One of the determining factors of a quick victory in operation "Bagration" is a guerrilla movement in the eastern regions of Belarus and support from the population of Belarus. Important achievement of the Belarusian partisans was holding the third stage "rail war" launched three days before the Soviet offensive. Guerrillas blew up more than 40 thousand rails, paralyzing traffic on the rail. This significantly reduced the mobility of German troops, in fact paralyzed their ability to maneuver wide.
Since the beginning of the Red Army guerrillas released intt independently a number of settlements, their troops occupied important bridgehead crossing rivers. Active assistance and support to the Soviet troops assisted the residents of Belarus. Together with the guerrillas, they destroyed the enemy communications, roads, forest debris did, showed the enemy ambushes, minefields, ferries, is a conductor performing missions. Where many were created vigilante groups who bravely defended their villages from arsonists from the retreating enemy groups. Local people helped formations of the Red Army soldiers and officers to seek fascist broken parts. With the help of local residents only in the Vitebsk region were captured or killed while resisting about 9 thousand soldiers and officers.
June 14, 1944 in accordance with the decision intt of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was created 185 assault battalions. They numbered 16,640 soldiers. They were assisted by seven thousand advocacy groups, which totaled 42,730 people. Only in July 1944 they were captured more than 22 thousand people.
In cities and towns underground organizations intt created group to oversee industry and premises which were prepared by the Nazis before the explosion. Government House, the building of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the District intt Officer's House, many homes and businesses in Minsk was saved only by the fact that the advanced units that entered the city, quickly made contact with local members of the underground, and with their help immediately cleared the building.
In addition to direct military intt assistance, population in the liberated areas did much to restore the infrastructure intt of the country, which was primarily partebna for further successful offensive. They came to restore railways, highways and dirt roads, construction of bridges. In a short time it was restored more than 10 thousand kilometers of track and railway bridges in 1735, built a new bridge in 2950. For three days the workers of Minsk rebuilt bridge over the river Svislach perashyli railroad tracks. July 9 in Minsk the first train arrived, and Brest first train arrived on the third day after his release. The population of Belarus intt was involved in the mobilization intt of funds for the defense, while collecting bread and other products, subscribe to a third in 1944 and fourth in 1945, the military government loans.
Widely held in the liberated territory call the Red Army. The territory of western and central Belarus not recognize the general evacuation in 1941, so manpower preserved, despite the policy of genocide by the German occupation authorities. Since the beginning of the liberation of Belarus intt until mid-January 1945, the army was mobilized over 560 thousand people, which added 147 thousand members of the guerrilla movement. But before that, a parade of partisans appeared that high ratings Belarusians contribution to the common victory.
The rally and parade workers and partisans Minsk region held July 16, 1944 On a turnout of 50 thousand workers in the capital and more than 30 thousand guerrillas, was invited by the commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front, Army General I.D.Charnyahovski delegation workers the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). Partisan grand parade was a worthy completion of the heroic struggle of the guerrillas and all the inhabitants of the republic against the German invaders.
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