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Chapter 1215 Only martyrs, no prisoners and deserters

How many more people present will die?

Either die on the battlefield or be shot because of failure in the battle. In short, the only way to save the current situation is to force your soldiers to take over even if they die.

At this time, Stalin's eyes were full of anger. Pavlov wanted to go to the battlefield, but he had no choice but to execute him to death so that he could shock others.

However, it seemed that these were not enough. He looked at his subordinates and finally noticed Khrushchev in the corner. Suddenly, Stalin had an idea.

"Comrade Khrushchev, tell me, how do we stop the current fear of failure in the army and the storm of fleeing as soon as we contact the German army?" Stalin said to Khrushchev.

To put it more directly, there is a terrible trend of failure and dispersion in the army now. Once this trend spreads, it will be quite unfavorable to the Soviets.

As a man who was waving and drinking on the political stage, Stalin keenly noticed this, especially after the fall of Petersburg, I am afraid that the trend will become more serious.

At the same time, Stalin also knew everyone's abilities, and Khrushchev was still smart in this regard.

Sure enough, after being called by Stalin, Khrushchev sorted out his ideas and soon started his proposal.

"I think that in order to stop the spread of this improper current trend and to keep the troops full of morale to fight, we must issue the strictest military rules." Khrushchev said: "We cannot tolerate the timid soldiers who surrender once surrounded by the enemy! We cannot tolerate the timid commanders who throw away their military uniforms and flee to the rear if they are hit by the enemy! If we surrender to these cowards and deserters, they will soon destroy our army and destroy our country. Cowards and deserters must be completely eliminated."

Khrushchev's words were deeply appreciated by Stalin, and Stalin nodded: "Speak on."

"Especially those battalion commanders who hide themselves in bunkers during battles and ignore the situation and course of the battle are simply liars. We must remove these liars and demote them to soldiers. If necessary, execute them immediately and replace them with brave and strong men of subordinate officers or Red Army soldiers."

Khrushchev's mind was like a flow of thought. Once he began to consider this, he quickly said: "The commanders and political workers who were thrown away in battle, tear off their badges and fled to the rear or surrendered must be regarded as deserters, and their family members will be arrested as relatives of violators, traitors and deserters. Higher-level commanders and political commissaries have the right to execute such deserters among officers on the spot."

Khrushchev's words made everyone present stunned.

If anyone retreats, not only wants to punish himself, but also does not let their relatives go, will such a punishment be too severe?

Even Zhukov frowned. It was obvious that if this military rule was formulated, it might make the soldiers look dead and fight to the end. It might also have a counterproductive effect, forcing the soldiers who have surrendered to the opposite side!

"Yes, that's what it should do!" Stalin had already made the decision.

"The units and troops surrounded by the enemy should fight to the end without hesitation, protect their equipment with their lives, strike the enemy from the rear of the enemy, and eliminate the Germans. If their troops are surrounded by the enemy, then every soldier, no matter how big his position, has the responsibility to obey the command of his superiors, fight to the end, and break through the blockade. If the officers or soldiers do not organize active resistance and counterattack the enemy, but choose to surrender, they can be eliminated from the air or the ground. The families of the Red Army members who surrender to the enemy will be deprived of the state rights and assistance they enjoy."

Khrushchev's opinions were more and more extreme. The retreating deserters would be executed on the spot, and the surrounded troops would also have to fight to the end, otherwise the families of those captured would be implicated.

"Yes, our Soviets only have martyrs, no prisoners or deserters!" Stalin knocked on the table with his own cigarette pot: "This military rule must be formulated immediately. Khrushchev is responsible for you. It will be drafted today and handed over to me for review and then sent to the entire army for study!"

In Stalin's eyes, there are no prisoners of war for bombardment, only treacherous people. As long as soldiers are captured, they are treacherous people.

Why are you captured? Even if the Germans rushed to you, fired a grenade and died together, they could kill a German, but you chose to surrender. Such an act is a betrayal of the Soviets!

What kind of involvement will be affected by those captured families depends on how the following people carry out the implementation. According to the experience of the Great Purge, the most direct and effective one is of course to shoot the captured families together to shock them and see who dares to surrender!

Khrushchev agreed excitedly, and he finally found his value. He flattered Stalin again and was happy.

He didn't know what role this No. 270 drafted by him and signed by the entire Supreme Command Base Camp played in the entire Patriotic War.

Bellostock, prisoner of war camp.

The entire Belarus battle has ended. In this large-scale encirclement and annihilation battle, more than 300,000 soldiers from the Western Special Military Region became prisoners.

These prisoners were detained in several prisoners of war camps, and what awaited them was an unknown fate.

In the wars in Europe, some gentlemen meant that those prisoners of war were not abused at all, and even those who stayed in Germany after the war ended.

However, unlike the Soviet Union.

For the British and French troops, if they cannot defeat them, they will surrender. There is no shame in that both sides are signatories of the Geneva Convention and must treat prisoners equally.

The Soviet Union did not sign the Geneva Convention, so the treaty of preferential treatment of prisoners was invalid to the Soviets.

The entire prisoner-of-war camp was very crowded, wearing military uniforms, people with any military rank signs removed, gathered together, in front of them, on the platform, were German propagandists talking.
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