"Flying coffins" of Stalin. "All lower, both lower, and lower." Beshanov V.V.

The continuation of the bestseller “fought on the“ tombs ”!”

“The flying guaranteed coffin”-this is how the “Stalinist falcons” nicknamed Lagg-3, at the beginning of the war, which was considered the main “fighter of a new type”, but inferior to ” Messers ”in all respects. They obviously lost to the enemy and MiG-3, and even the Yak-1, not to mention the outdated "donkeys" and "seagulls". (How can you not recall the words of the Air Force Commander of the Red Army Pavel Rychagov, who were addressed to Stalin, who cost him life: “You make us fly on“ coffins ”!”). Contrary to the pre -war “dizziness from success” and propaganda hype, the “Stalinist falcons” could not fight the Luftwaffe on an equal footing - from the first days of the war, the Fuhrer’s experts captured undivided dominance in the air, and our fighting aircraft, which exceeded the opponent’s three times, demonstrated the complete Infirmness and by the end of 1941 was selected by 90%, which cannot be justified either by the "sudden" of the enemy strike, nor the "overturned" war with airfields.