The great Patriotic war [Theme]
- Nevertheless, it was so. Such a plan existed for Hitler; Hess was actually its author. More precisely, Rudolf Hess was a co-author of this plan. I mean, the main author is Hitler. Hess decided to fly to England, meet with Churchill there and agree on everything personally. He hoped to arrange a meeting between the British Prime Minister and the Reich Chancellor.
With the enemy.
And there is no death either.
No one was able to perceive calls for peace. The fire of war flared up, fuel was regularly thrown into it.
The war didn't start right away.
- Shoot! You will see how the Russian Major Maksimov dies! Shoot, German whore!
No one then imagined that the vanquished would live better than the victors...
The little boy is drawing. He is 3 years old, so the drawing is a lot of scrawl and curls along the edges, and in the center there is a small oval. "What did you draw?" - asks his teacher. “This is a war, that's all. And in the middle is a white bun. I don’t know anything else, ”the kid answers. The drawing is dated May 23, 1942.
Holy war!
Quote Explanation: Two days after the start of the war, on June 24, 1941, simultaneously in the newspapers Izvestia and Krasnaya Zvezda, the text of the song "Holy War" was published signed by the famous Soviet poet and Stalinist laureate V. I. Lebedev-Kumach. On June 26, 1941, at the Belorussky railway station, one of the groups of the Red Banner Ensemble of the Red Army Song and Dance of the USSR that had not yet left for the front performed this song for the first time.
In the 70s, director Carmen invited me to voice the 20-episode documentary film "The Great Patriotic War", where for the first time the true figures of our terrible losses were heard. I remember a close-up of people of different ages who went to the front from besieged Leningrad, and the words: “Look at these faces. Remember them. None of these people will come back alive…” I started voicing and… couldn’t hold back my tears. I had to stop. Only after a week I learned to cope with a lump in my throat and rising tears.
In the States, everything was not the same as in Europe, where the missing third dimension was replaced by the struggle against bureaucracy, against the authorities and gendarmes, the struggle for temporary visas, for work, the struggle against customs officers and police - in short, the struggle to survive! And here we were met by silence, dead calm! Only screaming newspaper headlines and radio bulletins reminded of the war raging far overseas; America knew only war on the air: not a single enemy plane plowed the American skies, not a single bomb fell on American soil, not a single machine gun fired at American cities.
A. E. Golovanov's book is undoubtedly included in the golden fund of Russian military memoiristics.
Quote Explanation: In his memoirs, Air Chief Marshal A. E. Golovanov, giving examples of the heroism of pilots in those days, modestly keeps silent about the fact that he personally led groups of his 212th Separate Long-Range Bomber Regiment into battle. His crews were killed, but did everything to at least slow down the rapid advance in the Moscow direction of Guderian's tank columns. The aces of the best German fighter squadron of Werner Mölders raged in the sky. This was the very inferno of the catastrophe of the Western Front...
We will never forget that this people paid with the lives of twenty-seven million people to free us from fascism.
Quote Explanation: In the program on German TV - "Alphonse and Guests". (09/29/2017).
And then the war years worked: a weak, half-starved, and even in the fifth grade, when we have a wounded Pe-2 plane in Khvoinoy, he came in for landing, cut the tops of three pine trees near the railway bridge, crashed into the house where the Zagotzerno office was located. 11 people were killed. They are buried in our cemetery in a mass grave. I then ran away from the lesson to Zagotzern, saw all this terrible tragedy and vowed: I will be a pilot.
To your last Stalingrad.
