Mechanized Sacrifice

At the end of the first day of the war, General Kiponos was ordered to counterattack toward Vladimir-Volynski, destroying all German forces in his path. As unrealistic as this was, Kirponos had no choice but to obey. The five mechanized corps earmarked for the attack, spread throughout northern …

1941-06-24

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At the end of the first day of the war, General Kiponos was ordered to counterattack toward Vladimir-Volynski, destroying all German forces in his path. As unrealistic as this was, Kirponos had no choice but to obey. The five mechanized corps earmarked for the attack, spread throughout northern Ukraine, were not able to properly concentrate due to poor scheduling. On their approach to the border, the Soviet mechanized units were decimated by air attacks and mechanical breakdowns. The 19th Tank Division created a provisional regiment made up of its remaining armored cars and T-26 light tanks. In the early afternoon of 24 June, the 19th came into contact with the advancing Germans west of Lutsk.

Lutsk, Ukraine

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. The German Generalplan Ost aimed to use some of the conquered as slave labour for the Axis war effort, to acquire the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories, and eventually through extermination, enslavement, Germanization and mass deportation to Siberia, remove the Slavic peoples and create Lebensraum for Germany.

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