Catalogue · ID 211

«Чорна піхота» як історичне явище

Author: Пилявець Р. І.
Year of publication: 2019
Published in: Воєнно-історичний вісник, № 1
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Ukrainians
Publication rights: not allowed (a 2019 publication under copyright)

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Where we got it

Original source: doi[.]org/10.33099/2707-1383-2019-31-1-156-174

Where the knowledge base cites it

This material is cited in 3 places.

Campaigns

• Scorched Earth Tactics and Criminal Mobilization (1941–1945)

  In 1943–1944, on the liberated territory, the mobilization of the "chornosvytnyky" was carried out: they were "thrown into combat often at once, without undergoing military training… sometimes unarmed, not even changed into military uniform"

Procedures

• Scorched Earth Tactics and Criminal Mobilization (1941–1945) — technique Forced Mobilization

  The mass conscription by field draft offices of the population of just-liberated territories: "'Chornosvytnyky' or 'black infantry' – such was the unofficial name given to men and youths mobilized by field military commissariats, and in fact by the commanders of formations, units, and detachments in 1943–1944 after the Red Army's liberation of enemy-occupied territories"

• Scorched Earth Tactics and Criminal Mobilization (1941–1945) — technique Use as Cannon Fodder

  The use of untrained conscripts as expendable material: they were "thrown into combat often at once, without undergoing military training in reserve units, sometimes unarmed, not even changed into military uniform (hence the name)"

  The scale is visible from a single episode: "after the Red Army first took Kharkiv in the spring of 1943, about 15 thousand people aged 15 to 45 were mobilized into it and sent to the front without training," with "1 rifle per 5-10 men"