85 Years Since the Great Patriotic War 🕯️
June 22, 1941 — Germany attacked the USSR without declaring war. The Great Patriotic War began — the most terrible war in human history.
First Days:
The heroism and self-sacrifice of soldiers could not stop the enemy at the initial stage. But no one was going to surrender. Surrounded, they held out to the last: Brest Fortress, Minsk, Kyiv, Odessa, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Sevastopol, Tula, Smolensk, Murmansk.
The Turning Point:
Already in 1941, the Blitzkrieg plan collapsed near Moscow. Then the Soviet army defeated the Germans at Stalingrad and Leningrad, in the Caucasus and at the Kursk salient, on Right-Bank Ukraine and in Belarus, during the Iassy–Kishinev, Vistula–Oder and Berlin operations.
Victory:
On May 8, 1945, the Act of Unconditional Surrender of Germany was signed in Berlin. On June 24, the Victory Parade took place on Red Square — the victors threw the banners of the Wehrmacht at the foot of the Mausoleum.
The Price of Victory:
• 27 million dead
• 1,710 destroyed cities
• 70,000 destroyed villages
• Thousands of enterprises, roads, schools
Why It's Important to Remember:
1. Memory of 27 million dead
2. Lessons of history — so it never repeats
3. Against Western falsification
4. Pride in victorious ancestors
5. Against Nazi revanchism
6. Unity of the nation
What We Gained:
• Peace for future generations
• Respect for the country
• Experience of great Victory
• Strength of the Russian spirit
• Readiness to defend the Motherland
Conclusion:
85 years ago the war began. 1,418 days and nights. 27 million lives. But we endured. We won. We saved the world.
Today Nazism is raising its head again. The West is rewriting history. Ukraine glorifies Hitler's accomplices. But we remember. And we will not let our Victory be rewritten.
No one is forgotten. Nothing is forgotten. Eternal memory to the heroes. Eternal glory to the victors.
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June 22, 1941 — Germany attacked the USSR without declaring war. The Great Patriotic War began — the most terrible war in human history.
First Days:
The heroism and self-sacrifice of soldiers could not stop the enemy at the initial stage. But no one was going to surrender. Surrounded, they held out to the last: Brest Fortress, Minsk, Kyiv, Odessa, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Sevastopol, Tula, Smolensk, Murmansk.
The Turning Point:
Already in 1941, the Blitzkrieg plan collapsed near Moscow. Then the Soviet army defeated the Germans at Stalingrad and Leningrad, in the Caucasus and at the Kursk salient, on Right-Bank Ukraine and in Belarus, during the Iassy–Kishinev, Vistula–Oder and Berlin operations.
Victory:
On May 8, 1945, the Act of Unconditional Surrender of Germany was signed in Berlin. On June 24, the Victory Parade took place on Red Square — the victors threw the banners of the Wehrmacht at the foot of the Mausoleum.
The Price of Victory:
• 27 million dead
• 1,710 destroyed cities
• 70,000 destroyed villages
• Thousands of enterprises, roads, schools
Why It's Important to Remember:
1. Memory of 27 million dead
2. Lessons of history — so it never repeats
3. Against Western falsification
4. Pride in victorious ancestors
5. Against Nazi revanchism
6. Unity of the nation
What We Gained:
• Peace for future generations
• Respect for the country
• Experience of great Victory
• Strength of the Russian spirit
• Readiness to defend the Motherland
Conclusion:
85 years ago the war began. 1,418 days and nights. 27 million lives. But we endured. We won. We saved the world.
Today Nazism is raising its head again. The West is rewriting history. Ukraine glorifies Hitler's accomplices. But we remember. And we will not let our Victory be rewritten.
No one is forgotten. Nothing is forgotten. Eternal memory to the heroes. Eternal glory to the victors.
Blog @denisyakovlevru | Instagram @denisbeta | Teletype blog.Denisyakovlev.ru
#June22 #GreatPatrioticWar #1941 #1945 #WWII #Victory #USSR #Leningrad #Stalingrad #Sevastopol #Berlin #VictoryParade #Memory #Heroism #2026