Ruins of a heavy machine-gun pillbox which guarded a vital road to Grodno (in today's Belarus).
Here, in June 1941, unlike in most other places, Red Army offered fierce, albeit short-lived, resistance. Ther are several dozens of pillboxes scattered in the nearby magnificent Augustów Primeval Forest and, although construction work was going on night and day, only some were fully equipped and armed. Still, it was better than nothing and much better than in many other places along the Molotov Line.

Interestingly, some crews of the bunkers fought bravely till their doom, while many other decided that discretion was a better part of valor. Local inhabitants can still remember which pillboxes offered stiff resistance – their fathers and grandfathers buried the defenders.

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