At 3:30 on June 22, 1941, units of two Wehrmacht divisions with a total of 12 thousand people, with artillery support, attacked the Soviet part of Przemysl. However, in a very real sense, from the first minutes the offensivechoked. A unit of five border guards under the command of junior lieutenant Nechaev, with the support of the NKVD railway troops, prevented the Germans from capturing the strategically important bridge and held it for several hours. Crossing the San came under direct fire from Soviet pillboxes of the 8th fortified area on the banks of the San.
By 10 a.m. on June 22, the border guard unit defending the bridge was completely destroyed. Lieutenant Nechaev blew himself up with the last grenade, along with the Germans surrounding him. Under fire from bunkers, the Germans nevertheless began to cross the San and by noon occupied almost the entire center of the city. However, focal defenses and fighting on the outskirts of the city continued: border guards and bunker garrisons fought.
The resistance of detachments of NKVD troops and Red Army soldiers allowed the Soviet command to redeploy troops. A combined battalion of border guards and Red Army soldiers was formed under the command of senior lieutenant of the border troops Grigory Polivoda. By the middle of the day on June 23, the Soviet part of the city was completely cleared of the Germans, and Polivoda’s battalion broke into the German part of Przemysl - into the city of Premzel across the San River, that is, into the territory of the Reich itself.
Thus, the city of Przemysl became the first Soviet city recaptured from the Germans on June 23, 1941!
Przemysl was held until June 27, 1941.
Only because of the general deterioration of the situation at the front (the German breakthrough to Lvov) did Soviet troops and border guards leave Przemysl.
The garrison of the bunker on the banks of the San near Castle Hill under the command of Junior Lieutenant Chaplin held out until June 30 and was completely destroyed......
During the period from June 22 to June 30, 1941, the detachments fought stubborn battles on the state border near Przemysl, Medyk, in areas of Luben Wielki, Komarno, Legezino. In these battles, the enemy lost about 5 thousand soldiers and officers killed and wounded. The detachment's losses in killed, wounded and missing were 706 people (including members of the 1st Commandant's Office)...
Wait for me and I’ll return, only wait very hard...
Wait for me and I’ll return, only wait very hard.
Wait when you are filled with sorrow as you watch the yellow rain.
Wait when the wind sweeps the snowdrifts.
Wait in the sweltering heat.
Wait when others have stopped waiting, forgetting their yesterdays.
Wait even when from afar no letters come for you.
Wait even when others are tired of waiting.
Wait for me and I’ll return, but wait patiently.
Wait even when you are told that you should forget.
Wait even when my mother and son think I am no more.
And when friends sit around the fire drinking to my memory
Wait and do not hurry to drink to my memory too.
Wait for me and I’ll return, defying every death.
And let those who do not wait say that I was lucky.
They will never understand that in the midst of death
You with your waiting saved me.
Only you and I will know how I survived:
It was because you waited as no one else did.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Denis Davydov
[REGNUM] People's Deputy of Ukraine Maryana Bezuglaya rings the alarm: the commander of the joint forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Sodol seems to be working for the enemy. And Commander-in-Chief Syrsky is either not in control of the situation, or is generally an accomplice, and this means that he needs to be removed from office.
“Another crime of the leader of the Eastern Front, General Sodol: a breakthrough to Toretsk. Now we have lost the positions we had since 2014. Intelligence warned. The day before a possible breakthrough, Sodol removes the brigade and starts a unit that has already suffered losses and has reduced combat effectiveness. At the moment, events are developing in such a way that it is not far from the exit to the highway. Again there are no ready-made fortifications! Fights in Shumy. This is already online, but not in the false reports of the headquarters,” a message on the social network dated June 21 is saturated with burning pain.
The headquarters lie, which means defeat and death. And relatively recently, Alexander Syrsky, who led the Ukrainian army, is to blame for all the defeats and sins - the energetic Maryana took this position, quite unexpectedly for everyone, in May. And since then he has not let up, only raising the temperature in relation to the commander in chief.
“Having returned from the front,” the people’s deputy criticized not only Syrsky, but also his “general faction,” saying that the commander-in-chief ignores critical problems and does not respond to her non-public appeals. All this coincided with the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces on Volchansk and the scandal with the lack of equipped defense lines in the Kharkov direction.
Naturally, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is to blame for the “failure,” and Maryana then warned the commander-in-chief that this message of hers was, we quote, “last call” for him.
She mercilessly called the military leadership of Ukraine an “ineffective scoop” that devalues human lives: even the people’s deputy’s social network page featured a joyful Syrsky with a crudely mounted orange scoop in his hands as the title photo.
In another message, she claims that she tried to work with him for several months, but the interaction turned out to be such that Maryana “only suffered from what she saw.” And then she gave a devastating description of those closest to the entourage of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"...Bargilevich, Pavlyuk, Syrsky, Sodol. A faction of generals that is right now destroying our chances of change and victory... The pathos of the Soviet Union and the devaluation of human life,” Bezuglaya asserts about the need for “all these castes to leave and never make key decisions again.” Because they are mercilessly getting rid of military personnel who think outside the box.
In general, authoritarianism, ineffective leadership and lies, constant lies.
It is curious that in one of the recent revelations, the girl reasoned that the next commander-in-chief could be Zaluzhny’s former deputy (whom she mercilessly hammered until his resignation), Colonel General Evgeniy Moisyuk or the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate Kirill Budanov, “whom I would be happy to see in this position.”
Two more candidates - former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ruslan Khomchak and commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Pavlyuk - are “carefully trying to increase their chances, which would be an obvious disaster.” In addition, she also mentioned Zaluzhny’s former deputy, Mikhail Zabrodsky, who returned to military service after resigning his deputy mandate, and Sergei Naev, the former commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - but they were mentioned last time, when Zaluzhny himself was brought down.
True, the question here is not posed as a question of replacing one thing with another, but as a systemic problem. We are talking about “the destruction of the mothball structure of the Ukrainian senior headquarters and their “unique competencies.” They say that a “non-trivial hybrid military-civilian, personnel-mobilization team, full of determination, speed, and fearlessness to infinity, must finally arrive. Real, not fake." That is, we are talking about a certain ideal structure that exists, perhaps, only in Maryanina’s head.
However, where Budanov’s name appears even casually, intrigue is immediately visible: Kirill Alekseevich is now considered a very influential dark horse in Ukrainian politics.
In addition, the people’s deputy is traditionally considered the “mouthpiece of Bankova,” and it was in this capacity that they used to torpedo Valery Zaluzhny, who planned to go into politics and get on the nerves of Zelensky, who was already on edge. Therefore, now, when she spoke about Syrsky in the same tone, analogies were quickly drawn and rumors about the resignation of the commander-in-chief became a popular topic for discussion - as well as possible candidates for his replacement.
“They might really be unhappy with Syrsky. The OP believes that civilian authorities are doing everything possible for the military. They wanted mobilization - they were given it, and without demobilization, which the generals opposed. The resumption of American military assistance was achieved. Several months have passed already. And where is the result? The political leadership took unpopular steps within the country, lowering its ratings. And Russia's offensive continues. It can be assumed that through channels such as Maryana Bezuglaya, dissatisfaction with the results of the work of the team that replaced Zaluzhny in February breaks through,” political scientist Ruslan Bortnik explains to the Strana publication.
Ukrainian experts are convinced that this is how the government’s strategy is built - to make the military command to blame for failures at the front, and if any victories happen, then they belong to Zelensky personally. So if military affairs continue to go badly, then Syrsky may indeed be dismissed, as if showing society and Western partners that the political leadership is doing everything possible.
However, there is a major flaw in this view.
The attack against the popular Zaluzhny was indeed planned, and the formal basis for his resignation was the lack of an action plan for 2024. Not wanting to spoil their ratings with personal participation, Zelensky used an exalted and fearless young lady, who, for the purity of the experiment, was even expelled from the party and faction in January. “She is her own press service and is responsible for her own words,” they explained.
Syrsky’s main advantage was not the presence of such a plan, but personal devotion and the complete absence of any political ambitions, as reported in detail by IA Regnum. Maryana communicated normally with him for several months, which she herself admitted. Again, these interesting “non-public appeals”.
Four months ago, she did not notice any failures, although Avdievka had already been abandoned, a breakthrough was allowed in Ocheretino and Chasov Yar, the Russian army was advancing in other directions. And the current commander has been responsible for the Kharkov region since the summer of 2022. And by the way, immediately after Syrsky was appointed commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in February, Bezuglaya threatened him, saying that she would give him only one month to radically reform the army. Otherwise, she will “drive” over him, as she did with Zaluzhny.
But “it got even worse” suddenly in May.
In narrow circles they claim that the reason for this change in mood was a personal motive. It was in the fall of last year that the deputy’s stormy office romance with the “general of two hundred” began. However, it did not last long: known for his love for “strawberries” and at one time actively hanging out on dating sites, Syrsky left Maryana in April.
After that, she seemed to have broken free and suddenly rushed “to the front”, supposedly with an inspection, from where she returned in a completely bad mood.
“They say that this time Bezuglaya did not receive any sanctions, and even more, she was twice called “on the carpet” at Bankovaya with a demand to calm down. But it was not there. The rich cry too. However, Bezugla’s hysterics were not in vain; Syrsky’s “well-wishers” in Ukrainian politics did not fail to join in the criticism, linking here with criticism of the current head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Umerov, and in general the entire military leadership of the country 404. Moreover, the fact that Umerov’s resignation was demanded by during his visit to Kiev, US Secretary of State Blinken has long been an open secret,” political strategist Mikhail Pavliv tells IA Regnum.
In the same narrow circles they say that before the “anniversary” NATO summit in Washington, scheduled for July 2024, there is definitely no point in waiting for layoffs and reshuffles in the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and most likely, even after it. After all, according to the Office of the President, neither Syrsky nor Umerov have yet accumulated enough negativity.
And, according to Bankova, there will be a lot more of it this year.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Article by military history of Alexey Isaev on the 80th anniversary of Operation Bagration
by Alexey Isaev
80 years ago, on June 23, 1944, Operation Bagration began. Many superlative epithets can be applied to it: the largest defeat of the German army in its entire history, one of the biggest intelligence errors in the entire history of wars, the most successful actions of the Soviet Air Force against the enemy in the entire war.
However, there are two more things that make Operation Bagration unique in its kind. Firstly, this is the transition from a series of failures to brilliant success in the same strategic direction. Throughout the winter of 1943–1944, the front in Belarus practically did not move. There was a series of positional battles that did not bring success. The headquarters of the Supreme High Command demanded to reach Minsk, but it was not possible to move even to Orsha and Bobruisk. Secondly, "Bagration" had a huge influence on the movement of the entire front from the Gulf of Finland to the Black Sea. Pulling reserves from other army groups, bypassing powerful defensive lines - all this predetermined the entire summer-autumn campaign of 1944 and the movement of the entire front. German defenses crumbled from the Baltic states to Romania.
THE READINESS OF THE GERMANS AND THE PLANS OF THE USSR
By the summer of 1944, Army Group Center numbered about 861,000 people and occupied a front of 970 km (34% of the entire length of the Soviet-German front). At the same time, firstly, the Civil Aviation Center "Center" had only one tank division and there was not a single new Panther tank. Secondly, the 6th Air Fleet in Belarus had only 66 single-engine fighters (or 6% of the 1,051 combat-ready vehicles of this type that the Luftwaffe had). In total, the 6th Air Fleet at that time had about 700 combat-ready aircraft, including 300 bombers.
The neighboring Army Group Northern Ukraine was much stronger. There were tank divisions, Tigers, Panthers, and a more complete aviation group. The reason for this imbalance was an incorrect assessment of Soviet plans for the summer of 1944. Not only Adolf Hitler personally, but also many of his generals believed that the main blow of the Red Army would follow in Western Ukraine and Moldova.
In the winter, Soviet troops achieved success in the southern sector of the Soviet-German front; it was logical to assume that this success would be developed further.
Paradoxical as it may sound, the original plan for the Soviet offensive envisaged just such a move: a strike in Western Ukraine. This solution was proposed by Joseph Stalin with reference to the winter successes. It took a lot of effort for Alexei Antonov (then head of the Operations Directorate of the General Staff of Aviation) and Georgy Zhukov (representative of the Supreme Command Headquarters) to convince the Supreme Commander-in-Chief that the summer operations of 1944 should begin on the “Belarusian balcony.”
To carry out the operation, troops from four fronts were assembled: the 1st Baltic Front, the 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts and the right wing of the 1st Belorussian Front. In total, 1,211,000 people, 24,000 guns with a caliber of 76mm and higher, 4,070 tanks and self-propelled guns were involved in the offensive. The most powerful strike groups were assembled in the 3rd Belorussian Front (372,000 people, 7,000 guns and 1,810 tanks and self-propelled guns) and on the right flank of the 1st Belorussian Front (419,000 people, 8,300 guns and 1,297 tanks and self-propelled guns).
The fronts opposing Army Group Center, on the one hand, were strengthened - armies and tank corps were transferred to Belarus from other directions. On the other hand, the German command, withdrawing regiments and divisions from the Military Aviation Center "Center" to patch up defenses in other sectors, crossed the line of reason and quantity turned into quality. The latter was expressed, for example, in the appointments of commanders. The GA "Center" was headed by Field Marshal Ernst Busch, who had experience of predominantly positional battles, the so-called infantry military commander.
There was a numerical superiority of the Soviet troops, but it was not so significant. The secret of success was meticulous preparation, and the most important component of success was long-range aviation. Soviet heavy bombers were given the task of hitting an atypical target for them - enemy artillery positions. Artillery was the mainstay of the defense of the GA "Center" in winter battles, and it was precisely this artillery that prevented success during the first months of 1944.
The idea of such a massive use of the Air Force was proposed by Zhukov, who was sent as a representative of the Supreme Command Headquarters to coordinate the actions of the 1st and 2nd Belarusian Fronts (previously it was he who was the creator of successes in Right-Bank Ukraine). The plan was supported by Alexander Vasilevsky, who was responsible for the offensive of the 3rd Belorussian and 1st Baltic fronts.
The second factor in the success of the USSR forces was the training of soldiers and junior commanders of the Red Army formations, their training on exact copies of German defensive lines built in the rear. This made it possible to hone the attack of the enemy defense down to the smallest detail. Reconnaissance was also carried out carefully, including enemy artillery positions.
However, at the last moment, it seemed that everything might fall through. Bad weather was not conducive to aviation operations. However, well-trained pilots managed to cope and, on the night before the start of the operation, carried out precise strikes on enemy artillery positions.
Particularly noteworthy was the use of superior air forces, which operated on a previously unknown scale and suppressed our artillery for hours, which was practically defenseless against non-stop bombing and assault attacks. Thus, the main weapon of defense at the decisive moment was put out of action.
FROM THE REPORT ON THE ACTIONS OF THE GERMAN 9TH ARMY, THE WEHRMACHT NEVER RECOVERED
Having knocked his main argument out of the hands of the enemy, Soviet troops successfully broke through the defenses, which had held out for many months. Tank corps rushed into the breaches (there were more of them than the Germans). The only German 20th Panzer Division then rushed about Bobruisk between two strike groups and was expectedly defeated. As a result, the cities of Vitebsk and Bobruisk were surrounded, and two gaps gaped in the formation of the Wehrmacht in Belarus.
The main forces of the Military Aviation Center "Center" were forced to retreat to Minsk. The retreating columns were destroyed from the air in bottlenecks and at crossings. In summer and good weather, air raids became most effective. The breakthrough of two Soviet tank corps to Minsk completed the matter. On July 3, 1944, Minsk was liberated, and an encirclement ring was formed east of the capital of Belarus. The "boilers" collapse quickly.
The German command was forced to withdraw reserves from other directions. The new commander of Army Group Center, Walter Model, tried to build a new front by blocking a kind of “corridors” in the Belarusian forests, Nalibokskaya Pushcha and the Pripyat region. However, his plan failed. In mid-July, the armies of the left wing of the 1st Belorussian Front near Kovel went on the offensive. The result was a breakthrough to Warsaw and another “cauldron”, the encirclement of German troops near Brest.
At the cost of colossal efforts and losses, the Wehrmacht managed to contain the Soviet offensives along the borders of East Prussia, on the Narew and Vistula. But bridgeheads had already been captured on the Vistula, which in the winter of 1944–1945 became a springboard for the attack on Berlin.
During Operation Bagration, 17 German divisions were completely destroyed, 50 lost more than half of their strength. The human losses of the German army in Belarus are estimated at 350,000 people, of which about 150,000 were captured. The restoration of the front after the disaster in Belarus required the German command to transfer 46 divisions from other directions with their weakening. This led to the fact that soon the entire German group from Narva to Chisinau collapsed under the blows of other fronts.
The Wehrmacht never recovered from the crushing blow of Bagration. There was less than a year left before the end of the war
[HotAir] The conventional wisdom that mass migration was a driving force in the sharp rightward turn in the European Union's Parliamentary elections is absolutely correct, but a lot of people are missing another crucial factor: what is being called "Greenlash."
...The European elite has been going Green even longer and harder than the United States and, consequently, has been paying the price longer and harder than we have been here. And Europeans are getting fed up with the expensive and damaging policies.
...European elites have been making life miserable in Europe, closing farms, driving up energy prices, and trying to convince everybody that the key to saving Gaia is to live meanly and have shorter lives surrounded by migrants who hate them.
It's not a pleasant picture, at least if you aren't a member of that elite.
...The Greens have been promising a utopia in which everybody owns nothing and is happy, to (not) coin a phrase, and people are finding that the two things don't go together that well. Life with cheap and abundant energy is just better, and bashing fossil fuels is a lot easier than living without them.
...Things have changed so drastically in Europe that Ursula von der Leyen's European People's Party (what a deceptive name!) is reversing course on banning internal combustion engine cars in the near future, calling the move a "mistake." We'll see if they follow their rhetoric with action.
Ruy Teixeira sees similar resistance to green policies in the United States, although he thinks that the Democrats don't grasp that reality sufficiently. The Greenest voters are the most Democrat of voters--more loyal than Black voters have been, if not nearly as large a constituency. They are, however, loud and active, while Blacks are generally not politically motivated to the same extent.
Recent polling by Impact Research for Third Way vividly demonstrates these realities. Just 4 percent of voters attach enough priority to climate change issues to be described as "climate-first" voters, dwarfed by the ranks of voters most concerned about lowering costs and reducing inflation. This mighty 4 percent of voters supports Biden by 96 points (!), a margin that would have made a Soviet Politburo candidate happy back in the day. Doesn’t seem like these voters, unlike the economy-first voters, are really in play.
Moreover, nonwhite and young voters—among whom Democrats have been bleeding support—are disproportionately economy-first voters. And who are the climate-first voters? According to the Third Way report they:
...tend to hold a college degree or higher...They are also far more likely than Economy-First voters to be financially comfortable and to believe the economy is in good shape, by a margin of 35 and 47 points, respectively....
It’s simple: if you’re prioritizing climate change this election, you’re financially comfortable. For everyone else, it remains a fringe issue, and cost-of-living concerns take center stage.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs anyone?
No wonder Trump thinks he can effectively slam Biden and the Democrats on their climate change approach. They are leaning into an issue and devoting considerable resources to a cause that is fundamentally boutique in nature. Sentiment about electric vehicles has been trending negative and most in the working class now say they would not even consider buying one. Voters are strongly opposed to measures and regulations that would limit the future availability of gasoline-powered cars. And somewhat cluelessly the Biden administration has recently doubled down on doing just that.
Green may be a bigger issue than many people think in American elections if the polling and the European results translate into voting behavior.
Climate change fanatics are getting more extreme as voters have become more skeptical, and that is a bad combination for the Democrats. Their most devoted fans want fealty to their issues, while ordinary Americans want relief from high prices and more austerity.
If Democrats can pull out a victory in this election it will be despite, rather than because of any appeal to voters. The results would have been driven by an appeal to fear, hatred, and a turnout operation of questionable ethics and legality unseen in recent US history. They will have to improve on their 2020 turnout operations, and it is hard to see how they can do that within the rules.
As if they care about rules. We have to win beyond the margin of fraud.
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Certainly, the EU farm policy has woken folks up.
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Deindustrializing AND higher prices for everything strikes at the 'working class' ...hard.
[Daily Caller] California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly.
How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end up as a warning to Western civilization of what might be in store for anyone who followed its nihilism?
The symptoms of the state’s suicide are indisputable.
Governor Gavin Newsom enjoyed a recent $98 billion budget surplus — gifted from multibillion-dollar federal COVID-19 subsidies, the highest income and gas taxes in the nation, and among the country’s steepest sales and property taxes.
Yet in a year, he turned it into a growing $45 billion budget deficit.
At a time of an over-regulated, overtaxed and sputtering economy, Newsom spent lavishly on new entitlements, illegal immigrants and untried and inefficient green projects.
Newsom was endowed with two of the wettest years in recent California history. Yet he and radical environmentalists squandered the water bounty — as snowmelts and runoff long designated for agricultural irrigation were drained from aqueducts and reservoirs to flow out to sea.
Newsom transferred millions of dollars designated by a voter referendum to build dams and aqueducts for water storage and instead blew up four historic dams on the Klamath River. For decades, these now-destroyed scenic lakes provided clean, green hydroelectric power, irrigation storage, flood control and recreation.
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The recent travesty about not allowing a citizen initiative to restrain taxes must not have gone over well.
Hiram Johnson (progressive governor of California in the early 20th Century, who helped usher in initiative, referendum, and recall in California) is turning over in his grave.
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They are currently in Camp David feverishly trying...
They are pounding Joe with the unreleased questions and subsequent programmed responses.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Disenfranchising voters over taxes is what caused the Revolution. FUCK Governor Hair Gel
