Propaganda Posters Ww2 Beat Them Once

1. Zinoviy Kolobanov: the tank victory that no ane believed

Zinoviy Kolobanov

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When World War Two began, Zinoviy Kolobanov already had serious military experience. For example, he fought in the Finnish War of 1939-1940, during which he escaped from a burning tank three times.

In 1941, Kolobanov commanded a tank unit during the German advance toward Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Near the hamlet of Voskovitsy, Kolobanov's unit got the lodge to defend the road leading to the town of Krasnogvardeysk (now Gatchina, 26 miles outside Leningrad). With just 5 heavy KV-1 tanks at his disposal, Kolobanov moved his unit of measurement to an important crossroads where he ordered two tanks to block the two roads to Krasnogvardeysk. Meanwhile, he strategically parked his tank 300 meters away in a hull-down position, such that it was barely visible.

As the German tanks approached their troops were overly confident, some even sitting on the hulls with hatches open. Clearly, they didn't spot Kolobanov's tank in a hull-down. Andrey Usov, Kolobanov'due south ace gunner, destroyed the starting time and the last of the 22 tanks in the enemy column, effectively blocking them on a narrow road surrounded by swamp. The rest of the tanks were all lined up before Kolobanov'south tank but like in a shooting range.

Amid the turmoil, some of the enemy tanks' ammunition exploded, while others slid into the swamp, rendering them motionless, yet they fired fiercely. Fortunately, KV-1 tanks proved almost invincible to German guns. Subsequently the boxing, in that location were over 100 hit marks on the hull of Kolobanov's tank, but none had pierced the armor. Kolobanov destroyed 22 enemy tanks, and his unabridged unit destroyed 48 in total, stopping the German forces.

Shortly after his about famous battle, Zinoviy Kolobanov was seriously wounded and recovered just in 1945. He lived in Minsk until his death in 1994. Kolobanov'south win was considered so incredible and adventurous that many didn't believe it. When in the 1970s Belorussian TV wanted to make a story about Kolobanov'south feat, it was disapproved by superiors as preposterous.

2. Semen Nomokonov: the shaman sniper

Semen Nomokonov

Wikipedia

Semen Nomokonov was an indigenous Siberian, a member of the Evenk people. He had been a hunter since babyhood, and considering of his extraordinary eyesight he was nicknamed "Vulture center." He started his service in the army equally a medic, and one time when carrying a wounded soldier from the field he noticed a German sniper aiming at him. And so, he grabbed a nearby gun and shot him dead nigh without aiming. That's how Nomokonov's sniper career began.

In total, Nomokonov was wounded 8 times. He killed 368 enemy soldiers, including one major general. His exploits were legendary, and the Germans purportedly nicknamed him "the Taiga shaman." Oft while on a mission, he utilized mirrors to distract the enemy with flashes, and used empty helmets on sticks to create "prosthetic" soldiers around him. Nobody could disguise himself better than Nomokonov.

He kept track of his kills past making notches on his smoking pipe, and he often used a simple rifle without a telescopic sight. "I could call up that the hunter is using some type of impure force," a journalist once wrote of Nomokonov.

3. Ivan Sereda: don't mess with the melt

Ivan Sereda was just 22 in June 1941. Like many Ukrainians, he loved to eat and cooked very well, graduating from culinary higher before the war began. Sereda was eager to go into battle, but there were few cooks who could provide salubrious nutrition for the troops, so he was left behind to work in the field kitchen.

One twenty-four hours, when his regiment was on the front lines most Daugavpils in Latvia, two enemy tanks appeared in the rear of Soviet positions, virtually Sereda's field kitchen. He acted chop-chop and hid with the regiment's horses in the forest. The only weapons he had were an axe and an onetime rifle. One of the tanks avant-garde forward, while another one stopped beside the kitchen.

The Germans started to exit their tank to have stock of the captured kitchen and hopefully a warm meal. Suddenly, nevertheless, Ivan came running out of his hiding place waving an axe, forcing the Germans to retreat back into their vehicle. The machine gun started firing, only Ivan was already on top of the tank, bending the gun'due south barrel with his axe. Then, he started commanding his fellow troops (who weren't in that location, merely the Germans didn't know that) to hit the tank with grenades. All the while, he banged away on the tank's armor with his axe.

When the terrified enemies tried to escape their tank, Ivan held them at gunpoint until his troops returned. Later, Sereda received the land's most prestigious medals, Hero of the Soviet Union, and Order of Lenin, for his fighting prowess. Certainly, it wasn't for his cooking skills.

four. Dmitry Ovcharenko: how does a Nazi lose his head

Dmitry Ovcharenko

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A peasant from Lugansk Region, Dmitry Ovcharenko wasn't a very skilful student, having simply completed five grades. He boasted considerable physical strength, however, and so he was drafted in the early days of the war. When Ovcharenko was wounded he was given a commission in a logistics regiment, charged with supplying troops with nutrient and ammo.

On July thirteen, 1941, while transporting goods, Ovcharenko was caught unaware by a German squad of 50 soldiers and three officers. At gunpoint, they took away his rifle, and interrogated him near his railroad vehicle with hay, nutrient and ammo. In the blink of an centre, withal, Ovcharenko grabbed an axe subconscious under the hay and beheaded the interrogating officeholder. In the next few seconds, while the terror-stricken Germans stood past, he threw three grenades, killing over twenty people, while the remainder fled. Ovcharenko managed to impale withal another officer, beheading him with the aforementioned axe. To avoid any doubt of his astonishing feat, he gathered proof, taking the German troops' documents.

Soon subsequently, Dmitry was awarded the medal of Hero of the Soviet Wedlock, and sent to fight in a machine gun squad. Sadly, he didn't see the final victory over the Nazis, and was killed in Republic of hungary in early 1945.

5. Lyudmila Pavlichenko: the sniper who inspired Woody Guthrie

Lyudmila Pavlichenko

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Lyudmila Pavlichenko is considered one of the most successful snipers in history, and the tiptop female person sniper ever. Nicknamed "Lady Death" past American journalists, in the Soviet Union her name was associated not with death, only with righteous vengeance.

In her youth, Pavlichenko studied to get a historian. When the war started, she had already finished her thesis piece of work, but volunteered for the army. During her college years, she had taken sniper preparation courses. In the commencement years of the state of war, she met a sniper, Leonid, and they decided to marry. But Leonid was shortly mortally wounded. Pavlichenko had to carry her groom's dead trunk from the battlefield.

By June 1942, Pavlichenko already had 309 kills. One of her longest sniper duels was confronting a High german who had already taken down two of her boyfriend Russian snipers. For the entire day, the silent duel continued, with both Pavlichenko and her German language opponent lying low, waiting for either to evidence themselves.

After 24 hours, both exhausted, the opponents found each other. Pavlichenko was faster, however. In the German language sniper's notebook, she found records of the kills of over 400 Soviet and Allied soldiers.

In June 1942, Pavlichenko was wounded. Later recovering, she was sent to the U.Southward. for propaganda purposes, where she met President Roosevelt and went for a short tour across the land and Canada.

"I'k only 25, gentlemen, and I've already killed 309 fascist oppressors. Don't you think, gentlemen, that y'all've been hiding behind my back for besides long?" she said in her famous Chicago speech. Pavlichenko impressed the Americans so much that fifty-fifty the folk fable Woody Guthrie wrote a vocal about the famous "Miss Pavlichenko" with the haunting refrain, "Three hundred Nazis fell by your gun."

These are just a few of Soviet WWII heroes – but every human or woman who fought the Nazis can be called one. Yous can read about 12 women who helped defeat the Reich, or learn 5 facts about the near feared Soviet weapon. Maybe you'd like to know about foreign units in the Soviet army or how U.Thou. and U.Southward. helped heave Russian firepower? Or, if yous're tired of battles and weapons, endeavor taking a look at the Russian peacetime hero.

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