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📅 On April 16, 1945, the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation was launched. It led to the final rout of the main German Nazi forces, the seizure of Berlin and the linking up with the troops of the Western allies. Over 3.5 million people took part in this large battle for the future of Europe.
The main Soviet forces were those of the 2nd Byelorussian Front under the command of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, the 1st Byelorussian Front under the command of Marshall Georgy Zhukov and the First Ukrainian Front under the command of Marshall Ivan Konev. The Dnieper Military Flotilla, part of the forces of the Baltic Fleet and the 1st and 2nd Armies of the Polish Armed Forces were also involved in the hostilities.
The operation started with a night attack during which 143 searchlights were used to blind the enemy. Soviet attack forces quickly broke through the first line of enemy defences but later on, the troops of the 1st Byelorussian Front under Marshal Zhukov were faced with strong resistance on the Seelow Heights.
After fierce fighting on the approaches to the city on April 25, the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front and the 1st Byelorussian Front linked up to the west of the Third Reich capital, having completed the encirclement of the German group. The fighting for Reichstag began on April 29.
By the late hours of May 5, the enemy resistance was finally suppressed and 134,000 German soldiers and officers surrendered. On the night of May 9, Marshal Zhukov together with representatives of the British, American and French commands accepted unconditional surrender of German troops in Karlshorst. The war in Europe was over.
☝️ During the Berlin operation, Soviet troops not only surrounded and defeated one of the Wehrmacht’s largest groups but also liberated about 200,000 prisoners of Nazi camps in the zone of hostilities. Over 600 participants in the operation were awarded with the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
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The main Soviet forces were those of the 2nd Byelorussian Front under the command of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, the 1st Byelorussian Front under the command of Marshall Georgy Zhukov and the First Ukrainian Front under the command of Marshall Ivan Konev. The Dnieper Military Flotilla, part of the forces of the Baltic Fleet and the 1st and 2nd Armies of the Polish Armed Forces were also involved in the hostilities.
The operation started with a night attack during which 143 searchlights were used to blind the enemy. Soviet attack forces quickly broke through the first line of enemy defences but later on, the troops of the 1st Byelorussian Front under Marshal Zhukov were faced with strong resistance on the Seelow Heights.
After fierce fighting on the approaches to the city on April 25, the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front and the 1st Byelorussian Front linked up to the west of the Third Reich capital, having completed the encirclement of the German group. The fighting for Reichstag began on April 29.
By the late hours of May 5, the enemy resistance was finally suppressed and 134,000 German soldiers and officers surrendered. On the night of May 9, Marshal Zhukov together with representatives of the British, American and French commands accepted unconditional surrender of German troops in Karlshorst. The war in Europe was over.
☝️ During the Berlin operation, Soviet troops not only surrounded and defeated one of the Wehrmacht’s largest groups but also liberated about 200,000 prisoners of Nazi camps in the zone of hostilities. Over 600 participants in the operation were awarded with the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
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Today marks the 79th Anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism.
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🇷🇺 President of Russia, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin attended a military parade marking the 79th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.
Alongside with the President of Russia on the stand in the Red Square were:
🇧🇾 President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko,
🇰🇿 President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev,
🇰🇬 President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov,
🇹🇯 President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon,
🇹🇲 President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov
🇺🇿 President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev,
🇨🇺 President of the Republic of Cuba Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel y Bermúdez,
🇬🇼 President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embaló,
🇱🇦 President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic Thongloun Sisoulith.
Before the parade, Vladimir Putin welcomed the heads of foreign states who had arrived in Moscow for the celebrations, in the Heraldic Hall of the Kremlin.
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Alongside with the President of Russia on the stand in the Red Square were:
🇧🇾 President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko,
🇰🇿 President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev,
🇰🇬 President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov,
🇹🇯 President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon,
🇹🇲 President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov
🇺🇿 President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev,
🇨🇺 President of the Republic of Cuba Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel y Bermúdez,
🇬🇼 President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embaló,
🇱🇦 President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic Thongloun Sisoulith.
Before the parade, Vladimir Putin welcomed the heads of foreign states who had arrived in Moscow for the celebrations, in the Heraldic Hall of the Kremlin.
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🗓️ On June 23, 1944, 80 years ago, one of the most large scale & successful strategic offensives of the World War II began — Operation Bagration. In two months of fighting along a front line of more than 1100 km the Red Army reached the Elgava — Dobele — Siauliai — Suwalki — Prague (suburb of Warsaw) — Vistula River line by August 29, liberating the Belarusian SSR, parts of the Lithuanian & Latvian SSRs, and eastern areas of Poland from the Nazi invaders.
By the summer of 1944, the Red Army had managed to push German forces away from Leningrad, liberate Crimea & right-bank Ukraine, and reach the Romanian border. However, the Nazi occupiers still controlled a significant part of Belarus, where they had spent three years committing atrocities: burning entire villages with their inhabitants, systematically exterminating millions of civilians & prisoners of war.
🔴 From June 23 to 28, 1944, Soviet Army began an offensive along the front line from Polotsk to Mozyr. It was carried out simultaneously in six sectors.
🔴 Red Army units successfully broke through the German defences and began rapid advances. By July 3, Minsk and Vitebsk were liberated.
🔴 By the end of July, almost all of Belarus was liberated.
⚔️ Several large German groups were surrounded and destroyed: Vitebsk & Bobruisk, then Orsha & Mogilev troops, causing enormous irreparable losses to the enemy.
☝️ As a result of the operation, Army Group Centre was defeated, major rivers Berezina, Neman, & Vistula were crossed, and important bridgeheads on their western banks were captured. The front line moved westwards up to 550–600 km.
🎖 Soviet soldiers and commanders who took part in the operation demonstrated mass heroism, brilliant preparation, & the highest level of military art. Over 1,500 Red Army soldiers of various nationalities were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, and hundreds of thousands received orders and medals.
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By the summer of 1944, the Red Army had managed to push German forces away from Leningrad, liberate Crimea & right-bank Ukraine, and reach the Romanian border. However, the Nazi occupiers still controlled a significant part of Belarus, where they had spent three years committing atrocities: burning entire villages with their inhabitants, systematically exterminating millions of civilians & prisoners of war.
🔴 From June 23 to 28, 1944, Soviet Army began an offensive along the front line from Polotsk to Mozyr. It was carried out simultaneously in six sectors.
🔴 Red Army units successfully broke through the German defences and began rapid advances. By July 3, Minsk and Vitebsk were liberated.
🔴 By the end of July, almost all of Belarus was liberated.
⚔️ Several large German groups were surrounded and destroyed: Vitebsk & Bobruisk, then Orsha & Mogilev troops, causing enormous irreparable losses to the enemy.
☝️ As a result of the operation, Army Group Centre was defeated, major rivers Berezina, Neman, & Vistula were crossed, and important bridgeheads on their western banks were captured. The front line moved westwards up to 550–600 km.
🎖 Soviet soldiers and commanders who took part in the operation demonstrated mass heroism, brilliant preparation, & the highest level of military art. Over 1,500 Red Army soldiers of various nationalities were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, and hundreds of thousands received orders and medals.
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By July 1943, a significant part of Soviet territory was still under Nazi control, but the potential of the Third Reich war machine was already running out. Trying to regain the initiative, the Wehrmacht command developed a summer offensive plan, codenamed Operation Citadel. The Nazis intended to destroy the Voronezh and Central fronts and crush the Red Army tank reserves near Prokhorovka, a village in the Belgorod Region.
🔻 By the night of July 9, German troops succeeded in cutting into the Voronezh Front defences, but their further advance was curbed. The German command then decided to try and break the Soviet defence line by striking at Prokhorovka, to reach Kursk from the south-east. To disrupt the offensive, the Voronezh Front command launched a counterattack on July 12, which went down in history as the Battle of Prokhorovka.
On July 12, Germany’s 2nd SS Panzer Corps faced off against two Soviet forces, Alexey Zhadov’s 5th Guards Army and the 5th Guards Tank Army commanded by Pavel Rotmistrov in the vicinity of Prokhorovka. The battle was fought with varying success; both sides were forced to draw on reserves.
✍️ Soviet ace tanker Vasily Bryukhov recalled in his memoirs: “Strong explosions often made a tank just collapse, turn into a pile of metal in a matter of seconds. <...> The opponents were perfect matches for each other. They fought desperately, ferociously, with fierce abandon.”
In every instance of the battle, the Red Army soldiers demonstrated unparalleled courage and extraordinary fighting skill. Thanks to their decisive actions, the enemy exhausted offensive opportunities and on July 16, began to withdraw its troops to the initial positions held at the beginning of the Battle of Kursk. The Red Army seized the strategic initiative and held it for the rest of the war.
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🗓 On August 7, 1941, pilot Viktor Talalikhin rammed an enemy plane at night for the first time during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
Viktor Talalikhin was flying a Polikarpov I-16 fighter plane when he tailed an enemy bomber, shot up one of its engines and later rammed it. This heroic feat during a dogfight near Moscow made his name forever famous.
🎖 On August 8, 1941, intrepid pilot Viktor Talalikhin, then only 22, became Hero of the Soviet Union.
After this feat, Viktor Talalikhin repeatedly distinguished himself during hostilities in mid-air.
🕯 The Junior Lieutenant flew his last combat mission on October 27, 1941. The pilot engaged superior enemy forces, downed two enemy planes over Podolsk, near Moscow, and was killed.
Viktor Talalikhin was buried in Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery with full military honours. His name was forever listed among personnel of the 1st squadron of a fighter aircraft regiment with whom he served near Moscow. Streets in multiple Russian cities, including Moscow, Volgograd, Borisoglebsk, Chelyabinsk and Nizhny Novgorod, as well as the Podolsk Central Park, are named in his honour.
During intense fighting in the summer of 1941, Talalikhin’s selfless feat inspired millions. Soviet pilots rammed enemy aircraft on over 600 occasions during the war.
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Viktor Talalikhin was flying a Polikarpov I-16 fighter plane when he tailed an enemy bomber, shot up one of its engines and later rammed it. This heroic feat during a dogfight near Moscow made his name forever famous.
After this feat, Viktor Talalikhin repeatedly distinguished himself during hostilities in mid-air.
🕯 The Junior Lieutenant flew his last combat mission on October 27, 1941. The pilot engaged superior enemy forces, downed two enemy planes over Podolsk, near Moscow, and was killed.
Viktor Talalikhin was buried in Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery with full military honours. His name was forever listed among personnel of the 1st squadron of a fighter aircraft regiment with whom he served near Moscow. Streets in multiple Russian cities, including Moscow, Volgograd, Borisoglebsk, Chelyabinsk and Nizhny Novgorod, as well as the Podolsk Central Park, are named in his honour.
During intense fighting in the summer of 1941, Talalikhin’s selfless feat inspired millions. Soviet pilots rammed enemy aircraft on over 600 occasions during the war.
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🗓 On August 9, 1944 — exactly 80 years ago — the Battle of Leningrad, the longest military engagement in the history of the Great Patriotic War, concluded with a Red Army victory.
For more than three years, Soviet soldiers and officers fought fierce battles in the northwestern theatre, while the people in Leningrad steadfastly endured the horrors of the siege.
Capturing Leningrad was a goal of high military and political significance for the Nazi leadership. The city was one of the largest strategic, political and economic centres of the Soviet Union, and its loss would mean isolation of the northern regions of the USSR, and cutting off the Soviet fleet’s access to bases in the Baltic Sea.
⚔️ The Battle of Leningrad included several stages: defence of the distant and near approaches, 872 days of the siege, the breakthrough and the Soviet offensive in the northwestern direction. Instead of taking the city in three weeks, as Hitler planned, the Nazi troops spent about three years at the gates.
The siege was finally lifted on January 27, 1944, paving the way for liberating the southern parts of the Leningrad Region in February. But the Battle of Leningrad did not end until August 1944 and the defeat of Finnish troops in Karelia. The Soviet soldiers were liberating Europe at that time.
☝️ The defence of Leningrad became a symbol of the courage of the Soviet people. At the cost of incredible hardship, heroism and self-sacrifice, Soviet soldiers and residents of Leningrad defended the city.
🎖 Over 350,000 soldiers, officers and generals of the Leningrad Front were decorated with orders and medals, with 226 of them awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. The medal For the Defence of Leningrad was conferred on 1.5 million people. In 1965, Leningrad was among the first to receive the title Hero City as a tribute to the heroism and courage shown by its residents during the siege.
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For more than three years, Soviet soldiers and officers fought fierce battles in the northwestern theatre, while the people in Leningrad steadfastly endured the horrors of the siege.
Capturing Leningrad was a goal of high military and political significance for the Nazi leadership. The city was one of the largest strategic, political and economic centres of the Soviet Union, and its loss would mean isolation of the northern regions of the USSR, and cutting off the Soviet fleet’s access to bases in the Baltic Sea.
⚔️ The Battle of Leningrad included several stages: defence of the distant and near approaches, 872 days of the siege, the breakthrough and the Soviet offensive in the northwestern direction. Instead of taking the city in three weeks, as Hitler planned, the Nazi troops spent about three years at the gates.
The siege was finally lifted on January 27, 1944, paving the way for liberating the southern parts of the Leningrad Region in February. But the Battle of Leningrad did not end until August 1944 and the defeat of Finnish troops in Karelia. The Soviet soldiers were liberating Europe at that time.
☝️ The defence of Leningrad became a symbol of the courage of the Soviet people. At the cost of incredible hardship, heroism and self-sacrifice, Soviet soldiers and residents of Leningrad defended the city.
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🗓 #OnThisDay in 1944, the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk offensive of the Red Army in Karelia ended after Soviet troops finally cleared the fascist invaders from the Leningrad Region and the Karelian-Finnish SSR.
Since the autumn of 1941, the Finns had held the southern part of Karelia, creating a constant threat to Leningrad and preventing its communication with the northern ports of the country. The offensive operation was designed to eliminate this threat and put an end to the Battle for Leningrad.
Another objective of the operation was to liberate the population of the territories occupied by the Finns. During the occupation of the Karelo-Finnish SSR from 1941 to 1944, 14 concentration camps were established, as well as over 30 labor camps and more than 40 camps for prisoners of war. These camps held up to 30 percent of the population, primarily Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians. These camps were part of a larger plan to create an "ethnically pure" Greater Finland, which involved the extermination of "non-Finnish peoples." In 1942, the mortality rate in Finnish concentration camps was higher than in German ones.
The Vyborg-Petrozavodsk offensive was carried out from June 10 to August 9, 1944 by the forces of the Leningrad and Karelian fronts with the support of the Baltic Fleet and the Ladoga Military Flotilla. The Soviet troops broke through the enemy's heavily fortified, layered defences and, advancing 110 km on the Karelian Isthmus, and 200-250 km between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega, liberated Vyborg and the capital of the Karelian-Finnish SSR, Petrozavodsk.
👉 As a result of the operation, the Red Army managed to clear enemy forces from most of Karelia, completely eliminate the threat to Leningrad from the north and northeast, and, having pushed back the remnants of the enemy forces deep into Finland, set the stage for that country’s subsequent withdrawal from the war.
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Since the autumn of 1941, the Finns had held the southern part of Karelia, creating a constant threat to Leningrad and preventing its communication with the northern ports of the country. The offensive operation was designed to eliminate this threat and put an end to the Battle for Leningrad.
Another objective of the operation was to liberate the population of the territories occupied by the Finns. During the occupation of the Karelo-Finnish SSR from 1941 to 1944, 14 concentration camps were established, as well as over 30 labor camps and more than 40 camps for prisoners of war. These camps held up to 30 percent of the population, primarily Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians. These camps were part of a larger plan to create an "ethnically pure" Greater Finland, which involved the extermination of "non-Finnish peoples." In 1942, the mortality rate in Finnish concentration camps was higher than in German ones.
The Vyborg-Petrozavodsk offensive was carried out from June 10 to August 9, 1944 by the forces of the Leningrad and Karelian fronts with the support of the Baltic Fleet and the Ladoga Military Flotilla. The Soviet troops broke through the enemy's heavily fortified, layered defences and, advancing 110 km on the Karelian Isthmus, and 200-250 km between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega, liberated Vyborg and the capital of the Karelian-Finnish SSR, Petrozavodsk.
👉 As a result of the operation, the Red Army managed to clear enemy forces from most of Karelia, completely eliminate the threat to Leningrad from the north and northeast, and, having pushed back the remnants of the enemy forces deep into Finland, set the stage for that country’s subsequent withdrawal from the war.
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🗓 September 3 marks the Day of Military Glory in Russia — the day of victory over militarist Japan and the end of World War II.
On September 2, the representative of the USSR General Kuzma Derevyanko and the allies of the Soviet Union during WWII signed the Instrument of Surrender of militarist Japan.
At the Tehran (1943) and Yalta (1945) conferences of the heads of the Big Three Joseph Stalin agreed to help the United States and Britain in the war against Japan, which at that time the USSR had a pact of neutrality with.
It was agreed in Tehran that the USSR would enter the war two or three months after the surrender of Germany.
The redeployment of Soviet soldiers to the Far East began even before Berlin was captured. According to the plan the Soviet forces were to encircle and defeat the enemy in the Far East within two months but victory was achieved much faster — merely 11 days later.
☝️ The Red Army dealt a crushing blow to the Kwantung Army, which became one of the key factors of Axis Japan's defeat. Southern part of Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Manchuria and part of Korea were liberated from Japanese occupation.
📹 The Russian Military Historical Society
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On September 2, the representative of the USSR General Kuzma Derevyanko and the allies of the Soviet Union during WWII signed the Instrument of Surrender of militarist Japan.
At the Tehran (1943) and Yalta (1945) conferences of the heads of the Big Three Joseph Stalin agreed to help the United States and Britain in the war against Japan, which at that time the USSR had a pact of neutrality with.
It was agreed in Tehran that the USSR would enter the war two or three months after the surrender of Germany.
The redeployment of Soviet soldiers to the Far East began even before Berlin was captured. According to the plan the Soviet forces were to encircle and defeat the enemy in the Far East within two months but victory was achieved much faster — merely 11 days later.
☝️ The Red Army dealt a crushing blow to the Kwantung Army, which became one of the key factors of Axis Japan's defeat. Southern part of Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Manchuria and part of Korea were liberated from Japanese occupation.
📹 The Russian Military Historical Society
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🗓 On September 7, 1945, a military parade of the allied forces of the #USSR, US, UK and France took place in Berlin near the walls of the defeated Reichstag on Alexanderplatz Square, marking the end of #WWII.
The location of the parade – at the Brandenburg Gate, at the very heart of the German capital – was not chosen by chance. It was right here where the Battle of Berlin ended and the remnants of the Berlin group of German troops surrendered to the Red Army. Scheduled for September 7, the parade was timed to coincide with the victory over militaristic Japan.
Representatives of the allied powers responded positively to Moscow's proposal to hold a joint parade in Berlin. However, on the eve of the event, after the date and all the details had been agreed upon, the US, UK and France announced that instead of the commanders-in-chief – Eisenhower, Montgomery and Tassigny – they would send lower-ranking generals, who were already stationed in Germany, to the parade. By doing so, the allies tried to downplay the significance of the parde, which emphasized the decisive role of the Soviet Union in taking Berlin. At that time, no one doubted who bore the brunt of the storming of the capital of the Third Reich.
🇷🇺 The USSR carried out thorough preparations for the parade. The Soviet command attracted the most distinguished soldiers, sergeants, officers and generals who had shown unrivalled courage in taking Berlin and the main centers of the reich – the Reichstag and the Imperial Chancellery.
🎖On September 7 at 11 am, the Berlin allied parade commenced. It was received by the Commander of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany Georgy Zhukov. The parade was opened by the combined regiment of the 248th Rifle Division of the Red Army, led by Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant Colonel Georgy Lenev. The parade was closed by a column of the Soviet armor, with the latest heavy tanks IS-3 ("Joseph Stalin") marching.
💬 In his welcoming speech to the parade participants, Marshal Zhukov paid tribute to the exploits of the Soviet and Allied forces in the struggle for victory over Nazi Germany:
"Fighting friends, comrades in arms, soldiers, officers and generals... <...> The Second World War ended with a decisive and powerful strike from the great allied powers. Our victory is a triumph of an unprecedented military partnership of democratic states.
From now on, people <...> will be eternally grateful to the great nations of America, England, the Soviet Union, the French Republic and China, to their valiant soldiers who, in the difficult time of military trials, gave each other helping hands, united to win a victory over a common enemy, to win the long-awaited peace on Earth."
#Victory79 #WeRemember #WeWereAllies
The location of the parade – at the Brandenburg Gate, at the very heart of the German capital – was not chosen by chance. It was right here where the Battle of Berlin ended and the remnants of the Berlin group of German troops surrendered to the Red Army. Scheduled for September 7, the parade was timed to coincide with the victory over militaristic Japan.
Representatives of the allied powers responded positively to Moscow's proposal to hold a joint parade in Berlin. However, on the eve of the event, after the date and all the details had been agreed upon, the US, UK and France announced that instead of the commanders-in-chief – Eisenhower, Montgomery and Tassigny – they would send lower-ranking generals, who were already stationed in Germany, to the parade. By doing so, the allies tried to downplay the significance of the parde, which emphasized the decisive role of the Soviet Union in taking Berlin. At that time, no one doubted who bore the brunt of the storming of the capital of the Third Reich.
🎖On September 7 at 11 am, the Berlin allied parade commenced. It was received by the Commander of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany Georgy Zhukov. The parade was opened by the combined regiment of the 248th Rifle Division of the Red Army, led by Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant Colonel Georgy Lenev. The parade was closed by a column of the Soviet armor, with the latest heavy tanks IS-3 ("Joseph Stalin") marching.
💬 In his welcoming speech to the parade participants, Marshal Zhukov paid tribute to the exploits of the Soviet and Allied forces in the struggle for victory over Nazi Germany:
"Fighting friends, comrades in arms, soldiers, officers and generals... <...> The Second World War ended with a decisive and powerful strike from the great allied powers. Our victory is a triumph of an unprecedented military partnership of democratic states.
From now on, people <...> will be eternally grateful to the great nations of America, England, the Soviet Union, the French Republic and China, to their valiant soldiers who, in the difficult time of military trials, gave each other helping hands, united to win a victory over a common enemy, to win the long-awaited peace on Earth."
#Victory79 #WeRemember #WeWereAllies
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