EXTERMINATION OF CAPTIVE RED ARMY SOLDIERS

This paper discusses specialized treatment of the wounded in the hospitals of the Southern Urals in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). It is proved that the specialized treatment of the wounded undergone significant changes during 1941-1945. The paper defines nature of injuries and damage, treatment time, forming, distribution of hospital beds and a contingent of the wounded and sick Red Army soldiers. The author states that throughout the war the surgical activity in the South Urals hospitals increased. The study deals with the problem of death in base hospitals. The number of Red Army soldiers deaths was undercounted. This study has shown that due to medical workers of the South Urals hospitals specialized treatment of the wounded made a qualitative leap in the development of the stage treatment. At the beginning of the war general surgery and general therapeutic hospitals were created. Then, in order to ensure the most qualified assistance to the wounded, specialized hospitals and offices were deployed. The authors estimated that the application of advanced methods of treatment in the evacuation hospitals of the South Urals helped to heal 72,3% wounded and 90, 6% patients and they returned to military service. These materials can serve as a basis for further research in the Southern Urals health history and, in general, the history of the South Ural Region, as well as the patriotic education of the youth.

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Monument to Marshal Konev as a victim of Czech contradictions on Russia

10.31168/2712-8342.2021.2.13 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 197-210

Author(s):

Vadim V. Trukhachev ◽

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Political Parties ◽

Local Level ◽

State Level ◽

Regional Level ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Red Army ◽

Army Soldiers ◽

Political Disputes

The authorities of the Prague 6 district took down the monument to Marshal Konev, who liberated the Czech capital in May 1945. Russia could not prevent this, because the monument was not subject to an intergovernmental agreement. The laws of the Czech Republic allow municipal authorities to decide the fate of monuments standing on their territory. The actions of Czech politicians on a regional level appeared to demonstrate profound ingratitude in the eyes of many people - some condemned the politicians in the sharpest possible terms, but others supported and praised the decision. Representatives of the majority of political parties represented in the Czech Parliament, as well as the country's President Miloš Zeman, spoke on the topic. The “bronze Marshal” became a victim of Czech internal political disputes over relations with Russia. There is no state-level “war” against monuments to Red Army soldiers in the Czech Republic. However, decisions to remove them have been taken several times at local level.

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Red Army Prayers and Homefront Lyrics

God Save the USSR ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190076276.003.0005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 106-132

Author(s):

Jeff Eden

Keyword(s):

Turning Point ◽

Religious Change ◽

War Poetry ◽

Religious Policy ◽

Women's Participation ◽

Red Army ◽

Army Soldiers ◽

Devotional Life

This chapter offers a rare glimpse of Muslim devotional life in the war era and the immediate postwar years, drawing on sources such as Islamic war poetry, veterans’ remembrances, eyewitness reportage, Soviet agents’ dispatches, and letters to and from Muslim Red Army soldiers. It argues that it is possible to reconstruct not only some aspects of religious change that were particular to the war era but also to trace these changes into the postwar years. In other words, this chapter proposes that the war era is a turning point not only in Soviet religious policy—as many have previously argued—but in Soviet Muslim life more generally. These changes include the flourishing of Soviet Muslim poetry (much of it devoted to wartime experiences) and the increasing level of women’s participation and leadership in ritual life.

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Blok, Aleksander (БЛОК, АЛЕКСАНДР) (1880–1921)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism ◽

10.4324/9781135000356-rem1547-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Frederick H. White

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Initial Response ◽

October Revolution ◽

Common People ◽

Russian Symbolism ◽

Red Army ◽

The Common ◽

Army Soldiers ◽

Second Wave ◽

The Revolution

One of Russia’s greatest twentieth-century poets, Aleksander Aleksandrovich Blok (1880–1921) was a representative of the ‘second wave’ of Russian Symbolists. Two books of poetry, Verses on a Beautiful Lady (1904) and Inadvertent Joy (1907), and his lyric drama, The Showbooth, staged in 1906, made him famous. Paradoxically, Blok began to openly mock his former Symbolist ideals after 1905, even as he was considered by many to be the leader of Russian Symbolism. In particular, Blok was concerned with the widening gulf between the common people and the intelligentsia. As his disillusionment deepened, his poetry was haunted by a sense of imminent catastrophe. Therefore, his initial response to the revolution of 1917 was positive, seeing in it an apocalyptic moment that would bring renewal and regeneration after a period of chaos and destruction. This idea was realized in his poem The Twelve (1918) which celebrates the October Revolution and placed Christ at the head of a gang of Red Army soldiers. Blok, however, soon realized that the Bolsheviks would not embody the revolutionary ideals that he wished to support, causing him to become disenchanted and deeply depressed. Blok only lived for another three and a half years, dying in August 1921.

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Defections

10.1093/oso/9780198798156.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Mark Edele

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Soviet Society ◽

Front Line ◽

Red Army ◽

Methodological Problems ◽

Army Soldiers

Chapter 1 serves as the introduction to the book. It outlines the problematic, source base, and basic conceptual framework of this study and introduces Ivan Nikitich Kononov, one of the book’s central protagonists. It also gives a general summary of the argument, discusses methodological problems, and situates the book in a wider historiographical context. The book reconstructs the motivations, background, and experience of a significant minority of Red Army soldiers: those who willingly crossed the front line to give themselves up to the Germans. The book asks how many of these defectors there were, what share of Stalin’s fighting forces they composed, why they committed treason, how they went about doing it, and what happened to them afterwards. It argues that desertion across the front line was an extreme behaviour, but one that tells us much not only about this war but also about Soviet society under Stalin.

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