Present day and find typical features and recognizable signs of the past. And thats what well talk about today. 80 years of the liberation of donetsk and mariupol from the nazis, history lessons, what the events of the great patriotic war tell us today , conversation with Program Expert Alexander Zakharchenko what was he like and what did he mean for novorossiya . This year marks the eightieth anniversary of several largescale turning points in the great patriotic war the battle of stalingrad and the encirclement of the Largest Group of nazis. Victory in the largest tank battle in human history. On the kursk bulge. These days celebrated the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of donetsk and other events that led to our victory in donbass in september 1943 in scale. That battle is inferior to stalingrad and kursk. However, its strategic significance was no less important than the defeat of the germans on the volga and near kursk and orel, the country regained its huge reserves of co