“Do not take border guards prisoners!” - this order was given by the German command after the first battles of the Great Patriotic War. It was on the Soviet border, in the first hours of the war, that the Wehrmacht encountered the most fierce resistance, it was here that the crushing machine of the blitzkrieg gave its first failure. The German command allotted 15-30 minutes to capture the line of border outposts, but the outposts held out for hours, days - until the last bullet , until the last fighter. The 10th outpost of the Marijampolsky border detachment fought for eight hours, the 8th outpost of the Lomzhinsky border detachment held out for sixteen hours, the 13th outpost of the Vladimir-Volynsky border detachment under the command of Lieutenant Lopatin fought off German attacks for 11 days. The legendary defense of Brest and Libau, the heroic death of Kretinga and Taurage detachments, the exploits of aviation and naval units of the border troops - in the summer of 1941, Soviet border guards fulfilled their military duty in full...