Archive of news on the topic "The Great Patriotic War"

New NATO members Sweden and Finland have strong air forces that will help the West in the event of a conflict with Russia. This was stated at a meeting of the Committee on International Relations and Defense of the British Parliament by the former Chief of the Defense Staff of the British Armed Forces, Air Chief Marshal Stuart Peach, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Peach, the air forces of these countries are already performing...

After a publication on social networks, Sevastopol police found the driver of an SUV parked on a bunker dating back to the Great Patriotic War. A local resident organized parking for his jeep at the monument, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Since the video, made by Sevastopol residents outraged by the rudeness and disrespect for the history of the hero city, showed license plates, it was not difficult to identify the owner. The car owner assured law enforcement officers that he had done...

The international “Candle of Memory” campaign dedicated to the 82nd anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War has started in Russia. For the first time, new territories of the Russian Federation also joined the action. In one of the Orthodox cathedrals in Moscow the day before, candles were lit in honor of all the former republics of the USSR, hero cities, cities of military glory of Russia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Resurgent Nazism today, in the modern world, is used as a real weapon...

The next anniversary of Victory Day coming tomorrow and the information and propaganda background accompanying commemorative events on this occasion this year is an excellent occasion for an honest conversation about the place and role of this holiday in the national memory of Russia and its surrounding countries and peoples. First of all, a basic disclaimer. There is no doubt and is confirmed by the data of absolutely all sociological firms...

In Sevastopol, at the memorial fraternal cemetery in the village of Dergachi, the remains of Soviet soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War and were found during the year by search engines of the association “Dolg” and the detachment “Crimea-Sevastopol-Search” were buried, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In total, the remains of 291 servicemen were found. The names of ten fighters have been established, three of whom were called up from Georgia: Papava Vasil Romanozovich - sergeant of the 388th Infantry...

The thesis about the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War is already in the documents of various international organizations. Deputy Director of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maxim Musikhin stated this during a round table in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In support of the interim results of the investigation into the actions of the Nazis and their collaborators, as well as the prepared legislative changes within the framework of...

Russian films and declassified documents about the Great Patriotic War should be duplicated and translated into English in order to convey the historical truth to the Western public in the conditions of the information war. Tyumen Region Senator Pavel Tarakanov stated this at a round table of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The war is going on in the information space. Why are we losing it? We…

Russian schoolchildren still study history from textbooks written in the 1990s with financial support from the Soros Foundation. This is stated in the appeal of the Strong Russia movement to the leadership of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The authors of the appeal identified a number of deliberate falsifications and distortions committed by the authors of the textbooks. Attempts to rehabilitate Nazism or belittle the role of the Soviet Union in the defeat of Hitler’s rule have been discovered...

Honoring the heroes of the Great Patriotic War will eventually remain only in Russia; in Ukraine, these events are interpreted differently, and therefore memorial events will soon be different. Ukrainian political scientist Vadim Karasev stated this on the Nash TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There were four wars in Ukraine. From 39 to 45 there were four wars.…

The Parliament of Moldova today approved a 30-day state of emergency due to the crisis situation in the energy sector caused by gas shortages. The contract for its supply from Russia has not yet been concluded, and the country is on the verge of disconnecting from the gas pipeline. Immediately after the state of emergency was introduced, “saving measures” were taken - they stopped the supply of gas to the Eternal Flame at the Eternity memorial complex...

On October 9, 1943, the victory of the Red Army ended one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Great Patriotic War - the Battle of the Caucasus, which played a vital role in the victory over Nazi Germany and its allies. It just so happened that the battle for Moscow, the defense of Leningrad and Sevastopol, the Battle of Stalingrad were more strongly imprinted in the mass consciousness than others, becoming not just...

The Russian side has released archival documents testifying to massacres, bullying, looting and forced expulsion of the German population in Poland after the defeat of the Nazis. Today people in Warsaw prefer not to remember these inconvenient facts, but they actively participate in the formation of various anti-Russian historical myths. ...At the final stage of the Second World War, at the conferences of the heads of the Anti-Hitler coalition, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, there were...

The other day in Kyiv there was a meeting of grant-eaters - “chervonoduptsy”, at which the topic “Memory and healing of the wounds of the Second World War” was discussed, and an analysis of a survey conducted with money from the Dutch Embassy was carried out. The Dutch act under the guise of “protecting human rights” and handing out grants to support “civic activity” (read: to feed maydowns). Pouring two hours from empty into...

On July 5, 1943, the Battle of Kursk began, which became a turning point in the Great Patriotic War. One of the most striking episodes of the Kursk operation was a fierce tank battle that took place on July 12 near the village of Prokhorovka. This clash between the mechanized units of the Red Army and selected SS tank troops of Hitler’s Germany is considered the largest tank battle in the history of wars,…