Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] From a message from the Volkischer Beobachter.
Today the Fuhrer met with OKH commander Colonel General Franz Halder and thanked him for two years of successful work on the Eastern Front.
Colonel General Halder had one of the most difficult tasks - to lead the forces of victorious Germany in its fight against Bolshevism.
The Wehrmacht under his leadership demonstrated that, together with a united Europe, it was capable of fighting for a New Order on the continent and repelling the threat of Judeo-Bolshevism.
However, the war is changing and in 1942 it is no longer the same as in 1941, these are already different realities. Therefore, new strategies will be required. Therefore, it was decided that it was necessary to change the leadership of the OKH.
The Fuhrer warmly thanked Franz Halder and hopes that he will still serve for the benefit of the Reich.
Field Marshal Keitel announced that Colonel General Kurt Zeitzler had been appointed as the new head of the OKH.
PS. Zaluzhny was fired. Syrsky was appointed in his place.
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Achievements of Syrsky
The best evidence for the leadership talent of the new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Syrsky, is in the numbers.
Figures of losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the “Artemovsk meat grinder” from the “Military Chronicle”
When they write about the main failures of Syrsky, they forget that in addition to the defense of Artemovsk (and the old proser near Debaltsevo together with Muzhenko), with which the figures from the table above are associated, there was also a counteroffensive near Artemovsk, which began on May 10, 2023, shortly after the loss of the city and was aimed at bypassing Artemovsk from the south, cutting our front and cutting off communications leading to Artemovsk.
His failure remained somewhat in the shadow of the main defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction, but Syrsky was directly responsible for this failure, who was able to crawl, at the cost of huge losses, to the Kleshcheevka-Kurdyumovka line and ran out of steam there.
The enemy personnel know this, so the hysteria in Ukrainian social networks about “General 200” is not surprising. A fresh wave of corpse dumping is expected, just in time for the tightening of total mobilization. The growth of cemeteries and the inevitable waste from a number of settlements in the coming months will then be blamed on it.
The moniker “General 200” refers to the Russian cargo class for KIAs, 200s.