From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, residents of the Moscow region, like the entire Soviet people, actively joined in the defense of the country. Meetings and meetings were held at enterprises, institutions, collective farms and state farms in the region, at which workers swore to fulfill any task of the party, to give all their strength to defeat the enemy. At one of these meetings, workers, engineers and technicians of the V. V. Kuibyshev Kolomna Locomotive Building Plant adopted a resolution: "Each of us, working tirelessly, will hourly strengthen the power of the valiant Red Army in the rear with our honest, disciplined, organized work."1 Collective farmers of the agricultural cartel "Defense "of the Volokolamsk district said:" We firmly believe in the victory of our just cause. But we know that in order to win, we need to triple our strength. And we will do it. We will spare no effort to ensure victory for the Red Army. " 2The Moscow Regional party organization has launched a great effort to mobilize the forces of the working people to defeat the fascists .3 Hundreds of thousands of residents of the region joined the Red Army in the first months of the war. A huge number of applications with requests to be sent to the front were received by military enlistment offices from volunteers. The regional party organization sent almost 50 thousand communists to the front-more than half of its membership .4 About 107 thousand fighters were given to the Red Army by the regional Komsomol organization 5 . When the front came close to the capital, many residents of the Moscow region, who were in the ranks of the Red Army, fought directly at its walls. Divisions of the Moscow People's Militia and rifle divisions, which included militia members, fighters of fighter and workers ' battalions from Moscow and the region, passed a glorious battle path .6 Great damage was inflicted on the enemy by the Moscow region partisans and underground fighters, who numbered 17 tho ... Читать далее