📆 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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🌟 85 years ago, on 17 September 1939, the Red Army entered Poland which was under attack by Nazi Germany
Despite the Polish army’s resistance, German troops reached Warsaw already in a week after the attack (1st of September), while military and political leaders of Poland had fled to Romania. Western allies of Poland – Great Britain and France – failed to fulfill their treaty obligations and remained idle.
☝️ It was only when it became absolutely clear that Great Britain and France were not going to help their ally and the Wehrmacht could swiftly occupy entire Poland and thus appear on the approaches to Minsk that the Soviet Union decided to send in, on the morning of September 17, Red Army units into the so-called Eastern Borderlines (Kresy), which nowadays form part of the territories of Belorussia, Ukraine and Lithuania.
❗️Obviously, there was no alternative.
Otherwise, USSR would have to enter the inevitable war with the Nazis from very disadvantageous strategic positions, while millions of people of different nationalities, including the Jews living near Brest and Grodno, Przemyśl, Lvov and Wilno, would be left to die at the hands of the Nazis and their local accomplices – anti-Semites and radical nationalists.
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Despite the Polish army’s resistance, German troops reached Warsaw already in a week after the attack (1st of September), while military and political leaders of Poland had fled to Romania. Western allies of Poland – Great Britain and France – failed to fulfill their treaty obligations and remained idle.
☝️ It was only when it became absolutely clear that Great Britain and France were not going to help their ally and the Wehrmacht could swiftly occupy entire Poland and thus appear on the approaches to Minsk that the Soviet Union decided to send in, on the morning of September 17, Red Army units into the so-called Eastern Borderlines (Kresy), which nowadays form part of the territories of Belorussia, Ukraine and Lithuania.
❗️Obviously, there was no alternative.
Otherwise, USSR would have to enter the inevitable war with the Nazis from very disadvantageous strategic positions, while millions of people of different nationalities, including the Jews living near Brest and Grodno, Przemyśl, Lvov and Wilno, would be left to die at the hands of the Nazis and their local accomplices – anti-Semites and radical nationalists.
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📆 81 years ago, on 23 September 1943, the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania began marking the final phase of Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Baltic region.
▪️ During 23-24 September, over 10.000 Jews were sorted and put on the train by German soldiers with the help of Lithuanian auxiliaries.
▪️ The majority of the Jews were sent to the Vaivara concentration camp in Estonia, killed in the forest of Paneriai, or sent to the death camps in German-occupied Poland.
☝️ Throughout the period of German occupation, local collaborators participated actively in punitive actions against Jewish population. Nevertheless, present-day Lithuanian policy is aimed at rehabilitation of WW2 criminals and minimizing their role in the genocide of the Jewish nation.
❗️ Lithuanian authorities resist to recognize the scope to which Lithuanians collaborated with the Nazis, whereas Nazi collaborators and war criminals are further glorified for their anti-Soviet resistance.
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▪️ During 23-24 September, over 10.000 Jews were sorted and put on the train by German soldiers with the help of Lithuanian auxiliaries.
▪️ The majority of the Jews were sent to the Vaivara concentration camp in Estonia, killed in the forest of Paneriai, or sent to the death camps in German-occupied Poland.
☝️ Throughout the period of German occupation, local collaborators participated actively in punitive actions against Jewish population. Nevertheless, present-day Lithuanian policy is aimed at rehabilitation of WW2 criminals and minimizing their role in the genocide of the Jewish nation.
❗️ Lithuanian authorities resist to recognize the scope to which Lithuanians collaborated with the Nazis, whereas Nazi collaborators and war criminals are further glorified for their anti-Soviet resistance.
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🌟 81 years ago, #OTD in 1943, Smolensk was liberated from Nazis as part of the Smolensk Strategic Offensive codenamed “Suvorov”
The operation was carried out by the troops of the Soviet Western Front supported by partisan units.
⚔️ The enemy put up strong resistance trying to hold an important transport junction and besides the town where Army Group “Centre” headquarters were located from the Autumn of 1941. But the Red Army’s pincer attack from the south and front strikes from the northeast decided the town’s fate. On 25 September 1943 a red banner was hoisted over the hotel “Smolensk”.
▪️ Smolensk was under Nazi occupation over two years - from 16 July 1941 till 25 September 1943.
🕯 During that period 135.000 of 157.000 Smolensk residents were exterminated by Nazi punitive forces. 870 of 900 industrial enterprises in Smolensk region were destroyed.
⚔️ With the liberation of Smolensk, a bridgehead was created for further offensive in Belorussia within “Bagration” operation of 1944.
☝️ The whole world witnessed courage and commitment of Soviet soldiers whereas the Western allies realized, the Red Army would reach the Atlantic ocean unless they open the Second Front in Europe.
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The operation was carried out by the troops of the Soviet Western Front supported by partisan units.
⚔️ The enemy put up strong resistance trying to hold an important transport junction and besides the town where Army Group “Centre” headquarters were located from the Autumn of 1941. But the Red Army’s pincer attack from the south and front strikes from the northeast decided the town’s fate. On 25 September 1943 a red banner was hoisted over the hotel “Smolensk”.
▪️ Smolensk was under Nazi occupation over two years - from 16 July 1941 till 25 September 1943.
🕯 During that period 135.000 of 157.000 Smolensk residents were exterminated by Nazi punitive forces. 870 of 900 industrial enterprises in Smolensk region were destroyed.
⚔️ With the liberation of Smolensk, a bridgehead was created for further offensive in Belorussia within “Bagration” operation of 1944.
☝️ The whole world witnessed courage and commitment of Soviet soldiers whereas the Western allies realized, the Red Army would reach the Atlantic ocean unless they open the Second Front in Europe.
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📆 #OTD 80 years ago the East Carpathian Offensive of the Red Army and the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps against German-Hungarian forces during #WW2 finished
▫️ In summer of 1944, Soviet troops reached the foothills of the Carpathians and encountered enemy’s defence-in-depth.
The Red Army units were exhausted during the battles of the western Ukraine. Soviet command thoroughly prepared further operations, given the mountainous terrain and Nazi fortification system.
⚔️ In the meantime, Slovak national uprising against the country’s fascist government began in late August 1944. The leadership of the uprising appealed to the Soviet Union for help.
☝️ In order to support the people of Slovakia, the Stavka decided to attack immediately directly across the Carpathians.
⚠️ As a result of the operation, Soviet troops concluded the liberation of Ukraine and gained control over the Dukla Pass in eastern Slovakia creating bridgehead for the liberation of Czechoslovakia in May 1945.
However, the Red Army couldn’t break through to the Slovak rebel forces and the uprising was suppressed by Nazis.
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▫️ In summer of 1944, Soviet troops reached the foothills of the Carpathians and encountered enemy’s defence-in-depth.
The Red Army units were exhausted during the battles of the western Ukraine. Soviet command thoroughly prepared further operations, given the mountainous terrain and Nazi fortification system.
⚔️ In the meantime, Slovak national uprising against the country’s fascist government began in late August 1944. The leadership of the uprising appealed to the Soviet Union for help.
☝️ In order to support the people of Slovakia, the Stavka decided to attack immediately directly across the Carpathians.
⚠️ As a result of the operation, Soviet troops concluded the liberation of Ukraine and gained control over the Dukla Pass in eastern Slovakia creating bridgehead for the liberation of Czechoslovakia in May 1945.
However, the Red Army couldn’t break through to the Slovak rebel forces and the uprising was suppressed by Nazis.
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📆 80 years ago, on 29 October 1944, the Budapest Offensive was launched by the Red Army during #WW2, aimed at defeating Nazi forces in Hungary and forcing the country out of the war.
Hitler was determined to hold the Hungarian capital at any cost. He attached great importance to Nagykanizsa oil-producing area claiming he would rather surrender Berlin than lose Hungarian oil and Austria.
⚔️ Already by 2 November 1944, having crossed the Danube, Soviet troops approached Budapest. The Red Army successfully repelled a series of Nazi counterattacks at Balaton lake and encircled the city on 26 December 1944.
☝️ Soviet ultimatum to surrender in order to prevent bloodshed was ignored, with Soviet negotiators killed, which left the Red Army no other choice but assault.
⚔️ The takeover of Budapest entailed heavy fighting. The Red Army used a minimum of tanks engaging assault units supported by artillery instead. By 13 February 1944, persistent battles culminated with the capture of the city garrison led by General Karl-Pfeffer Wildenbruch.
🌟 During the Budapest Offensive the Red Army defeated 56 enemy’s divisions with 188.000 soldiers and officers taken prisoners-of-war.
Some 70.000 Jewish prisoners were freed from the Budapest Ghetto. The whole southern flank of the Soviet-German front collapsed forcing Nazis to redeploy additional troops to the south.
The Red Army’s way to Prague and Vienna was opened.
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Hitler was determined to hold the Hungarian capital at any cost. He attached great importance to Nagykanizsa oil-producing area claiming he would rather surrender Berlin than lose Hungarian oil and Austria.
⚔️ Already by 2 November 1944, having crossed the Danube, Soviet troops approached Budapest. The Red Army successfully repelled a series of Nazi counterattacks at Balaton lake and encircled the city on 26 December 1944.
☝️ Soviet ultimatum to surrender in order to prevent bloodshed was ignored, with Soviet negotiators killed, which left the Red Army no other choice but assault.
⚔️ The takeover of Budapest entailed heavy fighting. The Red Army used a minimum of tanks engaging assault units supported by artillery instead. By 13 February 1944, persistent battles culminated with the capture of the city garrison led by General Karl-Pfeffer Wildenbruch.
🌟 During the Budapest Offensive the Red Army defeated 56 enemy’s divisions with 188.000 soldiers and officers taken prisoners-of-war.
Some 70.000 Jewish prisoners were freed from the Budapest Ghetto. The whole southern flank of the Soviet-German front collapsed forcing Nazis to redeploy additional troops to the south.
The Red Army’s way to Prague and Vienna was opened.
#WWII #WeRemember #Victory79
📆 #OTD in 1941, the Battle of Moscow commenced – one of the biggest battles in the history of the Great Patriotic War.
Ordinary Muscovites and students of military schools stood up to defend the city alongside Red Army soldiers. No other capital resisted Hitler's advance so fiercely.
⚔️ Nazi Germany and its allies planned to defeat the USSR in accordance with the Barbarossa Plan, which aimed to inflict a crushing defeat on the Red Army within a few months using blitzkrieg tactics. According to Barbarossa Plan, Moscow was to be captured by the 40th day after the invasion, with three to four months allotted for the complete elimination of resistance in the occupied Soviet territories.
▪️ By the end of September 1941, the Nazi forces occupied the Baltics, Belarus, Moldavia and a substantial part of Soviet Ukraine, besieged Leningrad and approached Moscow.
☝️ Given the strategic and political importance of the Soviet capital, Hitler committed significant forces to assault: 1.8 million troops, 1,700 tanks, and around 1,000 aircraft.
▪️ Under those circumstances, the State Defence Committee declared a state of siege in Moscow and adjacent areas that had not been captured by the enemy. Intense preparations for street fighting began, and the most important government and industrial facilities were mined.
❌ Hitler’s plan envisaged the capture of Moscow within the first three to four months and the complete destruction of its population. The selfless resistance of the Red Army units, militia and cadets prevented these plans from coming to life. The Soviet forces held back around twenty German divisions in fierce battles that raged for two weeks, which made it possible to reinforce the defence line and move the reserves to Moscow.
In early December, when the Wehrmacht forces were largely depleted, the Red Army was able to launch a counteroffensive, rout the assault units of the Army Group Centre and remove the threat hanging over the capital.
❗️ The success of the Soviet forces in the Battle of Moscow shattered the myth of the Third Reich’s invincibility, foiled Nazi blitzkrieg plans, and deterred the Japanese government, which was already preparing troops to invade the Soviet Union, from joining the war on Germany’s side. This marked Hitler’s first major defeat in World War II.
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Ordinary Muscovites and students of military schools stood up to defend the city alongside Red Army soldiers. No other capital resisted Hitler's advance so fiercely.
⚔️ Nazi Germany and its allies planned to defeat the USSR in accordance with the Barbarossa Plan, which aimed to inflict a crushing defeat on the Red Army within a few months using blitzkrieg tactics. According to Barbarossa Plan, Moscow was to be captured by the 40th day after the invasion, with three to four months allotted for the complete elimination of resistance in the occupied Soviet territories.
▪️ By the end of September 1941, the Nazi forces occupied the Baltics, Belarus, Moldavia and a substantial part of Soviet Ukraine, besieged Leningrad and approached Moscow.
☝️ Given the strategic and political importance of the Soviet capital, Hitler committed significant forces to assault: 1.8 million troops, 1,700 tanks, and around 1,000 aircraft.
▪️ Under those circumstances, the State Defence Committee declared a state of siege in Moscow and adjacent areas that had not been captured by the enemy. Intense preparations for street fighting began, and the most important government and industrial facilities were mined.
❌ Hitler’s plan envisaged the capture of Moscow within the first three to four months and the complete destruction of its population. The selfless resistance of the Red Army units, militia and cadets prevented these plans from coming to life. The Soviet forces held back around twenty German divisions in fierce battles that raged for two weeks, which made it possible to reinforce the defence line and move the reserves to Moscow.
In early December, when the Wehrmacht forces were largely depleted, the Red Army was able to launch a counteroffensive, rout the assault units of the Army Group Centre and remove the threat hanging over the capital.
❗️ The success of the Soviet forces in the Battle of Moscow shattered the myth of the Third Reich’s invincibility, foiled Nazi blitzkrieg plans, and deterred the Japanese government, which was already preparing troops to invade the Soviet Union, from joining the war on Germany’s side. This marked Hitler’s first major defeat in World War II.
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#OTD in 1942, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was formed, a nationalist & collaborationist organization controlled by Nazi Germany.
⬛🟥 The UPA is remembered alongside Gestapo for mass murders of Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian population. Dozens of thousands people, predominantly civilians, perished at the hands of UPA militants as evidenced by numerous remaining documents.
❗The UPA is responsible for the Volyn Massacre of 1943-1945 – mass murders of the population of Polish ethnicity in Western Ukraine during which some 50,000 – 60,000 Poles were shot, burnt and beheaded.
In the present-day Ukraine, the date of foundation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army is established as a state holiday – Defender of Ukraine Day, while the UPA leaders Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich are praised as national heroes. This is all you need to know about the current political regime in Ukraine.
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⬛🟥 The UPA is remembered alongside Gestapo for mass murders of Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian population. Dozens of thousands people, predominantly civilians, perished at the hands of UPA militants as evidenced by numerous remaining documents.
❗The UPA is responsible for the Volyn Massacre of 1943-1945 – mass murders of the population of Polish ethnicity in Western Ukraine during which some 50,000 – 60,000 Poles were shot, burnt and beheaded.
In the present-day Ukraine, the date of foundation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army is established as a state holiday – Defender of Ukraine Day, while the UPA leaders Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich are praised as national heroes. This is all you need to know about the current political regime in Ukraine.
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📆 #OTD 80 years ago the Red Army troops and the National Liberation Army of #Yugoslavia liberated Belgrade from Nazis during the #Belgrade Strategic Offensive.
In September 1944, USSR and Yugoslavia agreed on the entry of Soviet troops in Belgrade and joint actions against Hitlerites.
⚔️ As part of the operation, in October 1944 allied forces breached enemy’s defence in Serbian Carpathians, encircled and defeated the main forces of the German Army Group “Serbia”.
🌟 On 20 October 1944, liberation of north-eastern & eastern parts of Yugoslavia as well as the capital itself was completed.
❗️ Enemy's losses amounted up to 45000 dead & captured prisoners-of-war. The success of the offensive made it possible for the Liberation Army to purge the rest Yugoslavia from the Nazis on its own.
#WW2 #WWII #WeRemember #Victory79
In September 1944, USSR and Yugoslavia agreed on the entry of Soviet troops in Belgrade and joint actions against Hitlerites.
⚔️ As part of the operation, in October 1944 allied forces breached enemy’s defence in Serbian Carpathians, encircled and defeated the main forces of the German Army Group “Serbia”.
🌟 On 20 October 1944, liberation of north-eastern & eastern parts of Yugoslavia as well as the capital itself was completed.
❗️ Enemy's losses amounted up to 45000 dead & captured prisoners-of-war. The success of the offensive made it possible for the Liberation Army to purge the rest Yugoslavia from the Nazis on its own.
#WW2 #WWII #WeRemember #Victory79