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May 13: Head of the Red
Army's General Staff issued directives on advancing the 25th
Soviet Rifle Corps and the 19th, 21st and 22nd Armies to the line
of Western Dvina and Dnepr
May 14: Narkom of Defence Semyon
Timoshenko gave an order on pre-term graduation of cadets,
commissioning them to the troops
May 16: diplomatic relations with Iraq were established
June 12: Timoshenko ordered the military councils of boundary
districts to start the advancing of troops from rear closer to the
state frontier
June 13: Joseph
Stalin suspended Timoshenko's request to bring the frontier
troops into alertness
June 14: TASS issued a report,
labelling groundless the statements about the forthcoming war with
Germany, spread by foreign and particularly British press
June 21: Georgy
Zhukov imparted via HF of waiting for important document to
the staff heads of the military districts
June 22: VKP(b)'s Central Committee issues the decree "On the
Organization of Struggle in the Rear of German troops"; diplomatic
relations with Germany
ceased, relations with Italy, Romania and Denmark were interrupted
Commander-in-Chief of the Black Sea Fleet Filipp Oktyabrsky reported Zhukov on
approaching of the large amount of unknown aircraft at 03:07
Head of Staff of the Western Military District General Vladimir
Klimovskikh reported on German air raids on Byelorussian towns at
03:30
Western and Baltic Military Districts reported on the onset of
German ground hostilities at 04:10
Timoshenko's directive N2 was delivered to military districts
at 07:15
sixteen German aircraft bombed Grodno at 07:15 from the altitude of
1 km
Government's public radio report on the declaration of war at
12:00
June 23: High Command Headquarters (later - Headquarters of
Supreme Commander-in-Chief) was formed; mobilization plan on
ammunition production was introduced; Soviets leave Grodno
June 30: State Defence Committee was formed; diplomatic
relations with France were
interrupted
July 3: Stalin gave a broadcast talk
July 4: directive on economical policy during the forced
evacuation of production facilities was issued; State Defence
Committee adopted decree "On voluntary mobilization of Moscow and
the Moscow Oblast working-people to the divisions of people's
militia"
September 8: Encirclement of Leningrad was
completed; the city's Badayev Depots and "The Red Star" creamery
were ruined by German aviation (3,000 tons of flour and 2,500 tons
of sugar were marred)
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