they took a short fur coat into it and put it on themselves , along with the fleas that were sitting there, just like that, the explanation of the failures of the nazis near moscow dominates today in the works of european and american historians, the soviet capital, they say , was saved not by the courage and self-sacrifice of the soviet soldiers, but by the autumn thaw and the terrible frost only in passing figures are given, western researchers believe the ussr lost a million people near moscow killed and wounded, according to russian data, only 900,000 of them were wounded. and nearly a million more it was the dead and the missing who rushed next to us filled up with earth. i lost consciousness. when night fell, the orderlies began to pick up the wounded, i did not feel the collapse. well, imagine, i lost the phalanges of my fingers. threshold i lost the phalanges

alexander fetisov, like millions of his peers. i went to the front as a volunteer right after school, and six months later i became an invalid. then the young man seemed, life is over, it turned out i was with others in moscow but one day. i keep. there on the treadmill, one commander addresses i will lay the gun is near when i finish the dressing. i'll take it. well, what to do next pistol. so i thought, i thought, how we want to do with a pistol. i didn't get anything. alexander ilyich is not able to pull the trigger today. in the same place, where in the forty-second he went to the front in tarusa, kaluga

region, after the war. he graduated from a pedagogical school and became a teacher, he still considers it his duty to tell schoolchildren the truth about the war, be sure to celebrate victory day and our descendants should celebrate this great holiday he brought happiness to mankind and the very best that man has. this is the outskirts, somewhat piglet of the very main

meat grinder of the leningrad front. here from these trenches. and they are here everywhere the germans poured hail on our people. fire 80 years ago. those trees weren't here at all. line of sight 600 m to our positions. well, literally at a glance, and this hell lasted from the autumn of the forty-first to january of the forty-three, then, during the iskra operation , the leningraders broke through the blockade and occupied these german positions. and since then in this land mixed all russian and german remains from soviet fascist ammunition. our soviet mortar rounds have just been dug up. it is interesting that if you erase the clay, they are like new, you can see even the manufacturer's number, as if they were made yesterday. but this is a german military trick. this is an additional powder, its charge was hung on the tail of a mine and the range

of mortar fire increased by 100-150 m. it’s interesting in here, look, it’s on fire, 80 years have passed. and here all living things breathe those battles and someone after that he will say that this war can be forgotten. they constantly tried to get over to the left bank of the niva, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bpyatachka nevsky, they swallowed up about 11,000. these are only those who drowned. this is the situation for 2 months. well,

the life expectancy there was 2 hours. on average, i have just listened to the news, while leningrad is already completely encircled and will soon be raised. i hope that the city capitulates in time, otherwise it will be smashed. this letter is dated september 8, the forty-first day of the blockade. a few days later, realizing that noskoka to take the northern capital will not succeed, hitler made another decision not to take leningrad, but to destroy it, along with the population, with cold, hunger and continuous bombing. it was on september 7 that the bombs began to fall. first time for us. even that was interesting. we imagine we went to see what a destroyed house is in september 1941 , galina nikolaevna was nine years old, her father was immediately drafted into the army, and little galya and her mother were sent to leningrad, they thought it would be safer there

in the besieged city, the girl spent the whole war. mom worked in a hospital. she took her daughter with her. you were taken away where the soldiers lay, and there i helped, firstly, i read letters to them, some books, spread thermometers and bandages. in general, that i could now and then. today, looking at old blockade photographs, galina nikolaevna herself does not understand how she managed to survive that terrible winter of the forty- first year in mid-november, together with her mother, they were given 125 g of bread for a day, the most vivid memory from childhood is not the first day at school, nor birthday toy. how once fed at lunch, an unfamiliar officer in the hospital, a girl, and where is your dad

? clearly, she thanked him and left, and he sits and cries. here's what. maybe i fed him to my children, too, someone in the background. at the same time, loter scholz lived in berlin, he was not much older than nine years old, galya ignatova had just turned 11, quite recently in the life of a little lotar. a big event has happened. him recognized as racially pure and solemnly accepted into the jungfol, the junior group of the german youth organization of the hitler hugen, in hitler's time i lived well. i was an enthusiastic member of the hitlergend. we used to gather at home evenings and pele germany germany above all else. it was the german national anthem even under aziz, and then under adolf gip. it's hard for us to imagine, but from the tragedy of leningrad loter-scholz. learned only in

2005 veteran. wehrmacht was invited to russia for the 60th anniversary of the victory, vladimir putin then received decision to invite veterans from ger to the celebration show to former opponents we do not hold a grudge against them , when we were with him then he talked about his mother, who was starving in leningrad because the germans surrounded leningrad. they wanted to force the russians to surrender. i then said to myself, if they were not in the grad, they would have given enough food, we interviewed many wehrmacht veterans in germany, and there was even one who, along with a shredder, came to our victory parade, and now he takes it and says, and we we don't understand at all. why do you uh, so fiercely defended leningrad would be tired and that's all, and no one would die of hunger there. if you heard this, how would you answer to talk about st. petersburg i want to defend it so fiercely, but because they

went to survive, they wanted our country to have a future, so that children would grow up, so that it would develop, why did we surrender it, what would petersburg be from it after all, it remained in hitler’s plans, he spoke directly about this publicly, that this city should be wiped off the face of the earth, completely destroyed to power in germany in the thirty-third year in order to it took six years to inspire the germans with the idea of ​​the superiority of the aryan race, and only two years were enough to demonize the russians. when in the forty-first they went to the soviet union, respectable german burghers. they sacredly believed that they had every right to destroy the slavic interventions. we do not take prisoners, we shoot everyone. here you turn into an animal, and russian big pigs you can't imagine who the russians are. i saw the execution of 500 communists. there are many women among them, otherwise it is impossible here. need to iron

put things in order by hand. russian prisoners were often considered subhuman with them, you could do whatever you want. and it was all perfectly acceptable. i myself have always said that i was very lucky that i was a german prisoner in russian captivity, and not a russian prisoner in german, the term intermensch, by the way, was invented not in germany but in the usa by an american political scientist, but by german nazis creative developed his theory, and not full-fledged nations, the germans created a group of ussr assault troops. they could kill civilians. there are undressed guessers; they were led to the common pit and shot at him. look at this photo image ilah, but these things did we europeans

during world war ii. francesco cusara has been giving such lectures in different cities of italy for many years and draws time parallels to his country in the forty-first, he was a loyal ally of nazi germany and then the nazis managed to do the same thing that the western elites are trying to do today to unite all of europe against russia then the inhabitants occupied countries gladly went to the service of the occupiers. volunteer divisions from france norway holland fought under the banner of the reich. daniel of the alpine shooters, an eagle sitting above two crossed guns two - this is the number of my regiment, our divisions were two regiments of il shooters and colonels for participating in the eastern company. it says russian front.

nothing else is written there, only the russian front, but this distinction was issued personally only to us members of the russian company with a certificate that officially allowed us to wear from the first days of the war, mussolini sent a whole expeditionary corps to the soviet union, and in the forty-second year, three divisions of alpine riflemen were included in it. these were the elite units of the cloud army, but italian veterans. today they are not proud of this, for the sake of which we went to kill in russia, tell me we came to your house to kill you. why now, when they tell me you did your duty. what debt? i no longer want to be told about duty and about the greatness of italy if there is a greatness of italy of this it is a completely different dante leonardo galileo and so on,

229,000 italian soldiers sent this one to fight in europe and africa, less than half of them returned home, the majority perished in the fields near stalingrad, there were 18,000 soldiers, only 1,300 people returned, only 1,300, and from my regiment, in which there were 150 fighters , survived only 27 memory of the soldiers who did not return from the war. i am 14 thousand mothers whose sons are missing. these women asked me where their sons were until now, not having returned home here. i answered that they all died on their mother. didn't believe me. they said that when someone you love dies. you suffer, but gradually it

drags on early. and sometimes you don't even know if your son is alive or dead. these women kept their sons' beds made in case the son arrived soon. they often looked at the front door and said to themselves now he is coming in now. we are right in the sacred temple where the soldiers who died in battles in russia during the second world war are buried between our peoples today, it is very warm so much that the russians gave us a lamp here, brotherhood, where oil is always burning in memory of our dead soldiers, the dead italians were brought from russia in the ninetieth year. and today in italy , almost 90,000 soldiers have already been reburied, given military honors to everyone, but they are not

called heroes, they simply honor the memory of the victims of that monstrous, as they now understand mistakes, the chaplain rests here, one of the alpine divisions of don carla new york, a modest army priest whose priest the soldiers loved much more than the generals who sent them to the slaughter. after the battle, the battalion chaplain doncarlo, who was canonized in new york, asked for four ordinations to go give the last blessing to the dead. we put all the dead in a line of lying snow. he was bending down and blessing each one when he noticed that we had placed only the alpine shooters in a row. he told us guys no, not only alpines and russians, too, hungarians and germans of all, because here everything of god worked. and

in the winter of forty-two, millions of people in england, america, occupied europe, prayed for the victory of the russians at stalingrad, the defeat on the volga became for the third reich such a disaster that the nazis could not recover after it. the battle of stalingrad, according to western historians , was a turning point on the eastern front, but we know this was the turning point of the entire second world war in half a year , more than 3 million died on both sides of stalingrad. the sky over the wolf was covered with smoke from

countless conflagrations for a long week. all the burial grounds for combustible materials of your materials gasoline kerosene and all other materials, they were all broken, destroyed all the flow through the volga coastal edge and water mixed with fuel and became bitter and the water from kamyshin to astrakhan was like the ring of fire veterans of the battle of stalingrad told in places the front line. as such, it simply wasn’t, where one’s own, where strangers are incomprehensible to understand, the same position could be occupied by the red army in the morning, the germans captured it during the day, and at night again repulsed our troops, it was especially hard for the units fighting on the left bank of the wolves, they turned out to be practically cut off from supplies. as soon as

the boat appears on the volga, the germans kneaded it, there with fire and cover sinking and no ammunition and no food when the germans go for breakfast. we can hear the kettles knocking cooking. in the morning, uh, i’ll put grenades on the roof under which it’s impossible not to shoot from a machine gun from a machine gun and you will be destroyed by a grenade from where they can’t see it, so this is the method. eh, i blew them up with grenades, then went down. down. picked up pots. they took hmm ammunition. machine guns were armed in this way and ate extra soup. anna miroshnikova lived in stalingrad at the beginning of the war studied medicine, when the germans launched an attack on the city, she refused to evacuate , could not leave her parents, and ended up at the front as a paramedic in a rifle battalion before the war. anna was the only daughter in the family, and after

the victory. she already had dozens all over the country, she gave blood brothers, as i remember now. he lies to a very young boy, the white pupil does not work at all anymore. i'm getting higher somehow. and you don’t move him on a stretcher there, you give him so much until he already starts a little more voices appear in life, which are still getting good, stalingrad became for hitler just manic, it seemed to him, a little more one more division and the city will be taken even when the sixth. the leader of the third reich, with fanatical persistence, was surrounded and ordered to fight to the last soldier at the end, we said that paul was a fool, he could do it, otherwise he could save half the army, but he was a subordinate of hitler hitler said before. you can not retreat

on january 30, the forty-second year. paulus received a radiogram from hitler's headquarters did not promise him help ; instead, he informed his general, and not a single german field marshal hinted at the promotion to field marshal. in history, he was not captured. well, in russia, german military history failed in february 1942. germany plunged into a three-day trawl. all restaurants and cinemas were closed on the radio, where then funeral music sounded around the clock announced the sixth army, led by its commander, died near stalingrad report capitulation filter barcelo, nazi government has not decided. because we received the germans, because when they cursed down the street, they asked him how to help you. more to you personally and

everything. he said i didn't need anything. uh, show medical care to mine. salda yes, you feed them to him and we had the whole 3 months we took captured germans. and here in france in the canton, bule, soviet prisoners of war were treated here. there were trains from the occupied territories , there were two ways further, those who were able to work were sent to a distribution camp. pan saint-jean, then at the iron and coal mines the rest stayed here with the friends of those who were too weak to go left to be sent to supposedly the lord i said so because there was no real hospital. it was called the infirmary, but there were practically no doctors, no copper. in short, they were left there to die. tele2 i found an unusual item. this is the smartphone of the

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the ban senzhan camp has literally started working. on the first day of the war, he was released in the forty-fourth. and after the war, a joint soviet-french commission conducted an investigation on the ruins of the camp and found 204 common graves, and in them there were 20,000 bodies of soviet prisoners of war here. and today the relatives of the dead are coming 2 years ago, there was a woman here who said to us, let me

introduce. here we are dad. her name was nina, she came from perm and found a photo of her father. here at the entrance to the concentration camp. this camp was part of that lag 12 f and her father's camp number was from 12:070. i stand in front of the grave of this soviet soldier, to salute him, i will perform the ringing of death.

raymond willem is also a former doctor, now he lives in retirement near strasbourg and several times a year comes to this unmarked grave in the forest in the forty- fourth year, raymond's father buried a russian prisoner who had escaped from the camp here. he was hidden in front of our father's house in the old forge, where he hid during the day and went out in search of food at night, all our grandmother gave him a bowl of soups or some food, bread, no one knew him by name , they only knew that it was a russian who had escaped and once this prisoner was discovered and captured by the germans, who took him to a thicket, and there my father was called to this place, and he immediately recognized this man, who saw in the village, raymond's father, until the end of his days, looked after the grave of a russian

soldier. now his son is doing it, and a few years ago he contacted the russian consulate in transport and at the site of the old wooden cross. the marble stella appeared, the consulate told me, for us this is an unknown soldier, but to know that someone is doing this for the family from which he disappeared is a consolation. this is important not to be forgotten. it is necessary to keep the memory and pass it on, because we are all its conductors in relation to our children and future generations. we can only convey it to the official paris today often accuses russia of misinterpreting the history of the war, while a simple frenchman, it seems. don't care about these political games veronica karl has been keeping for 80 years a family heirloom, several toys that a soviet prisoner of war gave her in 1944, this was in 1944. the first christmas i

received a toy as a gift. it was grand. it was a dream after opening the box. i thought what i see was the magical toys were great, we never saw anything like that after. how many soviet soldiers were in german camps, historians are still arguing according to official german data , almost 6 million. the eastern front pulled out all the forces from the reich to compensate for the lack of workers at the production facilities, they decided at the expense of the prisoners all men fit for military service from 14 to 55 years old and all able-bodied women from 15 to 45 were ordered to be taken to germany. well, i was 18 years old. we were loaded into the region in a german train and taken

and we will arrive in germany near the city of magdeburg for slaves. from the east, in the third reich , the term starbeiters was specially coined during the war. the nazis drove away for forced labor more than five million soviet citizens such a pit was dug and the construction of a temporary night was such a plan, and there, here is their temporary night in odessa, a man of the strongest island of bayters was sent to an arms factory, and for the rest of the racial full-fledged on specially created exchanges , purebred farmers were happy if russian workers were sent to them, and the same night is not so bad. after all, the peasants hamstered themselves a supply of

food. and this is important for good nutrition. not so oil flour grain we condemned one landowner. he contained a lot. e our women which the germans took away from the occupied territories, and he mocked them very much, fed them along with the pigs and raped them. and when we took a break in the middle of the day fit even the woman said, you won't let us feed him. and so they brought him a mug of milk in a bowl of cough, then the trial began to continue. and he got on his knees. and he began to ask for forgiveness from all these women whom he mocked maria fomina lived in the nikolaev region on the way to germany, she

and her friends tried to escape on one of stations. on the outskirts. krakow girls jumped out of the car for several days hiding trying to find their way home, and then the poles handed them over to the germans by the evening we made a stop. i say, probably, we are being taken to a factory for some kind and suddenly they take us to the drama and open the gate with striped clothes. we understood where we ended up. mary auschwitz, that same famous death camp, in 5 years the nazis killed more than a million people in it, the girls pinned serial numbers, cut their heads bald and sent them to quarantine. and suddenly after 2 weeks, when our quarantine ended, we went out the gate, opened it and it was possible to go out. i'm sitting like this.