🕯 22 June marks Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Russia.
🗓 At early hours of June 22, 1941, enemy aviation delivered massive strikes on air fields, railway stations, Soviet naval bases, permanent troops deployment sites and many cities all along the western state border of the USSR, as well as to a depth of up to 250-300 km in the Soviet territory.
Thus, one of the most tragic pages in the history of our country opened - the Great Patriotic War began.
Hitler reckoned on the “lightning war” strategy. As contemplated by the "Barbarossa" plan, with the previously reliable blitzkrieg tactics Wehrmacht was to rout the Red Army and defeat the Soviet Union within a few months.
Together with Nazi Germany, Romania and Italy formed a united front against the USSR, and a few days later they were joined by Slovakia, Finland and other countries. The industrial power of almost whole of continental Europe worked for the aggressors.
Yet, due to the Red Army’s fierce resistance and the efforts of the entire Soviet people, the plans of the Third Reich were fated to fail.
The Nazi attack and the beginning of the war were announced on the radio. At noon on June 22, 1941, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov addressed Soviet people, saying the iconic phrase that went down in history: "Our cause is just. The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours!"
The Great Patriotic War lasted 1,418 days and nights and concluded with the victory of the Soviet Union and the complete defeat of the Nazi bloc. The Instrument of Surrender of Nazi Germany and its armed forces was signed on May 9, 1945. On the Soviet side, the surrender was accepted by Marshal Georgy Zhukov.
The USSR's losses amounted to 40% of all human losses in World War II - 26.6 million people. Of these, more than 8.7 million were killed on the battlefield, 7.42 million people were deliberately exterminated by the Nazis in the occupied territories, and over 4.1 million died from the brutal conditions of the occupation regime. 5.27 million people were sent to forced labour in Germany and Nazi-occupied territories.
#DayofRemembranceAndSorrow #WeRemember #WorldWar2 #jtt #jaconnaafrica #jajiotheteacher #Jagajagafrica🕯 22 June marks Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Russia.
🗓 At early hours of June 22, 1941, enemy aviation delivered massive strikes on air fields, railway stations, Soviet naval bases, permanent troops deployment sites and many cities all along the western state border of the USSR, as well as to a depth of up to 250-300 km in the Soviet territory.
Thus, one of the most tragic pages in the history of our country opened - the Great Patriotic War began.
Hitler reckoned on the “lightning war” strategy. As contemplated by the "Barbarossa" plan, with the previously reliable blitzkrieg tactics Wehrmacht was to rout the Red Army and defeat the Soviet Union within a few months.
Together with Nazi Germany, Romania and Italy formed a united front against the USSR, and a few days later they were joined by Slovakia, Finland and other countries. The industrial power of almost whole of continental Europe worked for the aggressors.
Yet, due to the Red Army’s fierce resistance and the efforts of the entire Soviet people, the plans of the Third Reich were fated to fail.
The Nazi attack and the beginning of the war were announced on the radio. At noon on June 22, 1941, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov addressed Soviet people, saying the iconic phrase that went down in history: "Our cause is just. The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours!"
The Great Patriotic War lasted 1,418 days and nights and concluded with the victory of the Soviet Union and the complete defeat of the Nazi bloc. The Instrument of Surrender of Nazi Germany and its armed forces was signed on May 9, 1945. On the Soviet side, the surrender was accepted by Marshal Georgy Zhukov.
The USSR's losses amounted to 40% of all human losses in World War II - 26.6 million people. Of these, more than 8.7 million were killed on the battlefield, 7.42 million people were deliberately exterminated by the Nazis in the occupied territories, and over 4.1 million died from the brutal conditions of the occupation regime. 5.27 million people were sent to forced labour in Germany and Nazi-occupied territories.
#DayofRemembranceAndSorrow #WeRemember #WorldWar2 #jtt #jaconnaafrica #jajiotheteacher #Jagajagafrica
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