The attempt to analyze the order № 227 “Not one step back" taking into account the circumstances of its appearance and the importance for the condition stabilization at the German-Soviet front in summer-autumn 1942 is made in the article.
the Great Patriotic War, military psychology, Stalin, penal battalions, barrage divisions
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