Russia commemorates the Day of Military Honour marking the 80th anniversary of the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad.
🌟 #OTD in 1944, during the “January Thunder” operation against the 18th German army, the Soviet Leningrad Front crushed the Peterhof-Strelnya Nazi formation pushing the enemy back from the city by 60-100 km and completed the lifting of the siege in cooperation with the troops of the Volkhov Front.
🕯 Since 8 September 1941, Leningrad had been under siege which lasted 872 days, with the only connection to the outer world provided by the Road of Life across lake Ladoga. During the siege, over 1 million Leningrad residents were starved to death.
❌ Hitler’s intention regarding the city of Leningrad was to utterly destroy it together with its population. According to a directive sent to Army Group “North” in September 1941, “Following the city's encirclement, requests for surrender negotiations shall be denied, since the problem of relocating and feeding the population cannot and should not be solved by us. In this war for our very existence, we can have no interest in maintaining even a part of this very large urban population.”
☝️ The Red Army made as many as 4 unsuccessful attempts to break the enemy’s circle – in September 1941, October 1941, January 1942 and August-September 1942. January 1943, when the Battle of Stalingrad distracted major Nazi forces, became the pivotal moment.
🌟 Soviet troops broke the siege during “Iskra” operation opening a land corridor 8-10 km wide which allowed more supplies to reach the city until the siege was completely lifted 1 year later.
#WW2 #WWII #WeRemember #SiegeofLeningrad #Nazi #USSR #Soviet
🌟 #OTD in 1944, during the “January Thunder” operation against the 18th German army, the Soviet Leningrad Front crushed the Peterhof-Strelnya Nazi formation pushing the enemy back from the city by 60-100 km and completed the lifting of the siege in cooperation with the troops of the Volkhov Front.
🕯 Since 8 September 1941, Leningrad had been under siege which lasted 872 days, with the only connection to the outer world provided by the Road of Life across lake Ladoga. During the siege, over 1 million Leningrad residents were starved to death.
❌ Hitler’s intention regarding the city of Leningrad was to utterly destroy it together with its population. According to a directive sent to Army Group “North” in September 1941, “Following the city's encirclement, requests for surrender negotiations shall be denied, since the problem of relocating and feeding the population cannot and should not be solved by us. In this war for our very existence, we can have no interest in maintaining even a part of this very large urban population.”
☝️ The Red Army made as many as 4 unsuccessful attempts to break the enemy’s circle – in September 1941, October 1941, January 1942 and August-September 1942. January 1943, when the Battle of Stalingrad distracted major Nazi forces, became the pivotal moment.
🌟 Soviet troops broke the siege during “Iskra” operation opening a land corridor 8-10 km wide which allowed more supplies to reach the city until the siege was completely lifted 1 year later.
#WW2 #WWII #WeRemember #SiegeofLeningrad #Nazi #USSR #Soviet
🕯 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
Russian diplomats in Poland yet again haven’t been invited to commemoration of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp [by Soviet troops] in Polish Oświęcim.
This is how some “touchy” Russians describe the situation on social media.
Jews: We were prisoners of that camp. This is our day.
Germans: We held Jews in that camp. This is our day.
Poles: We gave up Jews to the Nazis. This is our day.
Ukrainians: Our Banderites served as guards in that camp. This is our day.
Russians: What about us?
Germans, Poles, Jews and Ukrainians together: You showed up uninvited and ruined the whole thing!
This is how some “touchy” Russians describe the situation on social media.
Jews: We were prisoners of that camp. This is our day.
Germans: We held Jews in that camp. This is our day.
Poles: We gave up Jews to the Nazis. This is our day.
Ukrainians: Our Banderites served as guards in that camp. This is our day.
Russians: What about us?
Germans, Poles, Jews and Ukrainians together: You showed up uninvited and ruined the whole thing!
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🗓 On January 27, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko took part in a ceremony for unveiling a memorial to the USSR civilians who fell victim of the Nazi genocide during the Great Patriotic War. The event is timed to the 80th Anniversary of breaking the Siege of Leningrad.
💬 President Putin: January 27 is one of the most important dates in our shared national history. On this day in 1944, Red Army soldiers completely lifted the Siege of Leningrad. A year later, in 1945, they liberated Auschwitz.
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For eight decades now, our pain for the victims, for the shattered destinies, and for everyone who endured incredible ordeals has not subsided. Our compassion is passed on from generation to generation and has #NoStatuteOfLimitation, just like the crimes of Hitler’s fanatics and their accomplices, those who cold-bloodedly planned and cruelly carried out the genocide of the Soviet people.
🕯 The massacres of unarmed and defenceless elderly people, women, children, and disabled were deliberate, systemic punitive acts.
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We are witnessing a disturbing trend where the outcomes of the Nuremberg trials, which unequivocally condemned Nazism, are being revised. Some countries not only rewrite history and exonerate the executioners: revanchists and neo-Nazis have embraced the Nazi ideology and methods.
• Tens of thousands of people in the Baltic states are labelled “subhuman,” stripped of basic rights and persecuted.
• The Kiev regime glorifies Hitler's followers and members of the SS and uses terror against dissenters. Barbaric shelling of peaceful cities and towns persists, and the killing of the elderly, women and children continues.
• Some European countries endorse Russophobia as a state policy.
❗️ We will do everything in our power to halt and eradicate Nazism.
The followers of Nazi executioners are doomed. Nothing can deter the desire of millions of people in Russia and across the planet for true freedom, justice, peace, and security.
#Victory79 #WeRemember
💬 President Putin: January 27 is one of the most important dates in our shared national history. On this day in 1944, Red Army soldiers completely lifted the Siege of Leningrad. A year later, in 1945, they liberated Auschwitz.
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For eight decades now, our pain for the victims, for the shattered destinies, and for everyone who endured incredible ordeals has not subsided. Our compassion is passed on from generation to generation and has #NoStatuteOfLimitation, just like the crimes of Hitler’s fanatics and their accomplices, those who cold-bloodedly planned and cruelly carried out the genocide of the Soviet people.
🕯 The massacres of unarmed and defenceless elderly people, women, children, and disabled were deliberate, systemic punitive acts.
<...>
We are witnessing a disturbing trend where the outcomes of the Nuremberg trials, which unequivocally condemned Nazism, are being revised. Some countries not only rewrite history and exonerate the executioners: revanchists and neo-Nazis have embraced the Nazi ideology and methods.
• Tens of thousands of people in the Baltic states are labelled “subhuman,” stripped of basic rights and persecuted.
• The Kiev regime glorifies Hitler's followers and members of the SS and uses terror against dissenters. Barbaric shelling of peaceful cities and towns persists, and the killing of the elderly, women and children continues.
• Some European countries endorse Russophobia as a state policy.
❗️ We will do everything in our power to halt and eradicate Nazism.
The followers of Nazi executioners are doomed. Nothing can deter the desire of millions of people in Russia and across the planet for true freedom, justice, peace, and security.
#Victory79 #WeRemember
💬 Ambassador Ilya Rogachev: In the last 70 years, sanctions turned into the collective West’s favourite instrument to influence other nations and bend them to Western will. List of these nations except for Russia includes Cuba, Chile, Yugoslavia, China, in Africa – Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Central African Republic, and many others.
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🇷🇺 President Vladimir Putin took part in the keel-laying ceremony for the multipurpose nuclear-powered icebreaker Leningrad at the Baltic Shipyard in St Petersburg.
The ship will be built as part of the Development of the Northern Sea Route federal project.
🛳 The Russian icebreaker fleet includes 34 diesel and 7 nuclear-powered icebreakers, namely, the lead ship Arktika and the nuclear-powered icebreakers Sibir, Ural, Yamal, 50 Let Pobedy, Taymyr and Vaygach.
🎙President Vladimir Putin:
💬 Today, together we are taking another step towards strengthening the technological and industrial capacity of our country. The high-performance modern nuclear icebreaker Leningrad will become the fifth ship in its series. After it is completed, it will sail along the Northern Sea Route, participate in important programmes to develop and study the Arctic, and ensure the delivery of cargo, construction materials, fuel, and, in general, reliable and sustainable shipping in the difficult and hard-to-reach Arctic latitudes.
☝️ Russia has an unparalleled – I would like to emphasise – unparalleled icebreaker fleet, the largest in the world, which is an enormous competitive advantage for us that opens vast opportunities for developing logistics and industry, creating new jobs, carrying out the integrated development of Arctic urban and rural areas, implementing truly global projects, and pursuing cooperation with our international partners and friends, and everyone who is willing to work with Russia.
#russianfleet #icebreaker #leningrad
The ship will be built as part of the Development of the Northern Sea Route federal project.
🛳 The Russian icebreaker fleet includes 34 diesel and 7 nuclear-powered icebreakers, namely, the lead ship Arktika and the nuclear-powered icebreakers Sibir, Ural, Yamal, 50 Let Pobedy, Taymyr and Vaygach.
🎙President Vladimir Putin:
💬 Today, together we are taking another step towards strengthening the technological and industrial capacity of our country. The high-performance modern nuclear icebreaker Leningrad will become the fifth ship in its series. After it is completed, it will sail along the Northern Sea Route, participate in important programmes to develop and study the Arctic, and ensure the delivery of cargo, construction materials, fuel, and, in general, reliable and sustainable shipping in the difficult and hard-to-reach Arctic latitudes.
☝️ Russia has an unparalleled – I would like to emphasise – unparalleled icebreaker fleet, the largest in the world, which is an enormous competitive advantage for us that opens vast opportunities for developing logistics and industry, creating new jobs, carrying out the integrated development of Arctic urban and rural areas, implementing truly global projects, and pursuing cooperation with our international partners and friends, and everyone who is willing to work with Russia.
#russianfleet #icebreaker #leningrad
On January 27, RUSSIA EXPO International Exhibition and Forum hosted the Energy Day.
🤝 The event gathered experts and visionaries who are at the helm of the development of Russia's energy complex, masterminds behind the achievements of our nation in the industry, as well as people who generate ideas that contribute to the socio-economic development of our country.
✅ The plenary session "Russia's Fuel and Energy Complex: new opportunities for development" provided an opportunity for the industry's leaders to share with the audience the results of their respective companies' work and their overall input in the development of our country's fuel and energy complex, outlining priorities and opportunities for the future.
✅The business programme also included expert panels which discussed issues related to the power industry of our country as a driving force of economic growth, as well new strategies for the development of oil and gas sector.
Learn more 👉 https://en.russia.ru/
#RussiaEXPO #russianenergy
🤝 The event gathered experts and visionaries who are at the helm of the development of Russia's energy complex, masterminds behind the achievements of our nation in the industry, as well as people who generate ideas that contribute to the socio-economic development of our country.
✅ The plenary session "Russia's Fuel and Energy Complex: new opportunities for development" provided an opportunity for the industry's leaders to share with the audience the results of their respective companies' work and their overall input in the development of our country's fuel and energy complex, outlining priorities and opportunities for the future.
✅The business programme also included expert panels which discussed issues related to the power industry of our country as a driving force of economic growth, as well new strategies for the development of oil and gas sector.
Learn more 👉 https://en.russia.ru/
#RussiaEXPO #russianenergy