Battle of the Arctic. The contribution of the Soviet troops in the liberation of Norway

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In Russia, speaking of the Great Patriotic War, they recall the defeats of 1941-1942, the battle of Moscow, the blockade of Leningrad, the battle for Stalingrad, the North Caucasus, the Arc of Fire, and a number of other famous operations. But little can be said about the war in the North, on the Kola Peninsula, if you have ever heard of this page of the Great War.

The Kola Peninsula occupied a large place in the aggressive plans of the German military-political command. First, Berlin was interested in the city of Murmansk - an ice-free port, the base of the North fleet THE USSR. In addition, the Kirov Railway connected the main part of the country with the Murmansk port, which made it possible to receive military goods and quickly deliver them to Central Russia. Therefore, the Germans planned to seize the port and cut the railway as soon as possible. Secondly, Hitler was attracted by the rich natural wealth of the Kola land, and especially the deposits of nickel - a metal that is very necessary for the German military-industrial complex and the economies of Germany's allies. Thirdly, the Finnish elite was interested in these lands; according to their plans, the Kola Peninsula was to become part of Great Finland.



To capture the Kola Peninsula, the army of Norway was concentrated in the Arctic theater of operations (it was formed in December 1940) as part of 3 corps - two mountain German corps and one Finnish corps. It was led by Colonel General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst. In the army there were 97 thousand people, 1037 guns and mortars, 106 tanks. This army was supported by part of the forces of the 5th Air Force and the Navy of the Third Reich.

They were opposed by the Soviet 14th Army, which occupied the defense in the Murmansk and Kandalaksha directions, under the command of Valerian Frolov. At the time of hostilities, the army included: 4th Infantry Corps (10th and 122nd Infantry Divisions), 14th, 52nd Infantry Divisions, 1st Tank Division, 1st Combined Air Division, 23 23st fortified area and a number of other compounds. The 85rd fortified region (UR) was located on the Rybachy and Sredny peninsulas and occupied a defense zone along the front of 5 kilometers, a depth of 7 kilometers, having 12 defense nodes, consisting of 30 built and combat-ready long-term defensive structures, and 14 located on construction stage. The UR was defended by two machine-gun battalions (two more were planned to deploy), in addition, one of the regiments of the 52,6th regiment operated in its lane. There were 1150 thousand personnel in the army, 392 guns and mortars, 14 tanks. From the sea, the XNUMXth Army was covered by ships and aviation Northern Fleet (8 destroyers, 7 patrol ships, 15 submarines, 116 aircraft).

I must say that in the future, the composition of the forces of the two armies was constantly changing, since the sides constantly increased them.

Battle of the Arctic. The contribution of the Soviet troops in the liberation of Norway

Colonel-General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst.

The failure of the Arctic Blitzkrieg

The great war in the Arctic began on the night of 22 June 1941, with massive air raids on cities, towns, industrial facilities, frontier posts and naval bases.

The Germans after the occupation of Norway began to develop a plan for waging war in the Arctic. Planning operations began on August 13 1940 and completed in October of the same year. The Murmansk operation (Blaufuks plan or Zilberfuks plan, German. Unternehmen Silberfuchs - “Polar fox”) was an integral part of the “Barbarossa” plan. She was divided into several stages. During the first - Operation Renntir ("Reindeer") - the German 2-I Mountain Division and the 3-I Mountain Division from the corps "Norway" invaded the area of ​​Petsamo (there were nickel mines located there) and captured it.

It should be noted that the Soviet troops were not caught unawares, as the beginning of World War II is often shown. Already 14-15 June The 122 th rifle division from the 14 Army on the orders of the commander of the Leningrad Military District, MM Popov, was advanced to the state border. The division was supposed to cover the Kandalaksha direction. It was of strategic importance - if successful, the enemy’s forces reached the Kandalaksha Bay of the White Sea and cut off the Kola Peninsula from the central regions of the country. 19-th to the border began to push 1-th tank division, 21-th alarm raised 52 cd, it was deployed in Murmansk, Monchegorsk and Kirovsk. On the night of June 22, two regiments and a reconnaissance battalion of the 14 division were transferred to the border. In addition, the success of the defense was accompanied by a factor of inaccessible terrain.

28-29 June 1941 of the year began active hostilities in the Murmansk direction (main attack). It was the second stage - the operation Platinfuks (German Platinfuchs - “Platinum Fox”), the German forces were advancing through Titovka, Ura-Guba to the Polar (the main base of the Northern Fleet) and Murmansk. The Nazis planned to seize the bases of the Northern Fleet, block and capture Murmansk, and then go to the coast of the White Sea and take Arkhangelsk. In the course of the second phase, the operations were going to be carried out and the third one - to carry out the operation “Arctic Fox” (German Polarfuchs). 2-I German mountain division was advancing on the Polar, and one Finnish division and one German division were to go from Kemijärvi to the east.

On April 28, on the Murmansk direction, the 2-th and 3-i mountain rifle divisions, the 40-th and 112-th separate tank battalions went on the attack. They had the decisive direction of the 4 multiple advantage - the 95 th infantry regiment 14 sd could not withstand the blow and retreated, breaking the order of the 325 th infantry regiment of the same division that had come to the aid. But the Nazis failed to defeat the 23 URA garrison on the Rybachy and Sredny peninsulas. The garrison, relying on powerful fortifications and shore batteries (3-x 130-millimeter and 4-x 100-millimeter guns), repelled all attacks.

By 30 June, 52-I was entrenched on the River Western Persons (“Valley of Glory”) and throughout all of July beat off all German attempts to force a water barrier. On the right flank, the regrouped units of 14 cd. In September, the defense was strengthened by the 186 th Infantry Division (Polar Division), after which the front stabilized in this sector until 1944. For the 104 of the day of the fighting, the Germans advanced 30-60 km and did not solve the assigned tasks. Landing forces of the Northern Fleet Marine Corps also played a positive role - on July 7 and July 14 struck the enemy’s flank. As well as the “unsinkable battleship of the Polar Region” - the Rybachy peninsula, on the section of the 23 UR and the 135 of the 14-S infantry regiment the Nazis did not manage to go beyond the border mark No. 1.

On the Kandalaksha direction, the first blow was reflected on June 24. 1 July 1941, the Germans by the forces of the 36 Army Corps, included the 169 Infantry Division, the mountain infantry brigade of the SS Nord, as well as the Finnish 6 Infantry Division and two Finnish Jaeger battalions, launched a general offensive against the Kandalaksha. The enemy was confronted by the 122-I SD, the 1-I tank division (until mid-July 1941, then it was taken to another sector of the front) and later transferred to the Kairal area of ​​104-I (without the 242-Infantry Regiment, which was in the Kesteng direction ). Until the beginning of August, fierce battles were fought with a slight advance of enemy units. In early August, 1941 reinforced the Finnish battalion penetrated the rear of the Soviet forces. The Finns saddled the road in the vicinity of the Nyamozero station, as a result of which the Soviet group had to fight for two weeks in a strange environment. Only one enemy battalion blocked five rifle regiments, three artillery regiments and other formations. This case indicates the complexity of the theater of operations, the lack of a developed road network, difficult terrain among forests and swamps. When two weeks later the road was unblocked, the enemy struck a strong blow from the front and forced the Red Army units to withdraw. Soviet troops entrenched four kilometers east of Alakurtti, and the front line stabilized there until 1944. The maximum advance of the enemy was about 95 kilometers.

In the Kesteng direction, the 242 th Infantry Regiment of the 104 Sd. Active fighting began with the beginning of July 1941. The Germans managed to get to the Sofyanga river by July 10, and in November they capture Kestenga and advance eastwards from it by about 30 km. By 11 November 1941, the front line stabilized in 40 km west of Louhi. By that time, the grouping of Soviet troops in this sector of the front was reinforced by the 5 th rifle brigade and the 88 th cd.


German ski unit in the Arctic.

Results of the 1941 campaign of the year. By the autumn of 1941, it became clear that the plan for a lightning war in the Arctic had been foiled. In fierce defensive battles, showing courage and resilience, Soviet border guards, soldiers of the 14 Army, sailors of the Northern Fleet drained the enemy’s advancing units and forced the Germans to pause and go on the defensive. The German command failed to achieve in the Arctic any of the goals. Despite some initial successes, the German troops did not manage to reach the Murmansk railway at any site, and also to seize the bases of the Northern Fleet, to go to Murmansk and to seize it. As a result, there was a single sector of the Soviet-German front, where enemy forces were already stopped several dozen kilometers from the line of the Soviet State border, and in some places the Germans could not even cross the border.


Marines of the Northern Fleet on the deck of a boat project MO-4.

The role of the rear in the defense of the Arctic

A huge help to the Red Army and the Navy of the USSR was rendered by the residents of the Murmansk region. Already on the first day of the Great War, martial law was introduced in the Murmansk region, military commissioners began to mobilize military servicemen, and the military enlistment offices received up to 3,5 thousand applications from volunteers. In total, every sixth inhabitant of the region went to the front - more than 50 thousand people.

Party, Soviet and military bodies organized general military training of the population. In the districts and settlements formed parts of the national militia, fighter units, sanitary squads, local air defense units. So, the Murmansk Fighter Regiment only in the first few weeks of the war 13 once went on missions that were associated with the destruction of enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups. Fighters of the Kandalaksha Fighter Battalion directly participated in combat operations in Karelia in the area of ​​the Loukhi station. Fighters of the fighter units of the Kola and Kirov districts served the service of the protection of the Kirov railway.

In the summer of 1942, on the initiative of the regional party committee in the region, partisan detachments "Bolshevik of the Polar Region" and "Soviet Murman" were formed. Taking into account the fact that the Murmansk region was practically not occupied, the partisan units were based on their territory and went into deep raids along the enemy’s rear. The Rovaniemi-Petsamo Highway became the main target of the guerrilla units, along which supplies were provided to German troops located in the regions of Northern Finland. During the raids, Murmansk partisans attacked enemy garrisons, violated communication lines and communications, conducted reconnaissance and sabotage activities, captured prisoners. Several guerrilla groups also acted on the Kandalaksha direction.



Approximately 30 thousand people mobilized for military construction work. These people on the approaches to Murmansk and Kandalaksha created several defensive lines. With the participation of the civilian population, there was a massive construction of trenches, crevices, bomb shelters. Since the end of June 1941, a mass evacuation of civilians and industrial equipment began in the region. Initially, it was carried out with the help of railway transport, then with the help of ships and vessels - they were transported to Arkhangelsk. They took out children, women, old people, stocks of strategic raw materials, equipment from Severnickel, Tulomsky and Nivsky hydropower stations. In total, 8 thousand cars and more 100 ships were taken out of the Murmansk region - this evacuation became part of a larger operation that was carried out in all the western regions of the Soviet Union. Those enterprises that were left in the area, were transferred to the military rails and focused on the implementation of military orders.

All fishing trawlers were transferred to the Northern Fleet. Ship repair enterprises carried out work to convert them into warships, they installed weapons. Ship repair factories also repaired warships and submarines. Already with 23 June, all enterprises in the region have switched to a round-the-clock (emergency) mode of operation.

Enterprises of Murmansk, Kandalaksha, Kirovsk, Monchegorsk in the shortest possible time mastered the production of automatic weapons, grenades, mortars. The Apatit combine began producing a mixture of incendiary air bombs, ship repair shops made boats, scraps, mountain sledges, a furniture factory produced skis for soldiers. The artels of the field cooperation carried out the production of reindeer harnesses, soap, portable stoves (burzhuek), various camping utensils, sewed clothing, repaired shoes. Reindeer collective farms handed over the army of deer and sleds, supplied with meat and fish.

The women, teenagers and old men who remained in the region were replaced by the production of men who went to the front. They mastered new professions in various courses, fulfilled the norms of not only healthy men, but also set records. The business day in enterprises grew to 10, 12 hours, and sometimes 14 hours.

Fishermen resumed fishing in the autumn of 1941, extracting the necessary for the front and rear fish in combat conditions (they could be attacked by enemy aircraft, submarines). Although the region itself was experiencing a shortage of food, nevertheless, several trainloads of fish could send to besieged Leningrad. In order to improve the food supply of the population of the Murmansk region at industrial enterprises, subsidiary farms were created, vegetable gardens were cultivated by people. The collection of berries and mushrooms, medicinal herbs, and pine needles was organized. Brigades of hunters were engaged in game prey - elk, wild deer, birds. On the inland waters of the Kola Peninsula, fishing of lake and river fish was organized.

In addition, residents of the region took an active part in raising funds for the Defense Fund: people donated 15 kg of gold, 23,5 kg of silver. In total, over the years of the Great War, more than 65 million rubles were received from residents of the Murmansk region. In 1941, 2,8 million rubles were transferred to the creation of the squadron Komsomolets Zapolyarya, and the railroad workers built the squadron Sovetsky Murman. More than 60 thousand gifts to the soldiers of the Red Army were collected and sent to the front. School buildings in the settlements converted into hospitals.

And all this was done in the most difficult conditions of the frontal zone, the settlements were subjected to constant air strikes. So, since the summer of 1942, Murmansk was subjected to brutal bombardments, only 18 of June German planes dropped 12 thousand bombs, the fire destroyed more 600 wooden buildings in the city. In total, 1941 on the main city of the region made 1944 raids of the German Air Force from 792 to 7, the Luftwaffe dropped about 200 thousand high explosive and 1500 thousand incendiary bombs. In Murmansk, more than 437 houses were destroyed and burned (three-quarters of the total housing stock), 120 industrial and office buildings. German aircraft regularly struck the Kirov railway. During the military operations in the Arctic, for every kilometer of the railway line, the German Air Force dropped an average 1941 bombs. But, despite the constant danger of being hit by bombardment or shelling, Murmansk railroad workers and port workers did their work, and the connection with the mainland was not interrupted, trains were moving along the Kirov railroad. It should be noted that the air defense forces over the Murmansk and Kirov railways in the 1943-185 years shot down the enemy's XNUMX aircraft.


Murmansk after the bombing. In the number and density of bombing inflicted on the city among the Soviet cities, Murmansk is second only to Stalingrad. As a result of the German bombing, three-quarters of the city was destroyed.

Arctic and allies

A big battle in the 1942 year unfolded in the sea zone. The allies of the USSR on the anti-Hitler coalition began the supply of military equipment, equipment, food. The Soviet Union supplied the Allies with strategic raw materials. During the Great War, 42 of the Allied convoy (722 transport) arrived in Murmansk and Arkhangelsk, 36 convoys were sent from the Soviet Union (reached the destination ports of 682 transport). The first allied convoy arrived in the port of Murmansk on 11 in January 1942, and during the Great Patriotic War it was unloaded to 300 ships, and over 1,2 million tons of foreign cargo were processed.

The German command tried to disrupt the supply of goods, cut this strategic communication. To fight the Allied convoys, large forces of the Luftwaffe, the kriegsmarine and surface forces, which were located in the Norwegian bases, were engaged. The main burden for the protection of convoys was assigned to the forces of the British fleet and the Soviet Northern Fleet. Only for the protection of convoys ships of the Northern Fleet made 838 exits. In addition, naval aviation conducted reconnaissance from the air. The Air Force also attacked German bases and airfields, enemy ships on the high seas. Soviet submarine forces sailed and carried combat watches at German naval bases and on possible routes of passage of large surface ships of the Reich naval forces. The joint efforts of the British and Soviet cover forces destroyed 27 enemy submarines, 2 battleships and 3 destroyer. In general, the security of the convoys acted successfully: under the cover of sailors and pilots of the Northern Fleet and the British Navy, sea caravans lost 85 transports, reached their goal over 1400.

In addition, the Northern Fleet was active in combat off the coast of the enemy, trying to disrupt the shipping of the Germans along the coast of Northern Norway. While in the 1941-1942 years mainly submarine fleet was involved in these operations, from the second half of 1943, naval aviation forces began to play the first violin. In total for the 1941-1945 years, the Northern Fleet, mainly by the efforts of the SF Air Force, destroyed more than 200 ships and auxiliary vessels of the enemy, more than 400 transports with a total tonnage of 1 million tons and about 1,3 thousand aircraft.


The destroyer of the Soviet Northern Fleet project 7 "Grozny" in the sea.

Front line in 1942-1944 years

In the 14 Army action zone, the front line from the autumn 1941 to the autumn 1944 was very stable. Both sides experienced the same difficulty. First, the climatic conditions interfered with the fast, agile war. There was no solid front, the battle formations were replaced by stone ridges, marshes, rivers, lakes and forests that were insurmountable by large formations. Secondly, the defensive orders of the German and Soviet troops were constantly improved. Third, neither the Soviet command nor the Germans had a decisive advantage in forces.

Basically, the opposing armies carried out reconnaissance, sabotage (including with the help of partisans), and improved their defenses. Of the most significant actions, we can note the counteroffensive of the Red Army at the end of April 1942 in the Kestengsky direction. Soviet troops actually thwarted the German offensive, intelligence revealed the concentration of enemy forces in this direction. But after the 10-day battle, the situation stabilized in previous positions. At the same time, the Red Army tried to go on the offensive on the Murmansk direction - on the boundary of the river Western Persons. Soviet troops were able to break through several kilometers ahead, but soon the Germans rebuilt the front.

After that, more or less large-scale hostilities in the 14-th army band did not exist until October 1944.


Soviet submarines of the "C" series in the port of Polyarny.

The defeat of the Germans in the Arctic

By the autumn of 1944, the Soviet troops firmly held the strategic initiative along the entire length of the Soviet-German front. The time has come to crush the enemy in the northern sector of the front.

The 14 Army was the main combat force in the Petsamo-Kirkenes operation (it ran from October 7 to November 1 1944 of the year). The army was given the task of destroying the main forces of the 19 German Mountain Corps (Norway Corps), which had strengthened in the Petsamo area, and to continue the offensive in the direction of Kirkenes in Northern Norway.

The 14 Army under the command of Lieutenant-General Vladimir Shcherbakov consisted of: 8 rifle divisions, 5 rifle divisions, 1 tank and 2 engineering brigades, 1 brigade of rocket launchers, 21 artillery and mortar regiments, X. It was 2 thous. Soldiers and officers, 97 guns and mortars, 2212 tanks and self-propelled artillery systems. The air force was supported by the 107 airborne army - 7 airplanes. And from the sea, the Northern Fleet under the command of Admiral Arseny Golovko. The fleet participated in the operation by forces of the detachments of ships, 689 brigades of marines and 2 naval aircraft.

In the German 19 mountain corps there were: 3 mountain divisions and 4 brigades (53 thousand soldiers and officers), 753 guns and mortars. He commanded the general mountain troops Ferdinand Jodl. From the air they covered the forces of the 5 air fleet - up to the 160 aircraft. At sea, the German Navy acted.

The situation was complicated by the factor that in three years the Germans built the so-called. Lapland defensive shaft. And after Finland left the war (September 19, 1944), the military construction work took on a very active character. At a front line of 90 km, minefields, wire fences, anti-tank ditches and grooves were stretched, reinforced concrete and armored firing points, shelters, trenches, and communication passages were erected. Fortifications intercepted all passes, hollows, roads, and dominant heights. From the sea, the position was strengthened by coastal batteries and anti-aircraft positions located in the caponiers. And this despite the fact that the area was impassable anyway - rivers, lakes, swamps, rocks.

October 7 The 1944 of the year after the artillery preparation began the offensive. Even before it began, engineering units were abandoned in the rear of the enemy in order to destroy the enemy fortifications. On the right flank of the strike force, the 131 th infantry corps was advancing; its target was Petsamo, it was supported by a diverting task force and two brigades of marines. On the left flank, the 99 th rifle corps went to the attack, it had the task to advance in the direction of Luostari. On the left flank, the 126 light rifle corps (its goal was also Luostari) performed a deep bypass maneuver.

The 131 Corps to 15.00 broke through the first line of defense of the Germans and reached the Titovka River. October 8 bridgehead was expanded, and began moving in the direction of Petsamo. The 99 Corps could not break through the German defense on the first day, but did so in a night attack (on the night from 7 to October 8). In the zone of his offensive, a reserve was brought into battle - the 127 th rifle corps, on October 12, they captured Luostari and began to move to Petsamo from the south.

The 126 light rifle corps, making a heavy detour, went to the west of Luostari by October 11 and cut the Petsamo-Salmijärvi road. This Soviet command did not allow the approach of German reinforcements. The corps received the following task - to ride the Petsamo-Tarnet road from the west by a new roundabout maneuver. The task was completed on October 13.

On October 14, the 131, 99 and 127 corps approached Petsamo, and the assault began. October 15 Petsamo fell. After this, the army corps regrouped and the second phase of the operation began on October 18. The units of the 4 corps, which had already participated in the battle, and the new reserve 31 rifle corps, were thrown into battle. Mostly during this stage the enemy was pursued. The 127 light rifle and 31 rifle corps attacked Nickel, the 99 rifle rifle and 126 light rifle corps moved on Akhmalahti, the 131 rifle corps went to Tarnet. Already October 20 began to reach Nickel, 22, he fell. The rest of the corps also reached the target line by October 22.


Amphibious assault, 1944 year.

October 18 The 131 Rifle Corps entered the Norwegian land. Began the liberation of Northern Norway. The 24-25 of October was forced by the Yar-Fjord, the forces of the 14 Army turned around on the Norwegian side. The 31 th rifle corps did not force the bay and began moving deeply to the south - by October 27 reached Nausto, reaching the border of Norway and Finland. The 127 light rifle corps also moved southwards along the western shore of the fjord. The 126 light rifle corps was moving westward, and October 27 came out to Neiden. The 99 and 131 rifle corps rushed to Kirkenes and October 25 occupied it. After this operation was completed. A large role in the operation was played by amphibious assault forces and the actions of the Northern Fleet. It was a complete victory.



Results of the operation

- By expelling the German troops from Kirkenes and reaching the Neiden line, Nausty, the Soviet 14 Army and the Northern Fleet completed their tasks in the Petsamo-Kirkenes operation. November 9 The Supreme High Command ordered the 14 Army to stop the movement and go on the defensive. During the 19-day battles, the army advanced westward to 150 km, freeing the Petsamo-Pechenga area and Northern Norway. The loss of these territories severely limited the actions of the German Navy on the Soviet northern communications and deprived the Third Reich of the opportunity to obtain nickel ore (a strategic resource).

- German troops suffered significant losses in manpower, weapons and military equipment. Thus, the YNL 19 th mountain corps lost only about 30 thousand people killed. The Northern Fleet destroyed 156 ships and ships of the enemy, and Soviet aviation forces eliminated 125 Luftwaffe planes. The Soviet army lost more than 15 thousand people killed and wounded, including more than 2 thousand soldiers and officers on the territory of Norway.

- During the offensive of the Soviet troops in the Far North, the high military art of the Soviet military command was shown. At a high level, the operational-tactical interaction of the ground forces with the forces of the Northern Fleet was organized. The Soviet corps launched an offensive in the face of the complex nature of the terrain, often without elbow communication with neighboring units. The forces of the 14 Army skillfully and flexibly maneuvered, used in battle by specially trained and trained light infantry corps. A high level showed engineering units of the Soviet army, naval forces and marines.

- During the Petsamo-Kirkenes operation, Soviet troops liberated the occupied areas of the Soviet Arctic and provided tremendous assistance in the liberation of Norway.

Finally, Norway was also liberated with the help of the USSR. 7-8 May 1945, the German military and political leadership agreed to a complete surrender and the German group in Norway (it numbered about 351 thousand soldiers and officers) received an order to surrender and lay down their arms.


General Vladimir Ivanovich Shcherbakov.
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  1. grizzlir
    +5
    15 February 2012 09: 26
    During the Second World War, there was a place of achievement on all fronts. But the battles in the Arctic, although not much was written about them, were distinguished by the fact that the fighting had to be carried out in very difficult climatic conditions. The use of armored vehicles was very limited. At the initial stage of the war, when Soviet troops were mostly defending, the enemy’s lack of tanks and heavy equipment was only at hand. But when it was necessary to break into the enemy’s defense, the limited ability to use tanks already worked for the Nazis. All the same, we must remember that the Germans were they read that the Russians would not use armored vehicles in the Arctic, because the terrain and soil made it difficult to use. German troops had virtually no anti-tank artillery and infantry fighting tanks. However, in some sections of the front, Soviet troops managed to use tank units, they were for Germans complete neoanness and played a huge role in the breakthroughs.
  2. +7
    15 February 2012 09: 43
    Yes, few people know, but it was on the Kola Peninsula that was the only section of the state border where the fascist troops failed to cross it!
  3. Dust
    +9
    15 February 2012 11: 23
    The hardest theater of war - it's hard to find a similar example in history! Neither really dig in, nor deliver equipment - there is simply a problem to survive! And so successfully fought the whole war!
  4. Strabo
    +4
    15 February 2012 11: 51
    Soviet troops liberated the occupied regions of the Soviet Arctic and greatly assisted in the liberation of Norway.
    Half the world was freed from occupation and enslavement. They saved people and the economy, and in return received a COLD war, misunderstanding and hatred. But the liberated actively helped the enemy, supplied Germany with raw materials and products. I think it is not necessary to be modest and constantly remind about this that their independence was paid for by the blood of the Russian people.
  5. ICT
    +2
    15 February 2012 14: 29
    The 135th Rifle Regiment otsup, entrenched itself on the isthmus of the Srednaya Pluostrovka and, as they say, did not retreat a single step, for art. support (135th regiment, right flank of the 14th Army) SF regularly used escort Mimnos and patrol boats "MO".
  6. 0
    15 February 2012 17: 46
    Farewell to the rocky mountains - this song was born there at that time. A powerful thing, like many songs of that war. We will bow to the heroes!
  7. +2
    15 February 2012 21: 10
    Great article! Glory to the heroes of the North Sea!
  8. 0
    16 February 2012 23: 52
    not so long ago in a television box some kind of seemingly Russian professor-historian was talking nonsense that the Germans in the North did not take active steps and did not advance far because they were recently visited by aliens who had portals there
    and as soon as the earth wears such?
  9. Oles
    0
    8 November 2012 15: 39
    all the garbage ... just the Germans weren’t very tense there ... it would have been necessary ... they took 100% .... but in Norway we did nothing .. only the people lost .... and the surrender of the German troops did not .. absolutely not connected with the actions of our troops .. there a Norwegian general flew in, signed the act and that’s all .... and ours, as always, lost people ... just a disgrace ....
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