#OTD in 1️⃣9️⃣3️⃣7️⃣ Soviet and Russian diplomat Oleg Sokolov was born

🇷🇺 Ambassador to Philippines and South Korea, he served as Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna from 1995 to 1999

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🔵 20 апреля 1937 года родился советский и российский дипломат Олег Михайлович Соколов

🇷🇺 Чрезвычайный и Полномочный Посол в Республике Филиппины и Республике Корея, он занимал пост Постоянного представителя Российской Федерации при международных организациях в Вене с 1995 по 1999 гг.

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🤝 77 years ago, on April 25, 1945, an official meeting of Soviet and Anglo-American forces took place on the Elbe River near the city of Torgau.

📚 The archives of the Russian Historical Society testify that the forward units of the 58th Guards Rifle Division met with the scouts of the American 60th Infantry Division at ⏰ 15:30.

❌ It is worth noting that Hitler also had hopes for this meeting. He believed that the allies would open fire against each other and start a new war. However, the calculations of the Nazis did not materialize.

🚩The meeting became a symbolic event for the soldiers who fought Nazi Germany for several years on different fronts and were only able to meet at the end of the war.

#WeRemember #WeWereAllies #TheElbeDay

The #RedArmy liberated #Latvia from the Nazi occupation - Latvian Legion Waffen-SS formed, 48 prisons, 23 concentration camps, 18 Jewish ghettos.

150'000 Soviet soldiers gave their lives to free Latvia.

Now, in 2022, in Latvia 🇱🇻 we witness:

restrictions and bans on the use of Russian language,

Nazi collaborators and accomplices glorified,

while monuments to Soviet liberators demolished.

Even celebrating May 9 and Victory Day - the liberation from Nazis - is prohibited.

#WeRemember #NeverForget

🎖On June 16, 1894 renowned military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Liberator of Vienna Fyodor Tolbukhin was born

⭐️ During the Great Patriotic War he commanded Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad and liberation of several countries occupied by the Nazis

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🗓 On August 2, 1933 Soviet and Russian diplomat, Doctor of Sciences in Technology Yury Zaytsev was born

🇷🇺 From 1992 to 1995 he served as Permanent Representative of Russia to the International Organizations in Vienna

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🗓️ On October 26, 1880 legendary Red Army General Dmitry Karbyshev was born

⭐️ Doctor of Military Sciences, prominent fortifier, professor of the Soviet General Staff Academy and a Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously)

#DYK? school by the Embassy of the Russian Federation to the Austrian Republic bears his name

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🕯 #OTD in 1943, Nazi invaders destroyed the Belarusian village #Khatyn, burned alive & shot almost all of its inhabitants - 149 people, including 75 children.

☝️ #WeRemember how much grief Nazism brought to our peoples. The lessons of #WWII shall not be subject to oblivion!