📆 83 years ago, #OTD in 1941, the heroic 73-day Defence of Odessa started.
Soviet Separate Coastal Army and the Black Sea Fleet, actively supported by civilians, withstood the advancing German-Romanian forces, including the 72nd German Infantry Division, the 4th Romanian Army and Luftwaffe.
⚔️ During the siege, city defenders repelled several strikes of the considerably outnumbering enemy’s troops (10 to 1 at the beginning of the operation).
⚔️ Fierce Soviet resistance covered the evacuation of civilians, cultural and industrial assets from Odessa, which was completed by 16 October 1941.
🕯 Right after the takeover of Odessa, Romanian forces supported by the Germans, carried out a massacre in the city, having shot and burnt alive some 25,000-34,000 Jews and Gypsies.
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Soviet Separate Coastal Army and the Black Sea Fleet, actively supported by civilians, withstood the advancing German-Romanian forces, including the 72nd German Infantry Division, the 4th Romanian Army and Luftwaffe.
⚔️ During the siege, city defenders repelled several strikes of the considerably outnumbering enemy’s troops (10 to 1 at the beginning of the operation).
⚔️ Fierce Soviet resistance covered the evacuation of civilians, cultural and industrial assets from Odessa, which was completed by 16 October 1941.
🕯 Right after the takeover of Odessa, Romanian forces supported by the Germans, carried out a massacre in the city, having shot and burnt alive some 25,000-34,000 Jews and Gypsies.
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📆 79 years ago, on 9 August 1945, in accordance with its allied commitments to the USA and the UK, the USSR entered the war against Japan.
⚔️ It was carried out by Soviet troops of the Transbaikal, the 1st Far East and the 2nd Far East front led by Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky.
⚔️ It was aimed at defeating a massive Japanese army group – the Kwantung Army and liberation of the Northwest China (Manchuria), North Korea with consequent ending of #WW2.
☝️ The Soviet side vastly outnumbered the Japanese in men and arms: 1.5 million versus some 700.000 of the Kwantung army, five times more artillery guns and tanks, and three times more aircraft.
⚔️ Soviet ally Mongolia backed the offensive. Over 60.000 soldiers of the Mongolian People’s Army took part in the action and protected the rear of the advancing Red Army.
🌟 Soviet forces’ rapid advance put Japan in a deadlock situation. Japanese command’s hopes for tenacious defense with further counteroffensive dashed as military-economic base on the mainland was lost.
Within 10 days of the launch of the offensive the Kwantung army was totally crushed. Japanese soldiers started to surrender in their masses to Soviet soldiers.
❗️ The enemy’s losses amounted to 84.000 dead and over 640.000 taken prisoners-of-war.
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⚔️ It was carried out by Soviet troops of the Transbaikal, the 1st Far East and the 2nd Far East front led by Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky.
⚔️ It was aimed at defeating a massive Japanese army group – the Kwantung Army and liberation of the Northwest China (Manchuria), North Korea with consequent ending of #WW2.
☝️ The Soviet side vastly outnumbered the Japanese in men and arms: 1.5 million versus some 700.000 of the Kwantung army, five times more artillery guns and tanks, and three times more aircraft.
⚔️ Soviet ally Mongolia backed the offensive. Over 60.000 soldiers of the Mongolian People’s Army took part in the action and protected the rear of the advancing Red Army.
🌟 Soviet forces’ rapid advance put Japan in a deadlock situation. Japanese command’s hopes for tenacious defense with further counteroffensive dashed as military-economic base on the mainland was lost.
Within 10 days of the launch of the offensive the Kwantung army was totally crushed. Japanese soldiers started to surrender in their masses to Soviet soldiers.
❗️ The enemy’s losses amounted to 84.000 dead and over 640.000 taken prisoners-of-war.
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79 years ago the South Sakhalin operation of the Red Army commenced as part of the Manchurian Offensive.
⚔️ On the night of 10-11 August 1945, Soviet naval aviation conducted massive strikes on Japanese strongholds on Sakhalin, and in the early hours of 11 August the troops of the 2nd Far East Front supported by the Northern Pacific Flotilla launched an attack all along the frontline.
Simultaneously, sea-borne forces were landed in the enemy’s rear.
⚔️ As a result of coherent efforts of Soviet land and naval troops, Japanese army was totally crushed and on 25 August 1945 the administrative centre of South Sakhalin, the city of Toyohara, was taken.
☝️ Over 18.000 Japanese soldiers surrendered to the Red Army.
🌟 The southern part of Sakhalin island, lost during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 was regained by USSR.
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⚔️ On the night of 10-11 August 1945, Soviet naval aviation conducted massive strikes on Japanese strongholds on Sakhalin, and in the early hours of 11 August the troops of the 2nd Far East Front supported by the Northern Pacific Flotilla launched an attack all along the frontline.
Simultaneously, sea-borne forces were landed in the enemy’s rear.
⚔️ As a result of coherent efforts of Soviet land and naval troops, Japanese army was totally crushed and on 25 August 1945 the administrative centre of South Sakhalin, the city of Toyohara, was taken.
☝️ Over 18.000 Japanese soldiers surrendered to the Red Army.
🌟 The southern part of Sakhalin island, lost during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 was regained by USSR.
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📆 81 years since the beginning of the Donbass Offensive during II World War
⚔️ Between August 13 and September 22, 1943, the Red Army of the Soviet Union conducted a significant military operation known as the Donbass Offensive as part of the Great Patriotic War, fought on the Eastern Front of World War II against Nazi Germany.
⚔️ This strategic maneuver involved the Soviet troops of the Southern and Southwestern Fronts with the primary objective of defeating the Nazi Army Group South, and gaining access to the Dnepr River.
🌟 Donbass' main industrial and administrative centers of Donetsk, Taganrog and Mariupol were also liberated.
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⚔️ Between August 13 and September 22, 1943, the Red Army of the Soviet Union conducted a significant military operation known as the Donbass Offensive as part of the Great Patriotic War, fought on the Eastern Front of World War II against Nazi Germany.
⚔️ This strategic maneuver involved the Soviet troops of the Southern and Southwestern Fronts with the primary objective of defeating the Nazi Army Group South, and gaining access to the Dnepr River.
🌟 Donbass' main industrial and administrative centers of Donetsk, Taganrog and Mariupol were also liberated.
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📆 80 years ago, #OTD in 1944 the Jassy-Kishinev Strategic Offensive of the Red army was launched during #WW2
⚔️ It was conducted by the troops of the 2nd and the 3rd Ukrainian Fronts with the support of the Black Sea Fleet and the Danube Military Flotilla against the Army Group “South Ukraine” consisting of German and Romanian formations.
⚔️ The offensive resulted in the encirclement and complete decimation of defending German forces, opening way further to Eastern Europe for the Red Army.
☝️ The defeat of the Nazis also resulted in a coup in Romania which overthrew the Axis ally dictator Antonescu and allied with the Soviet Union against Germany.
🌟 In only 9 days, the Nazi forces were crushed with 22 enemy’s divisions totally eliminated.
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⚔️ It was conducted by the troops of the 2nd and the 3rd Ukrainian Fronts with the support of the Black Sea Fleet and the Danube Military Flotilla against the Army Group “South Ukraine” consisting of German and Romanian formations.
⚔️ The offensive resulted in the encirclement and complete decimation of defending German forces, opening way further to Eastern Europe for the Red Army.
☝️ The defeat of the Nazis also resulted in a coup in Romania which overthrew the Axis ally dictator Antonescu and allied with the Soviet Union against Germany.
🌟 In only 9 days, the Nazi forces were crushed with 22 enemy’s divisions totally eliminated.
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🌟 #OTD 80 years ago, the capital of Soviet Moldavia Kishinev was liberated from Nazi occupation by the troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front.
⚔️ On the night of 23 August 1944, Soviet troops completed the encirclement of the enemy’s grouping of 18 divisions near Kishinev. On the next day, 24 August 1944, the troops of the 5th Shock Army led by General N.Berzarin broke into the city and purged it.
🔻 Сommander of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, General F.Tolbukhin, issued an ultimatum to the 3rd Romanian Army and the 9th German infantry division calling on the enemy to surrender. On the 24th and the 25th August 1944, Romanian and German soldiers ceased their resistance.
🕯 During the 3 years of Kishinev’s occupation, some 20.000 residents were murdered. In the Kishinev ghetto 9.000 – 13.000 prisoners were kept. When the Red Army entered Kishinev, only 6 survivors were found in ghetto.
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⚔️ On the night of 23 August 1944, Soviet troops completed the encirclement of the enemy’s grouping of 18 divisions near Kishinev. On the next day, 24 August 1944, the troops of the 5th Shock Army led by General N.Berzarin broke into the city and purged it.
🔻 Сommander of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, General F.Tolbukhin, issued an ultimatum to the 3rd Romanian Army and the 9th German infantry division calling on the enemy to surrender. On the 24th and the 25th August 1944, Romanian and German soldiers ceased their resistance.
🕯 During the 3 years of Kishinev’s occupation, some 20.000 residents were murdered. In the Kishinev ghetto 9.000 – 13.000 prisoners were kept. When the Red Army entered Kishinev, only 6 survivors were found in ghetto.
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📆 81 years ago the Battle of the Dnieper began – one of the major campaigns of #WW2, consisting of several operations.
It involved over 4 million men from both sides with the frontline stretched for 750 km.
⚔️ As a result of the 4-months battle, almost entire left-bank Ukraine was recovered from Nazi invaders.
Considerable Red Army forces crossed the Dnieper – one of the largest European rivers – in a short time period to create several strategic lodgements on the western bank.
🌟 In November 1943, Soviet troops liberated the capital of Ukraine Kiev which was of great political and spiritual significance. Regaining of important industrial regions of Ukraine let USSR increase military production.
☝️ The Battle of the Dnieper laid bare the fact that complete liberation of Ukraine and Red Army’s access to the borders with Romania, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia was just a matter of time.
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It involved over 4 million men from both sides with the frontline stretched for 750 km.
⚔️ As a result of the 4-months battle, almost entire left-bank Ukraine was recovered from Nazi invaders.
Considerable Red Army forces crossed the Dnieper – one of the largest European rivers – in a short time period to create several strategic lodgements on the western bank.
🌟 In November 1943, Soviet troops liberated the capital of Ukraine Kiev which was of great political and spiritual significance. Regaining of important industrial regions of Ukraine let USSR increase military production.
☝️ The Battle of the Dnieper laid bare the fact that complete liberation of Ukraine and Red Army’s access to the borders with Romania, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia was just a matter of time.
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🗓 83 years ago, on August 28, 1941, the Tallinn breakthrough of the Baltic Fleet of the USSR to Kronstadt – one of the largest and most complicated naval ops of the Soviet Navy during the Great Patriotic war – commenced.
▪️In the summer of 1941, the Nazi invaders began to break through into the territory of the Soviet Baltic republics. Early in August, the Germans launched Tallinn offensive. By the end of the month, the Red army forces, retreating under the onslaught of the superior enemy troops, were trapped on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland and cut off from the "mainland".
Under these circumstances, the Supreme High Command Headquarters of the USSR ordered to evacuate the main forces of the Baltic Fleet, the Red army's forces defending Tallinn, and the civilian population to Kronstadt.
⚓️ On the morning of August 28, an attempt to make a major breakthrough was launched: 225 ships and vessels left Tallinn with over 10,000 people on board.
The Nazis tried by all means to prevent the breakthrough of the convoy. Intensive fire from the enemy's coastal guns was directed at the Soviet ships. In the Gulf waters, the Germans and Finns set up several lines of minefields – more than 1,700 mines. “At the time of the breakthrough, the Gulf of Finland looked like a "dumpling soup" saturated with German mines," – that's how the participants of the breakthrough described their dire circumstances.
By August 30, the Baltic Fleet finally broke through to Kronstadt. Only 163 ships reached the destination. Over 15,000 people died during the operation, including more than 4,500 civilians.
☝️ Under such harsh conditions, the losses could have been much higher if not for the unprecedented heroism, bravery and mutual assistance of the Baltic Fleet crews who saved their comrades and selflessly returned fire from anti-aircraft guns and rifles.
The Baltic Fleet immediately joined the defence of Leningrad. The Soviet forces delivered by the fleet joined the ranks of the city's defenders.
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▪️In the summer of 1941, the Nazi invaders began to break through into the territory of the Soviet Baltic republics. Early in August, the Germans launched Tallinn offensive. By the end of the month, the Red army forces, retreating under the onslaught of the superior enemy troops, were trapped on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland and cut off from the "mainland".
Under these circumstances, the Supreme High Command Headquarters of the USSR ordered to evacuate the main forces of the Baltic Fleet, the Red army's forces defending Tallinn, and the civilian population to Kronstadt.
⚓️ On the morning of August 28, an attempt to make a major breakthrough was launched: 225 ships and vessels left Tallinn with over 10,000 people on board.
The Nazis tried by all means to prevent the breakthrough of the convoy. Intensive fire from the enemy's coastal guns was directed at the Soviet ships. In the Gulf waters, the Germans and Finns set up several lines of minefields – more than 1,700 mines. “At the time of the breakthrough, the Gulf of Finland looked like a "dumpling soup" saturated with German mines," – that's how the participants of the breakthrough described their dire circumstances.
By August 30, the Baltic Fleet finally broke through to Kronstadt. Only 163 ships reached the destination. Over 15,000 people died during the operation, including more than 4,500 civilians.
☝️ Under such harsh conditions, the losses could have been much higher if not for the unprecedented heroism, bravery and mutual assistance of the Baltic Fleet crews who saved their comrades and selflessly returned fire from anti-aircraft guns and rifles.
The Baltic Fleet immediately joined the defence of Leningrad. The Soviet forces delivered by the fleet joined the ranks of the city's defenders.
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📆 85 years ago Nazi Germany invaded Poland starting World War II
In full accordance with the blitzkrieg doctrine, despite the Polish army’s fierce resistance, German troops reached Warsaw already in a week after the attack, while military and political leaders of Poland had fled to Romania.
The war came about as a result of an entire complex of factors among which the Versaille Treaty’s predatory conditions imposed on Germany by World War I victorious powers, as well as the “policy of appeasement” of Hitler led by the European countries wishing to direct Nazi aggression eastwards against the Soviet Union.
☝️ This political line peaked with Munich Agreement signed by the Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy on 30 October 1938 resulting in dismemberment of Czechoslovakia which ceased its existence.
👉 It was the 1938 Munich turning point, following which the World War II became inevitable.
🕯 World War II went down in history as the bloodiest war ever.
It involved 62 of 73 existing states with total number of victims amounting up to 70 million men.
❗️World War II saw the only combat use of nuclear weapons by the US against Japan.
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In full accordance with the blitzkrieg doctrine, despite the Polish army’s fierce resistance, German troops reached Warsaw already in a week after the attack, while military and political leaders of Poland had fled to Romania.
The war came about as a result of an entire complex of factors among which the Versaille Treaty’s predatory conditions imposed on Germany by World War I victorious powers, as well as the “policy of appeasement” of Hitler led by the European countries wishing to direct Nazi aggression eastwards against the Soviet Union.
☝️ This political line peaked with Munich Agreement signed by the Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy on 30 October 1938 resulting in dismemberment of Czechoslovakia which ceased its existence.
👉 It was the 1938 Munich turning point, following which the World War II became inevitable.
🕯 World War II went down in history as the bloodiest war ever.
It involved 62 of 73 existing states with total number of victims amounting up to 70 million men.
❗️World War II saw the only combat use of nuclear weapons by the US against Japan.
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📆 80 years ago (1944) the Baltic Offensive of the Red Army during #WWII was commenced which lasted for 71 days
This region was vital to the Nazi war machine, linking it with Scandinavia via which Germany received important strategic support materials. The Baltic States supplied Germany with food, and Estonia also delivered oil products.
⚔️ The fight for the Baltic region was protracted and extremely fierce. Up to a quarter of all Nazi forces on the Soviet-German front took part in it.
As a result of the Red Army’s Baltic offensive, the Nazi Army Group North was pushed out of almost the entire region and lost its ground-based communications with East Prussia. Of 59 Nazi divisions, 26 were routed and three were completely destroyed.
☝️ With the loss of the Baltic region, Germany was deprived of an advantageous strategic area that gave its fleet freedom of action in the eastern part of the Baltic Sea. It also lost an important industrial, raw materials and food base.
🌟 The Red Army created conditions for developing its onslaught during the 1945 East-Prussian offensive.
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This region was vital to the Nazi war machine, linking it with Scandinavia via which Germany received important strategic support materials. The Baltic States supplied Germany with food, and Estonia also delivered oil products.
⚔️ The fight for the Baltic region was protracted and extremely fierce. Up to a quarter of all Nazi forces on the Soviet-German front took part in it.
As a result of the Red Army’s Baltic offensive, the Nazi Army Group North was pushed out of almost the entire region and lost its ground-based communications with East Prussia. Of 59 Nazi divisions, 26 were routed and three were completely destroyed.
☝️ With the loss of the Baltic region, Germany was deprived of an advantageous strategic area that gave its fleet freedom of action in the eastern part of the Baltic Sea. It also lost an important industrial, raw materials and food base.
🌟 The Red Army created conditions for developing its onslaught during the 1945 East-Prussian offensive.
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