Правда истории или мифология? Малоизвестные страницы служебно-боевой деятельности войск НКВД СССР

The book by Vladimir Gorodinsky interprets in a somewhat new way many issues of the service and combat activities of the Border Troops of the NKVD of the USSR in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War. Based on data extracted from previously unknown archival documents, as well as analysis of scientific, historical and memoir literature, the author refutes some established myths of border historiography, and for the first time gives a deeply reasoned interpretation of such problems as the direction of pre-war plans for the use of border troops in the upcoming war with Nazi Germany and its allies, the exact time of the start of hostilities on different sections of the western border of the USSR, the number and structure of losses among border guards and some others. Considerable attention is paid to the study of the role of the human factor in war. The book is intended for everyone who is interested in the history of the participation of the Border Troops of the NKVD of the USSR in the battles of the initial period of the Great Patriotic War

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