sistance 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 workers by their behavior, not only at the front of the Red Army did not show a sample of courage, strength and love of country, and vice versa hide in crevices in the offices are busy, do not see and do not observe the field of battle, and when the first serious challenges to combat shrink from the enemy, tear off his insignia, a deserter from the battlefield.
Can I put up with the Red Army cowards, deserters to the enemy and surrendering him prisoner or such craven chiefs, who at the first hitch on the front tears off his insignia and desert in the rear? No you can not! If unleash these cowards and deserters, they lay the short time our army and destroy our country. Cowards and deserters must be destroyed.
Can we assume battalion commanders and commanders of regiments, who hide in crevices during the fight, do not see the battlefield, there was no progress on the field of battle and still think they regimental commanders and battalions? No you can not! This is not the commanders of regiments and battalions, and impostors.
If unleashed such impostors, they soon turn our army into a solid office. These impostors should immediately dismiss from office, to reduce the post, in the rank and file transfer, and if necessary shot on the spot, bringing to their place of bold and courageous people from the ranks of junior command personnel or of the soldiers.
I hereby order:
Commanders and political officers in combat tears off his insignia and deserters to the rear or surrendering to the enemy, considered malicious deserters whose families are subject to arrest as a family have violated the oath and betrayed their homeland deserters.
Require all higher commanders and commissars shot on the spot such deserters of command personnel.
Was encircled enemy units and formations selflessly fight to the last, to protect materiel as the apple of an eye, on his way to the rear of the enemy troops, defeating the fascist dogs.
Require each soldier, regardless of his or her position, require the superior, if part of it is in the environm