Who needed to distort the Soviet merits of the Second World War? (Part 2)

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Europe celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings. The celebration brought together the President of France, the Queen of England, the President of the United States and the leaders of other countries participating in the Normandy operation: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Poland, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Greece, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Germany was also invited, represented by Angela Merkel. For the first time in the past 15 years, Russia was defiantly not invited to this event.

Part 1

Formally, they can say that Russian soldiers did not land on the beaches of Normandy. But everyone knows perfectly well that the landing in Normandy could take place only because the Russian soldier stood to death, fighting alone for three years with the German military machine. If it were not for our victories in the battle of Moscow, in Stalingrad, on the Kursk Bulge, the Allies in 1944 would not even think about landing on the continent. And when Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov accepted the surrender of Germany in Karlhorst, no one in the world doubted that our country made the greatest contribution to the victory over the Third Reich.

If the Russian soldier had not raised the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag in the defeated Berlin, then Poland would have remained one of the provinces of the Third Reich, the Czech Republic remained a protectorate of "Bohemia and Moravia" within Germany. Well, all other European countries, which today gathered to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Operation Overlord, would dutifully integrate into Hitler's "new order" without even thinking to resist. Let us recall how all the countries of the future European Union at the beginning of the nineteenth century obediently obeyed Napoleon. By the way, the Russians also liberated Europe from Napoleon.

Today Europe has found a new master. And the new overseas master once again unites the collective West for the war with Russia. And the war is already going on in the information sphere, in the economic (sanctions), in hot spots - in Syria, in Ukraine. After all, we understand very well who and for what purpose created ISIS (an organization banned in Russia), who is transferring terrorists who have not been killed in Syria to the borders of Central Asia. We know who organized the Maidan in Kiev, brought neo-Nazis to power in Ukraine, ignited the fratricidal war in Donbass and constantly pours kerosene into the flames of this conflict. We see how NATO troops are gradually being drawn to our borders. And we are aware that this confrontation at any moment can develop into the Third World War if our "sworn friends" decide that they have a chance of winning a full-scale war with Russia.

Therefore, it is not surprising that German Chancellor Merkel was invited to the celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the landing in Normandy, but the Russian president was not invited.

In the Western media, the degree of hatred towards Russia is higher today than in the last century at the height of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and NATO countries. Is it now appropriate to remind your peoples of the contribution of our country to the victory over Nazism?

The West methodically instills that Russia is an aggressor country, the main enemy of the entire "civilized world." The Russians are ready to attack the peaceful Baltic states from day to day, and then they will move their armadas to conquer other democratic European countries. And at the head of this country is the omnipotent dictator Putin, who dreams of restoring the totalitarian Soviet empire, the country of Gulags and the KGB (KGB) combination of letters, which is still terrible for the Western ear. Europe instills in its people that Putin produced the "Anschluss" of Crimea, attacked Ukraine, which is building democracy, and threatens the world with nuclear weapons. Well what can I say, just a new incarnation of "Uncle Joe" - the terrible Stalin. And in the West they have been saying for a long time that Stalin is equal to Hitler and the USSR unleashed the Second World War together with Germany. But Germany repented, paid reparations, and Russia does not want to admit her guilt and ask for forgiveness from Europe.

Well, how do you invite the head of such a barbaric country to a family holiday of "civilized democratic countries"?

Yes, Hitler stumbled, he was wrong. He would only have to fight Bolshevik Russia, but he started a war with Western democracies. But Germany and all the allies of the Third Reich are their own, civilized Europeans. And Russia is an incorrigibly "totalitarian and aggressive country" headed by tyrants-tsars, then Stalin, then gloomy general secretaries, and today Putin in general. Russia is an "eternal threat" to the civilized world.

In order to defeat Germany, Western democracies had to go to a forced alliance with this barbaric country. But at the solemn holiday in honor of the landing in Normandy, these Russians should not be. Everyone should know that the USA, Great Britain and France won the Second World War.

WHY "SECOND FRONT" OUR SOLDIERS CALLED STEW

The Normandy landing was indeed well prepared. Operation Overlord is the largest landing operation in history. We give it its due.

But our fathers and grandfathers were waiting for the opening of the second front both in 1941, which was terrible for us, and in the most difficult 1942, when the enemy reached the Volga, and in 1943.

Our soldiers at that time ironically called the American stew "the second front". Stalin persuaded Churchill and Roosevelt that a second front should be opened not in secondary theaters of operations, in North Africa or Sicily in 1943, but in Europe. This will force Germany and her allies to disperse their forces, seriously weaken the enemy and lead to an early victory in the war. But the Anglo-Saxons, according to their centuries-old tradition, wanted to fight with someone else's hands. The more the Russians kill the Germans, and the Germans kill the Russians, the easier it will be after the end of the war to deal with the reconstruction of the world. The interests of the British Empire and the United States are above all.

And the landing in Normandy was carried out only after it became obvious to our allies in the anti-Hitler coalition that the military machine of the Third Reich suffered irreparable damage in Stalingrad, on the Kursk Bulge. And in 1944, as a result of brilliant strategic operations, by that time the blockade of Leningrad was lifted, the Dnieper was forced, during the Korsun-Shevchenko operation, army groups "South" and "A" were defeated, all right-bank Ukraine, Moldova was liberated, as a result of Odessa and Crimean operations liberated Odessa, Sevastopol, the whole Crimea.

After the conference in December 1943 in Tehran, where not only the strategy of fighting Germany was discussed, but also the post-war order of the world was agreed upon, Churchill and Roosevelt realized that a radical change had taken place in the war. And the USSR, even without a second front, will bring the war to a victorious end. The victories of the Red Army in 1944 convinced Churchill and Roosevelt even more that the stubborn Russians would certainly defeat the Third Reich. But then who will deal with the post-war organization in Europe liberated from the Nazis?

We do not in any way belittle the courage of the British, American, Canadian soldiers who took part in the landing and fighting in Normandy 75 years ago. Eternal memory to all those who died in the battles against Nazism. But it is impossible to believe that the landing in Normandy is the largest victory over Nazi Germany. At almost the same time, the Red Army conducted two major strategic offensive operations on the Soviet-German front.

As early as June 10, 1944the summer offensive on the Soviet-German front began with the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk strategic operation in Karelia, which did not allow the Wehrmacht to transfer at least some reserves to the west. And on June 22, 1944, on the anniversary of Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, Operation Bagration, one of the largest operations of the Second World War, began in the main western direction, after which the war rapidly rolled westward, to Berlin “to the den of the fascist beast”.

"NOW GERMANY WAS UNSTANDINGLY ROLLING INTO THE MISSING …"

In June 1944, in Belarus, Soviet troops were opposed by powerful formations of Army Group North, Army Group Center - a total of 63 divisions and 3 brigades. They had 1, 2 million people, over 9, 5 thousand guns and mortars, 900 tanks and assault guns, about 1350 aircraft. German troops occupied a pre-prepared, echeloned (up to 250-270 km deep) defense. And the generals and soldiers of the Wehrmacht knew how to prepare fortifications and skillfully defend themselves.

We concentrated in Belarus a powerful grouping of troops, which numbered over 1.4 million people, 31 thousand guns and mortars, 5, 2 thousand tanks and self-propelled guns, more than 5 thousand aircraft. The future famous commander Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, generals Chernyakhovsky, Baghramyan, Zakharov commanded the Soviet troops. The coordination of the actions of the fronts was carried out by representatives of the Headquarters - Marshals G. K. Zhukov and A. M. Vasilevsky. The operation was so perfectly prepared and thought out that the Germans were unable to reveal the concentration of our troops, and the Soviet offensive came as a complete surprise to them. Hitler and his headquarters were firmly convinced that our offensive would begin in Ukraine, where there was room for the action of Russian tank armies.

But exactly 3 years after the start of the war, on June 22, 1944, thousands of Soviet guns fired the first salvoes of Operation Bagration. In the same places where in 1941 German tank wedges were tearing our defenses, Soviet troops moved forward. And already the German units tried to break out of the "boilers" near Vitebsk and Bobruisk. Above the crossings clogged by the retreating German troops, which were ironed by the Junkers exactly four years ago, the formidable Ilys were incessantly attacking flight by flight. Soon the roads of Belarus were clogged with columns of destroyed and burned German equipment. And the fleeing Germans had nowhere to hide from the attacks of Russian attack aircraft. And the Soviet tank armies were rushing forward uncontrollably. The impetuous "thirty-fours" smashed the German rear, headquarters, closed the pincers, preventing the German troops from breaking out to the West. In 1944, we paid the Germans in full for the tragedy of the summer of 1941. The only difference was that it was not the peacetime army, which was the Red Army in the 41st, but the German army, which had been fighting since the 39th year and thoroughly prepared for the defense, that was subjected to a surprise attack. German troops were stationed in the defense lines, which had been seriously fortified for many months. Vitebsk, Minsk, Bobruisk were turned into powerful fortified areas and were called fortress cities. The lines of defense stretched for 250-270 km. The terrain contributed to the prepared defense: swamps, rivers, natural barriers. And the Germans knew how to defend themselves firmly and skillfully. But the onslaught of the Soviet troops was unstoppable. It was a real Russian "blitzkrieg". The direction of the main strikes, the most powerful air and artillery barrage, after which the armored fists with concentrated strikes skillfully broke through the enemy's defenses was perfectly chosen. And the impetuous unstoppable breakthroughs forward of the guards tank armies and corps, the destruction of the encircled enemy groupings.

As a result of Operation Bagration, during an offensive on a front of 1000 km, Soviet troops completely defeated and destroyed in the Vitebsk and Bobruisk "cauldrons" the grouping of the German armies "Center". The powerful group of German troops was defeated in less than two weeks. Already on July 3, the city of Minsk was liberated, to the east of which there were over 100 thousand German soldiers and officers in the encirclement ring. Army Group Center lost 25 divisions and lost 300,000 men. In the next few weeks, another 100 thousand troops were added to them. In the center of the Soviet-German front, a huge gap with a length of up to 400 km was formed, which the enemy was unable to close in a short time. By the end of August, out of 97 enemy divisions and 13 brigades that participated in the battles, 17 divisions and 3 brigades were completely destroyed, and 50 divisions lost more than half of their strength. Soviet troops were given the opportunity to dash to the western borders of the USSR. As a result of Operation Bagration, the Byelorussian SSR, most of the Lithuanian SSR and a significant part of Poland were liberated. Soviet troops crossed the Neman River, and reached the Vistula River and directly to the borders of Germany - East Prussia.

At that time, no one in the West tried to diminish the role of the Red Army in the fight against Nazi Germany. Of course, in Great Britain and the United States they were more worried about the fate of their soldiers, but they were also happy to receive the news of Russian victories, and paid tribute to the courage of our soldiers and the art of Soviet commanders. Everyone understood that these victories were bringing closer the end of the terrible war.

“The German front in Byelorussia has disintegrated in a way that we have not yet observed during this war,” wrote the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, the English newspaper in those days. “Never before has the tactics of concentrated strikes … been applied with such skill,” emphasized the same newspaper on June 26, 1944, “with which the Red Army used it, which cut the German front with strikes.”

Subsequently evaluating the results of the summer and autumn offensive of Soviet troops in 1944, the former fascist general Siegfried Westphal wrote: "During the summer and autumn of 1944, the German army suffered the greatest defeat in its history, surpassing even Stalingrad … Now Germany is uncontrollably sliding into the abyss."

F. ROOSEVELT: "THE RAPIDITY OF THE OFFENSIVE OF YOUR ARMIES IS AMAZING"

The defeat of the German troops in Operation Bagration immediately affected the situation on the Western Front. The German command, in order to somehow rectify the situation on the Eastern Front, was forced to continuously send reinforcements there. According to German documents, in June, when Operation Bagration began, the Eastern Front was reinforced with three divisions, and not a single German division was withdrawn from it for transfer to the west. In July - August, 15 more divisions and 4 brigades of the Wehrmacht arrived here. But the advance of the Soviet troops could not be stopped.

Commander of the Allied Forces Dwight Eisenhower wrote to the US Ambassador to the USSR A. Harriman that he was watching the advance of the Red Army with a map in his hands and was "immensely delighted with the speed with which it grinds the enemy's combat power." Eisenhower asked the ambassador to express "my deepest admiration and respect to Marshall Stalin and his commanders." Eisenhower's admiration for the successes of the Red Army was so obvious that he was advised in the future to more restrainedly express his enthusiasm for the actions of the Russians.

But other generals of the allied forces were delighted with the successes of the Red Army no less than their commander-in-chief. General F. Anderson, Deputy Chief of Operations Directorate of the Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, wrote in private correspondence: "The magnificent offensive of the Russian armies continues to amaze the whole world."

And then he compares the actions of the Russians with the actions of the Allies in Normandy: “But on our front there is stagnation along the entire line. Even with complete air superiority, we continue to move very slowly."

At the end of August, at Hitler's headquarters, it was decided to withdraw its troops from France to the western borders of Germany, to the "Siegfried Line". The commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht troops in the West in July 1944, Field Marshal G. Kluge, wrote that it was "an inevitable consequence of the desperate situation in the East." The famous Heinz Guderian also understood this, who wrote that at the time when the Allies were deploying their forces in Normandy, "events unfolded on the Eastern Front that directly approached a monstrous catastrophe."

Unlike today's European politicians, Churchill and Roosevelt understood perfectly well how the defeat of the German troops in the east contributed to the Allied offensive in Normandy. "The swiftness of the offensive of your armies is amazing," Franklin Roosevelt wrote on July 21, 1944, to Joseph Stalin. Winston Churchill, in a telegram to the head of the Soviet government on July 24, called the battle in Belarus "victories of great importance." After all, they knew very well that in July, at the height of the battle for Belarus and the battles for Normandy, 228 divisions and 23 brigades fought against the Soviet Army, and at the same time about 30 Wehrmacht divisions were opposed to the Allies in France.

It should be borne in mind that many German divisions, which were supposed to defend the so-called fortifications on the French coast. "Atlantic Wall" had a rather low combat effectiveness. Most of the units were only 60-70 percent complete, insufficiently trained and armed. In many units, those who were of limited fitness for military service, suffering from myopia and flat feet, served.

For example, the 70th Infantry Division consisted exclusively of patients with gastritis, ulcers, and therefore in the Wehrmacht they called it "the division of white bread", since the soldiers had to sit on a strict diet. But there were also quite battle-worthy divisions. The same thing that happened when, taking advantage of the lull on the Eastern Front, the Germans managed to transfer SS tank divisions to the west and concentrate a fairly strong grouping of troops, although several times inferior to the Allies in armored vehicles and especially in aviation, is evidenced by the success of the German offensive in the Ardennes. And although this was a clear gamble, our allies were able to see from their own experience what it means to fight the Wehrmacht with which the Russians fought all three years on a front of up to 6,000 km.

"WATCH ON THE RHINE" AND THE VISLO-ODERSKAYA OPERATION

By the winter of 1944-1945. Soviet troops, after many months of continuous offensive, when they had to break the resistance of the German troops in fierce battles, stopped on the banks of the Vistula. Immediately, they were captured and held, despite the stubborn counterattacks of the enemy Magnushevsky, Pulawsky and Sandomirsky bridgeheads. But it was necessary to pull up the rear, replenish the troops with manpower and equipment, thoroughly prepare for a new strategic operation - a throw to the Oder and further to Berlin.

Taking advantage of the temporary lull on the Eastern Front, Hitler decided with one blow to change the course of the war. Germany lost vast territories, the lack of raw materials and resources, especially fuel, affected - oil-bearing regions were lost, the best troops were defeated and ground on the Eastern Front. The Millennium Reich was on the verge of collapse. And the Fuehrer of the German command was given the task of crushing the Anglo-American troops with a decisive offensive. And if it is not possible to throw them into the sea, then, inflicting a serious defeat, force them to conclude a separate peace, splitting the anti-Hitler coalition.

The Germans managed to concentrate a rather powerful fist on the Western Front, in which the main striking force was the 6th SS Panzer Army of SS Obergruppenfuehrer Dietrich, the 5th Panzer Army of General Manteuffel and the 7th Army of General Brandenberger. The group had about 900 tanks and 800 air support aircraft. The operation was named "Watch on the Rhine". Anglo-American troops by that time reached the approaches to the Rhine. The last German offensive began on December 19, 1944. The Germans acted in the best traditions of their military art, demonstrating skill and fighting qualities thanks to which the troops of the Third Reich conquered all of Europe in the shortest possible time, and then managed to reach Moscow, the Volga and the Caucasus. The main blow was struck through the positions of the group of forces of the American General Omar Bradley at the junction of the American and Anglo-Canadian armies in the direction of Antwerp. Manteuffel's 11th Panzer Division had almost reached the coast of the Channel. A new Dunkirk situation was created for the allies.

Anglo-American troops retreated in panic. Here is a picture described by the American journalist Ralph Ingersoll, a participant and witness of hostilities in Europe: “German troops broke through our defense line on a 50-mile front and poured into this breach like water into an exploded dam. And from them on all the roads leading to the west, the Americans fled at breakneck speed. Compounding the panic in the rear of the allies, the sabotage groups of Oto Skorzeny acted. American and British tankers could not stand tank duels with seasoned tankers from SS divisions. German troops experienced a serious shortage of fuel for military equipment, but the Germans were approaching a huge fuel depot near Stavlo, where more than 11 million liters of gasoline were stored. Replenishment of the tank divisions of the Wehrmacht with fuel could dramatically increase their combat effectiveness and the speed of their advance.

We can say that in December 1944 our allies had to experience and endure what the soldiers of the Red Army endured in 1941, when faced with the tactics of the German "blitzkrieg".

And on January 6, 1945, Churchill sent the following message to Joseph Stalin:

“There is very heavy fighting in the West, and big decisions may be required from the High Command at any time. You yourself know from your own experience how alarming the situation is when you have to defend a very broad front after a temporary loss of initiative. It is very desirable and necessary for General Eisenhower to know in general terms what you intend to do, since this, of course, will affect all his and our most important decisions … I will be grateful if you can tell me if we can count on a major Russian offensive in the Vistula area or elsewhere during January and at any other time you may wish to mention … I consider this to be urgent."

Stalin, on the very next day, January 7, 1945, answered as follows:

“It is very important to use our superiority against the Germans in artillery and aviation. In these types, clear weather is required for aviation and the absence of low fogs that prevent artillery from conducting aimed fire. We are preparing for an offensive, but the weather is not favorable for our offensive now. However, given the position of our allies on the Western Front, the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command decided to complete preparations at an increased pace and, regardless of the weather, open wide offensive operations against the Germans along the entire central front no later than the second half of January. You can rest assured that we will do everything that is possible to do in order to assist our glorious allied forces."

Russians keep their word. On January 12, 1945, the Vistula-Oder operation began. And on the same day, the Germans were forced to stop the offensive in the west and transfer to the east the main strike forces of the German offensive in the Ardennes, the 5th and 6th tank armies. The 6th SS Panzer Army will soon try to stop the Soviet offensive in Hungary near Lake Balaton with a counterattack, but it will be defeated. Russian soldiers knew how to burn "tigers" and "panthers" well, to tame these predatory "cats".

Later, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army, General of the Army Antonov, reporting on February 4, 1945.at the Yalta conference on the course of the Soviet offensive, he said: “Due to unfavorable weather conditions, it was supposed to start this operation at the end of January, when the weather was expected to improve. Since this operation was viewed and prepared as an operation with decisive goals, we wanted to carry it out in more favorable conditions. However, in view of the alarming situation created in connection with the German offensive in the Ardennes, the High Command of the Soviet troops gave the order to start the offensive no later than mid-January, without expecting an improvement in the weather."

Despite this, the Vistula-Oder operation was carried out no less brilliantly than the Bagration and Lvov-Sandomierz operations, demonstrating the highest military skill of Soviet commanders, the combat skill and courage of Soviet soldiers and officers.

And already on January 15, 1945, Stalin wrote to Roosevelt: “After four days of offensive operations on the Soviet-German front, I now have the opportunity to inform you that, despite the unfavorable weather, the Soviet offensive is developing satisfactorily. The entire central front, from the Carpathians to the Baltic Sea, is moving westward. Although the Germans resist desperately, they are still forced to retreat. I have no doubt that the Germans will have to scatter their reserves between the two fronts, as a result of which they will be forced to abandon the offensive on the Western Front …

As for the Soviet troops, you can rest assured that, in spite of the existing difficulties, they will do everything possible to ensure that the blow they have undertaken against the Germans is as effective as possible."

At the Crimean Conference in February 1945, Churchill expressed "deep gratitude and admiration for the power that was demonstrated by the Red Army in its offensive."

Stalin replied that "the winter offensive of the Red Army, for which Churchill expressed gratitude, was the fulfillment of a comradely duty." But he still noted that "according to the decisions taken at the Tehran conference, the Soviet government was not obliged to undertake a winter offensive."

Knowing the balance of forces on the Western Front, one can call the "Watch on the Rhine" an adventure of Hitler, who anticipated the impending collapse of the Third Reich. It is all the more surprising that on January 4, 1945, the commander of the 3rd American Army, General George Patton, wrote in his diary: "We can still lose this war." Was the American general so impressed by the fighting qualities of the select units of the Wehrmacht, which he had to face?

Of course, the offensive in the Ardennes could not end with the complete success of the German troops, the advantage of the Allies was too great, and above all in aviation. Imagine: 8,000 combat aircraft were at the disposal of the command of the Anglo-American troops on a fairly short front. After the weather improved, the Allied aviation began to bomb the communications and troops, the Command of the Anglo-American forces pulled up reserves. But still, the main reason was that from the very beginning of the "Watch on the Rhine" Hitler's generals could not afford to transfer significant forces from the Eastern Front in order to build on the success of the offensive. The memoirs of the generals of the Wehrmacht testify that Hitler's Headquarters understood that the Red Army's offensive was about to begin in the near future. And they knew the power of the blows of the Soviet troops very well and felt that a real catastrophe could break out on the Eastern Front.

THE RUSSIANS BROKEN THE RIDGE OF THE GERMAN MILITARY VEHICLE

Today, the West is shamelessly rewriting the history of World War II. Russia was not invited to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landing. Of course, no one in the West will remember that at this very time on the Eastern Front the Russians were crushing and destroying the elite troops of Germany.

Of course, no one will remember that on June 26, 1944, the American newspaper Journal, assessing the beginning of Operation Bagration, wrote about the actions of Soviet troops in Belarus: “They helped as if they themselves had stormed the fortifications on the French coast, for Russia launched a major offensive that forced the Germans to keep millions of their troops on the Eastern Front, which could otherwise easily resist the Americans in France."

It would be nice if the wife of President Macron at that distant time, when she was his school teacher, introduced the future head of France to the words of Charles de Gaulle about the role of Russia in World War II. After all, none of the French presidents did more than de Gaulle to return France to the category of great powers after the infamous defeat in 1940. Perhaps at that time the French ignoramus would have thought about the events of the Second World War.

On May 12, 1945, the chairman of the provisional government of the French Republic, General de Gaulle, sent the following message to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR Stalin: “At the moment when the long European war ends with a common victory, I ask you, Mr. Marshal, to convey to your people and your army the feelings of admiration and France's deep love for her heroic and powerful ally. You created from the USSR one of the main elements of the struggle against the oppressor powers, it was thanks to this that victory could be won. Great Russia and you personally have earned the gratitude of the whole of Europe, which can live and prosper only by being free."

In the summer of 1966, during his visit to Moscow, Charles de Gaulle recalled "the greatest role of the Soviet Union in the decisive victory in World War II."

We know that the "last great Frenchman" General Charles de Gaulle was a sincere and loyal friend of Russia. It is no coincidence that in 1941 De Gaulle, having learned about the German attack on the Soviet Union, confidently said that now the Third Reich would come to an end: "No one has ever defeated Russia."

But let us listen to the words of a consistent enemy of our country, whom no one would suspect of sympathy for Russia. Here is what Sir Winston Churchill wrote: “No government would have resisted such terrible cruel wounds that Hitler inflicted on Russia. But the Soviets not only withstood and recovered from these wounds, but also struck the German army with a blow of such power that no other army in the world could have inflicted on it."

Those who claim that the Soviet commanders did not know how to fight, and that they allegedly "overwhelmed the enemy with the corpses of soldiers," would be good to hear the Prime Minister of Great Britain:

“The monstrous machine of the fascist power was broken by the superiority of the Russian maneuver, Russian valor, Soviet military science and the excellent leadership of Soviet generals … Besides the Soviet armies, there was no force that could break the back of the Hitlerite military machine … It was the Russian army that let go of the guts from the German military machine.

Of course, Theresa May, these words, undoubtedly a great English politician, are unknown. But the Queen of England Elizabeth, due to her venerable age, must remember the events of World War II and the role of the Soviet Union in the victory over the Third Reich.

Well, Donald Trump would be good to recall the words of the great US President Franklin Roosevelt: "From the point of view of grand strategy … it is difficult to get away from the obvious fact that the Russian armies are destroying more enemy soldiers and weapons than all the other 25 states of the United Nations combined" (telegram General D. MacArthur, May 6, 1942).

It should be noted that, apparently, Franklin Roosevelt felt sympathy for our country and quite sincerely wrote:

“Under the leadership of Marshal Joseph Stalin, the Russian people have shown such an example of love for the homeland, firmness of spirit and self-sacrifice, which the world has not yet known. After the war, our country will always be happy to maintain good-neighborliness and sincere friendship with Russia, whose people, saving themselves, are helping to save the whole world from the Nazi threat”(July 28, 1943).

While the soldiers of the Second World War, veterans of northern convoys, participants in the battles in Normandy, are still alive in the West, people remember the role of the Soviet Union in the victory over Germany. According to a poll conducted by the newspaper Le Figaro, 82% of the French were outraged that Russia was not invited to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings. Therefore, there is no doubt that the history of World War II in the coming years will be rewritten even more zealously.

But the main thing is that you and I remember the real history, do not forget the feat of our fathers and grandfathers who defeated Nazism. In the next part, we will also talk about our fault that in the West they so brazenly and shamelessly allow themselves to rewrite the history of World War II. And about what needs to be done so that in our country there is no such thing as the "stinkers" who, like devils from incense, writhe from the holiday of the Great Victory and from the "Immortal Regiment".