y, the vast majority of them, their commanders and commissars conduct themselves with good behavior, courageously, and sometimes they are just heroic. Even those parts of our army, who by circumstance were detached from the army and were surrounded, maintain a spirit of resistance and courage, will not allow themselves to surrender, are attempting to inflict ever more damage to the enemy and out of the environment. It is known that the individual parts of the army that were surrounded by the enemy, used all means in order to cause damage to the enemy and break out of the encirclement.
Deputy Commander of the Western Front, Lieutenant Boldin, while in the 10th Army near Bialystok, surrounded by German troops, organized from left in the enemy's rear Red Army troops, who fought for 45 days behind enemy lines and made their way to the main forces of the Western Front. They destroyed the headquarters of the two German regiments, 26 tanks, 1049 cars, vehicles and staff cars, 147 motorcycles, 5 batteries of artillery, 4 mortars, 15 machine guns, eight machine guns, one airplane at the airport and a warehouse bombs.
More than a thousand German soldiers and officers were killed. On 11 August Lieutenant General Boldin Germans struck from behind, broke through the German front, and united with our troops, and led one of the military environment 1654 and commander of the Red Army, including 103 wounded.
Commissioner of the 8th Mechanized Corps brigade commissar and commander of Popiel 406 cn Colonel Novikov fight was taken out of the environment of the armed 1,778. In a bitter battle with the Germans, the group Novikov-Popel was 650 kilometers, causing huge losses the enemy's rear.
The commander of the 3rd Army, Lieutenant-General Kuznetsov and member of the Military Council of Army Commissar 2nd Rank Biryukov fought taken out of the environment 498 armed soldiers and commanders of the 3rd Army, and organized out of the encirclement of the 108th and 64th Infantry Divisions.
All these and many other similar facts about the resistance of our troops, high morale of our soldiers, commanders and commissars.
But we can not hide that recently there have been some shameful acts of surrender. Certain generals are a bad example for our troops.
The commander of the 28th Army, Lieutenant General Katchalov, being together with a staff of troops surrounded, showed cowardice and surrendered to the German fascists. The headquarters of Katchalov came from an environment, a sample from the environment of the group Katchalov, and Lt. Gen. Katchalov chose to surrender, chose to defect to the enemy.
Lieutenant-General Ponedelin, commander of the 12th Army was encircled by the enemy, but had ample opportunity to get through to her, as did the vast majority of his army. But Ponedelin not shown due persistence and will to win, panicked, scared and surrendered to the enemy, deserted to the enemy, thus committing the crime to the country as a break military oath.
The commander of the 13th Infantry Corps, Major General Kirillov, was surrounded by German forces, rather than to fulfill his duty to the country, entrusted to him to organize For stubborn resistance of the enemy and out of the encirclement, deserted the field of battle and surrendered to the enemy. As a result of the 13th Rifle Corps were broken, and some of them without serious resistance surrendered.
It should be noted that in all the above facts surrender to the enemy military council member armies, commanders, political workers, osobotdelschiki that were present in the environment, showed an unacceptable distraction, shameful cowardice and not even tried to get the wind up to prevent Kachalova Ponedelinym, Kirillov and others to surrender to the enemy.
These shameful facts surrender our sworn enemy suggests that the Red Army, bravely and selflessly protect them from their vile invaders Soviet Motherland, there are unstable, cowardly, cowardly elements. And these cowardly elements are not only among the Red Army, but also among the commanding staff. As you know, some commanders and political wor