History 22/03/20 Ataman Shkuro: why Stalin executed the hero of the First world in 1947
the head of Andrei Shkuro in the First world war the Germans gave 60 thousand, his “Wolf’s hundred” was the first Russian special forces. During the Civil war about the “white partisans” wrote world newspaper. During the Second world General Shkuro collaborated with the Nazis.
wolves company
In world war I Shkuro was famous for the creation of the cavalry special forces unit, dubbed “Wolf hundred”. I must say that the use of wolf symbolism was not an invention of Andrei Grigorievich. The first “wolves” was the 2nd hundred 2nd Argun regiment of the Cossacks of the Baikal. When attacking with lava squad even used the distinctive wolf’s howl that contributed to the demoralization of the enemy. For the first time this kind of psychic attack was used during the Chinese campaign 1900-1901 years.
In the middle of 1915, Colonel Shkuro turned to the command of the Russian army initiated the establishment of a special unit which could make acts of sabotage behind enemy lines. The idea met a cool but hides its “breakdown”, after which they were formed Kuban horse regiment of special purpose. As the symbol was made a black banner with a wolf’s head, for which the squad got its unofficial name.
the Activities of the “Wolf hundreds” were extremely effective. In the first combat outing “wolves” destroyed fifteen hundred Germans. The squad made sabotage (blew up and destroyed the bridges, divisional and regimental headquarters), captured weapons and prisoners. During a sudden RAID on the village of Nobel, which housed the headquarters of the German infantry division, the skins managed to capture its commander and several officers. After that he became for the Germans “enemy No. 1” on his head were assigned a monetary award in the amount of 60 thousand rubles. Of course, this could not stop the skins. His “special forces” continued to harass the enemy from Minsk region to the Southx the Carpathians.
Despite these obvious successes of the “Wolf hundreds” attitude towards it was ambiguous. A staunch opponent of the methods of skins was Wrangell. The renowned special forces skins he responded critically: “…with few exceptions, there were mostly the worst elements of the officers, thatuses for some reason, the service in the native parts. The detachment of Colonel Shkuro led by their chief, acting district XVIII corps<...> mostly hanging out in the back, drank and plundered, until, finally, at the insistence of the corps commander Krymov, was not withdrawn from the portion of the body”.
a Decorated
Revolution skins are not accepted. His “Wolf hundred” caught red agitators and propagandists and forced under the whip to sing “God save the Tsar”. A lack of weapons and ammunition were identified and methods of combating group – subversive. It has benefited hundreds of skins were able to successfully confront the regular units of the red army, superior to it in 20-30 times.
the Popularity of skins was growing up. In July 1918 he took a busy red Stavropol, thus saved from certain death sentenced by the Cheka to be shot of citizens.
Together with the Volunteer army of General Denikin, Shkuro became the commander of the division. In January 1919, the division of the skins released from the red of the upper Kuban and took Vladikavkaz – skins received the title of major-General.
the Popularity of Andrew G. was stunning. His name is even called the train and the tank. The skins were and international fame, head of the British military mission personally handed over to major General, the highest Royal award of great Britain – the order of Bath 1-th degree. Skins on the pages of Newspapers in Britain, France and Russia was called a folk hero and the “white partisans”, published biographies of the young General.
Rail of war
skins was known for its innovative at the time methods of warfare. In the preparation of the March on Moscow, he proposed to send to Denikin in the rear of the red commandos, which could leaddrivenow of the partisan “rail war” war – blow up the points of contact and the train station, to thereby interrupt communication between the staffs.
If the skins plan was approved, the fate of the Moscow campaign could be quite different. However, Denikin was against it. Was against the French and the British. Honor of the capture of Moscow was supposed to belong to officer regiments of the White army, not partisan groups.
Something from which refused the white was successfully applied by the red army in the operation “Bagration” in the great Patriotic war when saboteurs-demolition and guerrilla groups paralyzed the maneuver of armored divisions of army group “Center”, completely breaking the connection of the Germans.
Of the generals at the circus
skins never hoarded riches. In exile, he was almost without means of subsistence. To somehow make ends meet, the illustrious General formed a band of Cossack trick riding, he was in the circus. Ambition Andrei Grigoryevich worked here – his band became the best in Europe, became world famous. He starred in “white partisans” and in silent films, but about the past glory could not even dream of. In his memoirs, Alexander Vertinsky, who met with a skin of nice, commented on the meeting: “the premiers — in the extras! — I thought. — From the formidable generals in the fake soldiers movie!… Indeed, the fate plays a man”.
the End
the cooperation of the skins with the Nazis to the present day remains the hot. The General turned to the Germans in June 1941, offering assistance in the formation of the Cossack divisions in the Wehrmacht and recreating the Cossack Republic on the don and Kuban. After a brutal decossackization he considered Stalin his personal enemy. The idea of Hitler skins are not liked, but skins was appointed head of the Cossack reserve in the Management of the Cossack troops. Skins creates Cossack division in Poland, but after the attempt on Hitler’s confidence in him is lost completely, the Main Department of Cossack troops, falls under licny the control of Himmler.
In June 1945, General with 70 thousands of Cossacks were transferred by the British to the Soviet Union. January 17, 1947, the skins were hanged.
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