The article below discusses the partisan movement and the struggle of the Soviet people in the period of one of the bloodiest wars.
One of the most common forms of oppositionof the Soviet people to the German enemies was a well-known partisan movement. The program of its existence and activities was specified in the directive of the Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) of June 29, 1941. After some time, on July 18, the Central Committee adopted a special resolution "On the organization of the struggle in the rear of the German troops." These documents carried various instructions on the preparation of the party underground, the organization, recruitment and arming of partisan detachments, and the tasks and course of the movement were also formulated.
Based on the scale of the occupied territoriesThe USSR was predetermined and marked the scope and scope of the party struggle. Initially, measures were taken that concerned the evacuation of the population, however, about 62 million people, which is about 33% of the pre-war population, were to remain living in territories that were occupied by the enemy.
Initially, the Soviet leadership waspredetermined and staked on the permanent partisan units, which were formed with the active participation and under the strict guidance of the NKVD. One of the most famous was the detachment "Winners", which was commanded by D. N. Medvedev. His actions spread to the Smolensk, Oryol and Mogilev regions, and then to Western Ukraine. This detachment consisted of athletes, employees of the NKVD, proven local personnel. The partisan movement in Belarus was well developed. The people of this country offered decent resistance to the enemy.
Regional, city and district chairmenParty executive committees, as well as secretaries of the regional committee, city committee and district Komsomol committee, led the partisan movement. General strategic management was carried out by the Supreme Command Rate. The direct interaction with the detachments in the field was carried out by the Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement (TPRP). Its creation was facilitated by the decision of the State Defense Committee of May 30, 1942, and its operation was carried out until January 1944. The main task of the Center was to establish relations with various guerrilla groups, to direct and coordinate their direct actions, to supply weapons, medications, training between the partisans with some parts of the standing army.
Guerrilla movement in the rear of the enemy totaledAbout 6.5 thousand of various units, battles in which were more than 1 million people. During the necessary operations, the partisans destroyed, captured and wounded about 1 million fascists, destroyed about 4 thousand combat vehicles, 65 thousand vehicles, 1,100 aircraft, destroyed more than 1,650 railway bridges.
The guerrilla movement during the Great Patriotic War - the fact that we did not know about it
The main objects of combat and military activitiesPartisan movements during the Second World War were communications, in particular, railways. They carried out a series of large-scale operations that were associated with the disruption or breakdown of a large number of enemy communications, whose activities were closely connected with the functioning of a regular army unit.
In the period from August 3 to September 15, 1943, the occupied territories of the RSFSR, Belarus and some parts of Ukraine, pursuing the goal of assisting certain parts of the Soviet Army, in an indicative conclusion of the actions of the defeat of the German army during the Battle of Kursk, carried out Operation Rail War. Certain sites and objects were created at the sites of actions, the actions of each of them were predetermined by 167 partisan movements planned for this. The actions of these people made it difficult to regroup and supply the enemy troops, who were forced to retreat.
