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4:10: Western Baltic, and special districts reported about the beginning of the fighting German troops on the ground sites.

June 22, 1941
The announcement of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Moscow street, 25 October.
Photo by E. Chaldean





Already they reached the border, their motors humming "three" and "four". Shells already laid out on the ground and their guns ready to open fire on the signal. Mechanics have completed the last testing and pilots are ready to rush to his "Junkers" and "Messerschmidt". Marines eagerly was finishing the last cigarette and waiting for a team of their sergeants.

They firmly know that their army - the best in Europe. How could it be otherwise - because for some two years, they have been typing Prussian "goose step" in the streets of Poland and France, Greece, Norway, Denmark and Yugoslavia. Where else snaps England, hidden behind the steel side of their battleships - but England can wait ...
They firmly know that the victory this time. All of them teach in school anthologies - "Russian - lazy, and ruddy, and loves to sing." Where this stupid Ivans to Aryans? All of them will return home before the New Year - it's hard to have promised their commanders, commanders of the best in the world.

They believe that the whole war would look like this:



And everything will turn out just Russian. So:
They were wrong. They have yet to learn that surrounded Russian division will fight to the last bullet and desperate to break through to his own, which is obsolete, "ass", you can shoot down the latest Me Bf-109 G and send to the forefathers of his pilots that long-range bombers, in violation of all the rules of military science will bomb the moving column that Russian tanks will advance even in the most hopeless situation and die without the support of artillery and infantry, just to hold the enemy at least for a day, half a day, for an hour, that the weapons in the hands of take even women and children ...

While they peered intently in a veil of mist in June, beyond which lies a foreign land. Land that has been, and will soon take rest to many of them ...

Tomorrow was the war.



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