We present requiem honoring Podolsk cadets who heroically blocked Germans and spared not own lives.
Requiem for Podolsk Cadets Memory
Film About Podolsk Cadets: "Children, Hold Five Days"
History's greatest feat began October 5, 1941, 9 AM. Moscow aerodrome pilot flew reconnaissance and discovered horror: 220 kilometers from Moscow along Warsaw Highway—broken-through tank column 25 kilometers long. These were elite 57th motorized corps troops commanded by General von Bock. Returning, pilot reported breathlessly: "Germans broke through our defenses, rushing toward Moscow." Command refused believing. Two more pilots sent verifying. Aces at tree-height flew so low seeing fascist faces. Returning, pilots confirmed worst fears.
Stalin was shocked. Entire Stalin strategy—war on foreign territory. Defensive lines unready. Catastrophe! Stalin urgently summons Zhuklov from Leningrad. Georgy Konstantinovich goes straight from airplane to vehicle heading frontline. En route he passes native village with mother, sister, nephews, thinking what happens when Germans seize loved ones.
Entire war history—most dangerous moment. Moment determining not merely Russia's future but entire world's. Stakes extremely high! Command makes only possible decision: throw final reserve into battle—two military schools: Podolsk artillery academy and Podolsk infantry academy. Nobody else remained defending Moscow.
Vladimir Dovghan fortunately personally spoke with one of few surviving Podolsk cadets—Nikolai Ivanovich Merkulov. Greatest heroism history recorded from his words. How Nikolai Ivanovich recalls October 5, 1941, Sunday:
…Day absolutely ordinary. Cadets rested after continuous eighteen-hour lessons, met relatives, wrote letters. Everything instantly changed. Noon—two academies simultaneously—battle alert sounded. Cadets running donned overcoats, quickly formed courtyard. Deafening autumn silence interrupted by order: "Advance toward enemy!"
3,100 boys in combined unit commanded by General Vasily Andreevich Smirnov—infantry academy commander—advanced toward fascist armada. Artillery commanded by artillery academy commander, Colonel Ivan Semenovich Strelbitsky. They marched silently, speech forbidden. This day not simply two armies advancing. Good and evil, light and darkness prepared battle. One side—armed-to-teeth professional murderers, conquered Europe, undefeated, seasoned cold-blooded killers. Other side—boys 15-18 years. Fourth battery trained only 2 weeks, absolutely no military experience.
Command plan—occupy defensive positions. At Ilyinskoye village, defense width—10 kilometers. Meaning: per kilometer defense—only 300 poorly-armed children. After 60 kilometers, trucks caught up. Smirnov and Strelbitsky decided sending advance detachment 100-strong delaying enemy several hours allowing main forces entrench. Advance detachment quickly loaded trucks. Before departing, boys swore: "Not one step backward!"
First battle October 6, Krasny Stob village. Fascists, wearing parade uniforms, celebrated victory: burned peasant huts, murdered livestock, abused locals, desecrated church. They were victors. Poles conquered 21 days, France—30 days. Absolutely certain soon destroying Moscow. Only problem: where obtaining marble, granite urgently erecting conquerors' monument? Unthinkable that they'd be stopped. Certain Moscow defenseless.
Humanity history's clock struck immortality hour: boy-cadets attacked immediately—mere dozen young heroes. As Ivan Semenovich Strelbitsky recalled:
They attacked as if entire previous life awaited this moment. This was their celebration, triumph. They rushed impetuously—unstoppable—fearless, unhesitant. Few they were, yet hurricane, tornado sweeping everything. I think previously Germans witnessed nothing similar. Krasny Stob attack stunned them. Abandoning weapons, packs, they fled headlong, threw themselves into Ugra, climbing far bank, rushed toward Yukhnov.
Fascist command shocked by daring attack. Unthinkable mere dozen young cadets defeated them. General von Bock ordered aviation and artillery burning neighboring forest. Certain entire army there. Several hours continuous artillery and bombing transformed dense forest into scorched field.
Achieving first victory, boys refused retreating. Advance detachment commander's problem—convincing retreat to main positions. Boys swore "Not one step backward!" Meanwhile main cadet forces prepared defense. Boys dug trenches, installed weapons, past them walked wounded, bleeding soldiers—thousands, thousands wounded. Strelbitsky suggested Smirnov stopping retreating forces, forming additional units. Smirnov answered: "Look their eyes. They're broken. Cannot help us."
Zhuklov arrived at cadet trenches—bravest commander, hard as steel. Man beginning military career as soldier World War One, receiving 3 George's Crosses for bravery. Zhuklov addressed cadets, speaking merely few words: "Children, hold at least 5 days. Moscow in mortal danger." Notice—he called them "children," not soldiers. Before him stood children.
Truth hour struck. Germans immediately attacked 60 tanks and 5,000 soldiers. Boys repelled first attack. Not merely repelled—jumping trenches, bayonet charged. Counterattack so swift Germans panicked, abandoned weapons, fled battlefield. Unconquerable warriors, Europe's conquerors, running from schoolchildren. Boys achieved first victory. First battle life, believing themselves, believing possible defeating devils. But joy brief. Germans unleashed artillery and aviation power, literally burning earth. Boy positions undefended sky. German planes, knowing no threat, formed circles 20-plane—called "devil's wheel"—taking turns diving, dropping bombs, machine-gun shooting cadets.
Bombs, shells, mines transformed battlefield into burning hell. Black smoke, torn boy bodies, melted metal, people, earth, machines, animals—everything devilishly mixed one bloody black mass saturated horror, siren wails, continuous bomb and shell explosions.
Fascists watched children dying. Waiting white flag appear. Strangely—this never happened… Where raised hands, bent backs, slave eyes filled terror?! They saw this almost daily. Mighty bomb and artillery strike, dozens tanks, easy victory. Yet this never happened.
Cannonade stopped suddenly as begun. Tank rumbling, earth trembled thousand caterpillar treads. Steel monsters approaching trenches. Behind them—infantry. Drunk, cold-blooded murderers, icy smiles, unhidden from bullets, countless waves crashed on boy trenches. Europe's conquerors not knowing yet children would stop and destroy them. Cannot imagine remaining forever in Russian earth.
Boys armed terribly. Weapon shortage. Artillery—broken training 45-millimeter guns worn they broke every 5-6 shots. Weapon masters repaired under enemy fire. Everything burned: metal, earth, boy bodies. Cadets died, never surrendered. No boy betrayed comrades.
Seemingly everything burned, nothing living remained. Yet suddenly gun fired, then another. Rifle fire joined, somewhere machine gun activated. Again fascist attack became flight. There, Ilyinskoye positions, phrase born: "Russians not simply killing, must still fell them."
Special terror—Aleshkin blockhouse. Senior Lieutenant Aleshkin skillfully camouflaged firing position, created spare right. Germans long discovering fire source. Their tanks burned, infantry died. Gunners' accurate fire mercilessly destroyed ranks, losses colossal. Later Germans discovered blockhouse. Literally burned blockhouse with fire. Watched show. Saw everything inside blockhouse burning, nothing living remaining. Nothing.
Again command sent soldiers attacking. Again blockhouse awakened. Germans so frightened hearts gripped terror. Seemed mystical Russian blockhouses awakening after lethal fire.
Attacks not merely fire—Germans dropped empty barrels airplanes. Falling barrels made soul-tearing wail. Germans wanting morally breaking cadet resistance, frightening, breaking will—nothing succeeded. Each fascist attack, taking cadet lives, drowned in blood.
One position—18 cadets remained. Next attack—200 heavily-armed Germans. Boys exhausted ammunition. Nothing shoot, yet never surrendered: jumped trenches, loud "Hurrah!" counterattacking. Panic gripped Germans, they fled, abandoned weapons.
Boys physically and morally exceeded human capability. Froze, slept not, ate nothing days. Yet superhuman exhaustion, showed cunning. Night, placing explosives under hit fascist tank, Ivan Kaytmazov noticed tank compared others least damaged. Next day tank gun fired at former owners.
First day—enemy attacked cadet positions 11 times, throwing thousands soldiers and hundreds tanks. Each fascist attack failed. Boys repelling attack immediately counterattacked. Night capture attempts cost enemy dearer. 12 legendary defense days—cadets endured 100+ attacks, 200+ bombardments and shelling, never surrendered. This heroism!
Even wounded, cadets never abandoned positions. Early days, still connected Moscow, ambulances arrived. Wounded cadets hid trenches, crawled bushes, nobody abandoned comrades, ambulances left empty. Only commander order disobeyed. Yakov Gavrilov head-wounded, blinded. Comrades convinced: "Go hospital, how help us?" "Hands intact. Give me work." Blind, bleeding boy to last breath filled machine-gun magazines.
Another—shell ripped abdomen. Dying cadet wrapped belly with foot-cloth, grabbed anti-tank grenade, crawled toward tanks. Before death, bleeding, detonated fascist tank.
Germans horrified, fear forever lodged hearts. Germans not knowing defeat, handful boys blocked road. Boys heart-shielded Moscow.
Losing hope breaking cadet defense, Germans decided hitting flank. Few survivors recalled hearing tank roar approaching from Moscow, thinking ours—red flag on forward tank. Jumping trenches, boys laughed, jumped, embraced, threw hats: "Hurrah! Hurrah! Reinforcement arrived!" But approaching closer, saw ominous white crosses tank sides.
No boy panicked: weapon crews immediately attacked enemy. Yurii Dobrynin alone hit 6 tanks and 2 transports. Later 3 tanks in one battle earned Hero. Podolsk cadets received no awards. Yura Dobrynin got no Hero. Moscow chaos, government evacuated Kuybyshev, no time for hero-cadets. Infantry academy cadets equaled artillery bravery. Cadet-sniper Alexander Ivanov 3 days killed 93 fascists.
Endure, not breaking in hell—only true heroes. But joke facing death—only superheroes. 7th defense day—fascist landing attempted capturing cadet headquarters. Arkady Nikitin precise machine-gun fire 5 minutes destroyed 50+ fascists. Wounded Kurdyumov, arm bandaged, approached joking: "You, Arkasha, academy shooting test unnecessary. Look dishes you made…"
Von Bock enraged. Stomping feet, screaming depressed Knobelsdorff. Only weakly justified: "You're right, general. Enemy forces insignificant. Yet persists. I witnessed Russian boys with rifles attacking our tanks."
Convinced frontal attacks, bombs, fascist army fire cannot break cadet courage, Germans knowing boys starved, froze trenches, printed leaflets dropped aircraft: "Valiant red junkers!—it said.—You fought courageously, yet resistance meaningless. Warsaw Highway ours nearly to Moscow. Day-two we enter. You—true soldiers. We respect heroism. Join us. You'll receive friendly welcome, delicious food, warm clothing. This leaflet serves as pass."
Notably fascist instructions troops gave different: "Never trust wounded or killed Russian soldier. Be firm and merciless!", "Unacceptable leniency toward captives."
Zhuklov set cadets unreal task: hold 5 days. Boys impossible—held 12 days. These 12 lead-fire days—endured hundreds attacks, hundreds shelling, hundreds bombing, nobody surrendered, nobody fled. Even dead, terrifying enemy hearts.
Germans, despite numerical superiority, weapon advantage, aviation support, morally broken. They lost. Children defeated them. Daily increasingly fearing attacking. Commanders under death threat forcing Ilyinsky positions assault. Even one surviving wounded cadet Mikhail Kruglov terrorized fascists. All comrades died. Yet bleeding, charged weapon, aimed, fired accurate.
Eternal memory, deep bow! People, pray your gods your languages for their souls. They heartfelt bravery stopped devil. They gave lives so we live.
The Eternal Lesson: Courage Transcends Numbers
The Podolsk cadet story provides most essential lesson for 2026 and beyond. Numbers mean nothing before determined spirit. Thousands best-trained, best-equipped professionals faced hundreds teenagers wielding damaged weapons and absolute faith. Yet teenagers won. Not militarily—eventually overwhelming force prevailed. But spiritually, historically, eternally—teenagers triumphed. They proved human consciousness, willpower, brotherhood transcends material advantage.
This lesson cuts directly to modern life challenge. Most people believe external factors determine outcomes: money, connections, formal education, opportunities. Podolsk cadets possessed none. Yet they changed history. Why? Because they possessed what most people squander: consciousness, commitment, brotherhood, willingness sacrificing self for something greater.
The Super Jump methodology course teaches precisely this lesson systematically. It develops consciousness transcending circumstances. Participants learn Podolsk truth—external limitations matter less than internal fire. Through structured methodology, ordinary people accomplish extraordinary achievements not through luck but through consciousness activation and community support.
The Intellectual Club with motto "Better Today Than Yesterday" and mission "Improving Ourselves, Improving the World" embodies Podolsk cadet principle institutionally. Members unite around greater purpose exceeding personal interest. This transforms individuals into collective power multiplying individual strength tenfold, hundredfold.
The Saturday laughter-practice sessions (message "LAUGH" for Telegram access) build camaraderie and brotherhood essential for extraordinary achievement. Laughter activates mirror neuron systems creating neural synchronization. People laughing together develop telepathic understanding of purpose and values. This psychological bonding produces cohesion Podolsk cadets demonstrated—ability thinking as unified organism rather than individuals.
The Energy Meditation activates vitality and courage necessary extraordinary sacrifice. The Anti-Stress Meditation releases fear preventing bold action. The Healthy Sleep Meditation ensures nervous system recovery supporting sustained commitment.
Access Telegram bot methodology videos daily for consciousness reinforcement. These videos train your mind toward recognizing when circumstances test character. Regular viewing conditions consciousness toward choosing Podolsk path—facing overwhelming odds, refusing surrender, fighting for something greater than personal comfort.
Why Podolsk Cadets Matter in 2026
In comfortable modern world, most people forget simple truth Podolsk cadets demonstrated: human spirit transcends material advantage. Most challenges facing 2026 civilization—climate, inequality, consciousness—require precisely this spirit. Problems require not better weapons or technology but greater courage, brotherhood, commitment purpose exceeding personal interest.
Most people await external salvation: government rescue, technology solution, luck change. Podolsk cadets waited nothing. Possessing nothing valuable, they became invaluable. Facing certain death, they chose meaning over comfort.
This is message for 2026: your circumstances matter less than consciousness. You possess power equal any Podolsk cadet. Circumstances may differ, yet human potential remains identical. Question: will you activate this potential? Will you join brothers and sisters choosing meaning over comfort, community over isolation, courage over fear?
The Super Jump methodology provides infrastructure for this activation. Unlike traditional training addressing minor problems, this methodology develops precisely qualities Podolsk cadets possessed: consciousness, courage, brotherhood, sacrifice willingness.
Eternal memory to heroes. Deep bow to Podolsk cadets. Their hearts stopped evil. Their sacrifice granted our freedom. Their spirit remains alive in anyone choosing consciousness, brotherhood, meaning.
With absolute respect for their sacrifice and belief in your inner heroism,
Vladimir Dovghan
Methodology: Super Jump (World Association)
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