No Step Back is the newest expansion for Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s grand strategy wargame about the world crisis of the 1930s and World War II...
It comes from Order No. 227 issued by Stalin in July 1942. The line 'Not a step back!' (Ни шагу назад!, Ni shagu nazad!) became a huge slogan for the war effort around that time.
The Order itself is kind of where the west gets the asiatic hordes, 'Enemy at the Gates'-esque portrayal of the Eastern Front, because the order established penal battalions and blocking detachments to hold the line against the Nazis.
Not sure if I could find it again, but I read that the capital punishments were mainly reserved for officers, and any fleeing soldiers caught by the blocking detachments weren't punished but sent back to their units... Which I guess could be seen as a punishment if the entire context is ignored
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It comes from Order No. 227 issued by Stalin in July 1942. The line 'Not a step back!' (Ни шагу назад!, Ni shagu nazad!) became a huge slogan for the war effort around that time.
The Order itself is kind of where the west gets the asiatic hordes, 'Enemy at the Gates'-esque portrayal of the Eastern Front, because the order established penal battalions and blocking detachments to hold the line against the Nazis.
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Not sure if I could find it again, but I read that the capital punishments were mainly reserved for officers, and any fleeing soldiers caught by the blocking detachments weren't punished but sent back to their units... Which I guess could be seen as a punishment if the entire context is ignored
Probably not
Edit: i think it's a reference to stalin's quote "not one step back"
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It's a reference to the general order by the USSR that unauthorized retreat would no longer be tolerated.
Also plausible
Yeah more or less. Company of Heroes 2 did the same thing with misreading order 227