📆 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.
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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.
#WWII #WeRemember #Victory79
🌟 Today marks 81 years since the liberation of the city of Taganrog from the Nazis as part of the Donbass Strategic Offensive of the Red Army.
Nazi occupation of the city had lasted 683 days (since 17 October 1941).
❗️ During this period, the invaders committed multiple atrocities against the local population, including massacre at Gully of Petrushino, use of children as forced blood donors, etc. The population of the city diminished nearly twice and was less than 80.000 people in August 1943.
⚔️ It was only at the second attempt that Red Army forces broke through the heavily fortified “Mius Front” defensive line and entered Taganrog, located to the west of it (the 1st attempt during the Mius Offensive in July-August failed to breach it).
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Nazi occupation of the city had lasted 683 days (since 17 October 1941).
❗️ During this period, the invaders committed multiple atrocities against the local population, including massacre at Gully of Petrushino, use of children as forced blood donors, etc. The population of the city diminished nearly twice and was less than 80.000 people in August 1943.
⚔️ It was only at the second attempt that Red Army forces broke through the heavily fortified “Mius Front” defensive line and entered Taganrog, located to the west of it (the 1st attempt during the Mius Offensive in July-August failed to breach it).
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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.
#WeRemember #Victory79
🌟 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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🗓 September 3 marks the Day of Military Glory in Russia — the day of victory over militarist Japan and the end of World War II.
On September 2, the representative of the USSR General Kuzma Derevyanko and the allies of the Soviet Union during WWII signed the Instrument of Surrender of militarist Japan.
At the Tehran (1943) and Yalta (1945) conferences of the heads of the Big Three Joseph Stalin agreed to help the United States and Britain in the war against Japan, which at that time the USSR had a pact of neutrality with.
It was agreed in Tehran that the USSR would enter the war two or three months after the surrender of Germany.
The redeployment of Soviet soldiers to the Far East began even before Berlin was captured. According to the plan the Soviet forces were to encircle and defeat the enemy in the Far East within two months but victory was achieved much faster — merely 11 days later.
☝️ The Red Army dealt a crushing blow to the Kwantung Army, which became one of the key factors of Axis Japan's defeat. Southern part of Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Manchuria and part of Korea were liberated from Japanese occupation.
📹 The Russian Military Historical Society
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On September 2, the representative of the USSR General Kuzma Derevyanko and the allies of the Soviet Union during WWII signed the Instrument of Surrender of militarist Japan.
At the Tehran (1943) and Yalta (1945) conferences of the heads of the Big Three Joseph Stalin agreed to help the United States and Britain in the war against Japan, which at that time the USSR had a pact of neutrality with.
It was agreed in Tehran that the USSR would enter the war two or three months after the surrender of Germany.
The redeployment of Soviet soldiers to the Far East began even before Berlin was captured. According to the plan the Soviet forces were to encircle and defeat the enemy in the Far East within two months but victory was achieved much faster — merely 11 days later.
☝️ The Red Army dealt a crushing blow to the Kwantung Army, which became one of the key factors of Axis Japan's defeat. Southern part of Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Manchuria and part of Korea were liberated from Japanese occupation.
📹 The Russian Military Historical Society
#Victory79 #WeWereAllies