Millions of russians turn out with portraits of their wartime moves online will tell you. Hello there good morning this is r. T. From moscow its may the 9th the date indelibly etched in russian mights its victory day and exactly 75 years ago nazi germany was defeated in the 2nd world war in europe was over this years commemorations may as mentioned be subdued in size and spectacle but the emotion the pride and the immense gratitude is being felt nationwide nonetheless as the country remembers the incalculable sacrifices made by savia troops and civilians who suffered the biggest casualties. Do you. Really. Even though you may know. June 22nd 1941 and germanys surprise invasion of the u. S. S. R. Started what will become known in russia as the great patriotic war. The nazis had a significant advantage in numbers and military equipment allowing troops to gain vast amounts of territory with little resistance in a matter of months they were of moscows doorstep. But after a series of fierce
Conquer the soviet union known as operation barbarossa he viewed much of whats now Eastern Europe as a site of repopulation for the germans the plan would have meant the extermination of the people already there that was of course the systematic massacre of millions of jews nearly all extermination camps were located in Eastern Europe some scholars estimate almost half of the 6000000 Holocaust Victims were soviet citizens camps are also established for soviet prisoners of war the nazis acted with exceptional savagery in their abuse of captured troops there was shot experimented on with gas or worked to death more than 3000000. 00 soviet prisoners were killed most of them by deliberate starvation. One war crime a was the hunt for about 500 soviet officers who discovered from the motos in nazi concentration camp in austria one of the witnesses to those events was her cult her family managed to save the lives of 2 soviet offices as wright n. T. I. Sarin salad they drove around the village
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