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Their formation was considered a waste of men, and since the aim was to galvanize the Red Army&#8217;s morale and emphasize patriotism, and many officers stopped consistently enforcing the order (seeing its negative effect on the troops), the idea of blocking detachments was quietly abandoned. On November 20, 1944, the blocking detachments were officially demobilized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stalin issues Order No. 227: &#8220;No more steps back&#8221; (\u041d\u0438 \u0448\u0430\u0433\u0443 \u043d\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0434!; Russian: &#8220;ni sh\u00e0gu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vg-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>July 28, 1942 - Cronologia Universale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cronologia-universale.it\/en\/july-28-1942-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"July 28, 1942 - Cronologia Universale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Stalin issues Order No. 227: &#8220;No more steps back&#8221; 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