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Order No.227. From Stalin With Love

Order No.227. From Stalin With Love

Osipova, Marina

Paperback

Historical Fiction

ISBN10: 1079761284
ISBN13: 9781079761283
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 14 2019
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
It is necessary to defend each position, each meter of our territory, up to the last drop of blood, to cling for each plot of Soviet land and to defend it as long as possible. - from Order No. 227.Based on the actual events on the Eastern Front of World War II, this short story is a rare account of a Soviet penal company, told from a perspective of a real person, the military prosecutor, Jakov Antonovich Krivenkov, and a fictional character, an ordinary Russian woman, Matryona, both caught in the horror of an impossible situation. 427,910 Soviet men shed their blood in defending their motherland in penal military units. They were to stop the enemy regardless of cost. Eighty percent of them did not survive. This is the story of thirteen of them.

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