The Ministry of Defense of Russia has published the multimedia section “Heroes of Tank Battle. By the 75th anniversary of the Day of Tanker” with archival materials about the tactics of Soviet tank workers, which led to the victory of the Red Army in the battle on the Kursk arc.
“Every year in our country, on the second Sunday of September, there is a day of tanker. This holiday was established 75 years ago by the Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet of July 1, 1946,” said the project entry.
Among the document there is a rare archive – the order of Joseph Stalin dated October 16, 1942, which explains the reasons for the unsuccessful use of the Red Army of Tanks in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War. In the material it is said that “tanks when attack are broken away from the infantry”, and “artillery before the start of the tank attack does not suppress anti-tank funds” enemy. A tank support guns are not always used, and the tanks themselves cannot fulfill the main task to destroy the adversary infantry.
In the materials it is noted that the tanks should not disappear from their infantry by more than 200-400 meters, and their goal is to destroy the infant infantry. More than four million people, more than 69 thousand guns and mortars, 14 thousand tanks and sau, up to 12 thousand aircraft, were participating in the Kursk arc on both sides, “by the end of the operation, 30 tanks remained in the Soviet division and no more than 40 people left.
Earlier on August 8, it became known that the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the first time declassified evidence of the preparation of Japan to war from the USSR.