STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1826, sig. 109-5/54 Page 22 · 22 of 45
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1826, sig. 109-5/54
English Translation
15a -10 of these smallest groups and the connection among them was largely interrupted. c) Armament and equipment. The guerrillas are regularly equipped with infantry weapons, i.e. rifles (often automatic), lMG's, also sMGs, light and heavy grenade throwers, pistols, machine guns, hand grenades, the rifles are, as occasionally could be fixed, partly. With silencers, which have to be shot with a special ammunition. At delivery of the shot only the impact of the impact bolt and a quiet hissing sound is noticeable. According to statements of a trapped guerrillas the silencer in the Soviet Russian army is not yet known, but only to some selected guerrilla groups was issued. 16719 Furthermore, the partisans are in possession of explosives and fuel, light guns and radios. Several reception and screening devices have already been secured. The clothing is uneven, and regularly civil. Only in Ukraine, in the Dnieper swamp area, a Moscow partisan section could be established and crushed, in which due to a emphasized unity of civilian clothing the partisans were given the opportunity to know each other.