Order No. 270 - the key to disrupting the blitzkrieg or “another crime of the Stalinist regime”?
Exactly 80 years ago, on August 16, 1941, Order No. 270 of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command “On the responsibility of military personnel for surrendering and leaving weapons to the enemy” was issued. The order was signed by the Chairman of the State Defense Committee Stalin, Deputy Chairman of the State Defense Committee Molotov, Marshals of the Soviet Union Budyonny, Voroshilov, Timoshenko, Shaposhnikov and Army General Zhukov. Over the past 30 years, around the Order...
