On This Day: World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to... (1942)

On July 28, 1942: World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.

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