The order directed that each army must create "blocking detachments" at the rear that would shoot "panic-mongers and cowards"
Soviet Commisars had a job to do...
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Azov Leader Admits to Ukrainian Use of ‘Blocking Detachments’, Governor Dinwiddie wrote: A page right out of Stalin's book Order No. 227 The order directed that each army must create "blocking detachments" at the rear that would shoot "panic-mongers and cowards"
The Ukrainians claim Russia does it too. That may be right, given your Stalin source. However, I posted about it because Biden just authorized American 'foreign aid' funds to go to the Azov military, as the Ukraine is clearly losing the war. The Ukraine is conscripting men and boys ages 15 to 70 (and handicapped) to go fight; they are under-equipped, under-trained; and there's insufficient air support to keep them alive. Now imagine the United States funding Azovs behind the conscripts, to block boys and old men from retreat. It sounds like a nightmare, but perhaps it ends quickly (death).
I thought it was interesting that the Ukraine is using the Azovs with minimal risk to their lives by putting them behind the canon fodder.
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