Pyrenees in fire. The Civil War in Spain and the Soviet "volunteers". Telitsyn V.

The book is dedicated to the participation of Soviet volunteers in the Civil War in Spain (1936-1939). This conflict can rightly be considered a “prelude” to the Second World War (1939-1945), the “landfill”, where not only new samples of military equipment were tested, but also other methods of confrontation were worked out - ideological, sabotage, partisan, propaganda... < /p>

Soviet “volunteers” sincerely believed that they were fulfilling a great mission - to fight fascism, but no one could voluntarily get into Spain. The Soviet Union was not the country that would give its citizens the right to freely move from the state to the state and decide for themselves - to participate in the armed conflict thousands of kilometers from their homeland or not. All Soviet citizens who left in Spain were sent there by the corresponding structures - the People’s Commissariats of Defense, Foreign Affairs, Health, Internal Affairs, etc., all the “volunteers” were high -class specialists in their business, and what is called “in practice” they got the opportunity to test their knowledge and apply Experience...

And this book is about this. And also about the supply of weapons from the USSR and other countries to Spain, about the role in the war of Germany and Italy and other European countries, about the tragedy of the Spanish people, which was the first to feel the horror of the world military conflict.