📆 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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🌟 On August 14, 1942, outstanding Soviet snipers Natalia Kovshova and Maria Polivanova died heroically during a ferocious battle against the Nazis near Sutoki, a village in the Novgorod Region.
The two formed their legendary tandem immediately after the Great Patriotic War broke out.
🔻 Working in the aircraft manufacturing sector, both dreamed of entering a university. They volunteered for the front, even though they had an exemption and could have left Moscow as evacuees.
🔻 Natalia and Maria took part in building defense lines in Moscow’s suburbs. In the meantime, they worked on creating a sniper unit. The two killed dozens of Nazi troops. By the spring of 1942, they had gained much battle experience, and were also training new recruits.
🔻 Forced out of their strongholds north of the Robya River on August 14, the Nazi invaders sought to recover lost ground by launching one fierce counterattack after another. The 528th Rifle Regiment sniper unit was sent to counter the adversary, and Natalia Kovshova and Maria Polivanova were part of it. They were successfully repelling the enemy attack but the Nazis manages to bring in reinforcement.
🔻 The Germans killed almost the entire unit, including its commander, during one of their attacks. This is when Natalia stepped forward to take command of the unit, and decided to wage the battle until the bitter end.
⚔️ Then came the moment when only Kovshova and Polivanova were able to resist the enemy. The two women fired back at the Germans until they ran out of bullets. They decided to let the enemy approach them and then used grenades to blow themselves up along with the Nazi soldiers.
🕯 Natalia and Maria were just 21 and 19 years old, respectively.
🌟 On February 14, 1943, the two posthumously received Hero of the Soviet Union titles.
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The two formed their legendary tandem immediately after the Great Patriotic War broke out.
🔻 Working in the aircraft manufacturing sector, both dreamed of entering a university. They volunteered for the front, even though they had an exemption and could have left Moscow as evacuees.
🔻 Natalia and Maria took part in building defense lines in Moscow’s suburbs. In the meantime, they worked on creating a sniper unit. The two killed dozens of Nazi troops. By the spring of 1942, they had gained much battle experience, and were also training new recruits.
🔻 Forced out of their strongholds north of the Robya River on August 14, the Nazi invaders sought to recover lost ground by launching one fierce counterattack after another. The 528th Rifle Regiment sniper unit was sent to counter the adversary, and Natalia Kovshova and Maria Polivanova were part of it. They were successfully repelling the enemy attack but the Nazis manages to bring in reinforcement.
🔻 The Germans killed almost the entire unit, including its commander, during one of their attacks. This is when Natalia stepped forward to take command of the unit, and decided to wage the battle until the bitter end.
⚔️ Then came the moment when only Kovshova and Polivanova were able to resist the enemy. The two women fired back at the Germans until they ran out of bullets. They decided to let the enemy approach them and then used grenades to blow themselves up along with the Nazi soldiers.
🕯 Natalia and Maria were just 21 and 19 years old, respectively.
🌟 On February 14, 1943, the two posthumously received Hero of the Soviet Union titles.
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📆 79 years since the liberation of Korea by Soviet troops from Japanese colonial occupation
Korea remained under Japan’s colonial rule for 35 years after its annexation in 1910, with the Japanese colonial administration conducting a policy of forced assimilation and seeking to root out the Korean language and culture.
In November 1943, the United Kingdom, the United States, and China agreed in Cairo to deprive Japan of all its conquered territories. In July 1945, at the Potsdam Conference, the USSR, the United States, and Great Britain demanded that Japan surrender unconditionally and called for restoring Korea as a sovereign state.
⚔️ On August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union joined the war against Japan by launching a military campaign against the Kwantung Army in Manchuria and Korea in keeping with its commitments to the Allies. The 25th Army of the Red Army’s 1st Far Eastern Front, supported by Korea’s national liberation movement, fought against nine formidable Japanese divisions on the Korean Peninsula.
⚔️ On August 14, the main phase in the USSR’s Manchurian operation came to an end. It was on this day that Emperor Hirohito of Japan recorded a radio message announcing Japan’s unconditional surrender. Broadcast in Korea on August 15, this message caused jubilation all around the peninsula.
🇰🇷🇰🇵 Today, this day is a state holiday in both the DPRK and the Republic of Korea.
☝️ To streamline the capitulation of the Japanese army, the Soviet Union and the United States divided the peninsula into two spheres of influence along the 38th parallel, with the USSR in charge of the territories to the north of it, and the US to the south. The American troops completed their deployment in their southern section after the hostilities were over and the signing by Japan of its capitulation act.
🕯 Twelve thousand Soviet soldiers and officers fell while waging a courageous struggle for the freedom and independence of the Korean people.
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Korea remained under Japan’s colonial rule for 35 years after its annexation in 1910, with the Japanese colonial administration conducting a policy of forced assimilation and seeking to root out the Korean language and culture.
In November 1943, the United Kingdom, the United States, and China agreed in Cairo to deprive Japan of all its conquered territories. In July 1945, at the Potsdam Conference, the USSR, the United States, and Great Britain demanded that Japan surrender unconditionally and called for restoring Korea as a sovereign state.
⚔️ On August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union joined the war against Japan by launching a military campaign against the Kwantung Army in Manchuria and Korea in keeping with its commitments to the Allies. The 25th Army of the Red Army’s 1st Far Eastern Front, supported by Korea’s national liberation movement, fought against nine formidable Japanese divisions on the Korean Peninsula.
⚔️ On August 14, the main phase in the USSR’s Manchurian operation came to an end. It was on this day that Emperor Hirohito of Japan recorded a radio message announcing Japan’s unconditional surrender. Broadcast in Korea on August 15, this message caused jubilation all around the peninsula.
🇰🇷🇰🇵 Today, this day is a state holiday in both the DPRK and the Republic of Korea.
☝️ To streamline the capitulation of the Japanese army, the Soviet Union and the United States divided the peninsula into two spheres of influence along the 38th parallel, with the USSR in charge of the territories to the north of it, and the US to the south. The American troops completed their deployment in their southern section after the hostilities were over and the signing by Japan of its capitulation act.
🕯 Twelve thousand Soviet soldiers and officers fell while waging a courageous struggle for the freedom and independence of the Korean people.
#WWII #WW2 #Victory79
📆 #OTD, the non-aggression treaty between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, often referred to as the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, was signed in Moscow in 1939.
Soviet leadership, after Hitler came to power, made every effort to stop the aggressor and set up a system of collective security in Europe.
👉 These endeavors were blocked by the leading Western powers, Great Britain and France, which eventually found themselves trapped in their own schemes. The Munich Agreement signed by the heads of government of Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy in September 1938 became the most glaring example of the “policy of appeasement” of Hitler by Western countries. By signing it, the European leaders “greenlighted” the annexation of parts of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany, in an obvious attempt – on a larger scale – to channel German aggression to the East.
☝️ In fact, the Soviet Union became the last to conclude a treaty with Germany after Poland (1934), Great Britain (1935, 1938), France (1938), Italy (1939), Denmark (1939), Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia (1939).
🔻 The conclusion of the Pact was a severe necessity for the Soviet Union after the final failure of negotiations with the British and the French, a lifesaver within the aggravating international situation.
🔻The decision was taken in an extremely short period of time, when the futility of Moscow’s calls for an effective anti-Hitler coalition was fully revealed. The USSR also could not risk a war on two fronts, given that clashes with Japan were already ongoing in the Far East and there was no guarantee that they would escalate into a large-scale confrontation.
❗️ Therefore, the Soviet decision was primarily dictated by a need to ensure national security and any parallels between the USSR and Germany in starting WWII are simply cooked up.
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Soviet leadership, after Hitler came to power, made every effort to stop the aggressor and set up a system of collective security in Europe.
👉 These endeavors were blocked by the leading Western powers, Great Britain and France, which eventually found themselves trapped in their own schemes. The Munich Agreement signed by the heads of government of Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy in September 1938 became the most glaring example of the “policy of appeasement” of Hitler by Western countries. By signing it, the European leaders “greenlighted” the annexation of parts of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany, in an obvious attempt – on a larger scale – to channel German aggression to the East.
☝️ In fact, the Soviet Union became the last to conclude a treaty with Germany after Poland (1934), Great Britain (1935, 1938), France (1938), Italy (1939), Denmark (1939), Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia (1939).
🔻 The conclusion of the Pact was a severe necessity for the Soviet Union after the final failure of negotiations with the British and the French, a lifesaver within the aggravating international situation.
🔻The decision was taken in an extremely short period of time, when the futility of Moscow’s calls for an effective anti-Hitler coalition was fully revealed. The USSR also could not risk a war on two fronts, given that clashes with Japan were already ongoing in the Far East and there was no guarantee that they would escalate into a large-scale confrontation.
❗️ Therefore, the Soviet decision was primarily dictated by a need to ensure national security and any parallels between the USSR and Germany in starting WWII are simply cooked up.
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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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🌟 Today marks 79 years since the Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed, marking the end of World War II
⚔️ 🇯🇵 In view of the total defeat of the Kwantung army during the Manchurian strategic offensive, Emperor Hirohito announced on the radio rescript of surrender on 15 August 1945 following which the Japanese soldiers started to surrender to the Red Army.
The ceremony of signing of the agreement was held aboard the US battleship “Missouri” with participation of representatives of the Allied nations. For the Soviet Union the document was signed by Lieutenant General K.Derevyanko.
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⚔️ 🇯🇵 In view of the total defeat of the Kwantung army during the Manchurian strategic offensive, Emperor Hirohito announced on the radio rescript of surrender on 15 August 1945 following which the Japanese soldiers started to surrender to the Red Army.
The ceremony of signing of the agreement was held aboard the US battleship “Missouri” with participation of representatives of the Allied nations. For the Soviet Union the document was signed by Lieutenant General K.Derevyanko.
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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.
#Victory79 #WW2 #WeRemember