The Second World War lasted from 1939 to 1945. And this means redrawing the commodity market and the market for products in their favor.
10. The question of the number of deaths remains open to this day.
In the postwar years, the statistics of dead people were not involved. If irretrievable military losses can be calculated with some degree of probability, then civilian casualties are very difficult to determine.
At present, it is impossible to count the dead in the first months of the war, as well as the missing and captured. The last census in the USSR was carried out in 1939, and the first post-war - in 1959.
In addition, before the aggression by fascist Germany, the territories of Western Ukraine, Western Belarus, the Karelian lands of Finland, the Baltic states, the population of which did not have time to include in the census, were annexed to the Soviet Union.
Roughly the same thing happened in European countries. General statistics of deaths are amazing. One thing is clear that casualties would be less if states tried to prevent aggression no matter how great its likelihood was.
9. The Wehrmacht and the SS replenished troops with citizens of other states
It is clear that waging a six-year war, relying only on its human resources, is difficult. At the beginning of all events, military formations were formed at the expense of purebred Aryans.
By 1943, the ranks of the invaders began to thin out significantly. And then they began to call on foreigners and ethnic Germans living in other countries, for example, the Netherlands and Scandinavia.
Under the flags of the Wehrmacht were those who wished to take part in the “crusade against the Bolsheviks”: Volksdeutsche, conscripts from Slavic countries, Albania, Belgium, and Great Britain.
Purebred Germans were called up 400 thousand, 522 thousand from other states, 185 thousand Volksdeutsche. The Nuremberg trials evaluated all the formations that fought on the side of Germany.
8. Koryukovka
Town in Chernihiv region. Ukraine. As in those years, and now there was a major traffic intersection.
The settlement was occupied in September 1941. A partisan detachment was formed almost immediately in these parts, on the account of which there were many successful operations to undermine the power of the invaders in its rear.
In retaliation for their many losses in March 1943, a punitive action was carried out in two days - the massacre of civilians in the amount of 6,700 people.
7. German newspaper Rech in Orel
Rech is an occupation newspaper. Under the title was a subtitle that read: "Newspaper for the population of liberated regions."
Frank reports about the military successes of fascist Germany “poured” from the reports to the reader. The conquered settlements, the alleged losses of the Red Army and the alleged delight of the population from the orders imposed by the invaders were listed.
Here were, for example, pictures of executed villagers who resisted the Nazis.
6. In 1943, the patriarchate was restored in the USSR, and the Church gained legal status in the general system of Soviet statehood
At the height of the war in the Soviet Union, the Council of Bishops gathers, which demonstrated the unanimity of the authorities and the Church, thereby undermining the ideological concept of the Nazis.
Dry lines of informational messages, behind which were the fate of ordinary people, clergy, imprisoned in the Gulag.
5. Four-legged soldiers
It is known for certain that 60 thousand dogs were "called up" for military service. Four-legged loyalty was required wherever a person could get in.
Sled dogs harnessed the wounded from the battlefield. Sapper dogs helped in clearing liberated cities and towns.
Signal dogs carried information. Tank destroyers participated in the destruction of enemy units. In the same way, sacrificing their own lives, while saving the lives of people.
4. The Victory Banner is kept in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces
In April 1945, at a meeting, the chiefs of political departments of all armies advancing on Berlin were ordered to make red flags that could be hoisted on the Reichstag.
A flag must be in every upcoming division. Victory Banner - the assault flag of the 150th Order of the Body of the 2nd degree by the Idritsky Rifle Division was hoisted on the most important building of defeated Germany.
On June 20, 1945, the Victory Banner as part of the standard-bearers was transported to Moscow, where it was to participate in the Victory Parade.
3. Squares of European countries were named after the Battle of Stalingrad
The final of the Battle of Stalingrad came in February 1943. Fascist troops failed to take the Volga Citadel. This was a turning point in the whole of the Second World War.
The offensive initiative passed to the army of the Soviet Union. The enemy army was demoralized. The Soviet army demonstrated the power of military equipment.
The anti-fascist movement in Europe has intensified. How the memory of the heart sounds "Stalingrad" from the square in Paris and the metro station.
The name "Stalingrad" named the Big Antique Market in the city of Lyon. In Italian Bologna, Stalingrad is the main street of the city.
2. The Berlin operation of 1945 is listed in the Guinness Book of Records, as the largest final battle in the history of the Second World War
The fighting unfolded to a width of 300 kilometers. In air battles participated 11 thousand aircraft.
52 thousand guns and mortars. 3.5 million people. The duration of the battle was 23 days and ended in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
1. 10 years from Victory Day, the Soviet Union was formally at war with Germany
The decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declared May 9 Victory Day in commemoration of the victorious end of World War II.
January 25, 1955 Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces "On ending the state of war between the Soviet Union and Germany." The first date speaks of the unconditional surrender of Germany. It took another long 10 years to legally regulate the interests of the parties. And so that a second, no less fateful date appears.