Bolder Than Before

VIII Mechanized Corps had been ordered back and forth inside a triangle formed by the towns of Stiy-Peremyshl-Lvov as Soviet high command attempted to bring order from the chaos of the early border battles of Operation BARBAROSSA. Corps Commander Lt. General Ryabyshev was again ordered to turn his …

1941-06-23

WO21

VIII Mechanized Corps had been ordered back and forth inside a triangle formed by the towns of Stiy-Peremyshl-Lvov as Soviet high command attempted to bring order from the chaos of the early border battles of Operation BARBAROSSA. Corps Commander Lt. General Ryabyshev was again ordered to turn his units east toward Brody to prevent a breakthrough. This move was an additional 75 miles, and wear and tear on his antiquated vehicles would be significant. Still, they had to move, and starting out at 0500 hours they quickly became embroiled in poor roads choked with refugees and other military units moving in both directions. As much as Ryabyshev disliked the idea, he was forced to move his Corps through Lvov’s painfully narrow medieval streets. As the Russians began their approach to Lvov, OUN sabotage activities became more and more bold. Ryabyshev’s recon troops soon found themselves deploying in streets and alleyways or rushing buildings simply to fight their way across the city.

Lvov, 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.

Russian

Partisan Ukrainian

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