On 9 August 1945, 76 years ago, the Japanese city of #Nagasaki was completely obliterated by the A-bombing, carried out by the US. Approximately 74,000 people died from the bombing and its after-effects by the end of 1945.
* * *
9 августа 1945 г., 76 лет назад, г.Нагасаки в Японии был полностью разрушен атомной бомбардировкой, осуществленной США. Около 74 тыс. человек умерли от взрыва и вызванных им болезней к концу 1945 г.
#NeverAgain
* * *
9 августа 1945 г., 76 лет назад, г.Нагасаки в Японии был полностью разрушен атомной бомбардировкой, осуществленной США. Около 74 тыс. человек умерли от взрыва и вызванных им болезней к концу 1945 г.
#NeverAgain
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
❗️ On August 6, 1945, the A-bombing of #Hiroshima took place - the ultimate barbaric and inhumane act of cruelty.
A city full of civilians, women and children was annihilated in a flash by a devastating nuclear attack carried out by the US.
80'000+ victims perished instantaneously.
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: On this day, the terrible death of innocent civilians strikes a chord with millions of people on our planet. The United States was the first and only country to use this type of weapons of mass destruction.
We need to eliminate the risk of military confrontation between the nuclear powers and rule out the possibility of a nuclear war. We firmly believe that such a war cannot be won and must never be unleashed. We suggest that all nuclear powers officially confirm their commitment to this tenet.
#NeverAgain #LestWeForget
A city full of civilians, women and children was annihilated in a flash by a devastating nuclear attack carried out by the US.
80'000+ victims perished instantaneously.
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: On this day, the terrible death of innocent civilians strikes a chord with millions of people on our planet. The United States was the first and only country to use this type of weapons of mass destruction.
We need to eliminate the risk of military confrontation between the nuclear powers and rule out the possibility of a nuclear war. We firmly believe that such a war cannot be won and must never be unleashed. We suggest that all nuclear powers officially confirm their commitment to this tenet.
#NeverAgain #LestWeForget
🕯 Today marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day established by the United Nations General Assembly.
🌟 OTD in 1945 the Red Army’s 1st Ukrainian Front troops led by Marshal I.Konev liberated “Auschwitz” prisoners putting an end to the largest death camp of the Third Reich and finally revealing to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there.
▪️ Auschwitz was really a group of camps, designated I, II, and III. There were also 40 smaller “satellite” camps.
It was at Auschwitz II, at Birkenau, established in October 1941, that the SS created a complex, monstrously orchestrated killing ground: 300 prison barracks; four “bathhouses” in which prisoners were gassed; corpse cellars; and cremating ovens.
▪️Thousands of prisoners were also used for medical experiments overseen and performed by the camp doctor, Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death.”
▪️The Nazis destroyed the majority of the documents, so the exact number of victims of the death camps is still unknown.
❗️According to the information about deportations, more than 1,5 million people died in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
☝️ Despite shameful attempts to re-write history in many states, including those that call themselves democracies, and the criminal war on monuments in Europe, the Holocaust, one of the most tragic events of the 20th century, will always remain in human history as an unprecedentedly atrocious attempt to translate the principles of a misanthropic ideology into action.
#WWII #WeRemember #Nazism #Nazi #NeverAgain
🌟 OTD in 1945 the Red Army’s 1st Ukrainian Front troops led by Marshal I.Konev liberated “Auschwitz” prisoners putting an end to the largest death camp of the Third Reich and finally revealing to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there.
▪️ Auschwitz was really a group of camps, designated I, II, and III. There were also 40 smaller “satellite” camps.
It was at Auschwitz II, at Birkenau, established in October 1941, that the SS created a complex, monstrously orchestrated killing ground: 300 prison barracks; four “bathhouses” in which prisoners were gassed; corpse cellars; and cremating ovens.
▪️Thousands of prisoners were also used for medical experiments overseen and performed by the camp doctor, Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death.”
▪️The Nazis destroyed the majority of the documents, so the exact number of victims of the death camps is still unknown.
❗️According to the information about deportations, more than 1,5 million people died in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
☝️ Despite shameful attempts to re-write history in many states, including those that call themselves democracies, and the criminal war on monuments in Europe, the Holocaust, one of the most tragic events of the 20th century, will always remain in human history as an unprecedentedly atrocious attempt to translate the principles of a misanthropic ideology into action.
#WWII #WeRemember #Nazism #Nazi #NeverAgain