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After one of the supposedly dead men was arrested on suspicion of collaboration with the enemy and confessed to having "voluntarily" surrendered to German troops and to having later joined a German police force, [2][3][4] it was discovered that not all twenty-eight were killed — six of the soldiers had survived and were still alive.
Jul 12, 2015 · The legend of a group of Soviet soldiers hailed as heroes after they died resisting an onslaught of Nazi tanks bearing down on Moscow in 1941 has been exposed by Russian state archivists as...
Nov 24, 2016 · Declassified documents have already revealed that the tale of the 28 Guardsmen of General Panfilov was heavily embellished for propaganda. But 75 years on, Russia’s culture minister has ...
Jul 13, 2015 · MOSCOW -- They were known as Panfilov’s 28 Guardsmen -- a legendary unit of Soviet soldiers written into the pantheon of national heroism after they died battling German tanks just two hours outside Moscow as the freezing winter of 1941-1942 set in.
Panfilov's 28 Men (Russian: 28 панфиловцев, translit. 28 panfilovtsev) is a 2016 WWII film based on a legend about a group of soldiers – Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen – heroically halting and destroying German tanks headed for Moscow. [3]
Mar 16, 2012 · Dobrobabin’s story prompted Lieutenant-General Nikolai Afanaseev to investigate the story of Panfilov’s Guardsmen, and he found that there were four other surviving guardsmen, disproving the claim that all twenty-eight guardsmen died as heroes in battle.
Nov 24, 2016 · A new film has gone on release in Russia retelling one of the best-known stories of Soviet heroism in World War Two. Declassified documents have already revealed that the tale of the 28 Guardsmen...
