The battle of Minsk
June 14, 1915. As I predicted. The crushed divisions defending Minsk had to pull out from the city. The Germans and their counter-offensive. They complete each others.
The next day my comrades rushed into Minsk with the will to take it back as soon as possible. However, the people of Russia are very dissapointed. They are starting to lose hope in the Tsar.
With the battle of Minsk raging on, we are getting our land back from the Germans here in the North. Pskov is again in our hands, while we are about to start again an offensive in the Baltics!
Another bloody defeat in Hotin. This city has become a blood bath ... the Austro-Hungarians are such fanatics when it comes to this city..
With the defeat of Hotin, the disorganised Russian troops were attacked in Kaments-Podolsky. I am starting to realise. The Central Powers are beating us only because of their counter-attacks. Now what we have to do it's to wait for our generals to realise this incredible, really incredible fact too.
June 20, victory in Minsk! Now what they have to do it's to wait for the German counter-attack which will push them again out from the city.
30.000 Germans killed in the victorios battle of Polotsk.
What a disaster in the South! The whole front is about to collapse! Kaments-Podolsky has fallen, and if the Austro-Hungarians will keep pushing the almost destroyed Russian troops, Kiev will fall.
~30.000 Germans surrendered in Opochka. That's a sign that something is not going well in the German Army ... why they would surrender so easily? .... Well, we just recieved to order to attack Narva ... AGAIN! I think I am about to learn each street of this city...this is how much I fought into that city....but for now, we are not engaged in battle, my division is acting as a reserve.
While we achieved victory in Narva, our comrades were defeated in Slutsk, and even worse, te Germans reinforced Minsk, and without the troops from Slutsk, we can no longer be efficient in the battle of Minsk. The Germans are not idiots, unfortunately.
It was good to hear that the Austro-Hungarians didn't push my comrades to Kiev....but now I'm really expecting this to happen. They managed to beat my comrade's counter-offensive, everything it's possible now.
Our generals observed an attempt of a German encirclement in the Southern front. Now they are starting to pull out from Pinsk. Sarny and Rowne will also be sacrificed thanks to the German plans of encirclement. It is better to lose three cities and a whole army.
Both the Austro-Hungarians and the Germans are starting to get tired of this war. They are starting to protest. And when you think that they won so much ground and their people are still revolting ... I mean .. if they are winning and gaining protest, what will happen here? Here where we lose ground?! Surely not just protests.
And ... following a yet another Russian attack into Kaments-Podolsky, our army was so crushed that only 4 Bulgarian divisions are about to capture Vinnitsa, which is being guarded by 36 Russian divisions, true, disorganised and destroyed.
Our progress in the Baltics is once again being stalled. Both Talinn and Tartu are being reinforced. I'm already waiting for the retreat order.
This is becoming so repetitive ... it's such a terrible routine ..
August 10, 1915. The great battle of Polotsk has started. As usual, we outnumber the Germans, but useless.
In an attempt to get the upper hand in the battle of Polotsk, the Germans are trying to push the Russian troops from Borisov out, leaving my comrades in Polotsk without support from it. This could surely lead to a crushing defeat!
And so..the Germans achieved victory in Borisov, and will soon in Polotsk. Not to mention the fall of Pskov ... again. The events are just repeating ... I am getting tired of this.
Now I'm sitting in a trench here in Narva. the Austro-Hungarians are trying to push us out from the city. I don't know how much we can hold. They have artillery .. we don't have anything but the guns, some ammo and lots of vodka.
The battle of Polotsk was lost. At least my comrades inflicted a huge number of casualties to the devils.
August 22, 1915. We got the order to pull out from Narva. For the first time after a long time, I'm glad I'm retreating. It's just that I feel more safe when I'm so close to the capital and to my farm.