I fought in the 41st. Dragkin A.V.

On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War! The new book of the project "I remember"! The living voices of the infantrymen, tankers, artillerymen, pilots, marine corps fighters fought in 1941 on a huge front from Barents to the Black Sea. Those Frontovik veterans who took on the first blow of the Third Reich and miraculously survived in “boilers”, tank attacks, air battles and hand-to-hand combat.

“On June 22, we had to dismiss. Early in the morning, I heard a rumble of planes, and then explosions... The Brest Fortress turned into a sea of ​​fire. Everything burned and rumbled around... ”

“ Bayonet is scary! I managed to dodge and the bayonet walked along the tangent to the head, and then I already dumped it into my stomach, got up and ran on. We shot down them... "

" roared the engines, and the regiment rushed to the attack. Great we burned there. The Germans stopped, before our eyes they quickly unfolded artillery, and how they gave us to light! They shot, as in a dash. Pieces of seventy of this meel, T-26, T-70 light tanks participated in the attack, and about twenty left... ”

“ The company-out-and-out-and-out-card commander of the 41-42 year of more than three attacks cannot be alive. The maximum of three, or wounded or killed, but usually killed. Rarely anyone was lucky. After all, the commanders walked ahead of the chain... ”

“ The Germans saw very well that they were mostly civilian on the road, but they scattered cassettes with small bombs, and the blood there did not even pour a stream, but a river. Around the mutilated corpses, screams, the cries of these unfortunate old people, women and children... ”

“ It turned out to be a good battle, then it was not scary yet. The guys shouted: “Go ahead! For Stalin!" And died... "