🎉 Happy Freedom Day and Freedom Month, South Africa!
🇿🇦 Freedom Day is the commemoration of the first democratic elections held in South Africa on 27 April 1994.
🇿🇦 The national day also honours the masses of South Africans who resisted and suffered under apartheid, faced death, injury and repression from the security forces.
❤️We convey our warmest greetings to all the South Africans on this occasion!
🎥 Watch the @RT report dedicated to African peoples’ liberation struggle and Russian/Soviet vital contribution to it released ahead of the #FreedomDay celebrations.
#FreedomDay #FreedomDay2023 #SouthAfrica #History #Democracy #NelsonMandela
🇿🇦 Freedom Day is the commemoration of the first democratic elections held in South Africa on 27 April 1994.
🇿🇦 The national day also honours the masses of South Africans who resisted and suffered under apartheid, faced death, injury and repression from the security forces.
❤️We convey our warmest greetings to all the South Africans on this occasion!
🎥 Watch the @RT report dedicated to African peoples’ liberation struggle and Russian/Soviet vital contribution to it released ahead of the #FreedomDay celebrations.
#FreedomDay #FreedomDay2023 #SouthAfrica #History #Democracy #NelsonMandela
#OTD, on 17 November 1948, 🇷🇺 cruiser Aurora was assigned to its permanent anchorage at the Petrogradskaya embankment in Leningrad (today’s St.Petersburg)
🛳 Currently, it serves as a museum ship and one of the city’s landmarks.
🌟The Aurora was one of 3 Pallada-class cruisers launched in St.Petersburg in 1900. She participated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 surviving the Battle of Tsushima.
After returning to the Baltic, it was used as a training ship.
📆 In October 1917, a shot fired from the main gin of the cruiser was the signal to storm the Winter Palace and marked the beginning of the Bolshevik revolution.
#Aurora #history #russianhistory
🛳 Currently, it serves as a museum ship and one of the city’s landmarks.
🌟The Aurora was one of 3 Pallada-class cruisers launched in St.Petersburg in 1900. She participated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 surviving the Battle of Tsushima.
After returning to the Baltic, it was used as a training ship.
📆 In October 1917, a shot fired from the main gin of the cruiser was the signal to storm the Winter Palace and marked the beginning of the Bolshevik revolution.
#Aurora #history #russianhistory
📆 544 years ago (1480) a standoff between the forces of the Golden Horde and Russian troops on the banks of the Ugra river began, commonly referred to as the Great Stand on the Ugra River.
This event marked the end of the 250-year-long Mongol-Tatar yoke over Russia.
⚔️ The Ugra River engagement included no full-scale armed conflict, although tens of thousands of soldiers on each side were involved.
Although the Mongol-Tatars had been defeated by Dmitry Donskoy 100 years earlier during the Battle of Kulikovo, Russia was too weak at that time to completely overthrow the Golden Horde dominance. However, in the late 1470s, Moscow Principality becoming the recognized centre of Russia’s unification, under Ivan III’s rule, ceased to pay tribute. The Mongol leadership decided to punish Ivan.
⚔️ The Mongol-Tatar and Russian forces met each other at the Ugra river (about 200 km southwest of Moscow), having taken positions on its banks. Mongols could not use their main advantage – cavalry as they had to cross the Ugra first. While attempting to do so, they took fire from Russian artillery.
❌ In late November 1480, the Mongol-Tatar forces retreated from the river, as they were not prepared to fight in winter conditions. A khan of the Great Horde Akhmat had been killed by his former ally before he returned home.
🇷🇺 In the Russian capital, the meeting of Ivan III, who had returned from Ugra and achieved a bloodless victory, turned into a national holiday. Russia had become strong enough to no longer be subservient to the Tatar Yoke and could return to the path of independent development.
#russianhistory #russia #history #mongoltataryoke
This event marked the end of the 250-year-long Mongol-Tatar yoke over Russia.
⚔️ The Ugra River engagement included no full-scale armed conflict, although tens of thousands of soldiers on each side were involved.
Although the Mongol-Tatars had been defeated by Dmitry Donskoy 100 years earlier during the Battle of Kulikovo, Russia was too weak at that time to completely overthrow the Golden Horde dominance. However, in the late 1470s, Moscow Principality becoming the recognized centre of Russia’s unification, under Ivan III’s rule, ceased to pay tribute. The Mongol leadership decided to punish Ivan.
⚔️ The Mongol-Tatar and Russian forces met each other at the Ugra river (about 200 km southwest of Moscow), having taken positions on its banks. Mongols could not use their main advantage – cavalry as they had to cross the Ugra first. While attempting to do so, they took fire from Russian artillery.
❌ In late November 1480, the Mongol-Tatar forces retreated from the river, as they were not prepared to fight in winter conditions. A khan of the Great Horde Akhmat had been killed by his former ally before he returned home.
🇷🇺 In the Russian capital, the meeting of Ivan III, who had returned from Ugra and achieved a bloodless victory, turned into a national holiday. Russia had become strong enough to no longer be subservient to the Tatar Yoke and could return to the path of independent development.
#russianhistory #russia #history #mongoltataryoke