Рота Смертников на Дне Балтики: Как Штрафники Спасали Ленинград

In the fall of 1941, as Leningrad suffocated in the grip of the siege, the Baltic Fleet command took a reckless step. A top-secret Special Purpose Company (RON) was created on a remote island in the Gulf of Finland, led by Lieutenant Prokhvatilov. It included demoted officers, rebels, and penal sailors. They lacked modern equipment—they breathed pure oxygen through primitive ISA-M apparatus, where every drop of water turned the breathing mixture into a boiling alkali, burning the lungs. At depths of more than 10 meters, oxygen toxicity decimated them, yet these men achieved the impossible. In this video, you will learn: How Soviet amphibious saboteurs destroyed German high-speed barges in the skerries in complete darkness; How penal soldiers stormed an impregnable underground fortress in the basements of Peterhof; A feat under the ice: how swimmers fought their way to the surface with knives when the Germans blocked the ice hole; Why, after the Great Patriotic War, the unique experience of the RON was completely classified, and the names of the heroes were forgotten. It was these "Baltic devils" who developed the "dead silence" tactic, which formed the basis for the creation of the elite special forces of the modern navy (PDSS, Vympel, and Kholuay). This is a true story about the incredible power of human will.