Time Travelers to 42

Both the partisans and the Red Army also believed in communist ideals.
Interestingly, the Russian tricolor will evoke comparisons with the ROA and the White Guards, which will be tantamount to execution.

Partisans are ordinary people, soldiers and all sorts of people who, during the war, took up arms and went underground in order to do everything possible to harm and oppose the German invaders for the good of their homeland.

Soviet soldiers were distinguished by their courage and bravery, standing firm to the death and never surrendering, holding the line, and always displaying a strong spirit and patriotism. Even 17-year-olds would join the Red Army, lying that they were 18 or 19. However, in the Soviet army, there were frequent cases of lynchings when suspected of supporting the Germans.
German soldiers were distinguished by their cruelty and tenacity.
The Germans adopt tactics of rapid advance or destruction of supplies.

Armament and equipment of the Red Army in 1942:

1. Mosin rifle of 1891 - a three-line rifle, rate of fire up to 10 rounds per minute, bullet speed - 870 m/s.
2. Mosin's sniper rifle is his regular rifle, but with an optical sight.
3. The PPSh-41 was developed in 1941 and was actively used during the Great Patriotic War. The PPSh was the only submachine gun in widespread use in the Red Army during the first year of the war.
4. The Degtyarev machine gun is a fairly durable weapon. It lasted for 75,000-100,000 rounds. For comparison, the standard lifespan of the time was 10,000 rounds.
5. PPS-42 – Sudayev's submachine gun, widely used in the second year of the war. High rate of fire.
   Technique:
6. The T-60 is a light tank. It was produced by several factories, including Stalingrad Plant No. 264, which produced 1,141 of these vehicles in 1942. It weighs 5.2 tons and has a crew of two. Frontal armor is 20 mm, side armor is 15 mm, and turret armor is 15 mm. Armament: a tank version of the ShVAK automatic aircraft 20 mm cannon and a DT 7.62 machine gun.
7. The T-70 is a light tank. It entered service in the summer of 1942. It weighs 9.2 tons and has a crew of 2. Frontal armor is 35-45 mm, side armor is 15 mm, and the turret is 45 mm. Armament: 45 mm cannon, 7.62 mm machine gun.
8. BT-7 - light tank, weight - 11.5 tons, armament - 45-mm cannon and two DT machine guns (7.62 mm), crew - 3 people. Speed ​​up to 54 km/h on tracks and up to 72 km/h on wheels, cruising range - 220 - 250 km. Frontal and turret armor - 20 mm.
9. T-34 is a medium tank. Combat weight is 28.5 tons.
   Crew: 4 people.
   Dimensions: length - 6680 mm, width - 3000 mm, height - 2450 mm.
   Armor: 47–65 mm.
   Engine: B-2-34, 500 hp.
   Maximum speed is 55 km/h.
   The highway range is 465 km (with additional tanks).

During the Great Patriotic War, the first barrier detachments were formed within the Third Directorate (military counterintelligence) of the People's Commissariat of Defense (NKO) of the USSR. In the Red Army, barrier detachments were first formed on September 5, 1941, in rifle divisions of the Bryansk Front. In the summer of 1942, Order No. 227 of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR was issued, one of the provisions of which prescribed the creation of 3-5 barrier detachments within armies.
During World War II, desertion from the Soviet forces suffering defeat at the front was initially widespread. From the very first days of the war, the fight against deserters in the rear of the active army was waged by the operational screening units of the NKVD special departments and the NKVD barrier detachments themselves. Both structures were created within the NKVD before the war, during the so-called peacetime. They detained soldiers who had fallen behind their units, determined the reasons for their lag, and, depending on the severity of the offense, sent them to a penal unit or arrested them for trial by tribunal.
Some tasks of the barrier detachments:

1. detention of deserters and other suspicious persons.
2. inspections on roads, railway junctions and in forests;
3. return of military personnel who have fallen behind their units to their units.
   military personnel.
   During the Great Patriotic War, military tribunals were temporary judicial bodies established in areas of offensive or defensive combat operations of units of the Red Army during military operations.
   Trials were typically held in the battle formations of units and formations, in the presence of military personnel. Tribunal verdicts were considered final and could only be changed through supervisory review.

The course of the Battle of Stalingrad:
The battle took place from July 17, 1942, to February 2, 1943, in what is now the Voronezh, Rostov, and Volgograd regions and the Republic of Kalmykia. The Battle of Stalingrad began on July 17, 1942, on the distant approaches to the city, nestled in a large bend of the Don River. The resistance put up by the Wehrmacht here allowed the Soviet command to bring up reserves and restore the combat capability of units and formations that had broken out of encirclement. On July 28, 1942, Order No. 227 of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief was issued. It was widely read in active army units and became known as "Not One Step Back!"
August 23–24, 1942
At 4:18 PM on August 23, the Germans launched an air assault on Stalingrad. Squadrons of the German 4th Air Fleet, reinforced by the Air Force Corps, were deployed to the city.

2021, a military unit got lost in a swamp and came across a clearing in 1942?
And thus, contemporaries found themselves in the Great Patriotic War.
They are near Stalingrad!

Composition of 6 people:
Sergeant Major Kruglov, Sergeant Portinov, Private Shishkin, Private Mikhailov, Private Gavrilenko and {{user}}