is one of the officers in charge of the fortress defenses. often visits the monument to her father on the outskirts of breast. this picture shows what he looks like me at the even today i guess nervous when i come here words fail me i see those events in my mind's eye as if they were yesterday. today children play war in the old case me but in the first days of the real war the unit under the command of luck. was holding out in one of them within two days the defenders had exhausted their ammunition. daughter saw the germans trying to capture her father. of the roof suddenly there was a noise it seemed that the had caught him he had jumped on to the rain and some plunged into the river by the germans began firing gas him bess and death in captivity he shouted those were the last words he addressed to his family.

in accordance with their plan to attack the soviet union the germans had amassed three armies close to the border among these army groups or was the most powerful its mission was to encircle and destroy soviet troops and belorussia and move on to moscow via. the german strategy relied on surprise attack to demoralize the adversary from the opening second. the sound of the explosions was deafening before that i had seen war only in films . i thought it was an earthquake but i just couldn't believe there was a war going on. the first hours of june twenty second one nine hundred forty one. of a member of the military band asleep in his barracks on the second floor abreast

fortress. within minutes of the attack bullets and shells fragments and riddled the barracks walls. i remember dosed all over the place. well. i could barely breathe. myself in a blanket. then i heard an order from your rifles and get downstairs. i barely had time to pull all my clothes before rushing down stairs with my platoon were. only a few hours later the german plan to move through the russian territory had. every week covered from the initial shock. stubborn resistance despite being numbered nearly two to one by their attackers. one of our rifle regiments counterattacked the german. tried to roll back to the

gates. they were met with a shower of bullets there to. money of the fastest stuff. the beginning of huns edmund shone back was born in munich on june twenty second one thousand nine hundred one he was among the german troops who entered the russia. shortly before that he had been called up from high school and sent to the eastern front to serve in a panzer unit. a huge fourth terrifying wave of german artillery from all sides. into russian territory and when they were done we knew we had to go in. the tank. but i saw the first horribly injured german soldiers and it wasn't just me we all knew what would happen and it was terrible.

the border between. follows the same line along which soviet frontier deployed. it was they who bore the brunt of the nazi invasion for several days small arms were the only weapons the border guards can nevertheless they held up the advance of german troops and tanks for some time. to organize. yes can come on the german command allowed thirty minutes for the destruction of the frontier posts but some held out from one to seven days repulsing one attack after another. these pillboxes on the border were built shortly before the war but they were never used supplies and ammunition for the machine guns had been scheduled to arrive the day after the nats invasion of soviet territory. was in command of one of the pill boxes he was officer on duty the day before the

start of the war this picture shows or so i would encourage his friend nikolai a fellow servicemen returning from a night of dancing in breastplate on june twenty first. the news. vladimir. i have something terrible to tell you. his thoughts. when i was there my girlfriend told me. that a war would break out to morrow she was four in the morning. on his nine hundred thirty nine two years before the start of the war. between the soviet union and germany have become noticeably warmer foreign ministers of the two states than ribbentrop sign a non-aggression pact. in

september nine hundred thirty nine german troops invaded poland. this is german. tanks captured the breast fortress at that time part of polish territory. this is rare footage i joined it in german military parades in accordance with the secret deal to divide the german military hands breast over to soviet troops in less than two years time. will again launch an assault on breast fortress fighting against the same troops. in the interim dispenser units will have gained valuable experience in successful offensive operations in europe. and. assured we have the most insane knowledge aint to communicate between the time x. headphones. and that allowed us to react small quickly. the russian tanks couldn't communicate with each other. whereas we could for example

withdrawal and then attack from the science. june twenty fourth one of the most tragic days for the defenders of the fortress during another attempted assault the nazis used the russian officers wife and children as a human shield on this bridge. and then in measured. they told us women and children to lie down on the bridge close to want to repeat. can you imagine four or five guns firing it's a time it can shatter your brain. my son slava had one of his it arms bust now he can't hear anything at all in that's here yet i saw my daughter's hand nina turning gray one after another. she was only a little kid. alexander was only six years old in one

thousand nine hundred forty one he and his parents were living in brest fortress he spent two days in the so-called powder magazine at the start of the war he was wounded and lost his entire family here. at all since and the gravity of the situation but. who. was standing in this new huge. that's when we got scared over who. and when i was so my mother and sister killed while sitting right here well i took myself away as far as i cooled on the feet of those who were in the cellar with. in essence the entire territory of the fortress is a monument to the victims of the wars of first day numbers building houses a museum. at its center

a famous exhibit and alarm clock the stop kicking as soon as the war began. another exhibit is dedicated to the children of red army commanders who fought in the fortress many of them were murdered by s.s. task forces in one thousand nine hundred two a year after german troops attacked the soviet union. total of nine hundred forty two the for. massacred fifty four children at an orphanage breast their parents had already died in the war. amanda the children's teacher was she and the children the forced out of the orphanage and all of them. a vigil of commemoration and sorrow takes place each year in the breast fortress on the ninth of june twenty first can those are lit in the embers yours veterans come here from all over the

former soviet union a slide show features pictures of the red army commanding officers who took part in the defense of breast fortress after the ceremony border guard soldiers. in the western river to commemorate the people whose lives were cut short in breast fortress in june one thousand nine hundred one the names of many of them are still unknown. to.

our. question is that so much of the minute there's a huge musician on top of the front takes it strategy bomb as long we plan to start drawing down troops levels in afghanistan is in play but is it a real drawdown or just a written. june twenty second midday eight hours after the german attack most of the surviving defenders of the breast fortress moved into cellars under the barracks judger

catelli co and his comrades spent about three days there build back in the nineteenth century the cellars withstood direct hits in the aerial bombardment. improve your mood there was a hospital for the wounded here but while the makeshift mortuary was over there at the end of the corners or more the german command demanded that the defenders lay down their arms and surrender when they turned down the ultimatum german assault groups used flame throwers to flush them out. the heat was so intense that even bricks began to melt. the fighters continued their resistance as they shifted from one place to another. this is how german war correspondents pro-trade the event but cameramen were unable to film an emerging from sellers with their hands raised as a sign of surrender none of them did that. there were at this russian surrender

it was german shouted through loud speaker your no that will let you live don't be afraid they say that. when some of the spot of the loudspeaker they hit it with a burst of machine gun fire is pretty real good that was the end of the propaganda yet that's a pretty good. the biggest problem faced. by german troops. still. several times under the cover of darkness. both to reach the west we were sometimes crawling sometimes running. trying to make no noise we had to do with the germans fired flares all the time

they certainly would have opened fire if they. know days mining engineers for wartime ammunition in the western. is a german two hundred ten millimeter artillery shell. is just as dangerous today as it was sixty eight years ago. slowly slowly don't turn it over. to shell could go off at any moment if it's not handled properly if it does judging by its size it will obliterate everything within a radius of about five hundred meters. on the average day divers pick up three to ten objects relating to the first days of the war. the breast fortress was long considered impenetrable they outer walls where. in the twentieth century it was in effect

a death trap for the strong soviet. all of the fortresses gates were continuously under and machine gunfire they were also blocked by attacking enemy troops as a result fewer than half of the men who were here on june twenty second were able to leave the fortress and protect the border. on. the german plan to seize soviet territory. but most of the soviet leaders as hitler would target britain first before unleashing any attack on the soviet. one but a. and was already aware of the. problem with the germans. initially was.

trying to kill. where the first assault was launched actually consisted of several. of the most resistance. most of the fortress defenders still expected reinforcements to the end they didn't know they were already well behind enemy lines germans has seized the town of brest within hours. abreast resident lived under occupation for nearly three years when the germans came she was told she was not. a second rate person. even public to listen hospitals could not be used but everybody johns had decent food not so lucky. if they don't name every way you could see a sign saying. only oh i. know and.

already during the first days of the war many people in the breast and its environs started sneaking out of town. in the forests they form groups of guerrilla warfare. learn new skills those. here in the forest in june one thousand nine hundred thirty could have. children and women. and if all of us lived here. all of us were helping each of. the partisans stayed in the forests for. a time they carried out reconnaissance and secret monitoring of the enemy. in the evening they were engaged in special operations. forces use this railway to bring military hardware to the front line.

the german reconnaissance padi's to check the tracks but that didn't help. as the train came closer we singled out the military equipment to be. quick and the wagon was no more. than the german forty fifth division. and. german already swept across poland. and much of europe. they encountered the most ferocious to date. weapons with the best in the world. we were the strongest anyway. and we believed it. of all successors in western europe and in france but it was far from the truth.

these for so with memorials commemorate fighters whose bodies have been recovered by search parties since the war searching for missing soldiers is a long and complicated process. first the head of a search group asks locals where exactly the fighting took place. where there are also. many of our fighters particularly the partisans died in this home but i just . see the dead lying in groups of ten or twelve they never made it out of the forest. then a group of volunteers sets out on an expedition they call the site meter after meter. weapons and other objects made of metal. underground. this is a soviet helmet it was a direct hit. you can see where the shot entered and exited.

the base the objects are carefully examined. as. these are small cases containing all important papers they carry the information that will help identify the soldier his age rank and the name of town or village where he was called up. there just so happens there were from the same places the dead soldier are going to look for his relatives now one more fallen soldier has a name. if papers identifying the dead are found they are sent to officials us state are called each year as more names to the list of brest fortress defenders. this is the

personal record of one of the fighters still. his identity was verified just a few years ago. no his name is inscribed on the memorial wall in the central alley of breast fortress it has replaced another plate saying unknown soldier. is nice is his only surviving relative just recently did she learn of her uncle's fate. that people want to at least see the grief of somebody they loved least flower whisenant and think about that person there is nothing more painful than the missing so when my uncle's name was finally written on the memorial plate it was a very touching moment for my family. the last defenders of brest fortress german attacks for nearly a month in the one nine hundred sixty s. the museum received a fragment of the inner wall one of the case mates of the eastern for an

inscription discovered on it dates from july twentieth one thousand nine hundred forty one scribbled with a knife and said. i'm dying but i'm not surrendering. nobody surrendered of their own a code in the way all of those captured people. were unable to use their weapons. but nobody raised their hands before to the death to the last man. hitler and mussolini arrived in august one thousand nine hundred one for a visit to brest fortress despite official reports claiming that there were no surviving defenders on president. security precautions were put in place. on the eve of the top level visit to german soldiers patrolling an area near the fortress and disappear. for hitler and mussolini entered the fortress through

a bridge that used to be right here what hitler saw here is known to have made a strong impression on him but even took a stone lying amongst the ruins with them. after the fall of berlin the stone was found in hitler's office at the chancellor of the third reich. church in brest fortress. there are traces of shells on the walls and inside that. it was from here that the defenders of brest fortress launched their first counterattack. scores of german and soviet soldiers died here. the time has come for mutual forgiveness. we must live in peace. it's not that we should forget the past it must not be forgotten. we might forgive. children play in best fortress where military hardware dating back to the one nine

hundred forty s. is on display they knew about that war only from books and films. on holidays veterans told tourists about the war. of another survivors of the first battles in the fortress regard these rooms as the cornerstone of their faith in the ultimate victory over fascist troops. comrades lived to see that victory in one thousand nine hundred five nearly four years after those tragic events in breast fortress. the global economy.

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a cop dressed up like an anarchist hastings arab or what's happening max in fact i believe they were i.m.f. agent stress that has anarchists and they are they tear gas canisters had c.d.'s written alongside collateralized debt swap on of the sort of that is financial terrorism i think it's called credit default swaps all right i'll go with that there are so many different names for these derivatives these days and that's actually the big topic of the day is all the debt circulating around the economy but first i want to show you this little image because we return from greece bearing gifts and this is artwork colonel pop and dry oh the people love me those who are causing all the trouble are terrorists the people hate them you know they're outside of the parliament building and screaming. brought all brought all the people embrace the hate the parliamentarians they hate george papa and i notice you're showing him the palm of your history in the palm of my hand this is for you george.