The Archive · 1941

Daring Guerillas

Radio commentators here related incidents in guerilla fighting, in which peasants, especially these belonging to collective farms, attacked the Germans at every opportunity, They told how the entire popul tion of a village retreating with Red Army troops left only daring guerillas to wait for the Germans, These guerillas continually were ambushing Germans in woods and evacuated villages and also were heroically blowing up bridges after the Red troops had crossed them, the radio commentators said.

"The guerillas naturally took full advantage of their knowledge of local topography and therefore found it an easy task to ambush unsuspecting Nazi forces. especially during the night, the radio commentators pointed out,

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