sectors of the front, the Germans managed to break through the Soviet defenses stretched.
Marshal GKZhukov, commander of the Western Front from October 10, 1941, in his memoirs, represented Vyazemskij "pot" as not very significant episode of his heroic biography, pointing out that the encircled long shackled around her enemy troops.It really was.Lost supply, communications, and command of the Soviet divisions fought to the last.Only it lasted long, and soon the roads dust thousands of columns of prisoners.Their fate is not just sad, it is terrible.In the camps died from hunger, cold and disease, most of our soldiers and officers, and those who survived were stigmatized captivity, and for the most part after the war, he was captured again, this time to the Soviet.
Battle of Vyazma was seventy-two years ago, and the remains of thousands of soldiers who have defended our country, to this day lie in unknown graves of them ride cars, go to the people who do not know the truth.For a long time it was thought that it is better to forget.
Yes Vyazemskij "pot" was a disgrace, not only for the war, but not to the fallen heroes and not died in captivity he goes.They are in no way to blame and most of them honestly fulfilled their duty.Those who did not want to tell the truth about the war and forbade it to others, to know whose it is a shame.
To us living today, you need to remember their grandfathers and great-grandfathers who did not return from the war.
