Fatal date: Why Russia was twice attacked on June 22

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This year marks 80 years since our homeland was treacherously attacked by the hordes of Nazi Germany, as well as its many allies and satellites. This terrible and sorrowful date is forever kept in our memory, in our hearts. And even though it was then that the path to the victorious May 9, 1945 began, the pain and horror of this day will never be forgotten. It is impossible not to mention one more thing - exactly 209 years ago, on the same day, the French Empire (and, in fact, Europe united under its scepter) declared war on the Russian Empire. This is how the first Patriotic War in our history began, which also ended in the complete defeat of the foreign invaders who encroached on our land.

What kind of date is this? Why is it that it is necessary to unleash two large-scale aggression against our country, two invasions of the largest enemy armies that managed to seize vast territories, but later not only shamefully expelled from them, but also paid for their encroachments by taking their own capitals. What is this - a coincidence, mysticism, some mysterious "finger of fate", as some people think? Or is it a pattern that has purely practical reasons?



"Rock attracts Russia ..."


These are the words from the appeal of the Emperor of France Napoleon Bonaparte to his Grand Army, signed by him on June 22 at his Polish headquarters in Vilkoviski. The first French soldiers pushed through the Niemen the next day, and already on June 24, regiments and corps poured in a stream along the crossings that were directed across this river. The "invasion of two ten languages" began on Russia. Emperor Alexander I found out about him on the evening of the 24th, but this is solely because the emperor was at that moment not in the capital, but in Vilna (modern Vilnius). In fact, the French envoy, Jacques de Lauriston, handed a note on the declaration of war to the head of the government of the Russian Empire, Count Nikolai Saltykov on the evening of the 22nd. So the "official" beginning of the Patriotic War of 1812 should be counted from this date.

Times then, of course, were different - the war was first declared gallantly and decorously, and only then real hostilities were unleashed. And France, after all, was not the Third Reich. And Napoleon is by no means Hitler. To tell the truth, he did not intend to "capture" our country (at least, according to the numerous historical evidences). Russia in the form of ashes, strewn with corpses, Bonaparte, apparently, absolutely did not need. He wanted her to participate in the "continental blockade" of Great Britain and the upcoming campaign in India, by capturing which the French emperor hoped to seriously undermine the financial and economic the power of their main enemies - the British. Napoleon had no idea to occupy and "colonize" Russia, knowing full well that no one could do it.

Preserved his own words that, having crossed the Niemen, the Great Army had to reach a maximum of Smolensk and Minsk and "stop" there. Bonaparte planned, utterly defeating the Russian army in one (two - maximum) large-scale border battles, to force Alexander I to an enslaving peace on the terms of Paris and continue his mortal battle with London. True, when our armies, not accepting the general battle, began to roll back deep into the immense Russian expanses, the plans had to be corrected and the emperor, who was dumbfounded by such a maneuver so much that he spent 18 days in Vilna in complete inactivity, already started talking about going to Moscow , in order to “strike Russia into the very heart”, he was eager to “burn Tula”, and thereby “disarm the Russians”, while continuing to assert that the war would “be over in one or two battles”. Naive…

Ahead were Borodino, the senseless Moscow "victory", humiliating pleas for peace "at any cost" ignored by Alexander, the horrors of the Old Smolensk road and the shame of the Berezina. Fate is very evil and deservedly will amuse the Corsican who imagines himself to be the ruler of the world - on June 22, 1815, he will have to sign his last abdication from the French throne, before that, having experienced a triumphant return for exactly 100 days and a crushing defeat at Waterloo. It is unknown whether Bonaparte was thinking about this coincidence, being in his last refuge - on the island of St. Helena and slowly dying of poison. Quite possible. In the summer, addressing his marshals and soldiers, who then seemed invincible to him, the emperor promised to "decide the fate of Russia", but, in fact, it was at that moment that he ordered his own fate - and in the most unreasonable way.

"Russia must be liquidated!"


Adolf Hitler, who spoke almost incessantly about the attack on our country in 1941, was extremely frank in his plans and intentions. "Complete defeat of the entire state", "war of annihilation", "absolute extermination of all hostile elements", "dismemberment into many parts" and so on. They went not only to conquer and conquer us, but in the most literal sense of the word to wipe out the country and its inhabitants from the face of the earth. In this case, a military defeat would mean not the loss of geopolitical independence and sovereignty, as in 1812, but the complete disappearance of the Soviet, and, first of all, the Russian people. Repeating the mistakes of his predecessor, Hitler and his associates in all seriousness hoped to defeat the USSR in a "short summer campaign", in no case bringing military operations to the onset of late autumn and winter.

When Hitler announced the final date of the attack - June 22, the head of the High Command of the Wehrmacht Ground Forces (OKH), Field Marshal von Brauchitsch, cheerfully reported to the Fuhrer that the "defensive battles of the Red Army in the border areas" would last, at most, a month. After that, only "isolated cases of sluggish resistance" are possible. Well, yes, well, yes ... Building insane plans for an attack on the Soviet Union for almost a whole year (the first concrete sketches of them began to be created at the end of July 1940), the generals and field marshals of the Wehrmacht, as well as the Nazi leadership of the Third Reich, could not even imagine that they will have to deal not only with the Red Army, the Navy, the NKVD troops, but with the entire Soviet people, who, having risen from small to large, will not "offer sluggish resistance", but will fight to the death for every inch of their native land.

And yet, why exactly on June 22? In the ominous "Directive No. 18" "Barbarossa" signed by Hitler on December 1940, 21, a different date was listed - May 15. However, in the period from April 7 to April 30, 1941, it was adjusted. On this occasion, there are many explanations, and of various kinds. First of all, the attack had to be postponed due to the fact that the Wehrmacht was "stuck" in the Balkans, having run into a fierce rebuff there (primarily in Yugoslavia), which was not expected. This is true and is confirmed by the relevant OKH directives. But why exactly 22, and not 21 or, say, 23? Some people assure that the mysticism of the “great Fuhrer” played its role, who was really almost obsessed with astrology, numerology, all sorts of symbols and “signs”. He was especially attracted by various pagan cults. The ancient feast of the Solstice may well have seemed to the possessed fanatic the best day to start a campaign to the East. Moreover, it was on June 22, 1940 that even France, which did not particularly try to resist the Wehrmacht, shamefully surrendered before the Third Reich.

The corresponding process was most carefully staged and corrected by the Nazis in order to make it as humiliating as possible for the former winners in the First World War. Not everyone knows, but the representatives of Germany put their autographs under the treaty that almost destroyed their state, officially signed at Versailles on June 28, 1919, a week earlier. Yes, yes - on June 22 ... And even though there were no representatives of the victorious powers of Russia (at that time the RSFSR) among those present in Versailles, Corporal Schicklgruber remembered the defeats received in the First World War from Russian weapons. Was he taking revenge subtly, "getting attached" to a shameful date for his country? Why not.

Without a doubt, first of all, we should talk about the motives and reasons of a purely materialistic nature. Yes, it was wiser to launch an offensive against Russia with its endless fields (either in 1812 or in 1941) after these fields were sown and produce grain crops, which the conquerors could later profit from by feeding their army. Yes, June 22 in 1941 was a Sunday, the only day off in the USSR at that time, for which the Nazis undoubtedly also made a calculation (in many respects, alas, it was justified). Well, and, of course, it is well known that it is on this date that the longest day of the year falls. When transferring huge masses of troops across the border, deploying large-scale offensive operations, this is, of course, very important. And still…

Both Patriotic Wars, which have become the most tragic and heroic pages in the history of our Motherland, our people, began on June 22, and not a day earlier or later. Is this day really some kind of sacred date, bearing the grain of incredible trials, sacrifices and victories? With all the absolute dissimilarity of the imperial France of the 1812th century and Nazi Germany of the XNUMXth century, not only this number is striking, but also something else. Napoleon in XNUMX, justifying his aggressive campaign, wrote about the need to "put an end to the disastrous influence that Russia has on all the affairs of Europe."

In a note handed at 5.30 am on June 22, 1941 to the USSR People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov by German Ambassador Werner von Schulenburg about the declaration of war, our country was reproached for "conducting propaganda subversive activities", "attempts to expand", as well as "espionage and sabotage in Europe" , "Pulling troops to their Western borders" and the like. Does this remind you of anything ?! To the pain, to the eerie, to the gnashing of the teeth? At least quotes from a recent speech by the EU's chief diplomat Borrell on the "concept of deterring and countering Russia", which Brussels is going to adopt, again, in the 20th of June? When will they calm down? The answer, I'm afraid, is never.

That 80, that 209 years ago, on June 22, the entire "united Europe" rose up against us, for which campaigns to the East invariably ended in the most nasty way. This day eventually became the day of our triumph and celebration. On June 22, 1945, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Joseph Stalin signed an order for the Victory Parade. So it was and so it will be.
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  1. 0
    19 June 2021 11: 29
    And the dirt by this time, basically, dries up. And our directions became like roads.
  2. -2
    19 June 2021 11: 33
    Wah! That's when Neu ... accidentally (probably) forgets about his "favorite" dill and amers, and it's nice to read.
  3. +2
    19 June 2021 14: 05
    First, in preparation for the attack, they studied the road network, its capacity and the climatic conditions of the target.
    Secondly, the roads of that time were not paved and in the spring thaw they could not provide a full supply of food and ammunition to the army.
    Thirdly, neither in the first nor in the second case was it supposed to wage a protracted war.
    Napoleon and Hitler - the same berry, both War Criminals.
    The only difference is that one is exalted and the other is anathematized.
    1. 0
      27 June 2021 19: 07
      why is Bonaparte a war criminal? How were his crimes expressed?
  4. +1
    19 June 2021 16: 38
    France surrendered on June 22, 1940.
  5. +1
    19 June 2021 17: 40
    Napoleon made an attempt to enroll in a well-paid officer service in the Russian Imperial Army

    (c) Vika
    I wonder how the wheel of history would turn if he did it .....

    PS: plus to the author wink
  6. -6
    19 June 2021 17: 50
    Lance corporal Schicklgruber

    Necropic, aren't you ashamed? Tell me who this same corporal Schicklgruber is, why doesn't Google know about him?
    1. +5
      19 June 2021 19: 06
      Adolf Schicklgruber Corporal (military rank awarded on November 1, 1914) of the 6th Reserve Battalion of the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment Adolf Hitler (Schicklgruber) was born on April 20, 1889. in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary and enrolled in this unit on August 16, 1914. as a volunteer.

      Dear Alexander!
      14 inch note, wink , ASUS, poked, issued ... fellow
      1. -2
        19 June 2021 19: 26
        "I" have several personal documents of Hitler, I can send a photo if you give an address. Even his pass to the Austrian border, where he is listed as corporal Hitler.
        1. 0
          19 June 2021 19: 52
          I did not understand the contradiction. Vika writes, you confirm.
          fellow
          1. +1
            20 June 2021 00: 51
            Vika is not the ultimate truth, she writes one thing, then another. Alois Schicklgruber became Alois Hitler in January 1876, so all his legitimate children bore (according to documents) the name Hitler from birth.
      2. 0
        20 June 2021 12: 19
        Schicklgruber, Alois (Alois) (German Alois Schicklgruber, 1837-1903) - father of Adolf Hitler, who bore the name of his single mother until 1876, when Johann Nepomuk Güttler acknowledged his paternity, mistakenly recorded as Hitler. (Adolf Hitler himself, who was born in 1889, never bore the surname Schicklgruber, although this statement, at the suggestion of V.D. -th edition of TSB).

        Schicklgruber, Maria Anna (German Maria Anna Schicklgruber, 1795-1847) - wife of Johann Georg Gidler, mother of Alois Schicklgruber and grandmother of Adolf Hitler.
      3. 0
        27 June 2021 19: 08
        This is an old bike that has nothing to do with the truth.
    2. +1
      20 June 2021 10: 49
      Quote: AlexZN
      Why doesn't Google know about it?

      10% of the world's population believe that what is not in Google does not exist. You are obviously one of them. So your question is "aren't you ashamed?" you can ask yourself.
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  7. -2
    19 June 2021 18: 03
    On June 22, the head of the High Command of the Wehrmacht Land Forces (OKH), Field Marshal von Brauchitsch, cheerfully reported to the Fuehrer that the "defensive battles of the Red Army in the border areas" would last, at most, a month.

    Necropic usually did not allow so many punctures ...
    Firstly, Brauchitsch was right - in the border areas, defensive battles lasted a maximum of a month, Secondly, in 1941 there was no Red Army, since 1939 the official name was changed to KA.
    1. +5
      19 June 2021 18: 47
      in 1941 there was no Red Army, since 1939 the official name was changed to KA.

      Yes, that's exactly what Wikipedia says


      And this is a postage stamp issued in 1943.
    2. +5
      19 June 2021 23: 53
      Secondly, in 1941 there was no Red Army, since 1939 the official name was changed to KA.

      The Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA) is the official name of the Russian armed forces from 1918 to 1943.

      In 1943, during the Great Patriotic War, the Red Army was renamed the Soviet Army.

      PS Thirdly, you are a victim of the "wiki". smile
  8. -3
    19 June 2021 19: 14
    Quote: Petr Vladimirovich
    "Adolf Schicklgruber corporal (military rank awarded on November 1, 1914) of the 6th reserve battalion of the 16th Bavarian infantry regiment Adolf Hitler (Schicklgruber) born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary and enlisted in of this unit on August 16, 1914 as a volunteer. "

    Dear Alexander!
    14 inch note, wink , ASUS, poked, issued ... fellow

    You poked the wrong thing and the wrong way! Do not read the inscriptions on the fence (there may be a nail there). In April 1889, Adolf Hitler was born, he never bore the surname Schicklgruber and, accordingly, only Hitler could become a corporal in August 1914.
    In no document was Adolf Hitler listed as Schicklgruber!
  9. -2
    19 June 2021 19: 17
    Quote: Bakht
    in 1941 there was no Red Army, since 1939 the official name was changed to KA.

    Yes, that's exactly what Wikipedia says


    And this is a postage stamp issued in 1943.

    Your logic is strange. If now a stamp is issued depicting the victory of the CA, it will mean that the CA exists now.
    The casket opens very simply, in 1943 it was 25 years since the creation of the Red Army \ KA.
    1. +3
      19 June 2021 19: 30
      I am not refuting what you said. I just always thought that there was the Red Army. I read that since 1939 it has become a KA. But when exactly? There is no decree or order. In parallel, there were two armies - the Red Army and the KA. For example, the order of the NCO No. 78 of May 1, 1939 clearly states

      ORDER OF THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSAR OF DEFENSE OF THE USSR

      Greetings to the personnel Red Army on the day of May 1

      And the text of the order itself also clearly states

      Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army together with all the working people of the Soviet Union meets on May 1

      Congratulations to all the staff Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army with a national holiday - May 1!

      Signed the order People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR Marshal of the Soviet Union K. Voroshilov

      So it is said that the Red Army was renamed to KA. None of the historians have found the ruling. Until 1940, both names of the Red Army and KA were in use. If you find a Resolution or an Order, I will be grateful.
      1. +3
        19 June 2021 23: 55
        I am not refuting what you said. I just always thought that there was the Red Army. I read that since 1939 it has become a KA. But when exactly? There is no decree or order.

        They were not.
        KA abbreviated from the Red Army.
        It's just that someone is again trying to pull the owl onto the globe ..
  10. -1
    19 June 2021 19: 43
    Quote: Bakht
    I am not refuting what you said. I just always thought that there was the Red Army. I read that since 1939 it has become a KA. But when exactly? There is no decree or order. In parallel, there were two armies - the Red Army and the KA. For example, the order of the NCO No. 78 of May 1, 1939 clearly states

    ORDER OF THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSAR OF DEFENSE OF THE USSR
    Greetings to the personnel Red Army on the day of May 1

    And the text of the order itself also clearly states

    Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army together with all the working people of the Soviet Union meets on May 1

    Congratulations to all the staff Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army with a national holiday - May 1!

    Signed the order People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR Marshal of the Soviet Union K. Voroshilov

    So it is said that the Red Army was renamed to KA. None of the historians have found the ruling. Until 1940, both names of the Red Army and KA were in use. If you find a Resolution or an Order, I will be grateful.

    To preserve continuity, the name was not changed, but simplified, so for some time both names were used, but by 1941 only the spacecraft was used. Do not ignore the habits in the designation outside the army itself. People still use names like traffic cop, GRU, KGB ...
    And yet, they often use journalistic cliches, which are a little ridiculous. The German field marshal could not speak about the workers and peasants' Red Army (this is the same stupidity as Morzhetskav's that the Israeli Defense Minister recommended something to Tel Aviv, he certainly recommended it, but to Jerusalem).
    1. -4
      19 June 2021 19: 58
      Dear Alexander!
      If not a big secret, from which state are we posting?
      I am from the Russian Federation, Moscow, Yasenevo district ... drinks
      1. 0
        20 June 2021 17: 17
        Three colleagues disagree. A simple question, with what?
    2. +1
      19 June 2021 21: 30
      There was no official name change. Officially, the Red Army existed until 1946. When it was renamed the Soviet Army. But you are right that in the documents of that time the Red Army was reduced to KA. People tend to oversimplify. I have seen publications somewhere that the Red Army was renamed into KA in January 1943 with the introduction of officer ranks and shoulder straps. But I did not see such an order.

      Soviet Army (in the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the spelling "Soviet Army" is used) - official name of the main formation - the ground forces of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union (except for the navy, border and internal troops).

      Abbreviated name - CA. Until February 1946, the main military formation of the USSR bore the official name of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (Red Army, Red Army)... Founded according to the decree on the creation of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army on January 15 (28), 1918

      https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Советская_армия
    3. +1
      20 June 2021 00: 04
      To preserve continuity, the name was not changed, but simplified, so for some time both names were used, but by 1941 only the spacecraft was used

      Lying.

      Show us documents those years where it was used only the spacecraft.
  11. -3
    19 June 2021 20: 01
    Quote: Petr Vladimirovich
    I did not understand the contradiction. Vika writes, you confirm.
    fellow

    All claims to Neukropny are his puncture.
    1. 0
      20 June 2021 00: 05
      This is your puncture.
      The spacecraft was used only as an abbreviated version of the Red Army.
  12. 0
    19 June 2021 20: 02
    Quote: Petr Vladimirovich
    Dear Alexander!
    If not a big secret, from which state are we posting?
    I am from the Russian Federation, Moscow, Yasenevo district ... drinks

    Jerusalem
    1. 0
      19 June 2021 23: 15
      Shalom Shabbat! wink And I know this ... You have never been to my country and you scold her, but I was in yours and do not scold her. Is there a reason? RF 2021, what claims ...?
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  14. 0
    20 June 2021 07: 31
    Quote: Ulysses
    Secondly, in 1941 there was no Red Army, since 1939 the official name was changed to KA.

    The Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA) is the official name of the Russian armed forces from 1918 to 1943.

    In 1943, during the Great Patriotic War, the Red Army was renamed the Soviet Army.

    PS Thirdly, you are a victim of the "wiki". smile

    First you write, and then you read, but this is not only your defect, we all sin with this.
    The Red Army did not exist until 1943, but until 1946 ...
    I clarified yesterday that the name was not CHANGED, but REDUCED (in the end, the army did not cease to be workers 'and peasants'). We found out that it was not clear on the basis of which document it was decided to switch from using the Red Army to the spacecraft.
    My message in evaluating Ukropny's phrase about evaluating the enemy's army boiled down to the fact that the German field marshal could not exactly designate the enemy as a workers 'and peasants' Red Army. The Red Army, the Bolshevik army, the Russian army ...
    1. +2
      20 June 2021 13: 23
      Clarified and found out everything. So both in 1939 and in 1941 there was a completely official name for the Red Army. And the fact that the name was often abbreviated, so it was until 1939. In 1920, the song "Krasnoarmeiskaya" was performed for the first time

      But from the taiga to the British seas
      Red Army the strongest of all.
  15. 0
    20 June 2021 07: 39
    Quote: Petr Vladimirovich
    Shalom Shabbat! wink And I know this ... You have never been to my country and you scold her, but I was in yours and do not scold her. Is there a reason? RF 2021, what claims ...?

    Where do these conclusions come from? I have been to your country many times, my brother lives there. Didn't notice that I was scolding (?) Russia. I can participate in discussions, but scold ...
  16. 0
    20 June 2021 07: 55
    Quote: Ulysses
    To preserve continuity, the name was not changed, but simplified, so for some time both names were used, but by 1941 only the spacecraft was used

    Lying.

    Show us documents those years where it was used only the spacecraft.

    No problem. The main documents are the orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief for the spacecraft and the KF - that is how they were designated. Published in Krasnaya Zvez. Since 1939, the use of the RKKA has been replaced by the RK
    https://fnkaa.ru/rupor-tovarishha-stalina/
    Order 227 sent to the army began like this -

    The Supreme Command of the Red Army orders:

    1. The military councils of the fronts and, above all, the commanders of the fronts:

    a) unconditionally eliminate the retreating sentiments in the troops and with an iron hand suppress the propaganda that we can and should allegedly retreat further to the east, that there will be no harm from such a retreat
    1. 0
      20 June 2021 08: 08
      I dare to assume that Stalin personally edited such orders and that he reduced it in his orders from the Red Army to the Republic of Kazakhstan by a strong-willed character, which led to the abbreviation of the name in a chain in all documents.
      Brezhnev once wrote - developed socialism and in all program documents developed socialism changed its name.
  17. 0
    20 June 2021 08: 46
    having completely defeated the Russian army in one (two - maximum) large-scale border battles, to force Alexander I to an enslaving peace on the terms of Paris

    Strange, why did Napoleon go to Moscow, and not to Petersburg? The capital was St. Petersburg, the tsar, the government was in St. Petersburg, it is not clear why this Moscow surrendered to him.
    1. +1
      20 June 2021 17: 32
      At VO, colleagues discussed. Allegedly, the task was to defeat the Russian army in the border areas and force Alexander I to sign a peace treaty with the obligation to join the Continental blockade. And the Russian commanders withdrew and as a result the battle was on the Borodino field. Then sitting in the Kremlin, an attempt to march to winter apartments in Kiev, Maloyaroslavets and beyond everywhere ... Up to Fr. Saint Helena ... wink
      1. -2
        21 June 2021 05: 46
        According to the concepts of that time, Napoleon won Borodino.
        In terms of manpower and artillery, the forces of Russia and France were approximately equal, but Russia had about 400 thousand tons of militia. After Borodino, the Russians left their wounded there, those wounded who could get to Moscow were burnt in the Moscow fires.
        And before St. Helena there was Bunzlau.
        1. -2
          22 June 2021 02: 56
          The losses of the Russians in the battle are estimated according to different counting systems from 40 to 45 thousand. French - from 35 to 40 thousand. It is only directly in the battle. Sanitary cleaning of the field took place only in 1813, and according to a simplified counting system, about 67 thousand human bodies and 36 thousand horse corpses were removed. But how many remains were stolen by the animals (according to testimony, for two weeks on the field, packs of wolves were eaten away), and were they simply not found? Back in 1818, on the field where the battle took place, human skulls were white on the surface.
          It is clear that such a massacre could not do without the wounded. And how did the Russians solve this problem? It turned out that it was not particularly solved. At the end of the battle, the completely exhausted doctors left for Mozhaisk. And there was no one to help the victims. Until the army withdrew, two signal lights burned, and those who could still move came out to them. The wounded were hastily helped (if they could help) and sent on their own along the Mozhaisk road. All available transport, which suddenly became a deficit due to the huge loss of horses, was used to evacuate army property. They simply did not think about those who remained lying on the field.
          French memoirists say that even a week after the battle, living Russian soldiers were found from time to time on the field. And on the first night over the field there was a continuous cry, which gradually died down - people were losing strength.
          The entire Mozhaisk road was strewn with crushed bodies. And on the sidelines sat the dead - who died of wounds. And who just froze. Transport, carriages and cannons could no longer make out what to drive - this is in both French and Russian sources. Well, in Moscow itself, according to various testimonies, at the time of the army's withdrawal there were from 15 to 20 thousand wounded, who were left to the French.
          In theory, they were supposed to be helped - a normal practice of the time when a wounded enemy soldier after a battle was not regarded as an enemy and received help on an equal basis with the general mass of the sick. Well, in reality ... In fact, Napoleon's soldiers have lost a lot of their fuse, and there are even eyewitness accounts that the emperor was not welcomed at all or that thin vivats were heard at his appearance (in fact, the attitude towards our Kutuzov also changed a lot and from Moscow he had to go to carriage). That is, the disintegration of the army was already in full swing. Well, after the burning of the city, arranged by the Russians themselves (the Frenchman in the cold!), The situation turned out to be altogether terrifying. The French, of course, escaped the fire themselves. And first of all, they were interested in their own lives, looted goods, army property and the lives of their own comrades. So a lot of wounded Russians died in the fire. Who says that almost all 20 thousand. Who insists on 10 thousand. But this figure is minimal.
          It is interesting that people in Russia at that time did not even think to reproach Kutuzov with the fact that he had abandoned such a mass of wounded in the city and the surrounding area. It just felt normal. They say, in the name of a great goal and the preservation of the army's combat effectiveness (which is generally true). But many did not forgive him for the surrender of Moscow. Alas, it was such a great time then. And people thought in completely different categories, within which the general idea always dominated over elementary humanity.
  18. -1
    20 June 2021 11: 06
    Quote: magma
    Quote: AlexZN
    Why doesn't Google know about it?

    10% of the world's population believe that what is not in Google does not exist. You are obviously one of them. So your question is "aren't you ashamed?" you can ask yourself.

    What should I be ashamed of? For the fact that Neukropny wrote nonsense, which is impermissible for the author, about Corporal Schicklgruber?
  19. -1
    20 June 2021 11: 54
    ... Jacques de Lauriston handed a note on the declaration of war to the head of the government of the Russian Empire, Count Nikolai Saltykov on the evening of the 22nd. So the "official" beginning of the Patriotic War of 1812 should be counted from this date.

    It follows, and that's it. Local scribblers can’t think of anything :))

    when to our homeland treacherously the hordes of Nazi Germany attacked,

    I fully understood the meaning of the highlighted word quite recently.
    It was "treacherously attacked". In August and September 1939, they concluded non-aggression and friendship treaties with them, the scoundrels, jointly tore apart the Polish "hyena", and everything seemed to settle down, and they took and attacked.
  20. +3
    22 June 2021 06: 40
    The entire period of the Great Patriotic War is a matter of our memory. We can remember those who died in this war for two hundred days a year. Make films about the war. The question is different. When we remember our parents, we remember their orders. And it hurts if we we do something wrong. I think most of the dead would look at us with reproach. We gave away the land for which they shed their blood. So that they would look at us with a smile from the West. Real memory is the building of a state with people who have faces full of hope for the future.