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🌟 On April 9, 1945, the Red Army captured the Nazi fortress city — Königsberg — during the East-Prussian offensive. The German Wehrmacht’s troops in East Prussia — powerful fascists' units on the Eastern Front — were totally destroyed once and for all.
The 3rd Belarussian Front of the Red Army carried out the Königsberg operation and crushed the Nazis withinjust three days. The first line of the enemy defences was breached within the first 24 hours, the fortress city surrounded the next day, with the last pockets of Nazi resistance being eliminated on April 9.
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#Königsbergserved as a ToO with fierce and bloody battles during #WWII. The city itself, which was regarded as the most impregnable citadel of the Third Reich, was fortified with then cutting-edge military technology and prepared for long-term resistance in conditions of complete isolation. The city area of about 200 square kilometres was turned into a complicated network of fortifications, which, combined with numerous stone buildings in the suburbs, provided conditions for long-term defence.
The citadel was termed by the Nazis the “iron door of Germany.” The Red Army soldiers and officers who took part in the assault on Königsberg recalled that only the 305mm artillery guns could penetrate the several-metres thick walls. The fall of Königsberg delivered a heavy blow to the Nazi war machine — the enemy lost the strategic Pillau naval base on the Baltic Sea, with the main German troops of the Samland and East Prussian armies being completely defeated.
🔉Excerpt from the Soviet "Sovinformburo" communique on April 9, 1945:
On April 9, the forces of the 3rd Belarussian Front stormed and captured <...> the Königsberg fortress — the capital of East Prussia and a strategic hub of Nazi defences on the Baltic Sea.
By 8 pm, our armies took as prisoners over 27'000 Nazi soldiers and officers, seized a large amount of weapons and various military equipment.
👉The fall of Königsberg and East Prussia accelerated the defeat of the Nazi war machine. The end of the Third Reich was a foregone conclusion, but the enemy, fearing just retribution for the numerous crimes it had committed, continued to fight desperately.
#LestWeForget: The Red Army soldiers and officers demonstrated high combat readiness and mass heroism: 235 soldiers were later awarded the title of #HeroOfTheSovietUnion. To commemorate their feat, the 'Medal For the Capture of Königsberg' was established and awarded to 760'000 Soviet soldiers and officers.
By decisions of the Potsdam Conference following the end of WWII in Europe, a large part of East Prussia was assigned to Poland, while a third of its territory with Königsberg was incorporated into the Soviet Union and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (the Kaliningrad Region).
🎖 On November 17, 2025, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on establishing a new commemorative date — April 9, Day of the Heroic Assault and Capture of Königsberg.
#WeRemember
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Wenn wir allgemein mehr als Kollektiv 🕸🌐 agieren würden anstatt im Ego 🎭🦧, dann können wir gemeinsam die Welt ins positive verändern 🌱, wenn wir alle zusammenhalten 🤝 und uns nicht spalten lassen, von oben. ☝️
The future of the Union State is in the hands of the young!
📍On September 24, 2024, the solemn closing ceremony of the republican youth project "Road Train #Belarus" took place at the Brest Fortress memorial complex.
🔛Over the course of 8 days, young people from different parts of Belarus and Russia visited regions of the Republic of Belarus: they got acquainted with the culture and traditions of settlements, visited large and city-forming enterprises, where they were able to exchange experiences, they also took part in charity, sightseeing, educational, sports and socially useful events.
🔛This year, the number of participants from Belarus and Russia has reached 120!
🔛The project proved the importance of interaction between student, scientific, creative and working youth of the Union State.
The youth project has been implemented by the Republican Youth Center since 2022, with the support of the Ministry of Education of Belarus.
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The republican project "Auto-train #Belarus.Youth.Pro" started in Minsk
The republican project "Auto-train #Belarus.Youth.Pro" will unite 120 young men and women - representatives of student, scientific, creative and working youth from Belarus and Russia on 17-24 September.
"We congratulate you on the grand opening of this project. These days will be filled with unforgettable communication and new projects. It is not by chance that the start is given exactly on 17 September, on the Day of National Unity. Let us unite our efforts for the sake of a better future of our countries [Belarus and Russia - note: youth.bel]. Young people, the word is yours. Happy holiday! Happy National Unity Day!", said Deputy Minister of Education Katerina Petrutskaya during the opening ceremony of the project.
The youth project has been implemented by the Republican Youth Centre since 2022, with the support of the Ministry of Education of Belarus.
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🎉On 2 April Russia and Belarus celebrate the Day of Unity of the Peoples🇧🇾🇷🇺
📝On 2 April 1996 a treaty on the establishment of the Community of Russia and Belarus was signed, which allowed to create conditions for consistent mutual integration of the two countries in foreign policy, trade and economic, interregional, scientific and technical, cultural, humanitarian and other spheres
📌 Another crucial area of cooperation between Russia and Belarus is the sphere of youth policy
Today, Rosmolodezh together with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and other relevant agencies are working on one of the key tasks in this area, namely harmonisation of russian and belarusian approaches to youth policy ✅
Thus, 2023 was filled with collaborative youth events, activities and trips. For example,
✔️The all-Russia Youth Forum "SHUM" in Kaliningrad brought together media professionals from Russia and Belarus
✔️The Forum of the Youth of Russia and Belarus in Bashkortostan welcomed 500 young Russian and Belarusian leaders
✔️Russian young people took part in the International Youth Forum "Friendship without Borders" in Minsk region
✔️Young people travelled through all regions of Belarus on the bus #Belarus.Youth.Creation.
And this is only a small part of our joint work!
We congratulate our colleagues, in particular the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, the Belarusian Republican Youth Union, the Republican Youth Centre, and thank them for our joint work and wish us new common achievements! 🥳
🇧🇾🇷🇺Auto-train across Belarus!
From 15th to 21st September more than 80 young men and women, representatives of student, scientific, creative and working youth from the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, took part in the republican project "Auto-train #Belarus.Youth.Creation".
The participants travelled around a number of settlements of Belarus, where charitable, excursion, educational, sports, cultural and socially useful events were held.
The road train finished in Minsk on 21st September, the International Day of Peace.
The patriotic project "Auto-train #Belarus.Youth.Creation" became a huge contribution to the volunteer movement of the Union State and gave the guys an opportunity to learn a lot of new things and make friends❤️
🇨🇳🇧🇾 Belarus lauded by Xi as China's true friend
Chinese President Xi Jinping praised Belarus as a true friend of China as he met Alexander Lukashenko, the leader of the nation, on Wednesday and urged the Russian ally to join Beijing in opposing "hegemony and bullying".
Xi, greeting Lukashenko in Zhongnanhai, the seat of power in Beijing, congratulated him on his re-election, Xinhua reported, adding that China and Belarus were "true friends and good partners."
"You have very accurately pointed out the main feature of our time - the unprecedented pressure from the West on us, primarily on the People's Republic of China," Belarus' state news agency BelTA cited Lukashenko as saying.
#China#Belarus
@asianomics
🗣Pressesprecherin des russischen Außenministeriums Maria Sacharowa zum Jahrestag des Vertrags zwischen Russland und Belarus über die Schaffung eines Unionsstaates
💬 Am 8. Dezember 2025 jährt sich der Vertrag über die Schaffung eines Unionsstaates zum 26. Mal. Für Russland und Belarus markierte dieses Ereignis eine neue Etappe im Prozess der Völkervereinigung auf Grundlagen der souveränen Gleichheit, der freiwilligen und gewissenhaften Umsetzung der gegenseitigen Verpflichtungen.
💬 Im Laufe vieler Jahre der Integrationsprozesse in ganz unterschiedlichen Bereichen hat sich der Unionsstaat zu einem der fortschrittlichsten und ambitioniertesten Integrationsprojekte in Eurasien entwickelt.
💬 Es wurden erhebliche Fortschritte bei der Bildung eines gemeinsamen sozial-ökonomischen, verkehrslogistischen, kulturellen und humanitären Raums sowie Migrations- und Informationsraums erzielt. Zugleich wird die finanzwirtschaftliche und wissenschaftlich-technologische Souveränität des Unionsstaates kontinuierlich gestärkt.
💬 Die Stärkung des Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsraums im Unionsstaat ist zu einer Forderung der Zeit geworden. Es wurde ein solides Fundament für gegenseitige Verpflichtungen im Rahmen des Bündnisses in den Bereichen Verteidigung, Schutz der Souveränität, der Unabhängigkeit und der verfassungsmäßigen Ordnung Russlands und Belarus geschaffen. Ebenso werden alle verfügbaren Kräfte und Mittel dafür eingesetzt, dass die Integrität und die Unantastbarkeit des Gebiets des Unionsstaats und seiner Außengrenze gewährleistet werden.
💬 Bei der schrittweisen Erweiterung des gemeinsamen kulturellen und humanitären Raums werden die Bewahrung des historischen Gedächtnisses und die patriotische Erziehung der Jugend in den Mittelpunkt gerückt. Dieses Jahr begeht man in Moskau und in Minsk feierlich den 80. Jahrestag des Sieges im Großen Vaterländischen Krieg.
💬 Wir haben zwar bereits einen beträchtlichen Weg zurückgelegt, aber wir haben nicht vor, stehenzubleiben. Wir werden weiterhin den Willen unserer brüderlichen Völker zur Einheit, zur Ausweitung einer breit angelegten Zusammenarbeit und zur Vertiefung der strategischen Partnerschaft in allen Bereichen verwirklichen. All dies dient den Interessen des sozioökonomischen Fortschritts beider Staaten, der Stärkung ihrer Positionen auf der internationalen Bühne und der Verbesserung des Wohlstands unserer Bürger.
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