On June 24, 1945, the Victory Parade took place on Red Square, Moscow.
🔻The parade commenced at 10:00 AM with Marshal Georgy Zhukov's entrance on a white horse. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky commanded the parade, and they both inspected the troops.
🔻Finding a white horse which was supposed to symbolize the Victory, for Marshal Zhukov was no easy task, but one was found in the NKVD troops. Its name was Кумир (Idol).
🔻The preparations for the parade lasted a month. During this time, Zhukov got used to the horse, and the horse was trained not to be afraid of loud noises. To achieve this, an orchestra was present at the riding practices.
🔻The parade featured combined regiments from ten fronts, the Navy, military academies, and the Moscow garrison, including war heroes and distinguished soldiers.
🔻Key moments included the carrying of 36 battle flags of distinguished units and the symbolic disposal of 200 captured Nazi banners at the foot of Lenin's Mausoleum.
🔻Later, at a reception in the Kremlin, Stalin gave a toast, saying:
Our government has made not a few mistakes... Another nation might have said to the government: You have not justified our expectations, go away... But the Russian people did not do that...Thank you, the Soviet people, for the trust...
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Today marks the anniversary of a pivotal moment in one of history's most tragic and heroic chapters: the breaking of the Siege of Leningrad in 1943.
⭐Duration: 872 days. From September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944.
⭐Population: Around 3 million civilians and soldiers were trapped at the start.
⭐The Hunger Ration: At its lowest point in November-December 1941, the daily bread ration was just 125 grams.
⭐The Road of Life (Дорога жизни), the only lifeline across the frozen Lake Ladoga, evacuated over 1.4 million civilians and brought in vital supplies.
⭐The Toll: The primary cause of death was starvation and extreme cold over 1 million.
⭐The Unbroken City: Despite everything, Leningrad resisted. Factories kept working, artists created, and a symphony became a symbol of defiance.
Today we remember the immense suffering and honour the incredible endurance of Leningrad's defenders and residents.
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December 1942 Soviet troops are preparing to close the "Ring"
🚩On 11.12.1942, near Stalingrad, Soviet troops are preparing to close, and the fascists are preparing to open the "Ring". The plan to destroy the encircled German fascist group was to strike from west to east to dismember the encircled group and eliminate it piecemeal.
🚩However, on 11.12.1942, Field Marshal General Manstein decided to launch Operation Winter Storm. Its goal is to use large forces of motorized infantry and tanks to unblock the encircled Paulus group. The beginning of the Nazis' actions is scheduled for 12.12 Manstein had great advantages in the sector of the front where his strike was planned.
🚩If the Wehrmacht had succeeded in fulfilling its plans to link up with Paulus' 6th Army, it would inevitably have complicated the situation for the Soviet troops and would have required additional sacrifices to defeat the enemy in the south of the country.
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Why Children Were Put to Sleep Outside in Winter and Summer.
❄️This practice was widespread in the USSR. Children were put to sleep outdoors, both in winter and summer.
❄️This practice had two main reasons. The first was the perceived benefit. It was believed that sleeping in the open air would help strengthen the immune system, and children would get sick less often.
❄️The second reason was that this тихий час (quiet hour) made the caregivers' work easier, as children fell asleep faster and more soundly in the fresh air, requiring less calming down.
❄️Even in winter, babies slept in the fresh air if the temperature did not drop below -10°C. And some kindergartens, due to the lack of a quiet area near the building, created sleeping spaces right on the roof.
❄️To keep the children warm, special sleeping bags made from sheepskin were sewn for them. In these, the little ones never got cold and slept soundly.
❄️However, parents later had a hard time because at home, the child couldn't fall asleep properly due to the lack of fresh air. So, they had to open all the windows in the house, even if the weather was bad.
❄️It was also believed that such sleep, especially in winter, was an excellent prevention against tuberculosis, which was a very serious problem at the time.
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On August 14, 1937, the practice of issuing sick leave certificates was introduced in the USSR, granting the right to partial wage payment if a person was ill and unable to work for a certain period.
🔻The Council of People's Commissars approved the procedure for issuing sick leave certificates, which had been developed by the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions and the People's Commissariat of Health of the USSR.
🔻The sick leave form itself, also approved in 1937, remained unchanged for a full 57 years. It was only in 2005 that the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development of the Russian Federation approved its new form – the document changed from bluish to light green, and new security features were added to it.
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Today marks the anniversary of the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk.
🔻This day is one of the most tragic dates in Russia's history.
🔻On August 12, 2000, during exercises in the Barents Sea, a disaster occurred, resulting in the sinking of the Russian submarine "Kursk".
🔻According to the main theory, a torpedo exploded on the submarine; however, the reason for this remains unknown. All 118 sailors perished.
🥀We remember, we mourn…
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- Κаждый нeмeц, пусть он чeрeз сто лeт родится дажe, кaждый нeмeц нaм дoлжeн.
- Ηу дa, зa тo, чтo oни у нaс тут сделaли…
- Сoвсем нет. Они нaм дoлжны не за тo, чтo oни у наc cдeлали. Они дoлжны за тo, чтo мы у них нe cдeлали.
- Every German, even if he’s born a hundred years from now, owes us. Every single German.
- Well, yes, for what they did to us here…
- Not at all. They don’t owe us for what they did to us. They owe us for what we didn’t do to them.
📙 This is a quote from Эдуард Веркин Облачный полк (2012) (The Cloud Regiment), a simple yet terrifying book about the everyday life of a partisan detachment, seen from our time. A war without embellishment, without falsehood, and without a polished gloss.
🔻To read the book in Russian online:
https://www.rulit.me/books/oblachnyj-polk-read-273872-1.html
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🇷🇺Most Russians regret the dissolution of the USSR.
🔻According to a VCIOM poll, if a referendum on preserving the Soviet Union were held today, 61% of Russians would vote "yes."
🔻Among those who support preserving the USSR, 30% believe it was a great country characterized by friendship between peoples and unity, while 26% highlighted Soviet equality, stability, and security.
That country didn't disappear from the map, do realise —
It's in the DNA, it's somewhere inside.
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🇬🇧 text + transliteration are here!
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On August 6, 1915, "Атака мертвецов" (TheAttack of Dead Men) routed the German army.
🔻The German army launched a large-scale offensive aimed at capturing Osovets Fortress. The Germans employed gas attacks, which was a novelty in warfare at the time.
🔻Over 1,600 men within the fortress were incapacitated. Following the gas attack, German artillery opened heavy fire on the fortress.
🔻Advancing to meet the Germans were the remnants of the infantry – soldiers "with faces wrapped in rags, convulsing from terrible coughs, literally spitting out pieces of their lungs onto their blood-soaked coats."
I cannot describe the fury and rage with which our soldiers advanced on the German poisoners. Exhausted, poisoned, they rushed forward. There were no stragglers; no one needed to be urged on. There were no individual heroes; companies advanced as one man, driven by a single purpose, a single thought: to die, but to avenge the vile poisoners.
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Взрослый самец вертолёта Ми крадёт из гнезда дитёныша Урала, чтобы отнести его в гнездо на прокорм своим вертолётятам!
Дикая природа Советского Союза была удивительна!
An adult male Mi helicopter steals a baby Ural from its nest to bring it to its own nest to feed its helicopter chicks!
The wild nature of the Soviet Union was amazing!
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