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Originally Posted by Egorka
Hello,
Thanks to you I read this order from first to last word for the first time now.
The order consist of two parts. The first is the motivation and the second is the actual order to action.
In the first part indeed very good explanation of the situation on the front and what was going on in the army i nsummer 1942. Very well formed concepts that is strait to the point and can be understood by the most Red army soldiers. Very little real propaganda statements (more or less not a single word about communism and such).
Second part is what actually was supposed to do. Again nothing really unhuman in the order it self (it in fact could not be to unfair because it was a public order). Of course very brutal. And for sure many (probably 2 -3 tousands, I guess) people were killed for no reason.
When trying to alalyse this ortder please remember that neither UK nor USA never (in the latest time) experienced enemy on their soil. You can not understand the intence of the strugle which led to these extreme measures.
The only alternative is peace!
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You're more than welcome.
If you look back at that period, most of Stalin and USSR's exhortations were to fight for the "motherland" not for socialism (though they did refer to the enemy as "the fascists", "the fascist Germans", etc.). It was clear to them that the people were more interested in fighting for and willing to die for their homeland than for their government. Even the name by which it became known (The Great Patriotic War) was emblematic of that fact.