The wounds heal slowly. Notes of the headquarters officer

These memoirs, written back in Soviet times, between 1971 and 1991, are absolutely not similar to the then memoirs of Soviet front -line soldiers that were then published in many memoirs. There are so many facts and judgments inconvenient for the official Soviet version of the history of war that on the basis of them alone you can build a different version that has nothing to do with official. At the same time, the author was a convinced communist, who himself sometimes caught on that he was writing something wrong, something "denigrating" or underestimating. The memoirs of Tolkhokyuk are also given an exceptionally visual idea of ​​the reasons why the territories lost in the forty-first in four months took two or three years, he draws a picture of an extremely inflexible, excessively centralized command and control of the troops, which did not allow lower commanders to influence the development of events in time , and the higher forced to replace the lower ones. Tolklykuk, the neglect of professionalism, replacement of his "volitionism", characteristic of the Soviet commanders, also highlights vividly for the Soviet commanders. In general, the picture of the war, gradually restored by independent historians, receives more than significant reinforcement. The information of German sources and declassified Soviet military documentation is fully confirmed by the memoirs of the Soviet officer