Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen

The Panfilov Division's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen (Russian: Двадцать восемь гвардейцев дивизии Панфилова, romanized: Dvadtsat vosem gvardeytsev divizii Panfilova), commonly referred to simply as Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen, Panfilov's Men (Russian: Панфиловцы, Panfilovtsy), or just the Twenty-Eight, refers to a group of soldiers who defended Moscow against the Nazis in 1941, about whom the Soviet press invented a heroic story for the purpose of motivating the army. Internally debunked already in Soviet times, the heroic legend was kept alive by the regime by classifying the related documents.

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