ACCOUNTING OF IRREVOCABLE LOSSES AND ORGANIZATION OF FUNERAL OF KILLED SOLDIERS IN 1941-1945

Abstract

The relevance of the article is that every day the war claimed the lives of thousands of soldiers and commanders of the Red Army and Navy. Accounting for irreparable losses was of fundamental importance not only for the military authorities, but also for the servicemen themselves and members of their families. It made it possible to reliably establish and officially record such legally significant facts as death on the battlefield, death from wounds or illness in a medical institution, missing persons, as well as captivity and criminal record. Each of these legal facts had its consequences, significantly affecting the legal status of the serviceman and his family. The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the Accounting of Irreversible Losses and the organization of the burial of fallen servicemen in 1941-1945. The article also analyzes the main directions and approaches of various scientists to study this issue. It was found that the missing were registered at the regimental headquarters for 15 days as temporarily retired. During this time, unit and unit commanders were required to take steps to determine the fate of the troops. After the expiration of the specified term the missing were entered in the list of irretrievable losses, were excluded from the lists of parts with the message on command. After 45 days, relatives were notified of the missing. If the fate of these servicemen was later clarified, additional information about them was immediately reported to the team, as well as to the district military enlistment offices or relatives. It was emphasized that the following order of burial of fallen servicemen was established in the active army. To collect the bodies of those killed on the battlefield, a special team was appointed by order of the regimental commander, whose duties included searching for the bodies of the dead, registering them with medallion inserts, collecting and delivering them to the divisional burial site. The teams took up their duties immediately after the enemy ceased fire. In order to perpetuate the memory of the fallen heroes of the Great Patriotic War, their names were forever inscribed in the lists of personnel of units and subdivisions, assigned to cities and towns, streets and squares, educational institutions and ships. Memorial plaques were erected on the buildings that preserve their memory, and their bronze busts of Heroes of the Soviet Union were erected twice in the homeland. Monuments and obelisks were erected in mass graves and military cemeteries in memory of the defenders of the Fatherland.