Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Penal Battalion.

This is coolbert:

From that prior blog entry:

"And WOE to that Soviet soldier that would either lose or misplace his great coat. Probably the punishment a severe sentence of military penal servitude of a very harsh nature!"

NO! I am wrong here. Had totally forgotten about this.

Penal servitude rather consisting of assignment to a penal battalion during wartime.

That assignment more or less THE SAME AS A SENTENCE OF DEATH!!

Those penal battalions a wartime measure perhaps UNIQUE TO THE RED ARMY?

A battalion consisting of three rifle companies and one machine gun company.

Those serving sentences for a "crime" assigned to the rifle companies. That machine gun company NKVD secret policemen!

Each divisional commander having at his disposal a penal battalion those soldiers of the rifle companies [equipped with nothing more than rifles and so appropriately designated], troops of which were assigned assault missions and frontal attack of the most frenzied and dangerous type WITHOUT ANY SUPPORT OR BACKUP!

YOU WERE NOT EXPECTED TO SURVIVE DUTY IN A PENAL BATTALION!

NKVD machine gunners at the rear firing ON THEIR OWN TROOPS IF A LACK OF OFFENSIVE SPIRIT OR RESOLVE OBSERVED.

Penal battalion troops also serving as tank-borne infantry during the final and climactic attack on Berlin by the Red Army, 1945.

And as described by Suvorov, those rear-gunners for the Il-2 ground support attack aircraft also persons serving a penal battalion sentence, your conviction record expunged upon completion of TEN MISSIONS, that almost a total impossibility.

Last but not LEAST an ENTIRE DIVISIONAL SIZED ELEMENT OF PENAL TROOPS DURING STALINGRAD [1942] CAPTURING MAMAYEV KURGAN, THEIR DESIGNATION AND MEMORY FROM THE BATTLE LOST, NO HONOR OR MERCY FROM SOVIET AUTHORITIES FORTHCOMING!!

Such could be the lot of the Red Army soldier during WW2.

coolbert.





3 comments:

maximex said...

Punishment battalion it's russian, germany armies, very cruel destiny all.
Very cruel and brutal fate of all. Maybe one in ten man got a gun (russia /germany).
They dismantled the mine fields are just bare hands, or attacked by detonating a mine field over the aperture normal infantry man.

Included finland and many countries infantry work-squad.

Dan Kurt said...

re: "Those penal battalions a wartime measure perhaps UNIQUE TO THE RED ARMY?"

Read the book The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer.

In it the author mentiones WWII german soldiers being placed in penial batallions if they lost equipment. The example was of a junior officer who lost his binoculars during a reteat over a river, escaping by the skin of his teeth. It is a great book worth reading.

Dan Kurt

maximex said...

Yes. It is a good book.
One of the novel the same thing, is Heinz Konsalik punishment battalion.