CRIMEA. RUSSIAN SEA. Part 8

Video: CRIMEA. RUSSIAN SEA. Part 8

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This series continues the story about the Crimea during the Great Patriotic War. It will be about the organization of the Third Reich, already known to many, called Anenerbe, about what the German leadership was looking for in the expeditions of the Black Sea region.

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The Second World War invaded our lives with the hardest test. War is always a trial, and these trials, as a rule, are assessed by the number of deaths and material damage. Dry statistics: guns, tanks, hand-to-hand fighting, injuries, death … Two socialist states: Germany and the USSR, which in the 30s demonstrated an example of cooperation and interaction, overnight became mortal enemies. Of course, they were cleverly pushed and there has long been a formed opinion about who did it and how. But against the visible, manifested background of the war, which overshadowed everything with its monstrous activity, there was a hidden, mysterious and practically imperceptible vibration. It was a vibration of the depths of memory, which equally worried the leader of the Wehrmacht and the generalissimo of the country of the Soviets. They were equally eager, like all rulers of all times and peoples, to learn something that would give them a certain magical advantage over others. Did they find what they were looking for? Yes, Stalin won, the people won, but it seems that this search continues to this day.

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