Kh.Nuradilov received his first real baptism of fire near the village of Zakharovka in Ukraine. December 6, 1941, remaining one of his crew, being wounded, stopped the offensive of a whole division of the Nazis.
Many such cases!
The name of Khanpashi thundered on all fronts. Legends were made about him, all the newspapers wrote about him.
Well, technically I see this the same way I see those overglorified tales of Russian snipers in WWII
You don't believe one single photogenic woman killed all them 7 gorillion Nazis? How dare you.
There were even more stupid stories, like how a Chechen machinegunner killed like 600 or 800 or whatever also at Stalingrad.
Checked - "up to 920" lmao: https://shr32.ru/en/esteticheskaya-stomatologiya/nacionalnyi-geroi-hanpasha-kak-pulemetchik-nuradilov/
Many such cases!
Yeah, I can see.
I wonder if there's other Soviet propaganda from the 1940s through 1960s/1980s that we should question
haha just kidding... unless?