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The world's only melee of people and dogs with the Nazis
The "head" to take Kiev failed and received an order to circumvent it from the south ... So gossip came the terrible word "Green Brahma", the area is not specified either on some maps of the great battles of the Great War. This wooded and hilly array on the right bank of the river cyanosis, near the villages Podvysokoe in Archangel region Kirovohrad and Cherkasy Legezino Talne Raion only known today as one of the most tragic events of the first months of the Great Patriotic War. And then, thanks to the fact that a party of fierce fighting during Uman defensive operation was a famous songwriter Eugene Aronovich Dolmatovsky.
With the release in 1985 of his book "Green Brahma" (full size), the mystery of the "Green Brahma" was uncovered ... In these places were surrounded and were almost completely destroyed extending from the western border of the 6th and the 12th Army of the Southwestern Front generals Muzichenko and Ponedelina. By early August, they numbered 130 thousand people, of Brahma to his left 11 thousand soldiers and officers, mainly from the rear. The others - either captured or forever remain in the tract Green Brama ...
In a separate battalion of border detachment of the rear guard of the Southwestern Front, which was established on the basis of separate Kolomiysky frontier commandant's office and frontier detachment of the same name, with heavy fighting retreating from the border, are working dogs. Together with border guard unit soldiers endured all the hardships of the severe time. The battalion commander, who is also deputy chief of staff Major Kolomiysky frontier Lopatin (from other sources, combined detachment commanded by Major Filippov), despite the extremely poor conditions, lack of proper food and offers command to release the dogs did not. At the village Legedzino battalion staff units covering the retreat of the army group command Uman, July 30 took his last fight ... forces were not equal: five hundred guards regiment against the Nazis. And at the critical moment when the Germans went into another attack, Major Lopatin gave the order to send in a close fight with the Nazis border guards and sniffer dogs. It was the last reserve.
The sight was terrible: 150 (a variety of data - from 115 to 150 dogs border, including to and from Lviv pogranshkoly service dog) training, half-starved sheep dogs, water them against the Nazis machine-gun fire. Sheepdogs fascists dug throats even in its death throes. The enemy, literally bitten and bayonets chopped down, stepped back, but came to the aid of tanks. Bitten German infantrymen with lacerations, with cries of horror, he jumps on the armor of tanks and shot the poor dogs. In this battle, killing all 500 border guards, none of them surrendered. A surviving dogs, according to witnesses - Legedzino villagers, remained faithful to the end of its conductors. Each of the survivors of the grinder, lay down beside his master and did not admit to it. German animals were shot every shepherd, and those who were not shot the Germans, refused food and starved to death on the field of agriculture ... Even the dogs got - the Germans shot large dogs villagers, even those who have been on a leash. Only one Shepherd was able to crawl to the hut and fell down at the door.
Devotional sheltered four-legged friend, went, and on the collar on her villagers have learned that it was not only the dogs border Kolomiysky pogrankomendatury, but a special school service dog Captain ME Kozlov. After the battle, the Germans gathered their dead, according to the recollections of the villagers (unfortunately there is little left in this world) were allowed to bury the Soviet border guards. Everyone found gathered in the center of the field and buried, along with his faithful four-legged assistants and secret burial have hidden for many years ... The researcher that memorable battle Alexander Fuca said that the memory of the heroism of border guards and their helpers among the villagers was so great that despite the presence of the German occupation administration and the detachment of policemen, the floor of the village boys proudly wore green caps victims. A buried their guards locals hiding from the Nazis, the Red Army pulled out of the books and officers' identity photos of the victims, then to send them to identify (to store such documents were mortal danger, so set the names of heroes failed). A planned triumphal meeting of Hitler and Mussolini held August 18 but, of course, not in Kiev, and there have Legedzino, on the high road, which led to the experimental and which held as its border Soviet border guards.
Only in 1955, the residents were able to collect the remains Legedzino almost all the 500 border guards and take them to the village school, near which there is a mass grave. And on the outskirts of the village, where and held the world's only melee of people and dogs with the Nazis on May 9, 2003, on voluntary donations veterans, border guards and handlers in Ukraine was established the world's only monument to a man with a gun and his faithful friend - the dog. This monument is not anywhere else. "Stop and take a bow. Then in July 1941, they have risen in the last attack on the enemy fighters separate Kolomiyskogo border commandant. 500 150 border guards and their service dogs perished in a heroic death in battle. They remain forever faithful to the oath, his native land. " Today, a person known only two dead guards.
With the release in 1985 of his book "Green Brahma" (full size), the mystery of the "Green Brahma" was uncovered ... In these places were surrounded and were almost completely destroyed extending from the western border of the 6th and the 12th Army of the Southwestern Front generals Muzichenko and Ponedelina. By early August, they numbered 130 thousand people, of Brahma to his left 11 thousand soldiers and officers, mainly from the rear. The others - either captured or forever remain in the tract Green Brama ...
In a separate battalion of border detachment of the rear guard of the Southwestern Front, which was established on the basis of separate Kolomiysky frontier commandant's office and frontier detachment of the same name, with heavy fighting retreating from the border, are working dogs. Together with border guard unit soldiers endured all the hardships of the severe time. The battalion commander, who is also deputy chief of staff Major Kolomiysky frontier Lopatin (from other sources, combined detachment commanded by Major Filippov), despite the extremely poor conditions, lack of proper food and offers command to release the dogs did not. At the village Legedzino battalion staff units covering the retreat of the army group command Uman, July 30 took his last fight ... forces were not equal: five hundred guards regiment against the Nazis. And at the critical moment when the Germans went into another attack, Major Lopatin gave the order to send in a close fight with the Nazis border guards and sniffer dogs. It was the last reserve.
The sight was terrible: 150 (a variety of data - from 115 to 150 dogs border, including to and from Lviv pogranshkoly service dog) training, half-starved sheep dogs, water them against the Nazis machine-gun fire. Sheepdogs fascists dug throats even in its death throes. The enemy, literally bitten and bayonets chopped down, stepped back, but came to the aid of tanks. Bitten German infantrymen with lacerations, with cries of horror, he jumps on the armor of tanks and shot the poor dogs. In this battle, killing all 500 border guards, none of them surrendered. A surviving dogs, according to witnesses - Legedzino villagers, remained faithful to the end of its conductors. Each of the survivors of the grinder, lay down beside his master and did not admit to it. German animals were shot every shepherd, and those who were not shot the Germans, refused food and starved to death on the field of agriculture ... Even the dogs got - the Germans shot large dogs villagers, even those who have been on a leash. Only one Shepherd was able to crawl to the hut and fell down at the door.
Devotional sheltered four-legged friend, went, and on the collar on her villagers have learned that it was not only the dogs border Kolomiysky pogrankomendatury, but a special school service dog Captain ME Kozlov. After the battle, the Germans gathered their dead, according to the recollections of the villagers (unfortunately there is little left in this world) were allowed to bury the Soviet border guards. Everyone found gathered in the center of the field and buried, along with his faithful four-legged assistants and secret burial have hidden for many years ... The researcher that memorable battle Alexander Fuca said that the memory of the heroism of border guards and their helpers among the villagers was so great that despite the presence of the German occupation administration and the detachment of policemen, the floor of the village boys proudly wore green caps victims. A buried their guards locals hiding from the Nazis, the Red Army pulled out of the books and officers' identity photos of the victims, then to send them to identify (to store such documents were mortal danger, so set the names of heroes failed). A planned triumphal meeting of Hitler and Mussolini held August 18 but, of course, not in Kiev, and there have Legedzino, on the high road, which led to the experimental and which held as its border Soviet border guards.
Only in 1955, the residents were able to collect the remains Legedzino almost all the 500 border guards and take them to the village school, near which there is a mass grave. And on the outskirts of the village, where and held the world's only melee of people and dogs with the Nazis on May 9, 2003, on voluntary donations veterans, border guards and handlers in Ukraine was established the world's only monument to a man with a gun and his faithful friend - the dog. This monument is not anywhere else. "Stop and take a bow. Then in July 1941, they have risen in the last attack on the enemy fighters separate Kolomiyskogo border commandant. 500 150 border guards and their service dogs perished in a heroic death in battle. They remain forever faithful to the oath, his native land. " Today, a person known only two dead guards.
