December 18, 1942 was the 64th birthday of the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After dinner, Stalin, who had just finished eating his birthday cake, as the supreme commander of the Soviet Red Army, brazenly launched an offensive order to the Soviet Red Army, and Operation Bagration officially began!

The orders of the Supreme High Command were transmitted through the military telegraph system to the contact points of the various units, and the Red Army soldiers who received the order took their positions and prepared for the offensive in accordance with the plan that had been announced not so long ago.

The first to act, the bomber units of the Soviet Air Force.

Thousands of bombers, protected by a number of fighter jets, flew over the old Soviet borders and headed for the German-occupied zone.

The Soviet fleet, which had an absolute superiority in numbers, was overwhelmed along the way and repelled the German planes that came to intercept it.

In just two hours, a number of German strongholds were attacked by air raids, causing the Germans to lose a large amount of supplies, personnel, and armaments, as well as hundreds of aircraft.

Before the bomber group could return, the ground forces of the Soviet Red Army were already attacking the Germans - thousands of Soviet tanks crossed the old Soviet borders and stepped into the territories that once belonged to Poland, Latvia and Lithuania.

Before the Soviets attacked, a great deal of effort was put into secrecy - all army movements could only be carried out at night (all troops could only march between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m.), and vehicles could not turn on their lights to avoid being detected by the Germans.

In order to ensure that the movements of Soviet troops were not detected by the Germans, the Soviet Air Force also sent a small number of planes to hover overhead, and if the pilots saw the appearance of Soviet troops, they would use signal flags to alert the ground troops below, indicating that they had been spotted, and asking the commander to take measures to improve camouflage until they were not detected by the pilots.

In addition, the contents of the entire battle plan were kept secret all the time, and only the officers involved in the planning could know the contents of the battle plan, and it was strictly kept secret until the start of the operation.

Although the whole secrecy plan is not seamless, it can also be concealed from the intelligence services of all countries. When the Soviets crossed the old border, most of the Germans were still hiding in warm barracks, sheltering from the bitter cold.

It was not until the appearance of Soviet tanks that they hurried out of the camp to meet the battle, but it was already too late.

However, the Soviet offensive did not achieve the great deterrent effect of Operation Barbarossa, because the Germans had long expected that the Soviet army would launch a counteroffensive against them, but they did not know the time and place of the attack, but they also sent people to patrol and defend the border from time to time, and issued early warning to the troops in time.

At the beginning of the operation, the Soviet Red Army made better progress than expected, and was able to achieve good results under the sudden attack, advancing more than 10 kilometers into the occupied area.

On the way to the army, the soldiers of the Red Army sang the new national anthem of the Soviet Union -- "The Unbreakable Union."

This song was supposed to be adopted as the national anthem of the Soviet Union in 1944, but as early as December 1937, Manturov relied on the memory of later generations to become a "copyist", published a "poem" called "Unbreakable Union" in Soviet newspapers, and also added a melody to Alexander Aleksandrov, which became a song.

Since then, Manturov has left the first visible mark in history, and when the song was adopted by the Supreme Soviet as the national anthem of the Soviet Union, the country had already left his mark.

However, Manturov was not a man who liked to be in the limelight, so when Stalin announced that his work would be the national anthem, he demanded that the lyrics of the national anthem be changed (to the 1977 version) and that the name of the anthemist be changed to a body called the "National Anthem Composition Committee", which was actually only Manturov.

In any case, when Stalin made the decision to adopt the national anthem, he fully expressed his trust in the young man Manturov, and when his work became the national anthem, he already linked the fate of this young man with the fate of the country, making him a representative figure of the country.

Of course, this does not mean anything, because all the trust, all the honor, all the relationships, will not necessarily be maintained for a long time.

Historically, when Stalin pointed to Alexei Kuznetsov and said that "the future leader should be young", who would have thought that this "King James successor" would be purged by Stalin? When Tukhachevsky was awarded the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union for his contributions to the country, who knew that he would become a "German spy" and be brutally purged?

In the Kremlin's power arena, there is almost never absolute trust between people, and there is no long-term trust, because there are very few people who can be trusted for a long time, and there are only people who can be trusted absolutely.

Everyone is suspicious of each other, everyone is suspicious of each other, those who call each other brothers on the surface may betray themselves at any time, and those who are on the same surface may "rebuild old friendships" or even "feel like brothers and sisters" at any time. Therefore, a momentary honor, a momentary trust, does not mean anything, what Manturov has to do is to maintain this trust and honor for a long time.

The adoption of the new national anthem has undoubtedly achieved an inspiring effect on the morale of the Soviet army. The lyrics of the national anthem seem nothing special, but its perfect melody is not at all comparable to other national anthems.

In terms of popularity, the Soviet anthem is indeed inferior to the works of famous musicians, but in terms of the beauty of the melody and the morale boost of the song, the Soviet anthem can undoubtedly challenge the best position in the world.

Of course, the morale of the Soviet army was not something that could be brought up by a national anthem, and the reason why they were able to fight valiantly was because they won victory after victory on the battlefields in Finland, Romania and their own country under the leadership of Stalin, giving them the confidence to defeat the enemy.

In addition, the Soviet propaganda department and the political department of the army also contributed a lot, and the powerful propaganda machine made the Soviet soldiers aware of the purpose of their war.

The morale of the Soviet Red Army was high, the will was strong, and it was not afraid of any formidable enemy.

However, no matter how high the morale of the Red Army was and how strong its weapons were, it was still impossible to hide their inferiority in combat quality. In the face of the Nazi German army, which had stronger combat quality and the same firm will to fight, the Soviet Red Army still paid a great price.

The battle was not all smooth sailing, and the initial victory was only because the Germans had not yet adjusted. When the Germans learned of the Soviet offensive, they began to deploy countermeasures, concentrate the available forces, organize a defense on the Dvinsk-Vilnius-Lida-Pinsk line, and stubbornly resist the Soviet offensive.