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May 31, 1942, 75 years ago, in besieged Leningrad, a football match was held at the Dynamo stadium
The blockade of Leningrad is an example of tragedy and triumph, unprecedented in the history of mankind, the highest heroism and fortitude, the will to live and the ability to find means and strength to survive in inhuman conditions.
During the blockade, more than 640,000 people died of starvation alone in Leningrad, and more than 17,000 people died from bombs and shells.
In April 1942, German planes scattered leaflets over our units: “Leningrad is the city of the dead. We do not take it yet, because we are afraid of a cadaveric epidemic. We wiped this city off the face of the earth."
But Leningrad was not a city of the dead. Leningrad withstood a terrible, cold and hungry winter. Despite the fierce bombing and shelling, since February 1942, the second railway line "Road of Life" has been working without interruption, which made it possible to increase the rate of delivery of bread and other products.
It was decided to gather 2 football teams and hold a match. Let the Nazis know how "the dead play football." The match took place at the Dynamo stadium on May 31, 1942.
At 2 p.m., the referee entered the field, on the whistle of which 2 Leningrad teams appeared - "Dynamo" and Leningrad Metal Plant (LMZ). Applause broke out in the stands. Two short halves (30 minutes each) were played without a break. How the exhausted and exhausted players could spend so much time on the field pitted with explosions is not known, it was a feat. Spectators cheered the players as best they could. The meeting ended with a score of 7:3 in favor of Dynamo.
And after the match, the players left the field in an embrace, so it was easier to go. And the next day, powerful loudspeakers were installed in a number of sections of the advanced positions. Near the front line, for 90 minutes, under the roar of exploding shells, a report about a football match was broadcast from the Dynamo stadium.
On June 22, 1941, the Great Patriotic War began - the bloodiest war in history, which lasted 1418 days and nights.
We, Dynamo Moscow, are proud that representatives of the Dynamo Society, together with athletes from other societies, contributed to the victory over Nazi Germany. They fought on the fronts and behind enemy lines, worked in the factories and factories of our Motherland in the name of the Great Victory, were engaged in the preparation of reserves for the Red Army, became the initiators of the “thousanders” movement, pledging to train a thousand soldiers for the needs of the front.
The country's main sports arena, the Dynamo stadium, has turned into a training center for young fighters, into a military training camp. Already on June 27, detachments of the OMSBON (Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade for Special Purpose) began to form there, from among the volunteer athletes of the Central State Institute of Physical Culture and the Dynamo Society, who were then sent behind enemy lines.
The Dynamo stadium itself was camouflaged from enemy air raids and carefully guarded. In the winter of 1942, young fir trees were planted on the football field for the purpose of camouflage, which clearly demonstrated the state's concern for preserving the main sports attraction of the capital.
During the battle for Moscow, OMSBON, as part of the 2nd motorized rifle division of the NKVD special forces, was used on the front line, but even at that time, battle groups were formed in it, intended to be thrown into the enemy rear. In the winter of 1941/1942, the OMSBON mobile detachments carried out many successful raids and raids behind German lines.
OMSBON terrified the Nazi invaders, conducting daring and decisive operations behind enemy lines. The functions of the OMSBON included: conducting intelligence operations, organizing a partisan war, creating an agent network in the territories under German occupation, directing special radio games with German intelligence in order to misinform the enemy.
The war brought grief to every family, to every home, disrupted the peaceful life of millions of people. The people defended their homeland at the cost of huge losses. Our courageous soldiers defended their native land, turned back the fascist hordes and defeated them.
Over the years, the greatness of the feat of our soldiers and officers, home front workers, women, children - all those who brought Victory Day closer does not fade. We are proud of the heroism, resilience and dedication of our compatriots. These days will never be forgotten. That is why the decree of June 8, 1996 established June 22 in Russia - the Day of Memory and Sorrow. In all cities of our country and many countries of the near abroad, mourning events are held on this day, we remember all those who died a heroic death on the battlefields, who died of wounds in hospitals, were martyred in concentration camps. Eternal memory and glory to them!
- In 2011, the project "Veterans of the Moscow Dynamo" was launched in the Moscow city organization of the VFSO "Dynamo". It is symbolic that the first of this series was an audio diary dedicated to Dynamo - veterans of the Great Patriotic War. Many of the interviews recorded then became, to our great chagrin, the last...
Photo: RIA Novosti, oldmos.ru, pastvu.com
RADIO SPEECH BY THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSIONERS OF THE UNION OF THE SSR AND THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSAR FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TOV. V. M. MOLOTOVA
CITIZENS AND CITIZENS OF THE SOVIET UNION!
The Soviet government and its head comrade. Stalin instructed me to make the following statement:
Today, at 4 o'clock in the morning, without presenting any claims against the Soviet Union, without declaring war, German troops attacked our country, attacked our borders in many places and bombed our cities - Zhitomir, Kyiv - from their aircraft. , Sevastopol, Kaunas and some others, more than two hundred people were killed and wounded. Enemy aircraft raids and artillery shelling were also carried out from Romanian and Finnish territory.
This unheard-of attack on our country is treachery unparalleled in the history of civilized peoples. The attack on our country was carried out despite the fact that a non-aggression pact was concluded between the USSR and Germany and the Soviet government fulfilled all the conditions of this pact in all good faith. The attack on our country was carried out despite the fact that during the entire period of the validity of this treaty the German government could never make a single claim against the USSR regarding the implementation of the treaty. The entire responsibility for this predatory attack on the Soviet Union falls entirely on the German fascist rulers.
Already after the attack, the German ambassador in Moscow, Schulenburg, at 5:30 in the morning, made me, as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, a statement on behalf of his government that the German government had decided to go to war against the USSR in connection with the concentration of Red Army units near the eastern German border.
In response to this, on behalf of the Soviet government, I stated that until the last minute the German government did not present any claims against the Soviet government, that Germany had attacked the USSR, despite the peace-loving position of the Soviet Union, and that thereby fascist Germany was attacking side.
On behalf of the government of the Soviet Union, I must also state that at no point did our troops and our aviation allow the border to be violated, and therefore the statement made by the Romanian radio this morning that the Soviet aviation allegedly fired on Romanian airfields is a complete lie and provocation. Hitler's entire declaration today is just as much a lie and a provocation, trying to concoct, retroactively, accusatory material about the Soviet Union's non-compliance with the Soviet-German pact.
Now that the attack on the Soviet Union has already taken place, the Soviet government has given our troops an order to repulse the piratical attack and drive the German troops out of the territory of our homeland. This war was imposed on us not by the German people, not by the German workers, peasants and intelligentsia, whose sufferings we understand very well, but by a clique of bloodthirsty fascist rulers of Germany who enslaved the French, Czechs, Poles, Serbs, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Greece and other peoples .
The Government of the Soviet Union expresses its unshakable confidence that our valiant army and navy and the brave falcons of Soviet aviation will honorably fulfill their duty to their homeland, to the Soviet people, and deal a crushing blow to the aggressor.
This is not the first time our people have had to deal with an attacking arrogant enemy. At one time, our people responded to Napoleon's campaign in Russia with a Patriotic War, and Napoleon was defeated and came to his own collapse. The same will happen to the arrogant Hitler, who has announced a new campaign against our country. The Red Army and all our people will again wage a victorious patriotic war for the motherland, for honor, for freedom.
The Government of the Soviet Union expresses its firm conviction that the entire population of our country, all workers, peasants and intelligentsia, men and women, will treat their duties and their work with due conscience. All our people must now be united and united as never before. Each of us must demand from ourselves and others discipline, organization, selflessness, worthy of a true Soviet patriot, in order to provide for all the needs of the Red Army, fleet and aviation, in order to ensure victory over the enemy.
The government calls on you, citizens of the Soviet Union, to rally your ranks still more closely around our glorious Bolshevik Party, around our Soviet government, around our great leader, Comrade. Stalin.
Our cause is right. The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours.
Afternoon of August 19, port of Dieppe. German infantryman inspects the results of his work.
« Second front", how much in this sound, for the heart of the Boltsevsischen merged ... or about one " special operation» August 19, 1942.
It's worth talking about Second front”in World War II, as any Soviet will tell you, it was opened too late, in the 44th year, when the fate of the Reich was already unambiguously decided. But didn't Sralin or other Soviet leaders try to force " allies»to open the Second Front a little earlier, when the fate of the war had not yet been decided? They tried, and in the 42nd year. What did they do? allies" in response to Sralin's rightly panicked demand to immediately open " Second front”and somehow weaken the monstrous pressure of the Reich in the East?
Arranged a landing at Dieppe, August 19, 1942.
English military equipment destroyed by the Germans during the landing.
Only 6,000 people landed, they were opposed by only 1,500 Germans. The task of the Anglo-Canadians was to probe the soil, land an assault, destroy everything in the coastal strip, and then leave before the arrival of the main parts of the German army, demonstrating that a large-scale landing operation is possible. It goes without saying that " allies"did everything to screw up the landing - no one smiled at landing in Europe in 1942, meeting the best parts of the Wehrmacht.
Therefore, the first thing the British did was leak the landing date to the Germans. The date is a day later - the landing was originally planned for August 18, the Germans were informed about August 19. Then an invisible force in the British General Staff did everything in its power to drag out the preparations so that the landing began precisely on the 19th. Then the British made up the main part of the landing force - 5,000 people - from inexperienced Canadian conscripts (I don't feel sorry for the Canadians!), who had no combat experience, especially for such complex operations. It is characteristic that the 1000 English commandos accompanying the Canadians also failed to fulfill their combat missions, while the poor colonial infantry was shot down like chickens. But that's not all! If the British undertook to fail some business, then one cannot do without branded English humor. On August 17, the notorious newspaper The Daily Telegraph released a crossword puzzle in which " french port, five letters". Answer? Of course, Dieppe!
German soldiers and commanders are happy to pose on British tanks.
Finally, on the day of the landing, the English squadron accidentally (accidentally?) ran into a German convoy, a skirmish began, and all miserable fragments of surprise were lost. When the British landing craft reached the beaches, all the Germans were at their combat posts, dressed, clean-shaven, having a hearty breakfast and singing "... And now we will fight, fight for 7 days in a row. But we don't fight one by one, only all together».
The Germans simply demolished the first wave of those who landed with machine-gun and mortar fire. Few survivors claimed to have seen the training marks on which the Germans, shortly before landing, learned how to make mortar fire. The second wave was also taken down. Only 6 tanks were able to overcome the beaches, which, entangled without infantry on the streets of Dieppe, were abandoned by their crews. Of the 5,000 Canadians who landed, 68% were killed, wounded or captured. The units that landed simply ceased to exist. Could not fulfill their combat missions and 1000 burnt " commandos". And that day they lost more than 200 people, speaking in fact as cannon fodder. On top of that, the RAF had lost the air battle to the Luftwaffe, and the pitiful remnants of the landing force were tearing the German planes to shreds. 4 hours after the landing began, the BBC officially announced it in its French broadcast, advising the French to evacuate. " We are here a little bit landing at your side. P.S. Don't tell the Germans»!
Then, however, the BBC fell silent - and even the English press had to draw primary information about the losses from German reports. Turning the landing of the Anglo-Saxons into something unimaginable. All this was broadcast on the Eastern Front and undoubtedly reached Sralin, as if hinting that he should hold the Wehrmacht alone.
Of the 5,000 Canadians, 3,367 were killed, wounded or captured. Out of 1000 English commandos - 247 people. 1 English destroyer and 33 landing craft were destroyed, the fleet lost 550 killed and wounded. Plus, 108 aircraft were lost (with the Luftwaffe losing 18 aircraft). The Germans, fighting off this parody of the attack, lost only 591 people, everywhere (even in the work sector " commandos”) while maintaining the coastal line of defense under its control. Worse, the silence of the British media turned the already monstrous landing into an absolute PR disaster. Goebbels spent another month enthusiastically sucking on the events at Dieppe. Hitler for what he showed during the reflection of the landing " calmness and patience"donated 10 million francs to the city of Dieppe and sent home 1,500 French prisoners of war. Moreover, they said so to the freaking French, and they did not laugh: “ Werden Sie zum Hitler hören, - Sie essen Süßigkeiten"! Translated into Russian, these words will sound something like this: If you listen to Hitler, you will eat sweets»!
question about opening« Second Front» was successfully closed for another 2 years.
And today " French port of five letters' is no longer customary to remember.
Based on the number of likes, I liked it. Therefore, I suggest you once again feel the atmosphere of Old Moscow and visit another iconic stadium, which is currently under reconstruction - the Dynamo stadium.
After the work is completed, the beautiful VTB Arena will appear before the eyes of the fans. According to the layouts, it will look something like this.
However, as one well-known song says, Moscow was not built all at once. This place originates in 1774, when the first Turkish war ended and on the occasion of the celebration of the signing of the Kyuchuk-Kaynarji Treaty, it was decided to build the Petrovsky Travel Palace.
Its construction lasted from 1775 to 1782, the chief architect was Matvey Kazakov. The palace was the emperor's last stop on the way to Moscow. After the Patriotic War of 1812 (Napoleon's headquarters was located in this palace), it was decided to lay out a park on this site, which, after the palace, was also called Petrovsky.
1900 - 1916
This place was very aristocratic and prestigious (something like the current Rublyovka) - this is partly what explains why the Bolsheviks chose this place in 1918 to execute the highest officials of the former Russian Empire.
The reservoirs in Petrovsky Park, which can be seen in this diagram, were filled in, and in their place in 1928, the Dynamo stadium was built specifically for the All-Union Spartakiad.
Initially, it was made in the form of a horseshoe, closed from Leningradsky Prospekt, as evidenced by a photograph from the 1928 athletes' parade.
And in such conditions they played here at the same time in bandy
In 1936, the East Stand was built, enclosing the stadium, which then accommodated 54,000 people. And there were full stands for all the matches!
The last pre-war match took place at the stadium on June 19, 1941. During the Great Patriotic War, the stadium turned into a training center for young fighters, which is why it was carefully guarded. In the winter of 1942, fir trees were planted to camouflage it from German aircraft.
After the war, great efforts were made to restore the stadium, in which the captured Germans also took part.
After the war, the stadium hosted a number of serious competitions, of which the 1957 Ice Hockey World Championship is worth mentioning. It turned out something like a winter classic in the Soviet style)
In preparation for the 1980 Olympic Games, the stadium was completely rebuilt. It hosted matches of a football tournament, and on a small sports arena - competitions in field hockey.
In the 90s, the stadium became a venue for concerts, which in 196 did not fail to take advantage of Deep Purple and Michael Jackoson. The latter gathered 71 thousand people here.
In 2002, the stadium hosted the “golden match” of the Russian championship, where Lokomotiv beat CSKA with a minimum score.
And in 2008 the stadium was closed for another reconstruction.
P/S/ I made this video in 2011 especially for lovers of old photographs of Moscow.
