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Deputy's message People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR B.C. Abakumova deputy Head of the Main Political Directorate of the Red Army F.F. Kuznetsov about the formation of the Ukrainian National Volunteer Army by the German command on the territory of Ukraine

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Main Political Directorate of the Red Army

Comrade Kuznetsov

According to the Special Departments of the NKVD of the Southern and Southwestern Fronts, the German command in the temporarily occupied territory of the Ukrainian SSR is actively forming a “Ukrainian National Volunteer Army” from the Ukrainian population and from among the captured former Red Army soldiers they recruited.

The formation of units of the “Ukrainian Volunteer Army” is widely promoted among the local population of the occupied areas and in prisoner-of-war camps in order to demonstrate their “liberation” mission.

For the purpose of encouragement, volunteers who enroll in Ukrainian national units are provided with improved living conditions in the camps.

Detained by the Special Department of the 56th Army on May 6 from the town of Maksimenko, a native of the village of Novo-Troitskoye, Opalinsky region, testified that he was a soldier so

called the "Ukrainian Volunteer Army". April 20 p.m. was mobilized by the Germans and sent to a collection point in Mariupol, where there were already about 5 thousand people, residents of areas temporarily occupied by the enemy, mobilized into the “Ukrainian Volunteer Army”.

In Mariupol, Maksimenko was dressed in a German uniform, received a Soviet-style rifle, and with a group of 40 mobilized Ukrainians was sent to the Vesely village of the Taganrog region, where he underwent drill training and guarded the Taganrog Bay.

In the month of April. In the Olginsky district of the Stalin region and in other settlements of the occupied regions of Ukraine, the Germans forcibly mobilized the male population from 17 to 45 years old and enlisted everyone in the “Ukrainian Volunteer Army”. The command staff of the “Ukrainian Volunteer Army” consists of Ukrainians and Russian former commanders of the Red Army who went over to the side of the Germans, who are led by the Germans.

According to MAKSIMENKO’s testimony, the Ukrainians mobilized by the Germans are opposed to the German invaders and are waiting for the advance of the Red Army in order to go over to its side.

Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR Head of the Directorate of Special Departments

Abakumov

Resolution: “Inform Comrade Manuilsky.”

A note on the first sheet of the document: “Read. Measures will be taken.

D. Manu[lsky]"

PA MO RF. F. 32. On. 11309. D. 115. L. 5-6. Script.

Reproduced here from the publication: Ukrainian nationalist organizations during the Second World War. Documentation. In two volumes. Volume 1. 1939-1943. pp. 492-493. Doc. No. 2.80.

(PU RKKA, 1924-1940) and Political Administration of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Fleet (PU RKKF, 1938-1940);

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The predecessor of the organization was the All-Russian Bureau of Military Commissars created in April 1918 (under the leadership of Konstantin Yurenev a).

The decision to create a central military-political body designed to lead all party-political work in the Armed Forces was made by the VIII Congress of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. It was finally created on April 18 to direct party-political work in the Red Army and the Fleet Congress of the Republic of Belarus (Bolsheviks) by order of the RVSR No. 674.

The Political Directorate was in charge of “all political, educational and propaganda work in the Red Army and Navy.” The head of the PUR was appointed by the Revolutionary Military Council and was administratively subordinate to it. In his actions, he was guided “both by the orders of the RVSR and by the instructions of the Central Committee of the RCP.” The regulations approved the structure that had developed by September 1, 1920. With the transition to a peaceful position, the PUR began to be called the Political Directorate of the Red Army (PURKKA).

Renames and leaders

Political Department of the RVSR

Chiefs:

• 08/28/1923 - 01/17/1924 - Antonov-Ovseenko, Vladimir Alexandrovich
• 01/17/1924 - 03/28/1924 - Bubnov, Andrey Sergeevich

Political Administration of the Red Army

Chiefs:

• 03/28/1924 - 10/01/1929 - Bubnov, Andrey Sergeevich
• 10/01/1929 - 05/31/1937 - Gamarnik, Yan Borisovich
• ??.06.1937 - 12/30/1937 - Smirnov, Pyotr Alexandrovich
• 12/30/1937 - 07/25/1940 - Mehlis, Lev Zakharovich

Political Department of the RKKF

Chiefs:

Main Directorate of Political Propaganda of the Red Army

Chiefs:

• 07.25.1940 - ??.09.1940 - Mehlis, Lev Zakharovich
• ??.09.1940 - 06.21.1941 - Zaporozhets, Alexander Ivanovich
• 06/21/1941 - 07/16/1941 - Mehlis, Lev Zakharovich

Main Directorate of Political Propaganda of the Navy

Boss:

• ??.08.1940 - 07.22.1941 - Rogov, Ivan Vasilievich

Main Political Directorate of the Red Army

Chiefs:

• 07/16/1941 - 06/12/1942 - Mehlis, Lev Zakharovich
• 06/12/1942 - 05/10/1945 - Shcherbakov, Alexander Sergeevich
• 09/08/1945 - ??.02.1946 - Shikin, Joseph Vasilievich

Main Political Directorate of the Navy

Boss:

• 07.22.1941 - ??.02.1946 - Rogov, Ivan Vasilievich

Main Political Directorate of the USSR Armed Forces

In 1946, in connection with the merger of the People's Commissariat of Defense and the People's Commissariat of the Navy into one body - the People's Commissariat of the Armed Forces of the USSR - a single Main Political Directorate was created, which since April 1958, in accordance with the decision of the CPSU Central Committee, is called Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy.

Chiefs:

• ??.02.1946 - ??.02.1949 - Shikin, Joseph Vasilievich
• ??.02.1949 - ??.02.1950 - Kuznetsov, Fedor Fedotovich

Chiefs:

• ??.02.1950 - ??.03.1950 - Kuznetsov, Fedor Fedotovich
• ??.03.1950 - ??.07.1950 - Krainyukov, Konstantin Vasilievich
• ??.07.1950 - ??.04.1953 - Kuznetsov, Fedor Fedotovich

Main Political Directorate of the USSR Navy

Chiefs:

• ??.02.1950 - 03.06.1953 - Zakharov, Semyon Egorovich
• 03/06/1953 - 03/16/1953 - Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich

Main Political Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense

Chiefs:

• ??.04.1953 - ??.01.1958 - Zheltov, Alexey Sergeevich
• ??.01.1958 - 04.25.1958 - Golikov, Philip Ivanovich

Chiefs:

• 04/25/1958 - 04/30/1962 - Golikov, Philip Ivanovich (1900-1980) Marshal of the Soviet Union
• 04/30/1962 - 07/17/1985 - Epishev, Alexey Alekseevich (1908-1985) Army General
• 07.17.1985 - ??.07.1990 - Lizichev, Alexey Dmitrievich (1928-2006) Army General
• ??.07.1990 - 01.11.1991 - Shlyaga, Nikolai Ivanovich

Deputies

• 1987-1991 - Ovchinnikov, Alexander Ivanovich Colonel General

Main Military-Political Directorate of the USSR Armed Forces

Boss:

• 01/11/1991 - 08/29/1991 - Shlyaga, Nikolai Ivanovich (1935-2004) Colonel General

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• . - Nizhny Novgorod, 1929.
• CPSU in resolutions and decisions of congresses, conferences and plenums of the Central Committee, 7th ed., part 1. - M., 1954.
• CPSU about the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. Documentation. - M., 1969.
• Petrov Yu. P. Construction of political agencies, party and Komsomol organizations of the Army and Navy. - M., 1968.

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Pierre was sitting in the living room, where Shinshin, as if with a visitor from abroad, began a political conversation with him that was boring for Pierre, to which others joined. When the music started playing, Natasha entered the living room and, going straight to Pierre, laughing and blushing, said:
- Mom told me to ask you to dance.
“I’m afraid of confusing the figures,” said Pierre, “but if you want to be my teacher...”
And he offered his thick hand, lowering it low, to the thin girl.
While the couples were settling down and the musicians were lining up, Pierre sat down with his little lady. Natasha was completely happy; she danced with a big one, with someone who came from abroad. She sat in front of everyone and talked to him like a big girl. She had a fan in her hand, which one young lady had given her to hold. And, assuming the most secular pose (God knows where and when she learned this), she, fanning herself and smiling through the fan, spoke to her gentleman.
- What is it, what is it? Look, look,” said the old countess, passing through the hall and pointing at Natasha.
Natasha blushed and laughed.
- Well, what about you, mom? Well, what kind of hunt are you looking for? What's surprising here?

In the middle of the third eco-session, the chairs in the living room, where the count and Marya Dmitrievna were playing, began to move, and most of the honored guests and old people, stretching after a long sitting and putting wallets and purses in their pockets, walked out the doors of the hall. Marya Dmitrievna walked ahead with the count - both with cheerful faces. The Count, with playful politeness, like a ballet, offered his rounded hand to Marya Dmitrievna. He straightened up, and his face lit up with a particularly brave, sly smile, and as soon as the last figure of the ecosaise was danced, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted to the choir, addressing the first violin:
- Semyon! Do you know Danila Kupor?
This was the count's favorite dance, danced by him in his youth. (Danilo Kupor was actually one figure of the Angles.)
“Look at dad,” Natasha shouted to the whole hall (completely forgetting that she was dancing with a big one), bending her curly head to her knees and bursting into her ringing laughter throughout the hall.
Indeed, everyone in the hall looked with a smile of joy at the cheerful old man, who, next to his dignified lady, Marya Dmitrievna, who was taller than him, rounded his arms, shaking them in time, straightened his shoulders, twisted his legs, slightly stamping his feet, and with a more and more blooming smile on his round face, he prepared the audience for what was to come. As soon as the cheerful, defiant sounds of Danila Kupor, similar to a cheerful chatterbox, were heard, all the doors of the hall were suddenly filled with men's faces on one side and women's smiling faces of servants on the other, who came out to look at the merry master.
- Father is ours! Eagle! – the nanny said loudly from one door.
The count danced well and knew it, but his lady did not know how and did not want to dance well. Her huge body stood upright with her powerful arms hanging down (she handed the reticule to the Countess); only her stern but beautiful face danced. What was expressed in the count's entire round figure, in Marya Dmitrievna was expressed only in an increasingly smiling face and a twitching nose. But if the count, becoming more and more dissatisfied, captivated the audience with the surprise of deft twists and light jumps of his soft legs, Marya Dmitrievna, with the slightest zeal in moving her shoulders or rounding her arms in turns and stamping, made no less an impression on merit, which everyone appreciated her obesity and ever-present severity. The dance became more and more animated. The counterparts could not attract attention to themselves for a minute and did not even try to do so. Everything was occupied by the count and Marya Dmitrievna. Natasha pulled the sleeves and dresses of all those present, who were already keeping their eyes on the dancers, and demanded that they look at daddy. During the intervals of the dance, the Count took a deep breath, waved and shouted to the musicians to play quickly. Quicker, quicker and quicker, faster and faster and faster, the count unfolded, now on tiptoes, now on heels, rushing around Marya Dmitrievna and, finally, turning his lady to her place, made the last step, raising his soft leg up from behind, bending his sweaty head with a smiling face and roundly waving his right hand amid the roar of applause and laughter, especially from Natasha. Both dancers stopped, panting heavily and wiping themselves with cambric handkerchiefs.
“This is how they danced in our time, ma chere,” said the count.
- Oh yes Danila Kupor! - Marya Dmitrievna said, letting out the spirit heavily and for a long time, rolling up her sleeves.

While the Rostovs were dancing the sixth anglaise in the hall to the sounds of tired musicians out of tune, and tired waiters and cooks were preparing dinner, the sixth blow struck Count Bezukhy. The doctors declared that there was no hope of recovery; the patient was given silent confession and communion; They were making preparations for the unction, and in the house there was the bustle and anxiety of expectation, common at such moments. Outside the house, behind the gates, undertakers crowded, hiding from the approaching carriages, awaiting a rich order for the count's funeral. The Commander-in-Chief of Moscow, who constantly sent adjutants to inquire about the Count’s position, that evening himself came to say goodbye to the famous Catherine’s nobleman, Count Bezukhim.

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On November 11 at 6.30, after intensive artillery and military preparation, the enemy with a force of about 9 battalions, supported by 20 tanks, went on the offensive. The enemy delivered the main blow in the area of ​​factories « Red October » and "Barricades", trying to break through to the Volga south of the "Barricades" plant. All day there were fierce battles in a small area 200 meters wide, in the 138th Infantry Division's action zone. The enemy threw more and more reserves in this direction. In particular, units of the 294th and 161st German infantry divisions, transported for days on transport planes from Rossosh and Millerovo, took part in this battle. At the cost of heavy losses, the Germans managed to break through our defenses southeast of the plant « Barricades » and go to the banks of the Volga.

In order to restore the situation, our units launched a series of counterattacks. In a stubborn battle, the northern group of our troops, commanded by Colonel Gorokhov, managed, despite fierce enemy resistance, to push back the Germans with a counterattack and advance 400 meters.

The Nazis were driven away from the shore by night attacks. Fighting continues to completely restore the situation. How fierce the fighting is can be seen from the fact that, according to incomplete data, units of the 62nd Army destroyed a significant number of German forces in a day: up to 2,000 soldiers and officers were killed, 4 tanks were destroyed. The actions of aviation, artillery and infantry units during November 11 suppressed 14 guns, 18 machine guns, 16 mortars, and destroyed two ammunition depots. After our aircraft bombed the rear and battle formations of the fascists, 38 high-power explosions were noted.

As before, steadfastness and perseverance in battle are noted in units and subunits. Soldiers, commanders and political workers in the fight against the German fascists continue to show examples of heroism, courage and courage. Recently, 26 people - the remnants of the artillery battalion of the 149th Infantry Brigade - found themselves cut off from their unit and received nothing, including food, for three days. However, in the first note sent to the unit’s command, this group of brave men did not even talk about food. The note contained two words: “Send a pomegranate.” This group, led by Senior Lieutenant Vinogradov, having lost half of its strength, fought its way to the unit. Wounded, shell-shocked, deaf, Vinogradov acted as the bravest Nazi hunter in the brigade...

The mortar guards show remarkable examples of heroism and perseverance in battles with the German fascists. On October 24, the division went to the OP to fire a salvo at the Stalingrad bakery area. At this time, enemy aircraft appeared and began to bomb the division's outpost. Bombs exploded near the vehicles, disabling equipment and people, but the brave soldiers, commanders and political workers did not flinch and continued to carry out the combat mission. The division's salvo destroyed up to 700 enemy soldiers and officers. Commander 39 sq. SD Major General Guryev assessed the division's combat performance as excellent.

In conditions of fierce bombing by enemy aircraft and artillery and mortar fire, he supported units of the 138th, 193rd and 308th infantry divisions fighting in the area of ​​the factories « Red October » And « Barricades » , 92nd Guards. mortar regiment (regiment commander Major Tsarev, his deputy for political affairs, senior battalion commissar Sobolev). The divisions of this regiment carry out combat orders in any conditions. According to far from complete data, the regiment destroyed up to 5,000 enemy soldiers and officers in the month of October.

How infinitely devoted the mortar guards are to the cause of the party and the Motherland is evident from such facts of display of courage and heroism in battle.

Guardsman 92 Guards mp comrade Dotsenko, a peasant, non-partisan, being surrounded by five German machine gunners, boldly entered into battle with them. As a result of a fierce shootout, he killed four and wounded a fifth. Dotsenko came to the regiment with trophies: a light machine gun and three machine guns.

Guardsman 90 Guards mp comrade Yarmatov, an Uzbek, a Komsomol member, when a combat installation with mines on it caught fire, fearlessly rushed to put it out. Risking his life, Yarmatov saved the combat vehicle. All mines were fired at the enemy.

Tankman 19th Guards mp comrade Levinkov, a worker, Russian, Komsomol member, was wounded in the head during the battle. To the commander’s suggestion to go to the hospital, he replied: « I, comrade commander, feel capable of fighting. Allow me to remain in service until the end of the combat mission. » .

Commander of the 112th Division of the 19th Guards. MP Guard Major Comrade. Ryzhkevich, a peasant member of the CPSU(b), spent two days at the NP. The observation post was continuously bombarded by enemy mortar and machine gun fire, but Ryzhkevich did not leave the convenient and profitable OP for command of the division, reporting data on time and giving orders to open fire. As a result, the Nazis suffered heavy losses in manpower and equipment in this area.

Guardsman 2nd Guards mp comrade Borovikov, a member of the CPSU (b), from the workers, Russian, was wounded in the leg during the battle. Bleeding, he continued to lead the crew of his gun. When his comrades wanted to take him to the rear, Borovikov declared: “I am a communist and I will not leave the battlefield, even if I am wounded five more times.”

Head of the political department of the Stalingrad Front, brigade commissar Doronin

The text is reproduced from the edition: Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945. Events. People. Documentation. - M.: 1990. P. 438.