Prepare to be surprised, my friends: 100 grammes of "commissar" appeared in the Red Army long before June 22, 1941! Back in January 1940, the People's Commissar of Defense KE Voroshilov gave
order for the daily issuance of a "wine portion." I like to use this very "royal" term. Received its troops, fighting against Finland, which is called "for sugrevu" -in the Karelian Isthmus there were frosts of 40 degrees and higher. There was a funny army bike about Voroshilov. Allegedly before the Great Patriotic War, during the exercises in Belarus, Voroshilov assembled in the morning a meeting of the top commanders. Having solved all the working questions, the People's Commissar asked the audience: - "Comrades officers, who among you drinks vodka in the morning? ". There was a long pause, then a voice rang out: "I drink. Ivanov's Commander ". = "Here we are with you now and drink, and the rest continue to work!" It is believed that the original source of this story is a journalist Mikhail Koltsov.
The submachine gun "Suomi" is the Finnish miracle-weapon Aimo Lahti. Engineer-self-taught, one of the best gunsmiths of his time. The trophy "Suomi" was very much appreciated.
They did not have good winter clothes at that time (even the hats were not introduced yet, although by the end of the company many of their fighters had already received the proximity of supply routes, Leningrad was very close), in the absence of fuel and shelters, the mass of Red Army soldiers was frostbitten, and many froze to death.
Frozen in the trench of the Red Army 44 th Infantry Division.
The name of the wine portion was initially "Voroshilov", and then "Commissar" and simply "100 grams". It was they who received every day every soldier of the ground army.
The White Finns are posing with a frozen Red Army man. The pilot received the same 100 grams, but already cognac-in the USSR in the 30 years pilots were a real elite.
In the Finnish captivity in 4 camps there were from 5546 to 6116 people. The conditions of their detention were extremely cruel. 39 369 missing persons indicates the scale of executions by the White Finns of seriously wounded, sick and frostbitten Red Army soldiers.
"We DOTs Finnish work let all the hell!" Soldiers of the engineering detachment of special assignment on the roof of the Dot Ink6. Finally, the Finnish song "No, Molotov."