ent, fight to the last, to make way for his own, and if such a boss or group of Red Army instead of organizing resistance to the enemy will choose to give up his prisoner, - Destroy them by all means, both ground and air, and the families who surrendered captured Soviet soldiers deny public assistance and help.
Oblige commanders and commissars divisions immediately shift from post commanders of battalions and regiments, hiding in crevices during the battle and those who fear direct its fight on the battlefield, to reduce their positions as impostors, translate the ranks, and when necessary to shoot them on the spot, bringing to their place of bold and courageous people of junior command personnel or from the ranks of the Red Army excelled.
The order read in all companies, squadrons, batteries, squadrons, teams and staffs.
Supreme High Command of Red Army Chairman of the National Defence –STALIN
Deputy. Chairman of the State Defence Committee V. Molotov Marshal S. Boudin Marshal Timoshenko Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov Army General Zhukov