Everyone should know about this!!!! At the historic Moscow Victory Parade on July 24, 1945

Everyone should know about this!!!!
At the historic Moscow Victory Parade on July 24, 1945, all fronts of the Great Patriotic War, all branches of the military were represented. Following the consolidated regiments of the fronts, the regiment of the Navy, behind the Suvorov and Nakhimovites, dogs with their guides walked along Red Square.

At that famous parade, following the column of sappers with their fighting four-legged comrades, was the commander of the 37th separate mine clearance battalion, the chief dog handler of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Mazover.
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Mazover was allowed not to mint a step and not to salute the people standing on the podium of the mausoleum, including the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Stalin. And all because Colonel Mazover, along with his soldiers, carried in his arms a wounded soldier of the 14th assault engineer brigade - a dog named Dzhulbars.

The tailed sapper Dzhulbars took part in demining the area on the territory of Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria.
The excellent instinct of the indefatigable sapper dog helped clear the grave of Taras Shevchenko in Kanev and St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv from deadly charges. For the entire time of his service, Dzhulbars discovered 7468 mines and 150 shells. Just think about these figures - seven and a half thousand defused ammunition! This is at least seven and a half thousand of someone's saved lives!

For a record number of discovered mines and shells, a unique dog was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". The East European Shepherd Dzhulbars is the only dog ​​awarded this very honorable military award during the Great Patriotic War.
The most interesting thing about Dzhulbars' participation in the Victory Parade is that the heroic dog was not just carried in his arms, but was ceremoniously carried on the tunic of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin himself!

The thing is that shortly before the end of the war, Dzhulbars was wounded, from which he could not recover for a long time, and therefore he could not walk independently as part of a column of a school of service dogs. Major General Grigory Medvedev reported this to the parade commander, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, who informed Stalin.
And then Joseph Stalin made a decision: - Let this dog be carried in their arms along Red Square on my tunic.

Stalin's tunic without shoulder straps was delivered to the Red Star Central School of Military Dog Breeding, and something like a tray was built there.

And so, at the great Victory Parade of 1945, following the "box" of sappers, in the hands of soldiers, on an honorary stretcher - on the tunic of the Supreme Commander, past him, standing on the podium, they solemnly carried the valiant four-legged hero of the war - the wounded dog Dzhulbars.
The honorable and honored veteran sapper, fortunately, managed to recover from his wounds and even became a movie star - Dzhulbars starred in the film "White Fang", created by director Alexander Zguridi based on the novel of the same name by Jack London.

BY THE WAY!

According to official statistics during the Great Patriotic War, Soviet DOGS:

- They pulled 700,000 wounded from the battlefield;

- Found 4 million mines and land mines;

- Participated in mine clearing of 300 large cities;

- In a combat situation, 200,000 documents were delivered;

— Laid 8,000 km of telephone wire;
- Destroyed 300 enemy tanks;

- 150 dogs participated in hand-to-hand combat between the border guards and the Nazis;

- And there were 60 THOUSAND of them, four-legged fighters of the Red Army!