the houses that were around, as well as the entire team that came there to be supplied with weapons , were destroyed; more than 4,000 people died. there put together the memory of salvation. krakow with today's authorities. poland as cut off. at best , they simply keep silent about it, and at worst, they even blame russia for the barbaric destruction of the royal castle, the liberators of poland in the minds of modern polish elites have turned into occupiers. and it has already caused a split. in polish society, the elimination of monuments to soviet soldiers or any other russophobic action is invariably accompanied by protests of those citizens who remember to whom they owe their lives and freedom. and this

monument is not polish, nor ukrainian nationalists could not demolish . i received many e-mails from poles and ukrainians in poland and ukraine. there were people who were upset that we honored the memory of former soviet soldiers, but i explained that this the memorial is meant to honor the memory of american citizens who were former soviet citizens who fought in world war ii to rid the world of the nazis. and these are not the ones whose people should be hated. the monument was erected in 2005. since then, every year on may 9, fresh flowers appear at the foot of the cranes and many residents of los angeles are proud that it is in the city of angels that the only us monument to soviet soldiers of world war ii is located

ever would not have been possible without the russians without soviet union even with the participation of the us france yes , this memorial is here in honor of the soviet soldiers who died. you know that this monument is a tribute to the soviet union, which was the decisive force during the second world war, and it seems to me that in this monument there is a call for the second world war to become the last. in russia , too, there are monuments dedicated to the allies. one of them was opened a few years ago in arkhangelsk, a memorial dedicated to the veterans of the polar convoys, during the war, british sailors. delivered to ports arkhangelsk and murmansk, more than 2 million tons of strategic cargo, fascist submarines sank the ships of mercilessly 3,000 british. they never returned home, the germans continued to attack the convoys, even in april 45, when

there were several days left before the surrender of germany. in the last ship that sank was the frigate gudok in the kola bay at night, it was hit by a german torpedo or a mine. then it was not possible to figure out the ship instantly engulfed in flames. it can be said that the ship has become a real funeral pyre. i could not look away from this terrible sight even after the war, when former allies turned into opponents, soviet veterans gratefully recalled the courage of british sailors, but in london they simply forgot about their heroes for many years, i will show you the medals that i was awarded in the war , so, which i am most proud of is the ushakov medal given to me and other veterans of the arctic convoys by president putin. i always wear it on the march in honor of armistice day. this is an honor for us and the medal is very beautiful.

russian award. the captain of the royal navy received in honor of the 55th anniversary of the victory with him then 14 more british sailors received this honor, and only then did the former allies in london think. in our country, russia remembers you as heroes later on. that's what the prime minister of great britain asked his subordinates, what was done in order to express gratitude for the participation of the arctic convoys, he was told that it was done extremely, you never know, then he initiated the awarding of us with arctic star medals. and everything. why because it was president putin who first raised the question of how those who participated in the arctic campaign were honored, so we received our awards. today, all veterans of the polar convoys know that whatever happens in russia, they

will always be met as real fighting friends. the brotherhood was above politics. all i hope for is the world. i am 94 years old. i'm approaching 95. i've seen the war and i hope never in my life to see that again, but as a world ruler. i would like to say that never i don't want to see or hear about wars anymore on january 30, 1945, the twelfth anniversary of the nazis coming to power. adolf hitler stood before the microphone for the last time. he had nothing to please his people. it was obvious to everyone that the so -called thousand-year-old reich was living its last days. i hope that every german will do his duty to the end. and that he will be ready to make any sacrifice that is asked of him, i count on every german capable of fighting. i call on the sick weak and all the unfit for military service

work to the best of your ability. today we must admit that our great undertaking requires the abandonment of personal desires. by the way, did you hear about the last speech of gel-sosa according to him. we have powerful and effective means of warfare waiting in the wings. well, let this come as a surprise to us. i cannot imagine that our leadership would continue the war if there were no prospect of its victorious end. it would be senseless destruction. this was one of the last messages of non-commissioned officer herman dunker mother during the war, he sent home more than 150 letters, forty-second he wrote about the inevitable victory over the russian forty. the third called on stoiko to endure hardships, and in the fall forty. 4 frau dunker has already received another message, dear frau dunkerk. we deeply regret to him. i must inform you that your dear son is a non-commissioned officer. herman dunker was taken to the hospital with a chip wound to his left leg on

october 7, 1944. your dear son passed away from the received estates. may you be comforted that your dear son did not suffer before his death, but fell asleep peacefully, the closer the end of the third reich was, the more often the funerals went germany was in a panic fanatics still believed that the course of the war could be turned around, they hoped for some kind of miracle weapon, well , those pragmatists that now they were afraid to answer for what the nazis had done, there was only one dream, so that the allies advancing from the west had time to take berlin before the soviet troops my division, which received hitler’s order to break through the ring of russians, troops around berlin damn, and release people from berlin for breakfast, and there were already americans beyond the elbe. a few years ago, the nazis despised the americans and published russian cartoons in the american army. every tenth soldier nigga,

and now the highest ranks of nazi germany at any cost sought to the west to the americans. wündorf , just 40 km from berlin, was the headquarters of the high command of the wehrmacht ground forces during the war. it was one of the state secrets. reich, the location and layout of the maybach-1 and maybach 2 bunker complexes were supposed to know only selected point maybach one consisted of 23 buildings with bunkers, we can see them in these photographs, and in this aerial photograph we see point maybach 2, it consisted of 12 buildings these buildings have three floors above ground, so the size of the buildings is 15 m in height and 9 m deep. reinforced concrete structures that look like huge rockets are a bomb shelter. the so-called

winkel towers are visible from afar, they were intended for service personnel. but the general's bunkers that kerhoffman showed us were disguised as ordinary residential buildings. it was here that the fate of europe was decided; here the plan for the attack on the soviet union was born. barbarossa in 1945 , soviet troops practically occupied this fortress. without a fight, the command of the wehrmacht was by no means going to die along with the reich. this is the home of the field marshal's bunker, paules, the author of the failed blitzkrieg to the east. this is the only one who was captured by the soviet troops and the only one who later remained to live in the gdr. but the rest. for example, the house of the bunker of the chief of the nazi general staff land forces gaidera. he surrendered to the americans and until the seventieth year, with his contribution to the cold war, he earned almost all the highest awards in the united states. and then

it’s even more interesting. this is the bunker house of general reinhard gillin, head of intelligence on the eastern front, having surrendered to the americans. he handed them tons of documents on the red army. and that the americans trust this captive to create the main intelligence service of the frg gelend, the father, the founder of the current german intelligence bnd, that is, that all these higher ranks of the hitlerite general staff are obtained. not just with help the americans avoided nuremberg, but also, in fact , created the entire modern german army and intelligence. about ordinary germans in the forty-fifth, and the persecuting reich put under arms all of the unfit for military service, the volks assault detachments of the people's militia were formed. the wehrmacht was strengthened by such boys from the hitler youth as

loter scholz. we were part of the ninth army in the khalbe region on the zal river, a defensive rampart was created, they say, ivan here you will not pass here, we are in the world and issued a steel helmet. one adult soldier filled me with a lot of cartridges. i am i had to insert them into stores, and into stores in arms. this was my arsenal. one boy of 12-14 years old faust launched a cartridge and here are ours . and now he says, go to your mother, and he thought that he would be shot. the civilian population of germany was preparing for the worst of ordinary germans, they were seized with fear when they only imagined themselves. how

can the soldiers of the red army respond to the pain of death and destruction brought by the nazis to an innocent people in one village. forgot it already name, but you also need to go in to get water, the approach lived at home, no one knocked, the dressing room is not closed, the house is a civilian man guy. committed suicide. western historians love to describe the troubles that befell the german people with the advent of the red army. but those germans who do not live according to the manuals from politicians have been carefully preserving the monument to the soviet liberator soldier for many decades. in the very center of berlin, a sword is in one hand, and a little german girl is clinging to the other. this is not staged footage, documentary chronicle, berlin 45

red army soldiers in berlin feed the townspeople. during the war, front-line cameramen fought alongside the soldiers of the red army. they filmed the entire terrible retreat of the summer, the forty-first boilers and the battles of defeat and victory, one of our comrades told me that somehow they arrived at the front line and soldiers saw them there and said, guys. all of us will remain alive. the cameraman came to us, they really are forever. remained alive on newsreel frames, thanks to these frames we can look at the war today through the eyes of those who defended our right to life front-line operators were 258 boris sokolov died the last of them in january 2019 shooting. it's not a written word. this image on shows the

truth about the war is our work. this is still the truth about the war, along with the first belarusian. well, there boris sokolov went all over europe and saw the offensive of the red army. on the oder, the battles on the seelow heights already from the street battles for berlin, then any shooting at the front, terrible on the flight of the chancellery, they found the corpse of hitler's double and we went shoot. and so we entered the basement, a large floor was mouthed, he was wounded by the defenders in the flight of the office of the imperial office, which could not leave, were wounded to such an extent that they could not help but run away. do not surrender the captivity of nothing they lay back in the thirty-eighth year, time magazine announced adolf hitler as the man of the year. on may 2,

1945, the leader of the third reich appeared again on the cover of this edition. on that day, newspapers around the world told readers hitler was dead to the germans. this news was the collapse of the last hope. there was written. today we learned that our beloved fuhrer, fighting the bolsheviks to the last breath. fell in berlin that's how we became aware of death, the guitar. it was the end of the world, practically the world collapsed. no where should we go? i was in hitler's office. the second day after the capitalization of the chair , drawers were open, everything was scattered around the board. yes, on a hanger there is a cloak, a leather cloak and a cap on the platform with a swastika. we did not pay attention to this area cap, and the english journalist took both, and later , almost 20 years after the end of the war, sold and

both went to the national museum of england for a lot of money after the fuhr and the leadership of the third reich, along with his wife and six children, was poisoned by joza in goebbels . the impression was that he was not signing the capitulations. he accepts surrender. they behave very similar. today. many western leaders arrogantly pretend not to remember. the soviet union liberated europe and are trying in every possible way to cross russia out of the victorious countries. and the first attempts to fix history began back then in may 1945, the act of capitulation of germany had to be signed twice. the first time, on may 7, the third reich surrendered to an ally signing a document on a french voyage. well, how did they

knock? we have endured the whole war on our shoulders, we took berlin and then behind our backs they will sign the way we didn’t let them steal the victory from us, stalin categorically demanded the surrender of germany must be signed in berlin in the presence of the ussr high command, and only after that the soundformbrock declared the war over. on may 8, 1945 , in berlin, representatives of the german high command on the unconditional surrender of the german armed forces in the leningrad region, near the village of sologubovka , located the largest german military cemetery in russia. there is a small church temple

of reconciliation. entering meets the message of a german soldier, left many years after the end of the war. i apologize for all the terrible actions of the german people during the second world war. i hope this never happens in the future. i would like to believe. here, the desire to lay on someone the responsibility of putting the soviet union and nazi germany on the same level is certainly projected onto today for tomorrow so that russia feels necessary to justify itself for something, uh, to put us in the false position of people who should experience guilt. we do not have and can

not have any feeling of guilt, but the position on the altar of victory 27 million lives of our citizens of the soviet union mean to the total therefore there is and cannot be any justification for those who are trying to rewrite history. we must be forever grateful to the heroes of the great patriotic war, our grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers, our mothers for what they got. for us, this victory was ensured by the future of our country, our children.

according to the main events of this minute in our news release, and we are preparing to watch a live broadcast of fireworks in moscow, fireworks in honor of the seventy- seventh anniversary of the victory of the great patriotic war war. that's just the footage of artillery guns will fire 30 volleys this year using more than 70 self-propelled launchers, and over 11,000 fireworks will be launched into the sky.

here the pyrotechnic show will last 10 minutes you can watch the fireworks at one of the 36 sites they are organized in each administrative district of the city, including pobeda park on poklonnaya hill gorky park luzhniki sports complex moskvoretskaya embankment vdnkh tushino airfield. well, in general, by order of defense minister sergei shoigu, at 10:00 pm local time, fireworks

took place in eight more cities of heroes st. petersburg, today it is leningrad in volgograd today it is stalingrad sevastopol kerch murmansk novorossiysk smolensk tula and also in cities where the headquarters of the military districts of the fleets of the general claim army and the caspian flotilla are stationed. right now you see, just on your screen , shots from various cities, how the festive fireworks pass. well, for reference, for the production of artillery salvos, howitzers are used, for example, d-30 guns zis-3 fireworks launchers, which are called rainbow. a little bit. i would like to tell you about leningrad, st. petersburg, where volleys are traditionally fired from the peter and

paul fortress, 30 volleys up to 100 division. for this, the mikhailovsky academy will use two salute batteries consisting of twelve t-44 guns and 10 salute installations in 10 minutes to release more than 1,500 charges. now let 's see what is happening in st. petersburg leningrad. here are just the shots from there, the still bright sky. and, by the way, weather forecasters told what the weather was like in leningrad on may 9, 1945, then the daytime temperature rose by only it is only up to plus seven degrees warmer today. vinograd let's say about volgograd on victory day in volgograd, which today plays salyut in three places at once, and many citizens have the opportunity

to go where it is convenient for them. including salute will be on mamaev kurgan now it is already happening before that, the residents of the city saw a light video installation, the light of the great victory. in addition, they promised in the sky. show the fiery figures as the most beautiful, of which the golden horizon and purple should become. of course, the fireworks are now and in sevastopol there are 30 volleys and fireworks for the production of artillery volleys. the summary calculations of the salute divisions of the southern military district involved 122 mm, d-30 howitzers, a seventy-six-millimeter sister gun, and

other installations. well, in the big window we are now observing the moscow garden. there, 30 volleys of the capital this year use more than 70 self-propelled launchers , and more than 11,000 fireworks are launched into the sky, a pyrotechnic show lasts 10 minutes not only in moscow but also in other cities. what as for the capital, so that everyone can see the festive fireworks, 36 venues have been organized, from where colorful pyrotechnic shows soar into the sky. this is in every administrative district of the city, but

including the victory park on poklonnaya hill. here, by order of the minister of defense at 10 pm, festive fireworks of the 8th city of heroes of st. petersburg, which today is leningrad in volgograd today, stalingrad sevastopol kerch murmansk novorossiysk smolensk crowns, well, also in cities where the headquarters of the military districts of the fleets of the general military armies and the caspian flotilla

are stationed . the hall is served traditionally from the peter and paul fortress, 30 volleys will be fired by the division of the mikhailovsky academy, for this they will use two salute batteries consisting of twelve d-44 guns and ten salute installations to fire more than one and a half thousand charges in 10 minutes.

and this is footage from moscow, as you see, 11,000 fireworks will be launched. and for this they use more 70 self-propelled launchers, 30 volleys.

let's now see what is happening in the sky of sevastopol. here are live broadcast footage, there are 30 volleys and fireworks for the production of artillery volleys. the summary calculations of the solar battalions of the southern military district used the e-e 122-mm howitzer d330 76 mm, the zis-3 gun and other installations to launch the farm. impressive footage from moscow is now on your screens. in 10 minutes, 30 volleys this year

use more than 70 self-propelled launchers, and over 11,000 fireworks will be launched into the sky. well, it was a live broadcast of the festive fireworks in various cities of russia, but in general , today russia still celebrates victory day, a holiday sacred in the country that won.