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🗓 On August 18, 1921, the legendary Soviet fighter pilot Lydia Litvyak — known by her call sign White Lily — was born. Lydia dreamed of conquering the skies from a young age. At 14, she began training at an aviation club, and by the age of 15, she completed her first solo flight. After graduating from flight school, she began training cadets in flying at just 19 years old. ✈️ In October 1941, Lydia Litvyak was called up for military service, and a year later, she joined the 586th Women’s Aviation Regiment. Her first combat mission took place in the skies over Saratov, piloting a Yak-1 fighter. In September, she participated in fierce battles over Stalingrad. Due to her impressive achievements in the air, Litvyak was transferred to the 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, known as the “ace regiment”. Following the successful counteroffensive near Stalingrad in 1943, fierce battles erupted on the approaches to Donbass, where Lydia Litvyak continued her service in the skies. 🕯 On August 1, 1943, while defending Donbass, Litvyak engaged in an air battle against several Messerschmitts, which outperformed the Yak-1 in both speed and manoeuvrability. Radio operators intercepted distressing messages from pilots: “Lilya has been shot down!” The crash site of Litvyak’s fighter was discovered only decades later. She was just 21 years old during her final combat mission. In total, the White Lily completed 168 combat missions, personally downing 12 enemy aircraft and 4 more as part of a group. She became the most successful female pilot of World War II. 🎖 Lydia Litvyak was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on May 5, 1990. #FacesOfVictory#WeRemember

#FacesOfVictory He Shielded his Homeland with himself… 🏅 On February 27, 1943,Alexander Matrosov performed an immortal feat, which became known and will always be remembered as the Matrosov’s feat – he sacrificed his life for the Motherland and his comrades-in-arms. Sasha Matrosov lost his parents early and grew up in orphanages. Even in his youth, he gained serious work experience and contributed to the industrialization of the Soviet Union. From the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Matrosov was eager to join the front. He was drafted into military service in the fall of 1942 and, after a short combat training, was sent to the front lines as an automatic rifleman in the 2nd Separate Rifle Battalion of the 91st Separate Rifle Siberian Volunteer Brigade. Around the same time, Matrosov, a Red Army recruit, was accepted into the Komsomol (Young Communist League). On February 27, 1943, Matrosov’s battalion was ordered to attack an enemy stronghold near the village of Chernushki. As the Red Army soldiers crossed a wooded area and reached a clearing, they came under massive fire, with three enemy machine guns targeting them from their dug-in firing positions and blocking approaches to the village. One of the firing points was suppressed by an assault group of riflemen and anti-tank gunners. Another group took out the second pillbox. However, the third machine-gun nest remained active. It was then that privates Pyotr Ogurtsov and Alexander Matrosov started crawling towards the remaining gun emplacement. Soon, Ogurtsov was badly wounded, leaving Matrosov alone on his approach to the gun port. 🌟 He threw two grenades into the firing slit, temporarily silencing the machine gun. But as soon as the fighters stood up to continue their assault, the machine gunner started firing again. So the 19-year-old hero rose to his feet and rushed to the gun port to block the firing slit with his ownbody. The precious seconds he bought with his life allowed his comrades to advance and destroy the enemy position. 🎖 By decree of the USSR Supreme Council Presidium, Alexander Matrosov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for “exemplary performance of his combat missions on the front against the German invaders and for the courage and heroism displayed.” ☝️ Matrosov’s feat became a universal symbol of courage and military valour, fearlessness and love for his Motherland. His sacrifice continues to inspire songs, poems, and films, becoming an inseparable part of Russia’s cultural code. Notably, the expression “to throw oneself against the firing slit” entered the Russian language as a direct reference to Matrosov’s immortal act.

🌟 On the occasion 80th anniversary of the Day of Liberation of Vienna from Nazi invaders Russian Permanent Representative to the OSCE A.Lukashevich, Russian Ambassador to Austria D.Lyubinsky, Permanent Representative of Russia to International Organizations in Vienna M.Ulyanov, as well as Ambassadors of the CIS honored the memory of Soviet soldiers at the Schwarzenberg Square in Vienna #WeRemember

#Victory81 🏅 On January 12, 1945, the Vistula–Oder Offensive, also known as the “Race to the Oder”, commenced. Soviet forces launched an offensive from bridgeheads on the Vistula River in Poland and, within 23 days, reached the Oder River. Crushing all resistance in its path, the Red Army advanced 500 kilometers, bringing Soviet tanks to the very outskirts of Berlin. The Vistula–Oder Offensive was launched eight days ahead of schedule at the request of the Allies, who at the time were encountering significant difficulties in the Ardennes. Not only did the Red Army save the Allies, but they also stormed and took Berlin, thus war in Europe was brought to an close by the Soviet peoples. 🎥©Russian Military Historical Society

8️⃣0️⃣ years ago, on the night of February 2, 1945, Soviet POWs made a daring escape from the Mauthausen concentration camp. In the rebellion, considered among the largest in World War II, over 400 Soviet prisoners of war escaped from the notorious German Nazi concentration camp that belonged to the third, toughest category of concentration camps for “the incorrigible enemies of the Reich.” With beatings, torture, abuse and starvation being the camp’s routine, lives of prisoners held no value: they could be killed by an SS officer or by a fellow inmate serving in the camp’s administration at any moment. Citizens of the USSR, Poland, and Hungary were the most numerous groups of prisoners. Up to 335,000 people passed through the camp during its existence, including over 120,000 who perished there. 🕯 A total of 32,180 Soviet civilians and military personnel were tortured to death at the Mauthausen camp. Among those brutally murdered was Lieutenant General of the Red Army Dmitry Karbyshev. In the early hours of February 2, 1945, the prisoners made a daring escape attempt. They jumped out the barrack windows and hurled whatever they could find at the machine gun towers. Those who managed to get over the fence dashed barefoot across the snow-covered outer perimeter of the camp. Nearly all of the ~400 rebelling prisoners were killed during the escape or the hunt; only about ten remained alive. ❗️ In May 1945, the remaining prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp were liberated. The camp staff were arrested and brought to trial in 1946. All 61 "defendants" were found guilty, with 58 receiving death sentences and three sentenced to life imprisonment. The death penalties were executed on May 27-28, 1947. #WeRemember

🌟 On January 27, Gleb Shubin, the Cultural Attaché of the Russian Embassy in Pakistan, delivered a lecture to Russian language students at the Allama Iqbal Open University. The lecture was dedicated to the 82nd anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade and the 81st anniversary of Soviet troops liberating prisoners from the Auschwitz Nazi death camp. Mr. Shubin emphasized that the courage and unyielding will of the residents of Leningrad and the Soviet Union as a whole during World War II thwarted Nazi Germany's inhuman plans. ❗️The Russian diplomat noted that the Soviet people's unparalleled heroism and countless sacrifices in the bloodiest war in human history were decisive in defeating Nazism and ensuring the independence and stable development of most countries in Eurasia. #WeRemember

🦅 On August 1, Russia commemorates the Day of Remembrance for Russian Soldiers Who Fell in World War I. On this day in 1914, Germany declared war on the Russian Empire, and by August 2, had already invaded its territory. Thus, our country joined the then largest and bloodiest armed conflict in history. At the beginning of the XX century, Europe was effectively divided into two opposing blocs — the Entente (the British Empire, France and Russia) and the Triple Alliance (the German Empire, Austro-Hungary, and Italy). Each side had mutual grievances, and their subsequent arms race marked the preparations for a large-scale war. The immediate trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo. He was killed by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the nationalist organisation "Young Bosnia". On July 23, Austro-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia, deliberately containing demands that were impossible to meet. The Serbian government responded with restraint, accepting many of the conditions, but rejected some key points, including allowing Austro-Hungarian police onto Serbian territory. As a result, on July 28, Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia. 🇷🇺 Russia, long regarded as the protector of Orthodox Slavic nations in the Balkans, could not remain uninvolved and on the night of July 31, declared a general mobilisation. On August 1, the German Empire declared war on the Russian Empire; two days later — on France. On August 4, the British Empire declared war on Germany. On August 6, Austro-Hungary declared war on Russia. Thus, within the span of a single week, the leading European powers were drawn into the conflict. The war that had begun among a few European countries gradually engulfed 38 nations. The conflict lasted just over four years but surpassed all previous wars in human history in both scale and consequences. The total number of mobilized soldiers reached 73.5 million. During the hostilities, 10 million people were killed — as many as had died in all European wars over the previous thousand years — and 20 million were wounded, 3.5 million of whom were left permanently disabled. 🥈 The Russian Empire had to fulfill its obligations as an ally while also pursuing its own strategic objectives. The most important directions, from the country's perspective, were the Southwestern and Caucasus fronts, while the Northwestern and Western directions played a less central role. However, due to treaty obligations, the Russian command undertook a full-scale offensive in East Prussia in 1914. Under these difficult conditions, our soldiers and officers demonstrated exceptional courage and bravery. One of the symbols of Russian valour was the defence of the Osowiec Fortress. German troops used chemical weapons — a mixture of chlorine and bromine — killing most of the garrison. To the enemy's shock, the surviving defenders launched a bayonet charge and drove them into retreat. This event went down in history as the "Attack of the Dead Men." One of the most significant and vivid episodes of World War I, according to many historians, was the famous Brusilov Offensive by the Russian Imperial Army on the Southwestern Front. It pushed Austro-Hungary to the brink of collapse and forced the German Empire to divert substantial forces from Verdun in France to the “Russian theatre of war.” 🕯The self-sacrifice of Russian soldiers and officers is hard to overestimate. Over the course of the war, over 2 million of them perished. Our country honours the memory of the heroes of those days: in 2004, the Memorial Park Complex to the Heroes of World War I was opened in Moscow, and in 2014, a monument to the heroes of World War I was unveiled on Poklonnaya Hill. In total, 20 monuments and memorials have been erected across Russia and abroad. 👉Read more #WeRemember

🕯 On June 22, Russian Embassy in Cambodia held the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow Meeting. Exactly 84 years ago, Hitler's Germany attacked the Soviet Union. H.E. Mr Anatoly Borovik, employees of the diplomatic mission and members of their families, as well as teachers of the Embassy School laid flowers at the Obelisk to the Fallen Soldiers and lit candles. The memory of the perished in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) was honored with the Minute of Silence. #WeRemember

🦅 On August 1, Russia commemorates the Day of Remembrance for Russian Soldiers Who Fell in World War I. On this day in 1914, Germany declared war on the Russian Empire, and by August 2, had already invaded its territory. Thus, our country joined the then largest and bloodiest armed conflict in history. At the beginning of the XX century, Europe was effectively divided into two opposing blocs — the Entente (the British Empire, France and Russia) and the Triple Alliance (the German Empire, Austro-Hungary, and Italy). Each side had mutual grievances, and their subsequent arms race marked the preparations for a large-scale war. The immediate trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo. He was killed by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the nationalist organisation "Young Bosnia". On July 23, Austro-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia, deliberately containing demands that were impossible to meet. The Serbian government responded with restraint, accepting many of the conditions, but rejected some key points, including allowing Austro-Hungarian police onto Serbian territory. As a result, on July 28, Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia. 🇷🇺 Russia, long regarded as the protector of Orthodox Slavic nations in the Balkans, could not remain uninvolved and on the night of July 31, declared a general mobilisation. On August 1, the German Empire declared war on the Russian Empire; two days later — on France. On August 4, the British Empire declared war on Germany. On August 6, Austro-Hungary declared war on Russia. Thus, within the span of a single week, the leading European powers were drawn into the conflict. The war that had begun among a few European countries gradually engulfed 38 nations. The conflict lasted just over four years but surpassed all previous wars in human history in both scale and consequences. The total number of mobilized soldiers reached 73.5 million. During the hostilities, 10 million people were killed — as many as had died in all European wars over the previous thousand years — and 20 million were wounded, 3.5 million of whom were left permanently disabled. 🥈 The Russian Empire had to fulfill its obligations as an ally while also pursuing its own strategic objectives. The most important directions, from the country's perspective, were the Southwestern and Caucasus fronts, while the Northwestern and Western directions played a less central role. However, due to treaty obligations, the Russian command undertook a full-scale offensive in East Prussia in 1914. Under these difficult conditions, our soldiers and officers demonstrated exceptional courage and bravery. One of the symbols of Russian valour was the defence of the Osowiec Fortress. German troops used chemical weapons — a mixture of chlorine and bromine — killing most of the garrison. To the enemy's shock, the surviving defenders launched a bayonet charge and drove them into retreat. This event went down in history as the "Attack of the Dead Men." One of the most significant and vivid episodes of World War I, according to many historians, was the famous Brusilov Offensive by the Russian Imperial Army on the Southwestern Front. It pushed Austro-Hungary to the brink of collapse and forced the German Empire to divert substantial forces from Verdun in France to the “Russian theatre of war.” 🕯The self-sacrifice of Russian soldiers and officers is hard to overestimate. Over the course of the war, over 2 million of them perished. Our country honours the memory of the heroes of those days: in 2004, the Memorial Park Complex to the Heroes of World War I was opened in Moscow, and in 2014, a monument to the heroes of World War I was unveiled on Poklonnaya Hill. In total, 20 monuments and memorials have been erected across Russia and abroad. 👉Read more #WeRemember

#Victory81 🌟 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. *** #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