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Total Destruction of Infrastructure

in the campaign “Scorched Earth Tactics and Criminal Mobilization (1941–1945)”

The 1941 scorched-earth tactic under the directive of the USSR Sovnarkom and the Central Committee of 29 June 1941: "In the forced withdrawal of Red Army units, drive off the rolling railway stock, leave the enemy not a single locomotive, not a single railcar"[1]; the Dnipro hydroelectric station was "destroyed at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War… (see the Directive of the USSR Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee of the VKP(b) of June 29, 1941)"[2].

ID: C0082.T0105
Technique:  Total Destruction of Infrastructure
Campaign:  Scorched Earth Tactics and Criminal Mobilization (1941–1945)
Start: June 1941
End: May 1945
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

References

  1. Совет народных комиссаров СССР и Центральный комитет ВКП(б). Директива СНК СССР и ЦК ВКП(б). 1941. – директива от 29 июня 1941; Решения партии и правительства, т. 3.
  1. Інститут історії України НАН України. Енциклопедія історії України: Т. 2. 2004. – редкол.: Смолій В. А. (голова) та ін.