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Understanding 9/11tv Vstrechi na Elbe 1TV May 8, 2023 12:15pm-1:09pm MSK
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[000:00:00;00] for a minute, vladimir putin congratulated the leaders and citizens of foreign states on the coming anniversary of the great victory, as the kremlin press service reported, telegram from moscow , in particular, were sent to minsk, baku , yerevan, astana, and other capitals, russian leaders emphasized the need to sanctify the traditions of friendship and mutual assistance and urged not to distortion of the historical truth about the great patriotic war. this concludes our episode, the broadcast will continue the documentary film meeting on the elbe. in april 1945, world war ii in europe was approaching by the end of the nazi regime was living its last days, the main military operations were already unfolding in germany , the anglo-american troops. the west entered
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the russian region of bavaria and the caisson. the red army is advancing in the east. it occupied prussia , dying silesia, saxony and surrounded berlin , crushing the remnants of the army of the third reich , the formations of the first ukrainian front were rapidly moving towards the center of germany. marshal ivan konev and the twelfth group of the us army general omar in accordance with the agreements of the leaders of the anti-hitler
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coalition soviet and american troops were to meet at the turn of the elbe river, victor pobeda american troops, with a blow from east and west , settled the rhone of the german wars and on april 25, 13 hours 30 minutes, united in the center of germany near the city of tartau, two armies, american and soviet went. different paths before the long-awaited meeting of the meeting took place. the spirit of such a real alliance is in itself, despite the fact that the fight against nazism nevertheless rallied the two countries to achieve the main goal of ridding the world of this brown plague. well, the goal was achieved. the brotherhood of soldiers on the elbe continued for 10 days,
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there were many meetings and each of them was important in its own way in this film, we will tell you about five meetings. they took place in different cities on different days and even in different years, but all were imbued with the spirit of soldier brotherhood and hope for a long and happy peace. this photograph, taken by a correspondent of the american magazine life, once flew around the front pages of newspapers around the world ; today, not a single publication dedicated to the historic meeting can do without it, soviet and american troops in the photograph are us army junior lieutenant william roberts and guard lieutenant of the red
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army alexander selvashka. they were the first representatives of the allied army to shake hands. the first meeting april 25, 1945 germany neighborhood of the city of torgau, selvashka told the morning of april 25, 1945. released a warm and sunny fragrance. lilacs. the smell of gunpowder and metal was drowned out by complete silence. we, accustomed to the roar of the rudine. she turned out to be some unnatural, and we suddenly felt that the war was ending unexpectedly on the other side. elba. the germans showed up. they were dressed in an unfamiliar uniform, which the silva woman had never seen before. our artillery fired at the enemy. two warning shots, those whom the soviet soldiers mistook for the germans disappeared, but an hour later they appeared again and
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hoisted a flag over the bell tower, similar to a mattress in red and white stripes. , then silvashka. i didn’t know yet that the flag was raised us army junior lieutenant william robert he was very cheerful and very daring a daring man, one of his comrades says, well, roberts is a real cowboy, as it turned out later, robertson was on the banks of the elbe, by chance he was the head of the patrol and, on instructions from the command, traveled around the territory to the west, the hotel would be in search of the germans who wanted to surrender to captured, the germans surrendered willingly. the junior lieutenant sent them with an escort to the location of his unit and drove further and further, deviating from the given route, until he left for elvia and saw soviet soldiers on the other side. robertson recognized them at once by their glittering sun medals, unlike the americans and germans. the russians went into battle without removing their awards.
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they found a sheet a sheet and a broken pharmacy of paint, they didn’t have anything and they didn’t make the flag of the americans, e.g. from potassium permanganate, where with some other drugs the red stripes of the american flag. why are they on the bell tower with this rag, well, the russians didn’t recognize the flag and didn’t make contact then robertson brought from a nearby prisoner of war camp a soviet officer who understood english and went to the bank of the iz river with him memories, silvashka. i saw a man in a robe. prisoner of a concentration camp. he shouted hoarsely, comrades. don't shoot, it's the allies, but the allies met in the middle of the destroyed bridge over the elbe whose explosion-damaged spans curved in the shape of the latin letter v never forget the joyful feeling that
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seized us when we crossed the bridge and met with soviet soldiers. it was an exciting meeting. and we were proud that everyone was there, and the americans and russians were unusually excited, hugged and patted each other on the back. we celebrated this event with either schnapps or cognac, which was russian for each other's health. it was a real holiday at the headquarters of the american 69th in honor of the soviet soldiers , a festive dinner was arranged, which dragged on until the morning. with his unauthorized actions, the junior lieutenant jeopardized
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the agreements that existed between the allies, according to which the red army was not supposed to cross the elbe. and the us army to go beyond the western bank of the tributary. elbes, rivers, cartoons , the rapprochement of troops was supposed to be carried out in an organized manner so as not to provoke an emergency situation in the form of an unauthorized combat clash. he said that the world history of the war, probably, was not such that there were practically no allies, because the troops did not know each other's common operations, they did not identify them. e, no experiments in this regard, e was not lucky, junior lieutenant robertsun did not get under the tribunal stood up for him. the general himself. amar bradread, the commander forgave the negligent officer. after all, in the end , it was thanks to him that the historical meeting. which everyone was waiting for in his memoirs, general bradley complained that the american troops came to the elbe
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12 days earlier than the red army and were bored waiting for the late russians, but at the same time forgot to tell that the americans were walking through germany and almost did not meet resistance, the germans surrendered seven divisions, and the burgomasters hurried to hand over the keys to the cities, our troops broke through to elvia, with heavy fighting. they are such a war, and even the american historians themselves note there, well, kind of. the sport was dangerous, well sport. we have there the battle is not for life on us, general alexei zhadov, commander of the fifth guards army, in his memoirs, responded to bradley's lamentations in the same way as the americans. they waited for us for 12 days, and we had them for 2 1/2 years 2.5 years of the red army , waited for the allies to open a second front in europe, and waited until they actually didn’t need it, it’s no coincidence that even the soldiers have such a simple soldier’s joke when
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they opened american preserves. uh, then they said, well, let's open a second front. she was such a political connotation. that's why not alexander silvashka, not fighters, his platoon did not recognize the americans. after so many years of waiting, the allies began to seem to our soldiers as mythical characters, almost fabulous. the second meeting april 25, 1945, germany , the neighborhood of the city of riza, it is officially considered that the first meeting is 1530 days on april 25, when lieutenant robertson and e, russian lieutenant, selvashka. they met in the torgau area. well, in fact, even yes , this was a meeting between a kazeb lieutenant and a russian. uh, lieutenant headbeard albert tsibu and grigory goloborodko were front-line reconnaissance ends rumble, commanded
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a platoon, and they met a few kilometers from the city of riza in 4 hours. before meeting with robertson's lion, their meeting was not accidental, it was planned and the expected khtsbu and goloborodko were reconnaissance of the location of the allies on the orders of the ukatsvu command in this matter there was also a personal interest. he considered himself a bit russian. uh, this is an old german family that i settled in russia, his ancestors, one of them august, was a very famous playwright. at he had many sons. one of them outflow made several circumnavigations. there, including with a cargo of stern his name on won one of the straits in the region of alaska looking at the soviet soldiers and officers, albert kotsebus thought with enthusiasm that his ancestors served russia as valiantly as these heroic and soviet guys, they
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said, how good, how valiant you are. which germans were beaten. we so wanted to meet you. it was truly sincere memories of american elbe veterans, written very emotionally. but the soviet participants in the meeting talked about it with restraint. it’s even somewhat dry when they hit you on the shoulder, they say hello. here you are. so wonderful we met, maybe such fury and emotions were not here, the degree of this emotion happened, where they performed their military feats. that's where degrees of emotion went off scale by the time of the meeting on the elbe, senior lieutenant. goloborodko fought for 1,400 days at the front. he left the volunteers in the early days. survived and retreated the forty -first year participated in the stalingrad battle, and passing through the country devastated by the nazis, destroyed cities and burned villages
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, the lieutenant reached the elbe. on april 25, katsbuk managed to fight for only 72 days, he didn’t go to a single serious battle, he didn’t even receive a slight wound, and he survived the first shock just on the day of the meeting on the elbe, when the americans crossed over, to the other side, they saw the corpses of german, and civilians , moreover , there were some children after the bombing. and by the way, american aviation itself, most likely, 200 corpses of ordinary civilians, whether it was an artillery shell that flew in, or whether it was the germans who shot it, or whether it was some other tragic accident bomb. aviation hit, but in general, there were a lot of dead as well. people albert only tsibuna always remembered the dead german girl. she was about six or seven years old in one arm. she kept the doll and the other pencil for many years. then, to the cebu, he remembered what
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color that pencil was, maybe blue, like the bright april sky, or green, like spring grass, or brown, like caked blood, russians and americans bared their heads and kotzebue said guys. let's vow right now to fight all our lives so that children do not die. this is such an amazing feeling, it remained in the memory of absolutely everyone, the hope that the world will be long, while we are alive and while we are here now and while we are experiencing this. we hope that the world was at home on the evening of april 25, 1945. reports from two meetings, soviet and military personnel on the elbe, arrived at the white house on downing street and the kremlin on april 27, 1945 1999, the radio stations of the world broadcast an appeal
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of the three leaders of the countries of the anti-hitler coalition, in which the meeting on the elbe was called a landmark event that marked the end of the war in europe in moscow in honor of the meeting on the elbe was given. salute 24 volleys from 324 guns , festive celebrations took place on times square in new york, well, in germany, thousands of soviet and american soldiers and officers fraternized on the banks. elba. between the cities of torgau and rice , communication was free and uncontrolled with the command. although the us department of defense nevertheless , she supplied them with her military instructions at the beginning of the forty-fifth year. they left the pamphlet for american officers first of all. and how to behave in case of a meeting with russian troops. be sure to shake the hand of the russians, but because they love them, this is a sign of hospitality. when, for example, you watch a concert, there are a lot of them , which means there are concert brigades on the russian front. uh, if you like it, you don't
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understand? the language barrier did not prevent the soldiers from telling each other about life and the military way , showing off photos of their wives and children , exchanging gifts. this chervonets is more expensive than a million, for friendship, soldiers cannot be bought for any money, the most popular soviet souvenir was pilot stars, and the most popular american cigarette. some of our soldiers. we saw them for the first time, we lit it from the side of the filter and were surprised that in america they smoke in their mouths, but
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american brandy, like russian vodka , was equally liked by everyone in those days, we were drunk around the clock , american veterans later said, but no, wine from happiness seemed between america and the ussr friendship will be eternal because we are so similar americans they knew what they were talking about, and they subtracted the similarities of our countries into the mentioned instructions issued by the ministry of defense. the soviet union is a huge country, a huge territory. america is also a large country with vast territories. we have blacks in america, there are indians, there are european migrants. they also have the same multinationality, country, we are open. they are also open. we are business. they are also business today when you read. as for the differences between the soldiers of the two countries, there were few americans, it was striking that many
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our fighters were seriously wounded several times during the war, but again, by hook or by crook , they tried to return to the front. us soldiers with injuries of the same severity were glad to have the opportunity to go home with the manifestation of russian judas and the americans also believed that the soviet soldiers went without helmets american soldiers who never took off their helmets constantly asked why you neglect such a reliable means of protection , our helmets answer this , are good on the defensive, and during the offensive it only interferes, therefore the soviet soldiers got rid of them back in poland, even the americans were surprised to a shine, rubbed, belt buckles and this ironed tunic of the soviet military why fight, we're not at the parade, they said, they, in turn, led us to bewilderment, american laxity and lack of
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discipline were curiosities when ours raised toasts to health. roosevelt as ruth april 12, he died, but it's okay, on the contrary. it was like a closeness. mm at the level of an ordinary person meeting, third april 27, 1945, germany werdau village. the meeting on the elbe took place in order of rank, first privates and officers, then the commanders of the corps division in teams. front commander marshal konev entrusted the organization of receptions for senior officers to major general gleb baklanov, commander of the thirty-fourth guards rifle corps, the general turned into a diplomat, as i understand it. he believed that father well, due to his such non-proletarian origin. well, knowledge of languages is very good knowledge of protocol moments. can
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seriously assist in the organizational to questions related to speech, a filming of a gala dinner hosted on april 27, 1945 in honor of the commander of the fifth corps, major general clarensumbler, has been preserved. the dinner table was laid in the garden in the menu of borscht with donuts siberian pelmeni, that's how cognac, german wines, the duties of waitresses were performed by san instructors from the medical battalion. here general cormorants himself is talking with general hoebner. and these are poets, military commander konstantin simonov, there are other journalists at the table , most of them western, to be honest, for the sake of in some cases, these florists behaved somehow like carriages, and then they, uh, hmm, too, probably tried a lot of our vodka at receptions and had to. e them. uh, how to seat in cars in a friendly
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way and, uh, spread out, uh, at home. among the representatives of the western press on the ilba was the famous american photojournalist lee miller, a fashion model , the beloved muse of the artist monray during the war years, miller was a military photojournalist for the fashion magazine vog her report on the meeting on the elbe she called united for victory the first impressions of this meeting described briefly was a lot of shooting in the air. and i learned from the russians a new way to drink vodka in one gulp. she filmed a lot of soviet soldiers and officers and made friends with many of them. most of all , she was struck by the attitude of the soviet, military to the local population. the red army supplied the germans with food and provided medical assistance. soldiers and officers. behave with the germans. emphasized politely and benevolently, looting cruelly yelled,
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but the owner. employed under the wait houses vtorgau even rent was paid with everything otherwise treated by the germans by the americans. they did not understand why they need the winner of the ceremony and help the vanquished, whether the enemies of miller asked our military the same question. why are you russian then throw the germans after all the atrocities that they committed on your land. you should only want one place, and instead you heal and feed them. why did she admit that she herself was burned by a fierce hatred not only for the nazis, but for all germans, including old women and children over 2 weeks before arriving on the elbe on april 11 , 1945, miller, along with units of the us third army, entered the german death camp buchinwald, and after the meeting on april 29
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, 1945. arrived at the dachau camp for a photo report miller left these concentration camps in the vok magazine under the heading germans are like that, when they saw the corpses of the corpses of the gas chamber, there were dead emaciated people. here, their anger there was simply, well, it came to assault and even to the execution of the german guards who guarded these consuls. limiller became an illuminator bout not inhaled lynching committed by american soldiers over five hundred concentration camp guards, she justified the cruelty of the americans, and considered the humanism of the soviet military to be a manifestation of amazing fortitude, which she herself and her compatriots were not capable of. among the many western military correspondents who came to the elbe,
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there were many who combined journalism with espionage and our counterintelligence. this was well known. correspondent of an unknown st. louis newspaper, having escaped from the reception rvanul in her car to the rear of the soviet troops, when she was stopped, she explained her route by saying that her colleagues wanted to write an article about the storming of berlin, every now and then they tried to penetrate into the service areas of our slaves, sort of, as if by mistake between us americans. it's not like that, it's been all the time. it's just that we were allies, but this part is connected with the protection of the military. she, of course, was sustained in the most serious way during the organization. the handles of the opponents that you seem to have spoken to the master are not opponents, but allies while allies. you you are right to talk so hopelessly about the brave
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russian guys. we must not forget that we fought against the nazis together with them , so that you too succeed. aroused extreme sympathy among some americans. i tend to consider. it's the most difficult. the consequences of the war in the spring of 1945 formed a new post-war map of europe on how far the red army would advance in its offensive. which countries will be in the sphere of influence of the ussr and which under the patronage of great britain and the united states. we all know the statement of our leaders allies, in particular churchill, who said that it was bad if all three centers of europe were captured by the russians on april 1 , 1945, british prime minister
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winston churchill sent a telegram to us president frank dellon roosevelt in which he wondered. will the russians, after all their victories , have an exaggerated opinion about their role in the war on our front, because it was defeated, and there were 67 divisions of the enemy troops , while there were only 176 on the front of the western allies. the striking figure clearly shows this, whoever outlines the war with him says, he will create such an impression on the russians, that is, here is the impudence of such a second part. what is called for the anglo-saxon allies? on may 5, 1945, germany, the town of lubuza on may 5, 1945, 30 km from torgao in the town of liguza, a meeting took place between the commander of the first ukrainian front, marshal konev, and the commander of the twelfth
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us army group of forces, general omar bradley, according to the tradition already established on the elbe, they began with the exchange of gifts bradley gave horse car, and horses into your warhorse. i'll try to grow this car a lot, right? look after him. it was really a tsar's gift , this donskoy. in honor of general bradley , a song and dance ensemble of the first ukrainian front performed a concert and performed the us anthem and several popular american songs. the highlight of the program were dance numbers, ukrainian hopak and russian dance bradley liked the show, but after hearing that the members of the ensemble were unprofessional artists, gathered from all over the front. talented amateurs. he laughed and when, after a couple days the horses arrived with a return visit to bradley's insert in the hut. he was in for a surprise
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personal concert of an ordinary american army. it was the famous yasha or joseph , sometimes called the paganini of the 20th century. bradley dressed as a predator in the form of an american soldier, and his son was the accompanist, who was also dressed up. an american soldier question mr. general, and who are these wonderful musicians who have demonstrated brilliant bands? he said they were ordinary american soldiers. but in other matters the commander managed no tricks. and even as konev later wrote, they were like soldiers, honest, an example of such honesty was a conversation about the so-called red lines, in which the american general initiated the soviet marshal into
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some of churchill’s plans, it was decided that american troops should not cross such a kind of red line that went along the border. e between the cities and the katsbad dungeon and the day, and when bradley arrived at the neva headquarters, then, accordingly, they immediately went to the map. bradley mentioned that churchill , e, all sorts of eisenhower, who was the commander of the us troops in europe yes, so that the americans would not pay attention to any red lines, so that they could move further, the horses said that behind churchill's intrigues there is a clear desire to push their foreheads together. and the soviet troops will not leave the americans, the occupied territories of the american army should not move further east, and bradley yes, on a promise not to cross these lines, he fulfilled his promise. it was a very important political moment of this meeting of the spirit. elbe, the union
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between the ussr, great britain and the usa was an alliance against a common enemy and the victory over nazi germany in the near future was to put an end to this union on the shores. elba still raised toasts to peace and friendship, and at the very top, on the personal instructions of churchill and brought us the approval of the new us president harry truman , they were already planning a war with the soviet union against the red army , english american and german troops from among the voluntarily surrendered allies. for 10 divisions of german e, pieces were recruited. here are these captives to equip combat capability. they will be normal. yes they will fight well against the russians, the military operation was called the unthinkable war, which seemed unthinkable to the soldier. elba. it was supposed to start on july 1, 1945, but after the chiefs of staff
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, the operational workers calculated, how many forces does the red army have, how many allies have? so they made the following conclusion in the baltic . we have complete superiority, good fighters , good pilots, but we have more bomber aircraft. but the ground forces are tank troops, and motorized infantry, what is called motorized troops? we have here, unfortunately, the russians are superior to us several times. yes, they are experienced, they are strong. moscow understood that the friendly idyll of the elbe was a cover for the upcoming aggression. confirmation of this can be found in the memoirs of general baklananov. in the days i met the elbe. he received at his headquarters. guest boris tkachev director of the stalingrad tractor plant during the war years, which produced the legendary t-34 tanks. i want to come to the front to get acquainted with the latest samples of german and allied military equipment
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speaks. are you here here there are no tractors to switch to a tractor? he says, for once, you will have to wait in the frame, you will have to deal with modernization there, that is, we understood that , unfortunately, the military-political situation would probably be far from ideal, and we were systematically preparing for this, and already the latter. here are the months of the war met. we lived as allies. as neighbors we part, as friends. do everything so that we can meet with you in the future. like enemies, history does not know the subjunctive mood, but nevertheless less, i'll tell you with the full version. the victory would have remained anyway, but we belonged to the soviet union, because it is impossible to break the spirit of the russian people. it brought on the elbe,
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lilacs of 45 from the salutes of victory over the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki rattled the world's first nuclear mushrooms and after that. president truman approved the secret war plan for totality, and there were other plans. after the united states of america began to possess nuclear weapons , plans to bomb first twenty then fifty largest industrial centers the physicists of the soviet union, with the help of the soviet foreign intelligence, uncovered the plans of the americans and created our soviet nuclear shield. what actually prevented the catastrophe? in march of the forty-sixth year in the american city of fulton, the already former prime minister churchill
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made a speech in which he declared the ussr an enemy of the western world and the spirit of the elbe, as if the scent of graying had melted in the rear in the air new bad things of the cold war era on victory day on new first was a huge honor to fly out before drawing the first bombing of military facilities and government offices in the capital of the fascist reich, the flight is heavy at the highest altitude. pick up the most sensible sure that everyone can endure this for a long time
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that this nightmare was staged by your people. meeting, may 5, 1955. the soviet union moscow on the eve of victory day, veterans of the second world war met at the vnukovo airfield of the capital the arrived american veterans byron schiller shodov polovsky , 10 years ago they met on the elbe and remained true to their combat soldier friendship, having arrived in moscow in may 55 american veterans. made a feat in the late forties years in the united states, anti-communist hysteria reigned people suspected of sympathy for the ussr passed through a commission to investigate anti-american activities
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by a senator map they were persecuted deprived of their jobs expelled from the country harassment was not only the elbe veterans themselves, but also their family members wrote to the organizer of the trip to moscow, joseph pavlovsky denunciations accused him of spying for the ussr. she said that you can offer goodwill in response to the warm welcome that awaits you in the soviet union. i answered openly. i in april 1945 private polovsky. served in the division of albert kazbu 10 years later in moscow he recalled the oath that the american soviet soldiers took on the elbe. it is a pity that then we did not tell the journalists about our oath the naivety of this strip. we wanted to keep it in our souls, but
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we had to shout about it to the whole world, and then i am sure relations between our countries would remain friendly. i have photos of my father with this asshole that he was. uh, apparently very much, as we would now say to a charismatic person, possessed some such special charge of friendliness. the konev family archive contains a letter that polovski wrote to the soviet marshal about this, saying that i want this memory to be preserved so that we remain faithful to this one. joseph polovsky worked all his life as a taxi driver in chicago once a year on april 25, he left his car and went out to the bridge to michigan studies, handed out anti-war leaflets printed with his own money and told passers-by about the meeting on the elbe until then. as long as anyone remembers
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the day when current adversaries were friends hope for the future continues to live polovski, even appealed to the un with a proposal to declare april 25 the day of the elbe. he was the personification of the spirit, the elbe, and, dying, asked to be buried, where he swore an oath that determined his whole life in 1983. according to his will, he was buried in the city of torgals. for several post-war decades of the 20th century , relations between the ussr and the usa remained difficult, periods of tension were replaced by detente, and then a crisis again occurred, but soviet and american veterans. elba. we continued to meet with each other, when there is a détente, more meetings, when there is no détente, well, fewer than anyone else, and these meetings
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- this is a popular one, what is called diplomacy? that's what needs to be supported. by all means, sooner or later, someday there will be a final detente, but the spirit of the elbe will help this. in the year of the 40th anniversary of the meeting on the elbe, it was decided to hold a solemn ceremony with the participation of 20,000 guests, the new soviet leader mikhail gorbachev was already known in the highest political circles, the united states as a pro-western politician. so big the festival was to show the world. revival of the spirit of the elbe. however, at the last moment, a spy scandal broke out, but a sentry was shot dead at a secret military facility in the gdr, who did not have the right. there is an officer of the american military mission, in response to this , us officials decided to boycott
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the ceremony. it was the last one in the 20th century. crisis of the spirit of the elbe. after the collapse of the ussr and the end of the cold war, relations between the us and russia seemed to be finally better. in 1995 on poklonnaya hill in moscow and on at orlington national cemetery near washington, commemorative plaques were erected in honor of the military cooperation between the usa and the ussr during the second world war every year on april 25 , official representatives of russia and the usa laid wreaths here. as time went on, the gilding on the border became dull, the bronze was covered with patina, relations between russia and the united states again entered a period of crisis, as for the current military-political
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leadership of the united states of america, for them the spirit of elvia is an unpleasant concept. uh, they run away from it, because it is for them, uh, reminder. uh, that's about the period when the role of the soviet union, it was recognized as a leading role in numbers. after 8 decades. we must probably admit that the spirit of the elbe has almost completely disappeared from our bilateral relations in 2022, the american authorities banned representatives of the russian federation from participating in the celebration of elbe day at narlington cemetery, this ban became part of the sanctions imposed on our country in connection with a special military
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operation. spirit in ukraine. elba. tries to use the information war to say russians are bad, they do not correspond to the spirit of the elbe. so you have to be strong, you need to carry out your historical policy, and remember, here we must not forget. let them forget, and we must not forget about it. every year we restore the memorial plaque of the spirit of the elbe so that on april 25 on poklonnaya gora we can celebrate the day of the elbe in moscow , no one can forbid us to do this. we remember and honor the memory of the american soldiers who shook hands with our fathers and grandfathers from the great generation of victors and we perceive this like that the camaraderie of our countries hostile policy in the united states
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of america cannot make us forget the historical facts and this historic meeting in e. we, the heirs of the soldiers who won the second world war, keep and will keep faithful to the spirit of the elbe. a symbol of the peaceful coexistence of russia and the west this wreath appeared at the memorial plate of the elbe spirit in victory park on poklonnaya hill early in the morning on april 25 this year, a few hours before the start of the celebration of the next anniversary of the meeting on the elbe in moscow, as it turned out, it was laid lintracey, the new ambassador of the united states of russia, having previously refused to participate in the official ceremony, the us embassy still could not completely ignore the memorable
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gentlemen, i intend to tell marshal stalin some good news for him. the fact is that today the joint headquarters, with the participation of the british prime minister and the american president, decided to open the second front of northern france in may 1944.
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