🗓Today marks the Day of Military Honour of Russia. #OTD 83 years ago, the historic military parade was held on the Red Square in the face of the Nazis advance to Moscow, when the front line was only a few dozen kilometres away from the city.
The march involved some 28,500 servicemen, as well as 140 artillery pieces, 160 tanks, and 232 vehicles.
☝This event boosted the morale of Soviet soldiers throughout the Soviet Union. It showed the world how truly unbreakable the spirit of the Soviet people was. The participants of the parade went directly to the front after it.
⚔ A month later, the “invincible” Wehrmacht suffered its first major defeat, and Hitler’s ambitious blitzkrieg plan against the Soviet Union was thwarted.
#WW2 #WWII #Victory79
The march involved some 28,500 servicemen, as well as 140 artillery pieces, 160 tanks, and 232 vehicles.
☝This event boosted the morale of Soviet soldiers throughout the Soviet Union. It showed the world how truly unbreakable the spirit of the Soviet people was. The participants of the parade went directly to the front after it.
⚔ A month later, the “invincible” Wehrmacht suffered its first major defeat, and Hitler’s ambitious blitzkrieg plan against the Soviet Union was thwarted.
#WW2 #WWII #Victory79
📆 19 November 1942 marked turning the tide of the Battle of Stalingrad.
#OTD Soviet troops of the South-Western, the Don and the Stalingrad fronts after numerous clashes with invaders inside the city commenced a counter-offensive codenamed “Uranus.”
The operation was drawn up by the renowned Soviet generals of #WW2 Alexander Vasilevsky and Georgy Zhukov.
⚔️ After thorough artillery shelling, the Red Army attacked from the northwest and the south with both army groups meeting in the area of Kalach-on-the-Don. This resulted in encirclement of the Nazi 6th Army led by Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus and both Axis-allied Romanian armies.
⚔️ Soviet command believed that Nazis had up to 100,000 troopers deployed at Stalingrad whilst Wehrmacht forces amounted to some 300,000 making the enveloped enemy’s grouping much stronger than it had been considered. Therefore, a separate military operation “Ring” was later developed aimed at liquidation of the encircled forces.
☝️ As a result of the Stalingrad offensive, 2 German armies were annihilated with 2 Romanian and 1 Italian armies crushed leading to the decisive Soviet victory in the Battle of Stalingrad and the beginning of a major turnaround during WW2.
🌟 To commemorate Soviet artillery’s great contribution to the successful outcome of the operation, 19 Nov was established as the Day of Missile Forces and Artillery.
#Victory79 #WeRemember #BattleofStalingrad #WW2
#OTD Soviet troops of the South-Western, the Don and the Stalingrad fronts after numerous clashes with invaders inside the city commenced a counter-offensive codenamed “Uranus.”
The operation was drawn up by the renowned Soviet generals of #WW2 Alexander Vasilevsky and Georgy Zhukov.
⚔️ After thorough artillery shelling, the Red Army attacked from the northwest and the south with both army groups meeting in the area of Kalach-on-the-Don. This resulted in encirclement of the Nazi 6th Army led by Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus and both Axis-allied Romanian armies.
⚔️ Soviet command believed that Nazis had up to 100,000 troopers deployed at Stalingrad whilst Wehrmacht forces amounted to some 300,000 making the enveloped enemy’s grouping much stronger than it had been considered. Therefore, a separate military operation “Ring” was later developed aimed at liquidation of the encircled forces.
☝️ As a result of the Stalingrad offensive, 2 German armies were annihilated with 2 Romanian and 1 Italian armies crushed leading to the decisive Soviet victory in the Battle of Stalingrad and the beginning of a major turnaround during WW2.
🌟 To commemorate Soviet artillery’s great contribution to the successful outcome of the operation, 19 Nov was established as the Day of Missile Forces and Artillery.
#Victory79 #WeRemember #BattleofStalingrad #WW2
📆 82 years ago, #OTD in 1942, a Soviet-French agreement was signed on the formation of the Normandie-Niemen Fighter Regiment on the territory of USSR which became extremely popular with Soviet people.
It was General de Gaulle, commander of the French resistance, who hatched the idea to send French pilots to the Russian front. The initiative was approved by the Soviet government.
🛫 The squadron became operational in March 1943, initially with 14 pilots and 47 mechanics in its ranks, but soon expanded and turned into a regiment.
French pilots completed more than 5,000 missions and shot down at least 273 German fighters. Out of the group’s initial makeup only three pilots survived.
🌟 Overall, about a hundred Frenchmen fought in the Normandie-Niemen regiment, 4 of them became Heroes of the Soviet Union – a rare honour for foreigners at that time.
#WW2 #WWII #WeRemember #Victory79 #FacesofVictory
It was General de Gaulle, commander of the French resistance, who hatched the idea to send French pilots to the Russian front. The initiative was approved by the Soviet government.
🛫 The squadron became operational in March 1943, initially with 14 pilots and 47 mechanics in its ranks, but soon expanded and turned into a regiment.
French pilots completed more than 5,000 missions and shot down at least 273 German fighters. Out of the group’s initial makeup only three pilots survived.
🌟 Overall, about a hundred Frenchmen fought in the Normandie-Niemen regiment, 4 of them became Heroes of the Soviet Union – a rare honour for foreigners at that time.
#WW2 #WWII #WeRemember #Victory79 #FacesofVictory
📆 81 years ago, #OTD in 1943 the Tehran Conference codenamed “Eureka” kicked off, the first meeting of the “Big Three” leaders Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill during #WW2.
It was held at the Soviet Embassy in Persia.
The most notable outcome of the Conference was the agreement on opening a second front in western Europe against #Nazi Germany in May 1944. At the same time USSR would launch another major offensive on the Eastern Front that would divert German troops away from the Allied campaign in northern France.
J.Stalin agreed in principle that the Soviet Union would declare war against Japan following an Allied victory over Germany.
❗️ At Tehran, the three Allied leaders also discussed important issues of the post-war period concerning future Polish borders, fate of the Baltic republics, formation of the United Nations organization.
#WW2 #WWII #WeRemember #Stalin #Roosevelt #Churchill #TehranConference
It was held at the Soviet Embassy in Persia.
The most notable outcome of the Conference was the agreement on opening a second front in western Europe against #Nazi Germany in May 1944. At the same time USSR would launch another major offensive on the Eastern Front that would divert German troops away from the Allied campaign in northern France.
J.Stalin agreed in principle that the Soviet Union would declare war against Japan following an Allied victory over Germany.
❗️ At Tehran, the three Allied leaders also discussed important issues of the post-war period concerning future Polish borders, fate of the Baltic republics, formation of the United Nations organization.
#WW2 #WWII #WeRemember #Stalin #Roosevelt #Churchill #TehranConference
Today Russia observes Constitution Day 🇷🇺 commemorating the adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
📆 #OTD in 1993, a nationwide constitutional referendum was held in Russia, in which a total of 58,187,755 voters, or 54,8% of the registered electorate, took part. In all, 32,937,630 people (58,4%) voted in favor of the document.
Jul 01, 2020, saw another important event in the history of modern Russia – a nationwide constitutional vote to introduce amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
📖 Read more on the evolution of Russian statehood
#Russia #СonstitutionВay #Сonstitution #СonstitutionalRights
📆 #OTD in 1993, a nationwide constitutional referendum was held in Russia, in which a total of 58,187,755 voters, or 54,8% of the registered electorate, took part. In all, 32,937,630 people (58,4%) voted in favor of the document.
Jul 01, 2020, saw another important event in the history of modern Russia – a nationwide constitutional vote to introduce amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
📖 Read more on the evolution of Russian statehood
#Russia #СonstitutionВay #Сonstitution #СonstitutionalRights
🌟 Dec 20, 1944, became an important date in the liberation of #Hungary from #Nazis and their accomplices.
⚔️ It was #OTD 80 years ago that the troops of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts broke through the enemy's line of defense between the Danube and Lake Balaton and pincered a 188,000-strong Nazi formation of 50-60 kilometers from the Hungarian capital.
⚔️ And already on Dec 26, the Red Army units linked in the area of the city of Esztergom, closing the ring around Budapest.
❗️By the beginning of 1945, the active phase of the Budapest offensive operation began. As a result, the enemy was routed, and Hungary, liberated from fascism, left the war, which radically changed the course of military operations in Europe.
#WW2 #Victory80
⚔️ It was #OTD 80 years ago that the troops of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts broke through the enemy's line of defense between the Danube and Lake Balaton and pincered a 188,000-strong Nazi formation of 50-60 kilometers from the Hungarian capital.
⚔️ And already on Dec 26, the Red Army units linked in the area of the city of Esztergom, closing the ring around Budapest.
❗️By the beginning of 1945, the active phase of the Budapest offensive operation began. As a result, the enemy was routed, and Hungary, liberated from fascism, left the war, which radically changed the course of military operations in Europe.
#WW2 #Victory80
🇷🇺✈️ Today Russia celebrates the Long-Range Aviation Day.
#OTD in 1913 Russian 4-engine heavy bomber “Ilya Muromets” designed by I.Sikorsky performed its maiden flight. Exactly 1 year later, on 23 December 1914, Nikolay II of Russia approved the formation of an air squadron consisting of the said planes which marked the beginning of the strategic aviation in both Russia and the world.
🛫 Currently, the backbone of Russia’s strategic air fleet is formed by strategic missile carrier Tupolev #Tu160, holding 44 world records, and Tu-95MS, world’s fastest turbo-prop aircraft, as well as Tupolev Tu-22M3 nicknamed ‘aircraft carrier slayer’, and Mikoyan MiG-31capable of carrying the hypersonic missile ‘Kinzhal.’ And, of course, no long-distance flight is feasible without air refueling tanker Ilyushin #l78.
🎉 Our sincere congratulations on this occasion go to all veterans and servicemen of Russia’s long-range aviation units.
All the best in serving peace and security of Russia!
#RussianAirForce #LongRangeAviation
#OTD in 1913 Russian 4-engine heavy bomber “Ilya Muromets” designed by I.Sikorsky performed its maiden flight. Exactly 1 year later, on 23 December 1914, Nikolay II of Russia approved the formation of an air squadron consisting of the said planes which marked the beginning of the strategic aviation in both Russia and the world.
🎉 Our sincere congratulations on this occasion go to all veterans and servicemen of Russia’s long-range aviation units.
All the best in serving peace and security of Russia!
#RussianAirForce #LongRangeAviation
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📆 225 years ago, #OTD in 1799, Karl Bryullov was born, a great #Russian artist widely regarded as a key figure in transition from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism.
He was descended from French Huguenots, his father was a sculptor.
🎨 K.Bryullov was educated at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. He studied in Italy from 1823, painting his best-known work, the monumental “Last Day of Pompeii” (1830-1833), while there; which brought him an international reputation.
The painting was compared by #Pushkin and #Gogol to the best works of #Rubens and #VanDyck. It created a sensation in Italy and established K.Bryullov as one of the finest European painters of his day.
#RussianPainting #RussianPainter #RussianCulture #RussianArt
He was descended from French Huguenots, his father was a sculptor.
🎨 K.Bryullov was educated at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. He studied in Italy from 1823, painting his best-known work, the monumental “Last Day of Pompeii” (1830-1833), while there; which brought him an international reputation.
The painting was compared by #Pushkin and #Gogol to the best works of #Rubens and #VanDyck. It created a sensation in Italy and established K.Bryullov as one of the finest European painters of his day.
#RussianPainting #RussianPainter #RussianCulture #RussianArt
THE STALINGRAD POCKET. OPERATION KOLTSO ⭐️
📆 #OTD in 1943, the Red Army began Operation Koltso (Ring) – the final engagement of the Battle of Stalingrad.
⚔️ The operation was part of a large-scale Soviet counteroffensive near Stalingrad (Operation Uranus), which followed 125 days of the heroic defence of the city. The Red Army launched an attack on Nov 19, 1942, and by the end of the year the 6th Army, led by Friedrich Paulus, was trapped between the Don and Volga rivers.
The encircled enemy force retained its combat strength with 250,000 troops, 4,130 artillery guns and mortars, 300 tanks and 100 planes, but the troops’ morale, psychological and physical condition were in a desperate state. Nevertheless, Berlin ordered Paulus to stand to the end.
⚡️ On Jan 8, the command of the Don Front issued an ultimatum to the occupying army, proposing that it put an end to the futile resistance and accept the capitulation terms. Paulus rejected the offer.
⚔️ In the morning of Jan 10, 1943, Soviet troops launched a coordinated attack from nearly all directions, gradually tightening the knot. Aware of their dire situation, German units started surrendering en masse. On Jan 31, Field Marshal Paulus and the generals and officers of his headquarters capitulated. The last remnants of Nazi forces ceased resistance on Feb 2.
☝️ The Operation Koltso resulted in the defeat of 22 German divisions and 149 separate units, lead to the capture of over 91,000 troops, including 24 generals.
#WW2 #WorldWar2 #Victory80 #BattleofStalingrad
📆 #OTD in 1943, the Red Army began Operation Koltso (Ring) – the final engagement of the Battle of Stalingrad.
⚔️ The operation was part of a large-scale Soviet counteroffensive near Stalingrad (Operation Uranus), which followed 125 days of the heroic defence of the city. The Red Army launched an attack on Nov 19, 1942, and by the end of the year the 6th Army, led by Friedrich Paulus, was trapped between the Don and Volga rivers.
The encircled enemy force retained its combat strength with 250,000 troops, 4,130 artillery guns and mortars, 300 tanks and 100 planes, but the troops’ morale, psychological and physical condition were in a desperate state. Nevertheless, Berlin ordered Paulus to stand to the end.
⚡️ On Jan 8, the command of the Don Front issued an ultimatum to the occupying army, proposing that it put an end to the futile resistance and accept the capitulation terms. Paulus rejected the offer.
⚔️ In the morning of Jan 10, 1943, Soviet troops launched a coordinated attack from nearly all directions, gradually tightening the knot. Aware of their dire situation, German units started surrendering en masse. On Jan 31, Field Marshal Paulus and the generals and officers of his headquarters capitulated. The last remnants of Nazi forces ceased resistance on Feb 2.
☝️ The Operation Koltso resulted in the defeat of 22 German divisions and 149 separate units, lead to the capture of over 91,000 troops, including 24 generals.
#WW2 #WorldWar2 #Victory80 #BattleofStalingrad
⭐️ THE RUN TO THE ODER ⭐️
📆 80 years ago, #OTD in 1945, the #Soviet Vistula-Oder strategic offensive was commenced, one of the major operations against Nazis conducted in the territory of #Poland and Germany.
Due to the rapid pace of the Red Army’s advance (up to 30 kilometres daily) it came down in history as ‘the run to the Oder.’
☝️ Initially, the operation was to be started on 20 January 1945. But in early January, due to the failure of UK and US troops in #Ardennes (read more), #Churchill asked #Stalin for an urgent offensive on the Eastern front in order to divert Nazi forces.
❗️ The results of the offensive surpassed all expectations – Soviet troops advanced westwards by over 500 km and in early February found themselves 60 km from Berlin.
⚔️ Within the 23 days of the operation, 35 Nazi divisions were completely destroyed, other 25 divisions lost 50-70% of their personnel, 150,000 #Nazi soldiers and officers were taken POWs.
🌟 Soviet troops took Krakow and encircled enemy forces in Poznan, liberated prisoners of #Auschwitz concentration camp.
The Red Army secured a foothold on the Oder River bank – to later start the Berlin offensive from there.
#Victory80 #WorldWar2 #WW2
📆 80 years ago, #OTD in 1945, the #Soviet Vistula-Oder strategic offensive was commenced, one of the major operations against Nazis conducted in the territory of #Poland and Germany.
Due to the rapid pace of the Red Army’s advance (up to 30 kilometres daily) it came down in history as ‘the run to the Oder.’
☝️ Initially, the operation was to be started on 20 January 1945. But in early January, due to the failure of UK and US troops in #Ardennes (read more), #Churchill asked #Stalin for an urgent offensive on the Eastern front in order to divert Nazi forces.
❗️ The results of the offensive surpassed all expectations – Soviet troops advanced westwards by over 500 km and in early February found themselves 60 km from Berlin.
⚔️ Within the 23 days of the operation, 35 Nazi divisions were completely destroyed, other 25 divisions lost 50-70% of their personnel, 150,000 #Nazi soldiers and officers were taken POWs.
🌟 Soviet troops took Krakow and encircled enemy forces in Poznan, liberated prisoners of #Auschwitz concentration camp.
The Red Army secured a foothold on the Oder River bank – to later start the Berlin offensive from there.
#Victory80 #WorldWar2 #WW2
⭐️ UNPARALLELED OPERATION ⭐️
80 years ago, #OTD in 1945 the East Prussian Strategic Offensive of the Red Army started with the purpose to defeat the enemy’s grouping in the East Prussia and the northern Poland. It was carried out by Soviet troops of the 2nd, the 3rd Belorussian and the 1st Baltic fronts, supported by the #Baltic Fleet.
East Prussia for ages had been the bastion of German militarism (this is how ‘The Big Three’ leaders – Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt – referred to it during the Yalta conference). Several defence lines were created there, each consisting of three trenches, also including minefields, barbed wire, pillboxes etc.
⚔️ The #Soviet command intended to breach Nazis’ defence in directions Koenigsberg and Marienburg and cut the Army Group “Centre” from the main Wehrmacht forces, then trap it against the Baltic Sea and defeat in parts.
To withstand the Soviet advance, Nazi command conscripted people of 14-70 years to Volkssturm batallions, bringing the total number of the resisting troops to 800,000.
⚔️ Within the offensive, 6 smaller operations were conducted. As a result of the Red Army’s efforts, #Nazi forces were dissected into 3 isolated parts all of which were liquidated by 25 April 1945. 25 Nazi divisions were eliminated and 12 more depleted. The enemy lost over 480,000 killed and wounded, with some 220,000 taken POWs. Soviet troops also suffered heavy losses.
❗️ Success of the offensive was of a great military and political significance. Having gained East Prussia, the Red Army eliminated the eastern outpost of German militarism and liberated the northern regions of #Poland. The Third Reich lost an economically important region. The enemy’s maritime communications were completely disrupted and supplies to the Courland grouping blocked in the Baltic region stalled.
#Victory80 #WorldWar2 #WW2
80 years ago, #OTD in 1945 the East Prussian Strategic Offensive of the Red Army started with the purpose to defeat the enemy’s grouping in the East Prussia and the northern Poland. It was carried out by Soviet troops of the 2nd, the 3rd Belorussian and the 1st Baltic fronts, supported by the #Baltic Fleet.
East Prussia for ages had been the bastion of German militarism (this is how ‘The Big Three’ leaders – Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt – referred to it during the Yalta conference). Several defence lines were created there, each consisting of three trenches, also including minefields, barbed wire, pillboxes etc.
⚔️ The #Soviet command intended to breach Nazis’ defence in directions Koenigsberg and Marienburg and cut the Army Group “Centre” from the main Wehrmacht forces, then trap it against the Baltic Sea and defeat in parts.
To withstand the Soviet advance, Nazi command conscripted people of 14-70 years to Volkssturm batallions, bringing the total number of the resisting troops to 800,000.
⚔️ Within the offensive, 6 smaller operations were conducted. As a result of the Red Army’s efforts, #Nazi forces were dissected into 3 isolated parts all of which were liquidated by 25 April 1945. 25 Nazi divisions were eliminated and 12 more depleted. The enemy lost over 480,000 killed and wounded, with some 220,000 taken POWs. Soviet troops also suffered heavy losses.
❗️ Success of the offensive was of a great military and political significance. Having gained East Prussia, the Red Army eliminated the eastern outpost of German militarism and liberated the northern regions of #Poland. The Third Reich lost an economically important region. The enemy’s maritime communications were completely disrupted and supplies to the Courland grouping blocked in the Baltic region stalled.
#Victory80 #WorldWar2 #WW2
🕯️Today marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day established by the United Nations General Assembly.
80 years ago, #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, a.k.a. 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 model 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.
#WW2 #WorldWar2 #Victory80 #NeverAgain
80 years ago, #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, a.k.a. 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 model 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.
#WW2 #WorldWar2 #Victory80 #NeverAgain
🌟Russia commemorates the Day of Military Honour marking the 81st 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 died.
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 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 #WorldWar2 #SiegeofLeningrad #Victory80
#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 died.
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 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 #WorldWar2 #SiegeofLeningrad #Victory80
📆 280 years ago, #OTD in 1745, Fyodor Ushakov was born, a prominent Russian naval commander who is considered a symbol of glory and victorious traditions of the Russian Navy.
⚔️ He took part in two Russo-Turkish wars in 1768-1774 and 1787-1792 as well as the War of the Second Coalition against France following the French Revolution. F.Ushakov is remembered to have prevailed in every engagement he participated in as the Admiral of the Russian fleet.
🌟 Giving great value to sea and fire training of his staff, F.Ushakov was a supporter of Generalissimo A.Suvorov's principles of training for sailors and officers. His innovations were among the first successful developments of naval tactics, from its "line" to maneuvering concepts.
#RussianHistory #RussianNavy #BlackSeaFleet #RussianMilitaryGlory
⚔️ He took part in two Russo-Turkish wars in 1768-1774 and 1787-1792 as well as the War of the Second Coalition against France following the French Revolution. F.Ushakov is remembered to have prevailed in every engagement he participated in as the Admiral of the Russian fleet.
🌟 Giving great value to sea and fire training of his staff, F.Ushakov was a supporter of Generalissimo A.Suvorov's principles of training for sailors and officers. His innovations were among the first successful developments of naval tactics, from its "line" to maneuvering concepts.
#RussianHistory #RussianNavy #BlackSeaFleet #RussianMilitaryGlory
🇷🇺🇧🇾 On April 2, the peoples of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus celebrate their Day of Unity.
#OTD in 1996, a treaty on the formation of the Community of Russia and Belarus was signed, which served as the first step towards the creation of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.
The Treaty on the Union of Russia and Belarus came into force a year later, and on December 8, 1999, the Treaty on the Creation of the Union State was signed.
🤝 Today, the Union State implements programmes in industry, energy and IT, to name a few. Trade between Russia and Belarus grows at record high rates every year, given the considerable degree of mutual complementarity of their economies.
👉 Familiarize yourselves with a photo exhibition dedicated to the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty on the Establishment of the Union State on our website.
#EurasianIntegration #RussiaBelarus
#OTD in 1996, a treaty on the formation of the Community of Russia and Belarus was signed, which served as the first step towards the creation of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.
The Treaty on the Union of Russia and Belarus came into force a year later, and on December 8, 1999, the Treaty on the Creation of the Union State was signed.
🤝 Today, the Union State implements programmes in industry, energy and IT, to name a few. Trade between Russia and Belarus grows at record high rates every year, given the considerable degree of mutual complementarity of their economies.
👉 Familiarize yourselves with a photo exhibition dedicated to the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty on the Establishment of the Union State on our website.
#EurasianIntegration #RussiaBelarus