📆 79 years ago, on 4 April 1945, Bratislava was liberated from the Nazis by Soviet troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front and Romanian Army under command of Marshal Rodion Malinovsky during Bratislava-Brno Offensive.
The city was prepared for defense by the enemy, with eastern suburbs of Bratislava being the most fortified area. In order to prevent destructions in the city Marshal R.Malinovsky decided to go around it and attack from the northwest but fighting in the city couldn’t be entirely avoided. Street battles continued for two days before Bratislava was totally purged.
💫 Local population greeted the Red Army soldiers as their liberators. Dressed up citizens of Czechoslovak towns and villages left their houses to take part in spontaneous rallies and festivities honouring Soviet soldiers.
#WW2 #WWII #WeRemember #USSR #Soviet #Russia #Slovakia #historyofRussia #historyofUSSR #militaryhistory #Czechoslovakia #Bratislava #Brno #rodionmalinovsky
The city was prepared for defense by the enemy, with eastern suburbs of Bratislava being the most fortified area. In order to prevent destructions in the city Marshal R.Malinovsky decided to go around it and attack from the northwest but fighting in the city couldn’t be entirely avoided. Street battles continued for two days before Bratislava was totally purged.
#WW2 #WWII #WeRemember #USSR #Soviet #Russia #Slovakia #historyofRussia #historyofUSSR #militaryhistory #Czechoslovakia #Bratislava #Brno #rodionmalinovsky
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📆 92 years ago, on 4 April 1932, Andrei Tarkovsky was born, a Russian filmmaker, writer and film theorist. Among his best-known works as film director are feature films “Ivan’s Childhood” (1962), “Andrei Rublev” (1966), “Solaris” (1972), “Mirror” (1975), “Stalker” (1979), “Nostalghia” (1983) and “The Sacrifice” (1986). Throughout his lifetime Tarkovsky was awarded prizes of Venice, Cannes, Moscow film festivals, BAFTA.
Several of his works are enlisted as the best films of all time.
🎬Tarkovsky’s influence is seen in modern movies. “The Revenant” (2015) containing citations and borrowings from Tarkovsky’s works is the most up-to-date example.
#RussianCulture #RussianCinema #USSR #SovietCinema #OutstandingRussians #andreitarkovsky #ivanschildhood #russiancinema
Several of his works are enlisted as the best films of all time.
🎬Tarkovsky’s influence is seen in modern movies. “The Revenant” (2015) containing citations and borrowings from Tarkovsky’s works is the most up-to-date example.
#RussianCulture #RussianCinema #USSR #SovietCinema #OutstandingRussians #andreitarkovsky #ivanschildhood #russiancinema
📅 85 years ago, on 11 May 1939, the Khalkhin Gol conflict started involving the Soviet Union, Japan, Mongolia and the puppet state Manchukuo.
The reason for the conflict was a dispute over the border between Mongolia and Manchukuo supported by Japan.
Having occupied Manchuria in 1931, Japan turned its military interests to Soviet territories that bordered those areas. The ultimate Japan’s purpose in the conflict was capture of territories and creation of a bridgehead for attack on the USSR allied to Mongolia.
⚔️The conflict ended in defeat of the Japanese Kwantung Army and signing of a ceasefire agreement.
This victory also deterred Japan from launching an offensive against the USSR during WW2.
#WW2 #WWII #USSR #Soviet #Russia #Japan #historyofRussia #historyofUSSR #militaryhistory #KhalkhinGol
The reason for the conflict was a dispute over the border between Mongolia and Manchukuo supported by Japan.
Having occupied Manchuria in 1931, Japan turned its military interests to Soviet territories that bordered those areas. The ultimate Japan’s purpose in the conflict was capture of territories and creation of a bridgehead for attack on the USSR allied to Mongolia.
⚔️The conflict ended in defeat of the Japanese Kwantung Army and signing of a ceasefire agreement.
This victory also deterred Japan from launching an offensive against the USSR during WW2.
#WW2 #WWII #USSR #Soviet #Russia #Japan #historyofRussia #historyofUSSR #militaryhistory #KhalkhinGol
One of the most iconic Soviet monuments, the “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” was unveiled #OTD in 1937 at the World Fair in Paris.
The 58-meter-high monument (consisting of the 25-meter sculpture and the 33-meter pedestal) crowned the Soviet pavilion at the fair. It was authored by Vera Mukhina, the master of socialist realistic sculpture. The monument was a great success-all media outlets published its pictures with its copies reproduced in the World Fair's souvenirs.
💫In 1939, during the opening of VDNKh (Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy) in the Russian capital, the statue was placed in front of a main entrance; though on a relatively small pedestal which was three times lower than the one in Paris.
📽️ After WW2 the sculpture became an official emblem of the Mosfilm cinema studio. Since then every Soviet film made by this studio is introduced by a logo of a man and woman holding a hammer and sickle.
Photos from The Moscow Times
#Russia #Soviet #USSR #SovietSculpture #SocialistRealism #Mosfilm #hammerandsickle #VeraMukhina #SovietCulture #RussianCulture #SocialistArt
The 58-meter-high monument (consisting of the 25-meter sculpture and the 33-meter pedestal) crowned the Soviet pavilion at the fair. It was authored by Vera Mukhina, the master of socialist realistic sculpture. The monument was a great success-all media outlets published its pictures with its copies reproduced in the World Fair's souvenirs.
💫In 1939, during the opening of VDNKh (Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy) in the Russian capital, the statue was placed in front of a main entrance; though on a relatively small pedestal which was three times lower than the one in Paris.
📽️ After WW2 the sculpture became an official emblem of the Mosfilm cinema studio. Since then every Soviet film made by this studio is introduced by a logo of a man and woman holding a hammer and sickle.
Photos from The Moscow Times
#Russia #Soviet #USSR #SovietSculpture #SocialistRealism #Mosfilm #hammerandsickle #VeraMukhina #SovietCulture #RussianCulture #SocialistArt
📆#OTD in 1963, Valentina Tereshkova of USSR became the world’s first and youngest woman to travel into outer space with a solo mission.
🧑🚀The decision to select women for female cosmonauts group was taken in 1961. Having passed a number of rigid tests, V.Tereshkova was enrolled in the group. She embarked on her space flight onboard the Vostok-6 spacecraft. Her call sign in this flight was “Tchaika” (Russian for “seagull”).
⏳ She orbited the Earth 48 times and spent 2 days, 22 hours, and 50 mins in space. Her mission was used to continue the medical studies on humans in spaceflight and offered comparative data of the effects of space travel on women.
The next woman’s spaceflight took place only 19 years later with the second female cosmonaut also being Soviet citizen Svetlana Savitskaya.
#spaceexploration #USSR #Soviet #Russia #firstinspace #Tereshkova #firstwomaninspace
🧑🚀The decision to select women for female cosmonauts group was taken in 1961. Having passed a number of rigid tests, V.Tereshkova was enrolled in the group. She embarked on her space flight onboard the Vostok-6 spacecraft. Her call sign in this flight was “Tchaika” (Russian for “seagull”).
⏳ She orbited the Earth 48 times and spent 2 days, 22 hours, and 50 mins in space. Her mission was used to continue the medical studies on humans in spaceflight and offered comparative data of the effects of space travel on women.
The next woman’s spaceflight took place only 19 years later with the second female cosmonaut also being Soviet citizen Svetlana Savitskaya.
#spaceexploration #USSR #Soviet #Russia #firstinspace #Tereshkova #firstwomaninspace
📚Anti-apartheid literature in the Soviet Union
Anti-apartheid writer Peter Abrahams (1919–2017) was well-known in the Soviet Union. His novel “The Path of Thunder” first was translated into Russian in 1949 and was reprinted many times until the late 1980s with hundreds of thousands of copies.
In the Soviet Union this South African work was used by the Soviet Ministry of Education to learn English. Even a textbook for English learners was based on this novel.
📒 Abrahams was inspired by Afro-American realist fiction. Es’kia Mphahlele noted that for black writers in South Africa “realism burst into full blossom” in the 1940s. Abrahams’ novels continued Mphahlele “were to provide an inspiration for later fiction – that of the next decade.” In South Africa Abrahams became a role model for black journalists and fiction writers of the 1950s.
Richard Rive, a prominent South African author and academic, believed that Abrahams’s realism also comes from the social realist traditions of the prose produced in the Soviet Union in the first half of the twentieth century. Rive pointed out that “Abrahams was intent on showing social conflict in the broad, political sense of the word.”
In the Soviet Union, where South African fiction often had bigger print runs that in South Africa, “The Path of Thunder” became the first widely known African novel. Through Abrahams’s work readers in the Soviet Union were first introduced to anti-apartheid fiction, long before they read novels by Alex La Guma, Andre Brink or Nadine Gordimer.
Moreover, “The Path of Thunder: was adapted for ballet by Azerbaijani composer Gara Garayev in 1957. The ballet was performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad. In 1956, in Armenia, Stepan Kevorkov and Erasm Karamyan directed a drama based on Abrahams’s novel, which was seen by millions of people across the Soviet Union.
The materials provided by the Center for Southern Africa Studies of the Institute (https://www.inafran.ru/en/).
#pagesofcommonhistory #russia #sovietunion #russiasouthafrica #ussr #humanrightsday #africa #literature
Anti-apartheid writer Peter Abrahams (1919–2017) was well-known in the Soviet Union. His novel “The Path of Thunder” first was translated into Russian in 1949 and was reprinted many times until the late 1980s with hundreds of thousands of copies.
In the Soviet Union this South African work was used by the Soviet Ministry of Education to learn English. Even a textbook for English learners was based on this novel.
📒 Abrahams was inspired by Afro-American realist fiction. Es’kia Mphahlele noted that for black writers in South Africa “realism burst into full blossom” in the 1940s. Abrahams’ novels continued Mphahlele “were to provide an inspiration for later fiction – that of the next decade.” In South Africa Abrahams became a role model for black journalists and fiction writers of the 1950s.
Richard Rive, a prominent South African author and academic, believed that Abrahams’s realism also comes from the social realist traditions of the prose produced in the Soviet Union in the first half of the twentieth century. Rive pointed out that “Abrahams was intent on showing social conflict in the broad, political sense of the word.”
In the Soviet Union, where South African fiction often had bigger print runs that in South Africa, “The Path of Thunder” became the first widely known African novel. Through Abrahams’s work readers in the Soviet Union were first introduced to anti-apartheid fiction, long before they read novels by Alex La Guma, Andre Brink or Nadine Gordimer.
Moreover, “The Path of Thunder: was adapted for ballet by Azerbaijani composer Gara Garayev in 1957. The ballet was performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad. In 1956, in Armenia, Stepan Kevorkov and Erasm Karamyan directed a drama based on Abrahams’s novel, which was seen by millions of people across the Soviet Union.
The materials provided by the Center for Southern Africa Studies of the Institute (https://www.inafran.ru/en/).
#pagesofcommonhistory #russia #sovietunion #russiasouthafrica #ussr #humanrightsday #africa #literature
🚘 Soviet and Russian motor vehicles in South Africa
The Lada Niva, a Soviet-made four-wheel-drive vehicle, first became available in South Africa in 1988. As the anti-apartheid sanctions were in force, the Soviet Union did authorise exports to South Africa. Hundreds of Nivas were imported from Western Europe, without after-market support. Only after South Africa’s transition to democracy authorised imports, supported by nationwide marketing campaigns, began.
In the late 1990s, the cars were shipped directly from Russia, with a full range of spares and technical support. The inexpensive and practical all-terrainer was welcomed by car enthusiasts in South Africa.
🚙 The ability to perform over rugged terrain and its affordability made the Lada Niva an excellent choice for South Africans. The economical car had permanent four-wheel-drive, five-speed gearbox with high and low range and a diff lock. For a small recreational vehicl, it had a huge fuel tank. Its 1.7-litre four-cylinder engine delivered 127Nm of torque.
The slightly modified Niva, now known as Lada Legend, is still produced in Russia and exported to several countries in Asia and Africa. The car, originally developed for Russia’s rural areas and launched in 1976, was the first mass-produced off-road vehicle with a monocoque structure and a permanent all-wheel-drive system.
The Lada took part in the Paris–Dakar Rally and reached the North Pole, the Antarctic and Everest. Nowadays, the Lada Niva/Legend is the world’s longest-running 4x4 still in production in its original form.
🛞 It has also enjoyed enthusiast societies on several continents. The Lada Owners Club of Southern Africa was formed in 2000. It has continued to operate after 2003 when the Lada Niva imports were discontinued. The club’s official Facebook group has nearly four thousand members: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LOCSA/
The materials provided by the Center for Southern Africa Studies of the Institute (https://www.inafran.ru/en/).
#pagesofcommonhistory #russia #sovietunion #russiasouthafrica #ussr #humanrightsday #africa
The Lada Niva, a Soviet-made four-wheel-drive vehicle, first became available in South Africa in 1988. As the anti-apartheid sanctions were in force, the Soviet Union did authorise exports to South Africa. Hundreds of Nivas were imported from Western Europe, without after-market support. Only after South Africa’s transition to democracy authorised imports, supported by nationwide marketing campaigns, began.
In the late 1990s, the cars were shipped directly from Russia, with a full range of spares and technical support. The inexpensive and practical all-terrainer was welcomed by car enthusiasts in South Africa.
🚙 The ability to perform over rugged terrain and its affordability made the Lada Niva an excellent choice for South Africans. The economical car had permanent four-wheel-drive, five-speed gearbox with high and low range and a diff lock. For a small recreational vehicl, it had a huge fuel tank. Its 1.7-litre four-cylinder engine delivered 127Nm of torque.
The slightly modified Niva, now known as Lada Legend, is still produced in Russia and exported to several countries in Asia and Africa. The car, originally developed for Russia’s rural areas and launched in 1976, was the first mass-produced off-road vehicle with a monocoque structure and a permanent all-wheel-drive system.
The Lada took part in the Paris–Dakar Rally and reached the North Pole, the Antarctic and Everest. Nowadays, the Lada Niva/Legend is the world’s longest-running 4x4 still in production in its original form.
🛞 It has also enjoyed enthusiast societies on several continents. The Lada Owners Club of Southern Africa was formed in 2000. It has continued to operate after 2003 when the Lada Niva imports were discontinued. The club’s official Facebook group has nearly four thousand members: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LOCSA/
The materials provided by the Center for Southern Africa Studies of the Institute (https://www.inafran.ru/en/).
#pagesofcommonhistory #russia #sovietunion #russiasouthafrica #ussr #humanrightsday #africa
🪖Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the iconic AK-47 automatic rifle, and South Africa
We continue the series of joint publications with the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Russia - South Africa in the XX century: pages of common history", timed to the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the 65th anniversary of the Institute, as well as the 30th anniversary of the first democratic elections in South Africa.
🇿🇦 The Soviet engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov designed the AK-47 (the Avtomat Kalashnikova), a weapon that gained an iconic status during wars of liberation worldwide including South Africa.
The 78-year-old major-general said that he produced the AK-47 after the Second World War to help protect the borders of his country. Decades later the light automatic gun with a short barrel meant to be fired from the hip or shoulder became the preferred weapon of South Africa’s freedom fighters. The Soviet Union provided AK-47s to the ANC military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. By the time of Kalashnikov’s trip to South Africa in 1997 approximately 70 million AK-47s had been produced. The rifle’s popularity with anti-apartheid fighters stemmed from its robust durability.
The inventor of the legendary rifle travelled to South Africa to mark the 50th anniversary of his best-known design, the world’s most popular automatic rifle AK-47. “The main purpose of my work,” - as he recounted to a South African journalist - “was to design a sub-machine gun for soldiers who did not graduate from military academies. I wanted them to have simple and reliable weapons in their hands.”
During his stay Kalashnikov visited the factory in Pretoria where the Vektor R4, the standard service rifle of the South African Defence Force, was produced. He also spent several days in Western Cape attending a function in his honour at the Castle in Cape Town and hunting springbok at a game farm near Ceres. He was impressed by the friendly disposition of South Africans towards Russia, their optimism, similar problems of building a democratic society.
📝The materials provided by the Center for Southern Africa Studies of the Institute (https://www.inafran.ru/en/).
#pagesofcommonhistory #russia #sovietunion #russiasouthafrica #ussr #humanrightsday #africa
We continue the series of joint publications with the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Russia - South Africa in the XX century: pages of common history", timed to the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the 65th anniversary of the Institute, as well as the 30th anniversary of the first democratic elections in South Africa.
🇿🇦 The Soviet engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov designed the AK-47 (the Avtomat Kalashnikova), a weapon that gained an iconic status during wars of liberation worldwide including South Africa.
The 78-year-old major-general said that he produced the AK-47 after the Second World War to help protect the borders of his country. Decades later the light automatic gun with a short barrel meant to be fired from the hip or shoulder became the preferred weapon of South Africa’s freedom fighters. The Soviet Union provided AK-47s to the ANC military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. By the time of Kalashnikov’s trip to South Africa in 1997 approximately 70 million AK-47s had been produced. The rifle’s popularity with anti-apartheid fighters stemmed from its robust durability.
The inventor of the legendary rifle travelled to South Africa to mark the 50th anniversary of his best-known design, the world’s most popular automatic rifle AK-47. “The main purpose of my work,” - as he recounted to a South African journalist - “was to design a sub-machine gun for soldiers who did not graduate from military academies. I wanted them to have simple and reliable weapons in their hands.”
During his stay Kalashnikov visited the factory in Pretoria where the Vektor R4, the standard service rifle of the South African Defence Force, was produced. He also spent several days in Western Cape attending a function in his honour at the Castle in Cape Town and hunting springbok at a game farm near Ceres. He was impressed by the friendly disposition of South Africans towards Russia, their optimism, similar problems of building a democratic society.
📝The materials provided by the Center for Southern Africa Studies of the Institute (https://www.inafran.ru/en/).
#pagesofcommonhistory #russia #sovietunion #russiasouthafrica #ussr #humanrightsday #africa
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⚡️ Russian MFA in cooperation with the Rosatom State Corporation has issued handbook "Back Home to Russia. 40th Anniversary of the launch of the Zaporozhskaya nuclear power plant (ZNPP) Unit 1"
The copies of the handbook were circulated during the 68th session of the IAEA General Conference, opened on September 16 in Vienna.
📖 Read the handbook in full
ℹ️ The history of the Zaporozhskaya NPP (ZNPP) dates back to 1977 when the Council of Ministers of the #USSR adopted a decision on its construction. Site works began in 1979. In 1984, Unit 1 of the plant was put into operation. In 1985-1987, another three units were put into operation, and in 1988 an expansion project was approved for the construction of two more reactors.
🇷🇺 At the ZNPP site, six Soviet-design power units with VVER reactors were constructed and put into operation. Atomenergoproekt (Moscow) acted as chief designer of the project, Kurchatov Institute (Moscow) – was its scientific coordinator, Gidropress (Podolsk, Moscow region) supplied the reactor installations.
The equipment for the power plant was manufactured by enterprises in Leningrad (reactor vessels were manufactured by the Izhora Plants) and Volgodonsk (earthquake-resistant refuelling machines).
☝️ Thus, the Russian Federation is the owner of the project and technologies, and has the whole set of documentation, regarding Zaporozhskaya Nuclear power plant.
As a result of the referendum held in late September 2022, the Zaporozhskaya region,where the ZNPP is located, has joined the Russian Federation. The plant has come under Russian jurisdiction.
Before the ZNPP came under Russian jurisdiction, Ukrainian authorities had carried out a number of questionable experiments involving the use in the plant's reactors of nuclear fuel that was neither in compliance with its engineering design nor initially agreed upon with the Russian organization that had designed the ZNPP.
⚛️ Maintenance and repair at the plant are being carried out in 2024 as scheduled (as previously in 2023). The plant equipment damaged as a result of shellings by the AFU was repaired. <...> Measures were also undertaken to ensure uninterrupted water supply to essential consumers of the systems of the ZNPP power units, as the dam of the Kakhovskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant had been destroyed as a result of Ukrainian shellings. Now the water level in the said pond is stable.
Currently, the Zaporozhskaya NPP operates all standard radiation monitoring systems, except for three of them, which were destroyed by the armed forces of Ukraine, and two, which are situated on the right bank of the river Dnepr,
controlled by Ukraine.
The Russian Side has undertaken compensating measures. Radiation and technological monitoring of basic equipment and technological systems of power units, radiation-dosimetry monitoring of staff exposure, environment radiation monitoring, etc. are ensured. Radiation monitoring data are automatically transmitted to the IAEA Secretariat.
☝️ Russia takes all possible measures to ensure reliability and protection of the ZNPP, its robust operation, to curb threats to its security posed by Ukraine, strengthen its nuclear safety in accordance with national legislation and obligations undertaken, including Convention on Nuclear Safety and the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities.
The very fact of return of the plant to the Russian nuclear community represents a significant contribution to the nuclear safety and nuclear security of this NPP which is the largest in Europe.
❌ The primary threat to the ZNPP’s security comes from Ukraine that regularly attacks the plant and its infrastructure, and resorts to all kinds of provocations, including against staff of the ZNPP and family members, living in the city of Energodar.
The copies of the handbook were circulated during the 68th session of the IAEA General Conference, opened on September 16 in Vienna.
📖 Read the handbook in full
ℹ️ The history of the Zaporozhskaya NPP (ZNPP) dates back to 1977 when the Council of Ministers of the #USSR adopted a decision on its construction. Site works began in 1979. In 1984, Unit 1 of the plant was put into operation. In 1985-1987, another three units were put into operation, and in 1988 an expansion project was approved for the construction of two more reactors.
The equipment for the power plant was manufactured by enterprises in Leningrad (reactor vessels were manufactured by the Izhora Plants) and Volgodonsk (earthquake-resistant refuelling machines).
☝️ Thus, the Russian Federation is the owner of the project and technologies, and has the whole set of documentation, regarding Zaporozhskaya Nuclear power plant.
As a result of the referendum held in late September 2022, the Zaporozhskaya region,where the ZNPP is located, has joined the Russian Federation. The plant has come under Russian jurisdiction.
Before the ZNPP came under Russian jurisdiction, Ukrainian authorities had carried out a number of questionable experiments involving the use in the plant's reactors of nuclear fuel that was neither in compliance with its engineering design nor initially agreed upon with the Russian organization that had designed the ZNPP.
⚛️ Maintenance and repair at the plant are being carried out in 2024 as scheduled (as previously in 2023). The plant equipment damaged as a result of shellings by the AFU was repaired. <...> Measures were also undertaken to ensure uninterrupted water supply to essential consumers of the systems of the ZNPP power units, as the dam of the Kakhovskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant had been destroyed as a result of Ukrainian shellings. Now the water level in the said pond is stable.
Currently, the Zaporozhskaya NPP operates all standard radiation monitoring systems, except for three of them, which were destroyed by the armed forces of Ukraine, and two, which are situated on the right bank of the river Dnepr,
controlled by Ukraine.
The Russian Side has undertaken compensating measures. Radiation and technological monitoring of basic equipment and technological systems of power units, radiation-dosimetry monitoring of staff exposure, environment radiation monitoring, etc. are ensured. Radiation monitoring data are automatically transmitted to the IAEA Secretariat.
☝️ Russia takes all possible measures to ensure reliability and protection of the ZNPP, its robust operation, to curb threats to its security posed by Ukraine, strengthen its nuclear safety in accordance with national legislation and obligations undertaken, including Convention on Nuclear Safety and the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities.
The very fact of return of the plant to the Russian nuclear community represents a significant contribution to the nuclear safety and nuclear security of this NPP which is the largest in Europe.
❌ The primary threat to the ZNPP’s security comes from Ukraine that regularly attacks the plant and its infrastructure, and resorts to all kinds of provocations, including against staff of the ZNPP and family members, living in the city of Energodar.
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🇺🇸 The #US authorities continue trying to reconfigure public thinking by rewriting the history of the Second World War and its results.
As a rule, American authorities focus on the role of the United States and its Western allies in defeating #Nazism while neglecting the #USSR's substantial role in defeating Hitler's Germany. They would rather not discuss the Red Army's role in liberating prisoners from Auschwitz and other concentration camps.
☝️ In order to preserve a unipolar world and suppress the anti-colonial movement in the countries of the #GlobalSouth, without neglecting the ideas of racial, ethnic, cultural and economic superiority, depriving entire peoples of the prospects for independent and cultural and civilizational development, the United States, together with Great Britain, which once were together with the Soviet Union at the head of the anti-Hitler coalition, are now openly cultivating modern neo-Nazism. The anti-Semitism of the "classical" fascism of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe is being replaced by Russophobia, migrantophobia and Islamophobia.
📖 Read the report by the Russian Foreign Ministry regarding the situation with the glorification of Nazism and the spread of Neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
#nazism #nazi #ww2 #racism #xenophobia #USA #StopNazism
As a rule, American authorities focus on the role of the United States and its Western allies in defeating #Nazism while neglecting the #USSR's substantial role in defeating Hitler's Germany. They would rather not discuss the Red Army's role in liberating prisoners from Auschwitz and other concentration camps.
☝️ In order to preserve a unipolar world and suppress the anti-colonial movement in the countries of the #GlobalSouth, without neglecting the ideas of racial, ethnic, cultural and economic superiority, depriving entire peoples of the prospects for independent and cultural and civilizational development, the United States, together with Great Britain, which once were together with the Soviet Union at the head of the anti-Hitler coalition, are now openly cultivating modern neo-Nazism. The anti-Semitism of the "classical" fascism of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe is being replaced by Russophobia, migrantophobia and Islamophobia.
📖 Read the report by the Russian Foreign Ministry regarding the situation with the glorification of Nazism and the spread of Neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
#nazism #nazi #ww2 #racism #xenophobia #USA #StopNazism
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🗓 On January 18, 1943, the Red Army broke the siege of Leningrad during Operation "Iskra" (Spark).
▪️The siege of the city lasted 872 days. For most of that time, communication with #Leningrad was maintained only by air and through the only transportation road, the Road of Life, running on the ice across Lake Ladoga.
Soviet forces repeatedly tried to break the siege. They managed to succeed on January 18, 1943 during Operation "Iskra" carried out by the Leningrad and the Volkhov Fronts with air support from the Baltic Fleet of the #USSR's Navy.
To liberate the besieged city, it was decided to deliver a major blow near Shlisselburg, in the most vulnerable area of the German defences adjacent to Lake Ladoga. That area was best suited for two rapid offensives — from the west (inside the siege ring) and from the east.
⚔️ On January 18, during fierce fighting, the Red Army broke through the encirclement. A narrow 11 km-wide corridor was created on the southern shore of Lake Ladoga to deliver supplies to Leningrad and evacuate its residents.
After 16 months of heroic struggle against Hitler’s invaders, the USSR’s second most important city regained connection by land with the rest of the country. Three weeks after the breakthrough, a railroad was laid and the first trains with food and ammunition were sent to Leningrad.
☝️ The breakthrough of the siege of Leningrad became a turning point in the battle for the Northern Capital. Hitler's plans to overwhelm Leningrad by an assault were finally ruined. After the conclusion of the Operation "Iskra", the Red Army seized the initiative in battle for the city. The threat of Wehrmacht and Finland joining their forces under Leningrad was removed.
On the occasion of breaking the siege the city, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a special letter on behalf of all Americans to Leningrad residents. It read, in part:
✍️ “In the name of the people of the United States of America, I present this scroll to the City of Leningrad as a memorial to its gallant soldiers and its loyal men, women and children who, isolated from the rest of their nation by the invader and despite constant bombardment and untold sufferings from cold, hunger and sickness, successfully defended their beloved city throughout the critical period from September 8, 1941 to January 18, 1943, and thus symbolized the undaunted spirit of the peoples of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and of all the nations of the world resisting forces of aggression.”
During Operation "Iskra", the enemy was pushed back from the southern shore of Lake Ladoga by 10-12 kilometers. That victory was achieved at a high cost. The 67th and 13th Air Armies of the Leningrad Front sustained casualties of 41'000 servicemen with 12'300 perished; the Volkhov Front’s casualties amounted to 73'800 with 21'600 who fell in that battle.
🎖 Around 19,000 soldiers and officers of the Leningrad and the Volkhov Fronts and the Red-Banner Baltic Fleet were awarded orders and medals; the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union was conferred on 25 individuals.
On January 18, 2018, the 'Proryv [Breakthrough] Panorama Museum' was opened at the site where the forces of the Leningrad Front crossed the Neva river. It features a detailed picture of dramatic events of January 13, 1943 — the second day of Operation "Iskra".
#WeRemember #Victory80
▪️The siege of the city lasted 872 days. For most of that time, communication with #Leningrad was maintained only by air and through the only transportation road, the Road of Life, running on the ice across Lake Ladoga.
Soviet forces repeatedly tried to break the siege. They managed to succeed on January 18, 1943 during Operation "Iskra" carried out by the Leningrad and the Volkhov Fronts with air support from the Baltic Fleet of the #USSR's Navy.
To liberate the besieged city, it was decided to deliver a major blow near Shlisselburg, in the most vulnerable area of the German defences adjacent to Lake Ladoga. That area was best suited for two rapid offensives — from the west (inside the siege ring) and from the east.
⚔️ On January 18, during fierce fighting, the Red Army broke through the encirclement. A narrow 11 km-wide corridor was created on the southern shore of Lake Ladoga to deliver supplies to Leningrad and evacuate its residents.
After 16 months of heroic struggle against Hitler’s invaders, the USSR’s second most important city regained connection by land with the rest of the country. Three weeks after the breakthrough, a railroad was laid and the first trains with food and ammunition were sent to Leningrad.
☝️ The breakthrough of the siege of Leningrad became a turning point in the battle for the Northern Capital. Hitler's plans to overwhelm Leningrad by an assault were finally ruined. After the conclusion of the Operation "Iskra", the Red Army seized the initiative in battle for the city. The threat of Wehrmacht and Finland joining their forces under Leningrad was removed.
On the occasion of breaking the siege the city, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a special letter on behalf of all Americans to Leningrad residents. It read, in part:
✍️ “In the name of the people of the United States of America, I present this scroll to the City of Leningrad as a memorial to its gallant soldiers and its loyal men, women and children who, isolated from the rest of their nation by the invader and despite constant bombardment and untold sufferings from cold, hunger and sickness, successfully defended their beloved city throughout the critical period from September 8, 1941 to January 18, 1943, and thus symbolized the undaunted spirit of the peoples of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and of all the nations of the world resisting forces of aggression.”
During Operation "Iskra", the enemy was pushed back from the southern shore of Lake Ladoga by 10-12 kilometers. That victory was achieved at a high cost. The 67th and 13th Air Armies of the Leningrad Front sustained casualties of 41'000 servicemen with 12'300 perished; the Volkhov Front’s casualties amounted to 73'800 with 21'600 who fell in that battle.
On January 18, 2018, the 'Proryv [Breakthrough] Panorama Museum' was opened at the site where the forces of the Leningrad Front crossed the Neva river. It features a detailed picture of dramatic events of January 13, 1943 — the second day of Operation "Iskra".
#WeRemember #Victory80
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❗️🇸🇪 After Russia started the special military operation to demilitarize and denazify #Ukraine and to protect the civil population of #Donbass, violations of the rights of Russian fellow citizens living in Sweden (approximately 26,000) have become more common.
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▪️ Russian educational centres for children have been among the first victims of unbridled Russophobia in Sweden. In fact, they have become hostages to their managers' attitude towards the current events: everyone has been required to publicly disassociate oneself from the actions of the Russian armed forces and preferably to denounce the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, personally.
☝️ Furthermore, almost all Russian-speaking children have encountered assaults and bullying in schools due to their ethnicity. Swedish teenagers, "freely expressing their opinions in a free country", have simply humiliated Russian-speaking children, demanding their expulsion and in the worst case beating them up. In this regard, not only children of Russians but also children of individuals from other former republics of the #USSR have been subjected to such treatment.
📖 Read the Russian MFA’s report on violations of the rights of Russian citizens and compatriots in foreign countries
#StopRussophobia
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▪️ Russian educational centres for children have been among the first victims of unbridled Russophobia in Sweden. In fact, they have become hostages to their managers' attitude towards the current events: everyone has been required to publicly disassociate oneself from the actions of the Russian armed forces and preferably to denounce the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, personally.
☝️ Furthermore, almost all Russian-speaking children have encountered assaults and bullying in schools due to their ethnicity. Swedish teenagers, "freely expressing their opinions in a free country", have simply humiliated Russian-speaking children, demanding their expulsion and in the worst case beating them up. In this regard, not only children of Russians but also children of individuals from other former republics of the #USSR have been subjected to such treatment.
📖 Read the Russian MFA’s report on violations of the rights of Russian citizens and compatriots in foreign countries
#StopRussophobia
🌟 This year marks the 80th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
In the face of severe trials of World War II, Russian diplomats fulfilled with honour their professional duty and set an example of patriotism and civic courage.
After Nazi Germany attacked the #USSR, Soviet diplomacy concentrated all its efforts on ensuring the most favourable external conditions possible for promptest defeat of the enemy. Primary objective – forming a reliable group of allies, ensure allies’ timely and consistent deliveries of equipment and munitions, opening of the second front and refusal of separate negotiations with the enemy.
One of the key areas of these efforts was the approval of programme of post-war settlement in the world, including the definition of post-war borders and ensuring their security.
🇷🇺📸 Ahead of the upcoming #DiplomatsDay and in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazism, the Russian Embassy in South Africa presents a photo exhibition ‘Diplomats in World War II’ showcased at the Embassy’s Consular office.
In the face of severe trials of World War II, Russian diplomats fulfilled with honour their professional duty and set an example of patriotism and civic courage.
After Nazi Germany attacked the #USSR, Soviet diplomacy concentrated all its efforts on ensuring the most favourable external conditions possible for promptest defeat of the enemy. Primary objective – forming a reliable group of allies, ensure allies’ timely and consistent deliveries of equipment and munitions, opening of the second front and refusal of separate negotiations with the enemy.
One of the key areas of these efforts was the approval of programme of post-war settlement in the world, including the definition of post-war borders and ensuring their security.
🇷🇺📸 Ahead of the upcoming #DiplomatsDay and in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazism, the Russian Embassy in South Africa presents a photo exhibition ‘Diplomats in World War II’ showcased at the Embassy’s Consular office.
🌟 Nina Sokolova – the first #USSR’s female diver
During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, she and her unit in only 10 days managed to lay a telephone line along the bottom of Lake Ladoga, to secure for Leningrad uninterrupted communication with Moscow.
After this successful operation, Nina suggested laying a fuel pipeline along the bottom of the lake. The work was carried out at night, so as not to attract the enemy’s attention. Sokolova’s group completed the task in 43 days. Over 40,000 tons of fuel were pumped to the besieged city through these pipes.
🎖The first female diver in the country, Nina Sokolova, spent more than 644 hours in the water. She was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree, and the Order of the Badge of Honour.
#Victory80 #SiegeofLeningrad
During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, she and her unit in only 10 days managed to lay a telephone line along the bottom of Lake Ladoga, to secure for Leningrad uninterrupted communication with Moscow.
After this successful operation, Nina suggested laying a fuel pipeline along the bottom of the lake. The work was carried out at night, so as not to attract the enemy’s attention. Sokolova’s group completed the task in 43 days. Over 40,000 tons of fuel were pumped to the besieged city through these pipes.
🎖The first female diver in the country, Nina Sokolova, spent more than 644 hours in the water. She was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree, and the Order of the Badge of Honour.
#Victory80 #SiegeofLeningrad
🌟 During World War II, in order to protect factories and other facilities from enemy air raids, various methods of camouflage were used in the #USSR. Professional artists also did this.
They managed to imitate residential buildings – for instance, by erecting models of buildings on the roofs of factory workshops. Domes and spires of high-rise buildings were painted gray so that they would blend in with the colour of the sky. Some buildings were turned into parks, covered with trees, or charred ruins were imitated on the roofs. Bridges were painted black.
Enemy pilots wasted precious minutes trying to figure out whether objects beneath them were real or not. And while they were hovering over the decoy cities, Soviet anti-aircraft gunners managed to spot them and open fire.
#Victory80 #WorldWar2 #WW2
They managed to imitate residential buildings – for instance, by erecting models of buildings on the roofs of factory workshops. Domes and spires of high-rise buildings were painted gray so that they would blend in with the colour of the sky. Some buildings were turned into parks, covered with trees, or charred ruins were imitated on the roofs. Bridges were painted black.
Enemy pilots wasted precious minutes trying to figure out whether objects beneath them were real or not. And while they were hovering over the decoy cities, Soviet anti-aircraft gunners managed to spot them and open fire.
#Victory80 #WorldWar2 #WW2