1941 – Local Battles

Having freed prisoners and formed from them a combat unit in the enemy’s rear, the former battalion commander of motor rifle troops—and now the commander of a separate mobile detachment of special purpose of the Bialystok defensive stronghold—Red Army lieutenant Sergey Ivanov trains his men in new combat tactics and methods of waging war, fights against superior enemy forces, while also capturing and using the resources and trophies left behind by our army against the enemy.

Expanding the territory controlled by Soviet troops in the enemy rear, destroying supply communications and disrupting communications, his unit throws confusion into the well-oiled work of Germany’s “military machine,” while destroying the plans of the German command to organize Bialystok and Minsk cauldrons around Soviet troops. Only in Moscow, for now, no one knows about it—so in the daily reports of “From the Soviet Information Bureau,” these battles will be mentioned in just one sentence: “On the Western Front, in the area of the Bialystok salient, local fighting is underway…”