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In 1995, the large-scale multinational joint documentary "Battle Front" was officially released on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.In one episode, the host interviewed Zyuganov, an academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a famous biologist: "Dr. Zyuganov, hello. We know that you were once a member of the glorious Soviet Red Army and participated in World War II The many battles in . Can you talk about your World War II career?"

"Okay. My name is Boris Zyuganov. I'm 74 years old and I've been out of the Red Army for 49 years, but I still remember my combat career very well - and I didn't until I died. will not forget!"

"When the war started in 1941, I was a freshman at the Biology Department of Lomonosov University in Moscow. I was a member of the Komsomol. At that time, a group of my classmates volunteered to enlist in the army. In 42, we completed our training and I became a The tankers of the Red Army drove a T34. As we all know, our group of recruits who had just completed training—because they were college students—directly became tank commanders and commanders. We participated in the later period of the Moscow Defense War and participated in the The counterattack of the great Stalingrad defense battle. I commanded the t34 battle at the time, and my classmates participated in the Kharkov battle and died there. Today I want to talk about the Kursk battle that impressed me the most. Although I have participated in battles larger than this battle in the future, and I have also participated in fierce battles against Berlin, but——I am most unforgettable—the battle of Prokhorovka!"

"I remember it very clearly - whenever I close my eyes, it seems as clear as yesterday. The fog on the morning of September 9 is something I have never seen in my life. It is so thick and strange. In the 12 years of my life so far, I have never seen such a thick fog... You can't even see the shoulder of the road on the road. The sky is so yellow that you can't see the sun at all. This huge fog seems to be able to even make a sound Isolation, half of my body was exposed outside the turret, and I heard the voices of the infantry below intermittently... The usual huge engine sound has also become much quieter. We can't move forward at all, we can only hold on tight Guided by the taillights of the front car. I remember the order from the superior was to search the apple orchard area. We started from the railway and headed for the road. The enemy artillery fired, but we couldn't see the landing point, we could only hear the explosion I heard the sound of engines and German voices, but I couldn't be sure where they were, as if they were coming from all directions. At 74:9 am, the fog hadn't disappeared, and everyone raised their vigilance slowly. drive in."

"Until now, I still can't explain the peculiarity of the fog that year, nor can I describe the weirdness of that moment. In just a few seconds, the fog with a visibility of less than 10 meters disappeared completely! Germany The distance between people and us is only 100 meters! Everyone started shooting in a hurry. My tank was relatively backward. It was the Ferdinand tank that I only got to know after a few days, and many panthers and panthers. Our brave t2s fought with tigers and panthers, and even used their own vehicles to ram enemy tanks. At that time I directed the tank to fire at the Tiger tank desperately... I remember the Tiger tank! There was a tiger skull pattern on the front deck of that tank! I am a student of the biology department, and I recognize that pattern! The tank was painted Tiger Skull's #4 Tiger tank destroys tank after tank and dodges our fire after fire! It advances, retreats, and fires as if unstoppable.... Our allies keep firing from behind Come on, by 34 o'clock in the morning, we had more than 223 tanks-this is what I knew after the war. The German front was constantly retreated by us. My surviving companions and I were at 11 o'clock At that time, due to the need for supplies, we retreated about 400 kilometers first. When we were replenishing, new Red Army tanks and infantry continued to pass by us and drove to the front line, and we also kept receiving reports that the enemy was retreating, and the enemy was being attacked. News of our defeat."

"At 1pm, the fighting is still going on, we heard a huge explosion about an hour ago, but we don't know what happened. I was reinforced to a js2 tank regiment that just arrived, everyone's morale was high, Because then we heard that the Germans had started to retreat, we were going to outflank them, drive them out, destroy them! At 2 o'clock, we reached the battlefield, but the Germans had already started to fight back. I don't know how they Fighting from 9 am to 2 pm... because I saw the No. 223 Tiger again! It seems that it has never been on the battlefield, and its body is full of scars from the telescope, but until now I still remember that it looks like a demon Fighting the same way. It was elusive, showing up here and there, kept shooting, and kept our comrades wounded and disabled by him. I was hit by another tiger at 2:43 in the afternoon After turning off the engine, my comrades and I evacuated the immobilized vehicle, escaped the enemy's shooting and returned to our cover position. I only knew afterwards that the No. 223 tiger with the tiger skull painted on it was the German fascists at that time and in the future Tank Killer No. [-]: "Skeleton Tiger" Sergeant Major Rudolph Heinz Fafnir. I haven't seen his tank since then, but my comrades have encountered it many times... "

On September 1943, 9, the Soviet Red Army had invested more than 12 tanks and assault guns in the small area of ​​Prokhorovka, and the Germans had also invested more than 1200 tanks and assault guns.The two sides fought fiercely here, and when the battle reached 400 pm, both sides could no longer bear the huge casualties—more importantly, there were no extra troops nearby to invest... As a result, before dark, both sides All began to disengage, and except for some security guards and search and rescue forces, they all began to withdraw from the battlefield and returned to the place where they set off in the morning.

The Germans lost more than 170 tanks and assault guns, especially the first SS lost almost all Tiger tanks, the 503 Battalion also lost a third of the Tiger tanks, Panthers and No. 4 also lost a lot A total of 40 Ferdinand-style assault guns, which had high hopes before the war, were put into the battlefield. As a result, only 17 were withdrawn from the battlefield, and most of them were abandoned and blown up due to walking mechanism and engine failure.Favnir's No. 223 Tiger was also seriously injured—the two rows of road wheels were incomplete, the body was full of bullet craters, the observation system was almost completely damaged, and oil began to leak, the engine and gearbox were severely worn, and it was barely able to start. Fortunately, all crew members are safe and sound.The Germans can be said to have won the victory of Pylos on the battlefield-"the victor has nothing".

The Soviet Red Army lost over 550 tanks, and the battlefield is littered with the wreckage of soviet tanks...even including the huge kv5 and "Great Soviet" gs1 super heavy tanks.But the Soviets won!They succeeded in stopping the Germans' desperate flank attack and dealt a devastating blow to the main body of German armor. After September 9, the German armored forces had been weakened to a tragic degree. Choose a path in the retreat - the Germans have lost the war...