Shalom Yoran - Why partisans blow up trains
Transcript: Let's take a blowing up of train. Which is one of the of the major achievement that partisan did. Why? Because there's no roads in, uh in in Soviet Union Russia. Very bad roads. The only way how the Germans could transport all their support their army and and ammunition and food and everything was trains. Because they had good trains. And by blowing up trains we stopped the all the operation and the German put tremendous force tremendous amount of of a a army and and, you know, they all the way when they train rails was going 500 feet from each side they cut off all the woods and everything was empty. That that you cannot come close to the railroad without being seen. Every several hundred meters it was a patrol. So it was going between one unit to the other because for them it was a lifeline. And for us it was the main thing is to to to blow it up.

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