Gudz Pavel Danilovich From the Cycle My War with Memoirs of the Participants of the Great Patriotic War

Film-interview of the legendary tanker hero of the Great Patriotic War Pavel Danilovich Gudzya. 1 box Correspondent of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" journalist Alexander Vasilyevich Afanasyev interviews veteran of the Great Patriotic War, professor of the Military Academy of Armored Forces, Doctor of Military Sciences, retired Colonel-General Pavel Danilovich Gudzya. At home, at the desk of P.D. Gudz begins (sinhr.) His story from the end of the 2nd Saratov Heavy Tank School in early June 1941. And on June 22, on the first day of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, as part of the 32nd heavy tank division in Lvov in the 63rd tank regiment, a young lieutenant, a command platoon commander, took the first battle with the Germans. Leading the regiment's tank column, the platoon knocked out five Nazi tanks and burned three armored personnel carriers. B / W newsreels: - [1941-1943]: Soviet infantry is walking, soldiers are carrying anti-tank rifles; large-caliber artillery shoots. In the sky, German aviation: shooting an aircraft at the airfield from the air, a bomber is dropping a bomb. Ruined railway station, carcasses of burnt carriages. - [1941-1943], Ukraine: huts of a Ukrainian village, explosions from shells of a firing tank (shot from the tower of a German tank). 2 box P.D. Gudz continues (sinhr.) His story. He recalls a battle in the village of Nefedyevo near Moscow. On the night of December 5-6, the only KV tank, driven by Pavel Danilovich, opposed eighteen enemy tanks. In three hours of battle, having spent 125 shells, he knocked out 10 tanks and crushed numerous guns. There were 29 dents on the outside of the KV armor. Thanks to the skill and courage of the Red Army, the Germans were unable to get to Moscow along the Volokolamsk highway. B / W newsreels: - [1944-1945]: Soviet tanks are walking along the winter road. Tanks in battle, infantrymen riding on armor. 3 box Correspondent of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" A.V. Afanasyev holds a member of the Great Patriotic War, the legendary tanker P.D. Gudzia for the prosthesis of the left hand and asks (sinhr.) Him to tell about what happened to him. P.D. Gudz recalls (sinhr.) That in Zaporozhye, when approaching the Dneproges dam, his tank was ambushed and hit. Two crew members survived - he and the driver. At the same time, the gun remained in working order. Seriously wounded P.D. Hudz, seeing two Tigers at close range, decides to attack. Severe pain in his hand prevents him from aiming the gun, then he asks the driver-mechanic to cut off his hand, he does not agree. He takes the knife himself and cuts off the brush. After that, he destroys two German tanks. Comrades helped him to survive in this and other battles, who pulled him out of the tank. 4 box P.D. Gudz ends (sinhr.) With a story that he left the front in 1944, being a regiment commander with the rank of lieutenant colonel and he was then 23 years old. He never considered himself a disabled person, but he remembered that, after cutting off his hand in a tank, he thought about suicide. He really didn’t want to be a beggar, he was afraid that he would not be able to provide himself with a decent life. But he remembered how easy it was for him to study, decided that he would definitely learn something, and did not start shooting. B / W newsreels: - [1941-1943]: Soviet infantry is walking, soldiers are carrying anti-tank rifles.

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1995