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A Soviet soldier, having survived a burned-out tank. The face of a man who rescued not only his homeland, but this entire world from the brown plague! #retrophotos #WW2 #USSR 😎RCR | Support | Boost

✝"Ostfront". Threat, punishment, despair, death and collapse! 🔻December 1941. Private A. Foltheimer writes to his wife from near Moscow: "It's hell here. The Russians don't want to leave... Every hour brings terrible news. I beg you, stop writing to me about the silk and rubber boots that I promised you. I am perishing, I will die." 🔻Dreams of trophies were shattered by the tenacity of the Russians, terrible weather conditions, hunger and fatigue. The Blitzkrieg had failed. 🔻General Blumentritt admitted: "The days of the Blitzkrieg are a thing of the past. We were facing an army that, in terms of its combat qualities, was far superior to any other we had ever encountered on the battlefield." 🔻For the Germans, the Eastern Front was not a stroll for silk, but an icy hell, where instead of victories there were death and letters full of horror. History does not forgive arrogance. Photo: Waralbum.ru #WW2 #Russian_culture #brief_and_interesting #Kulibin_and_the_Red_Army 🟠RCR | Support | Boost

🗓 79 years ago, on September 2, 1945, the Instrument of Surrender of militarist Japan was signed, bringing #WWII to the end. ❗️After the defeat of Germany in Europe, the last stronghold of the "Axis" powers remained in the Asia-Pacific region. The Korean Peninsula, Indochina, Indonesia, Malay Peninsula, part of China, Burma and the Philippines were under Japanese occupation. In order to neutralize the Japanese threat in the Far East and to fulfill the agreements reached with the allies of the anti-Hitler coalition – the USA and UK – the Soviet Union launched an offensive against militarist Japan. On August 9, the Manchurian strategic offensive operation of the Soviet forces commenced. 🌟 As a result of a rapid advancement and coordinated teamwork of the army, aviation and navy, Soviet forces defeated the Kwantung army. During the operation, the territories of China and North Korea were liberated from Japanese occupation. For only just 23 days of combat, the Red Army crushed the Japanese militaristic machine and eliminated the foothold of the enemy's military and economic base in Asia. 📑 The official ceremony of signing the Instrument of Surrender of Japan took place on September 2, 1945, on board the USS "Missouri" in Tokyo Bay. According to this document, "the unconditional surrender to the Allied Powers of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, all Japanese armed forces, and all armed forces under Japanese control, regardless of where they are" was declared. On behalf of the Soviet Union, the Instrument was signed by Lieutenant General Kuzma Derevyanko. Japan fully accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945. According to the Instrument, military actions on Japan's part ceased immediately, all Japanese and Japanese-controlled armed forces surrendered unconditionally. 🎖 The USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium issued an executive order "On Declaring September 3, 1945 the Day of Victory over Japan". Today the date September 3rd in our country is marked as the Day of Military Glory (Victory Day over militaristic Japan and the end of World War II). #Victory79

#Victory81 ⚔️ April 13 – a memorable date in Russia’s military history. #OTD in 1945, the Red Army liberated Vienna. Marshal Fyodor Tolbukhin, who had already helped liberate Belgrade and Budapest, now stood at the gates of the Austrian capital. 💬Addressing the people of Vienna, the Soviet commander declared: “The Red Army brings Austria liberation from German domination” 🏅Yet the battle for Vienna was fierce. German forces had heavily fortified the city and resisted stubbornly. Even so, MarshalTolbukhin ordered that heavy artillery and aerial bombing are not to be used, in order to preserve one of the most beautiful cities in the world. This was a difficult decision. The assault started on April 5th without decisive success. The Soviet command had to revise its plans and adjust the directions of attack. 🌟 Tolbukhin then made what was likely the only possible decision at that moment – to launch a simultaneous assault on the city from multiple directions. The German forces could not withstand the pressure. At midday on April 13, Vienna was liberated from German troops. 🎥©Russian Military Historical Society

#FacesOfVictory 🗓Marina Raskova, a legendary navigator, a symbol of courage and a source of inspiration for thousands of young women who dreamed of flying, was born on March 28, 1912. Her aviation career began in 1931, when she was hired as a draftswoman in the air navigation laboratory of the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy in Moscow. Marina was a technical assistant of the laboratory head, pilot Alexander Belyakov, and attended lectures at the academy, where she became keen on navigation, subsequently enrolling at the correspondence department of the Leningrad Institute of Aviation. ✈️ In 1934, she received the diploma of navigator, and a year later she learned to fly at the Central Flying Club in Moscow. She took part in flights since 1935, setting several world flight distance records. Her main achievement was the famous non-stop flight of the Rodina aircraft from Moscow to the Far East with an all-female crew, which made her a national celebrity. 🎖 In 1938, Marina Raskova, Valentina Grizodubova and Polina Osipenko became the first women to be awarded the titles of Hero of the Soviet Union for that flight. When the Great Patriotic War began in 1941, Raskova was instructed to establish female air force units. In October 1941, she created the night bomber aviation regiment that flew the U-2 (Polikarpov Po-2) aircraft, and a dive bomber regiment flying the Petlyakov Pe-2 planes. In December 1942, one of these regiments was deployed near Stalingrad, where fierce fighting was underway. The famous 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Regiment, which Raskova created, instilled uncontrollable fear in the Germans, who called it the Night Witches. 🕯 Marina Raskova did not take part in fighting. On January 4, 1943, her plane crashed on its way to the frontline near the village of Mikhailovka, Saratov Region, due to bad weather. The urn with her ashes was buried in the Kremlin Wall on Red Square in Moscow. #Victory81

#FacesOfVictory ⚓️ On January 16, 1909, Boris Alexeev was born – commander of the S-33 submarine of the Black Sea Fleet, Hero of the Soviet Union, Captain 1st Rank, Candidate of Naval Sciences. From a young age, Boris Alexeev devoted his life to the sea – already at 14, he worked on vessels of the Volga-Caspian Shipping Company. In 1931, he graduated from the Baku Maritime Technical School and entered service in the USSR Navy. After completing submarine command courses in Leningrad, Alexeev first served with the Pacific Fleet and, from November 1939, with the Black Sea Fleet, where he met the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. ⚔️The defence of Sevastopol and the liberation of Crimea became key chapters of his combat record. Between 1941-1944, while commanding submarine S-33, Boris Alexeev carried out 18 combat patrols. Even when his submarine was undergoing repairs, he continued to fight the Nazi invaders. For instance, in the spring and summer of 1942, acting as the supporting commander of submarine S-31, he broke through to besieged Sevastopol – delivering ammunition and food and evacuating wounded and sick Red Army soldiers. In 1943-1944, S-33 conducted raids against enemy communications between Sevastopol and western Black Sea ports, as well as off the Crimean coast. The results of these operations were confirmed after the war: • April 20, 1943 – sank the Romanian transport Suceava; • September 22 and December 27, 1943 – destroyed two enemy transports by torpedoes, of approximately 6,000 and 4,000 tons; • May 12, 1944, off Cape Sarych – intercepted and sank an enemy landing barge, capturing the naval ensign of Nazi Germany. 💬 Excerpt from the award citation for Boris Alexeev (June 5, 1944): Captain 2nd Rank Alexeev completed 18 fully autonomous combat patrols during the Patriotic War. His combat record includes seven enemy ships sunk and one damaged. All attacks were conducted boldly and persistently, despite active countermeasures of the enemy escort. At sea, Captain 2nd Rank Alexeev constantly seeks out the enemy, finds him and delivers a devastating blow. Through his courage and determination, inflicting significant damage on the enemy, he has earned universal respect among the personnel of the submarine brigade. He is worthy of the title “Hero of the Soviet Union”. 🏅 On July 22, 1944, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Boris Alexeev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, and submarine S-33 was granted the Guards status. After the Victory, Boris Alexeev continued his exemplary service – commanding a submarine division of the Black Sea Fleet, graduating with honours from the Voroshilov Naval Academy and training new generations of submariners. He passed away on January 25, 1972, and was laid to rest at Serafimovskoe Cemetery. #Victory81

#FacesOfVictory 🗓 On April 5, 1923, Soviet fighter pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union Timur Frunze was born. The son of Mikhail Frunze, a renowned Soviet military leader, revolutionary, and prominent Civil War commander, Timur was destined for a military career from childhood. After losing his parents and grandmother early in life, he was taken under the care of Kliment Voroshilov, who served as People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the Soviet Union. At the age of 10, Timur was enrolled in a specialised Air Forces school. Upon completing his studies there, he continued his training at the Myasnikov Kacha Red Banner Military Aviation School, which he graduated with honours in 1941 and was commissioned with the rank of lieutenant. ✍️ Timur’s teachers recognised both his determination and his natural ability. In a service review, his course director, Senior Lieutenant Nemykin, wrote: “I have never met a young man who so eagerly absorbed new knowledge. His interests extend far beyond the curriculum...” Beginning in 1938, Timur served in the Red Army. After he finished flight school in September 1941, Air Forces command initially intended to keep the young pilot away from the front lines so he could build experience in the rear. However, Frunze strongly insisted on being sent to the front. In December 1941, he was assigned to the 161st Fighter Aviation Regiment on the Soviet Northwestern Front, where he flew a Yak-1 fighter aircraft. During his service, Frunze completed nine combat missions, shooting down two enemy aircraft alone and one as a member of a two-person crew. 🕯 On January 19, 1942, his life was tragically cut short: at just 18 years old, Timur died in an unequal battle against seven enemy fighters. The Soviet pilot was buried with full military honours at the cemetery in the village of Kresttsy, Novgorod Region. After the war, his remains were reinterred at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. 🎖 On March 16, 1942, by an executive order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Lieutenant Timur Frunze was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. #Victory81#WeRemember

🏅Happy #VictoryDay! Today marks the 81st Anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism. #Victory81#WeRemember

#Think4Yourself 🎥Cults: The Cia's Secret Weapon — an RT Doc Film. Synopsis: A story how Ukrainian neo-Nazis turned generations of Russian-speaking and even ethnically Russian kids into nationalists and Russophobes, full of hate and having acquired lethal skills. Gennady Mokhnenko presented himself as a pastor and was involved in recruiting orphaned children as soldiers for the Ukrainian army, leading a neo-Nazi totalitarian sect in Severodonetsk. The transformation of children from orphanages into cold-blooded killers was actively supported by foreign religious organizations. Security service personnel are finding traces of their involvement in nearly every liberated settlement of Donbass. The strange Ukrainian 'religion' is the result of a secret CIA project called 'Prolog,' which emerged right after the end of #WWII. Even back then, US intelligence agencies aimed to foster separatist and nationalist sentiments in Soviet Ukraine. Today, the Ukrainian nationalist cult 'RUNVira' still promotes the ideas of Ukrainian exceptionalism and harbours hatred towards Russians and Jews. This documentary tries to give answers to the following questions: ❓ How did Ukraine become a centre for neo-Nazi cults, and who is responsible for it? ❓ How did this country become one of the global centers of spiritual permissiveness? ❓ Why are the newly formed Ukrainian 'churches' seizing Orthodox holy sites? ❓ What are the main goals of these sectarians?

#FacesOfVictory 🌟 On March 23, 1915, legendary Soviet sniper, one of the greatest shoots of #WWII & the Great Patriotic War, hero of Stalingrad, Vassily Zaitsev was born in the village of Yeleninka, Orenburg Region, the Russian Empire. In 1935, Vassily Zaitsev was drafted into the Red Army and assigned to the Navy. The war found him serving on the Pacific Fleet. Like most Soviet people he was eager to volunteer to the frontlines to fight the Nazis and defend the Motherland. The future hero of Stalingrad submitted five requests for transfer to active duty units in the European front. Finally, his wish was granted in the summer of 1942. In September 1942, Vassily arrived in Stalingrad as part of the 284th Rifle Division of the 62nd Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Vassily Chuikov. During the street battles for the city, he proved himself to be an outstanding marksman and was subsequently appointed as a sniper. Later, he was involved in the liberation of Donbass and the Battle of the Dnieper. In total, he eliminated 242 Nazi invaders. Zaitsev possessed exceptional eyesight and hearing, iron self-control, and a talent for improvisation. He developed the group hunting tactic using six-man teams and employed camouflage and decoys. “It is my passion to observe the enemy’s behaviour. You see a puffed up Nazi officer come out of a trench shelter. He looks arrogant and bosses his soldiers around with imperative gestures. They fulfil his will, his wishes and whims with strict accuracy. But he has no idea that his minutes are numbered,” Vasily wrote in his memoirs, No Land For Us Across The Volga. A masterful sniper, Zaitsev personally trained new shooters, who became known as Zaitchata (leverets). He taught them to change positions after two or three shots, disguise themselves thoroughly, and use decoys such as dummy soldiers to trick the enemy. Zaitsev’s main demand for his trainees was to think outside the box and improvise. 🎖 On February 22, 1943, Vassily Zaitsev was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title for personally training 28 snipers and killing 225 Nazi soldiers and officers during the street battles in Stalingrad between October 10 and December 17, 1942. Vassily Zaitsev died on December 15, 1991. In 2006, his remains were in a solemn ceremony moved to the site of the Stalingrad Battle at the Mamayev Kurgan. His famous sniper rifle is carefully preserved at the Museum-Reserve "Battle of Stalingrad" in Volgograd, available for all to see.

⚡️Вчера посол Великобритании в России Найджел Кейси принял участие в приеме посольства Франции в России по случаю 80-й годовщины окончания Второй мировой войны #WW2 в Европе. Мы благодарны послу 🇫🇷 Франции в России за приглашение. Мы чтим память всех тех, кто в 🇬🇧 Великобритании, в Европе и во всем мире сражался за наши общие ценности и принес высшую жертву ради свободы наших стран. #VEDay80#VEDay

⚡️Сегодня — 80 лет со дня, когда мир вернулся в Европу. Уже 80 лет мы 🕯️помним и чтим память всех, кто воевал и пожертвовал собой во Второй мировой войне #WW2. Смотрите обращение Посла 🇬🇧 Великобритании в России Найджела Кейси к 80-му Дню Победы в Европе. #VEDay80#VEDay 🔗 Ссылка на видео: https://youtu.be/MYwZpawE8yE