we've been scaring for quite a long time, it's unnatural. scolding ourselves now offer us scolding to repent and be ashamed of our past july 2009. vilnius meeting of the osce parliamentary session, adopted by a resolution, equalizes the roles of the ussr and nazi germany in unleashing the most bloody massacre in the history of mankind. who attacked whom on june 22, 1941, did we attack germany or germany attacked us? what kind of nonsense? 75 years ago, we didn't just win the war. we saved the world from fascism at an exorbitant price. today they are trying to make us forget about the 26 million dead, to convince us that our fathers and grandfathers were not warriors, liberators, but aggressors and occupiers, and to betray the memory of heroes. the living and

the dead the war healed like an old wound, but it still hurts we all grew up on the stories of our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers, but merciless time witnesses of those years are leaving us, and with them the memory of what this war really was . i go to school and there i encounter perfect knowledge.

the past cannot be changed, but it turns out can be replaced neatly step by step. and now the criminals become heroes punishers honest soldiers. and in nazi germany, it turns out, not everything was bad. hitler was a man who really wanted to make germany a great country a model country. 80 years ago, irm fried brendhal also dreamed of a greater germany right after school. he enrolled in the wehrmacht volunteers the third reich was already victoriously marching across europe and the german boys were rushing to the front. i'm not sorry, i proudly served as a soldier, and then an officer

i am proud that the coat of arms survived this war. brendale returned from captivity, opened his own construction company and made a fortune on the restoration of post-war germany veteran. the wehrmacht likes to repeat exactly the war. made him what he is now and does not understand. why today in his country they do not like to remember the old days so much, which makes me angry that in germany old experienced people are asked very little, for example. those who were in the third reich, my friend, are not interested, but they prefer to hush up. reich's answer. nobody wants to talk in order to avoid some problems. back in 2010, this former nazi would not have dared to say even half of what he boldly declares in 2020 in certain circles of german society is clearly ending the effect of the vaccine received in forty-five. and now they

are trying to persuade us, the victors of the nazism, to be less proud of our past. and here now they get photographs that have not been shown to anyone for decades. here you can see me already equipped during the first fights on the way to france dunkirk is in france. for example, i also participated here rotterdam. yes, i was an avid photographer. private karl heinsmeier traveled all over europe with a rifle and a camera by the summer of 1941 . he has accumulated a lot of awards, and showing this card from him, karl no longer hides his pride in a successful shot in occupied brussels . then the door opens and hitler keitel and a couple of officers come out. i immediately got camera out of his pocket and snapped a photo, and they let him

do it hitler even nodded again. i greeted him like this. a few months after this meeting, private mayer had already fought on the eastern front, fought for the führer , made germany great and believed that he was protecting his homeland from us. dasha everything he does is right , later we realized that he waged a preventive war, because the russians were ready to enter europe here later, that is, ordinary mayer already at his venerable age we convinced him that he, together with the fuhrer, fought against russian preventive war. and they were right from the fuhrer, otherwise stalin would have attacked europe, the reichslaver

of propaganda of the third reich, joseph goebels, at one time, formulated 10 rules of what in our time will be called information warfare, one of them is the most famous, the more monstrous the lie. the easier it is to believe in her death is dead, but the lie that the russians wanted to attack europe today is forced to believe. what do you think, by whom and for what purpose today launched a gigantic process of rewriting history from maybe this indeed, someone's purposeful work to revive nazism is such a risk, in general, history has nothing to do with it. this is relevant to today, this is a tool for solving internal political issues of today for some countries, uh, which u rely on certain circles within their country, uh, and

exaggerate this problem in every possible way, but the problem of the problem that there is an internal political struggle in some countries and i repeat. e. those who are does. hmm, they are cheering up their electorate. that's the way. about why, in fact, hitler turned his gaze to the east, eloquently, the letters of his soldiers testify. here it is . for example, from the field paramedic gubert schens, the date on the envelope on june 22 forty-one is written to their bride in germany. soon there will be reports of the conquest of the territory. it'll cheer you up, because it looks like we've moved on, when we're done with the russians , only the british will be left, not the top, dear. i am i think we will soon see the end of the war, but a letter from private karl günther is written to his father from the eastern front. he boasts that he found an excellent hat in a destroyed house and about how the

reich will get rich on the occupied lands, during our march we capture huge warehouses with food and other useful things. the german administration is working to organize the harvest of the local huge fields, relatively little affected by the war, ukrainian grain gives german bread, the so-called german bread and the same german butter, sugar, meat, mercilessly took away from the inhabitants of the occupied soviet villages, where soon people were dying of hunger. but the heroes of the third reich, going on vacation. the fuhrer's packages were received in germany. here they are coupons for gourmet food packages, but they wanted to take more with them from the ussr, the same karl winter dreamed in a letter. i would still take two ukraines. they are not spoiled, hardworking, decent, but with good treatment. they will do a much

better job than our german housekeepers, perhaps something can still be arranged. these letters, and here we read tens of thousands of them in the archives of the berlin museum of communications. you can listen for a long time how someone justifies hitler by the fact that he attacked the ussr defending europe from stalin, but the german soldiers themselves knew for sure. why did they come with weapons to a foreign country? the road today was pleasant and calm but stallions and calves graze in the meadows. if not for the war, one could say that the view is magnificent. i think that in a couple of years it will be possible to supply the whole of europe from here such evidence, european historians and politicians today prefer to hush up instead . according to the ideological fashion, they nod at the ground-bentrop pact, they say. here it is a direct proof of the cooperation of the two-cannibalistic regimes. the soviet union made tremendous

efforts to create an anti-hitler pact. no one supported more than that in the thirty- eighth year, uh, the leading western countries and great britain and france met hitler with musalini and signed the relevant documents, which we always called the minusinsk conspiracy and we gave czechoslovakia to be torn apart and no matter how pleasant or unpleasant it was for someone, but poland took part in this and so on and in fact the soviet union, in the late eighties, condemned the secret part, and the pact hammer time trail, but why why not today hmm our colleagues do the same, do not condemn this one, the division of czechoslovakia the soviet union was generally the last of the largest powers that signed an attack with germany somehow, before everyone signed it. and what is the basis for

accusing the soviet union of preparing and unleashing the second world war? sunday at exactly 3:00 am, our guns opened fire on russian territory for four hours and 10 minutes, after artillery preparation. we crossed the border at that moment german tanks rumble next to me, which are moving to the east, apparently we caught the russians by surprise. 4 hours i remember how now i decided to go for a little something. above our tents, german heavy commanders drop these we called potatoes. and all the planes that we had at the airfield were destroyed. yesterday we passed

by a red airfield in the forest, soviet planes stood in a row. some burned out, others badly damaged. the very first day. they were destroyed on earth. nearby lay many bombs in the writings of western historians. the first days of the battles on the eastern front are usually described as the absolute triumph of the nazi war machine. german soldiers parade across soviet soil, and the defeated and demoralized red army soldiers thousands are being taken prisoner. in reality, nowhere else has the wehrmacht encountered such stubborn resistance. the road along which we are walking is seine, cars burned out by soviet tanks and their corpses captured here, few are killed. the russians are hiding in the

forests and fields and suddenly appear and shoot at full speed. last night. they thus completely destroyed the obosses with food for the infantrymen, your captives or a few russians one of them suddenly. i put the group in my pocket and threw a grenade, two of our unit died later for a short time, one lieutenant and three privates were killed in the same way on the eighth day of the war, the chief of staff of the ground forces, franz halter, will note in his diary the resistance of the russians forcing us to fight according to all the rules of our combat regulations in poland and in the west. we could afford a certain liberties. now this is no longer acceptable. and here is what the german soldiers themselves wrote. this war requires a lot of sacrifices from the german people, when we find out at the end, we will have to be horrified by the total number of the fallen. many the graves along the roads testify to this double. it is so heavy here that the campaign

against france was in comparison and probably just a walk. in a couple of days our connections will be replaced by a too great loss. france capitulated in less than a month and a half. belgium could not stand it and for three weeks most of europe surrendered almost without a fight. before the attack on the ussr, the germans were sure that they would pass through our land, easily and quickly, as at the parade, sobering up was cruel during the first three months of the war against in the soviet union, the germans lost half a million people, one and a half times more than in the previous two years. our anti-aircraft gunners in the world it was a red-haired children at under 2 m for a tall

guy. he smiled impudently and said, come me to your commander. i am an officer of the reich and i am authorized to accept the surrender. you can give it to me it was the forty-first year. that's when we poured the blockade, i had to meet. with what they dragged, guys. he surrendered to any and every soviet soldier. he reported that hitler was kaput. he no longer wanted fight. here is another interesting message from the front, the german soldier karl helt wrote a letter on a blank soviet combat sheet, apparently, he wanted to brag to his friends. or maybe just time to look for another paper. the private did not have his unit urgently

transferred to moscow, my parents will also be happy when i say hello from russia next year there will still be an operation against england, if i get out of there alive, then i will be glad to take off my soldier's uniform. despite the huge loss of mood in the german troops, then it was still victorious, but bewilderment was already slipping between the lines in the letters of the soldiers. why do the russians keep resisting? it would be high time to give up like the rest of civilized europe dear hilda i hope the war will end soon the führer radiated the will to win in his speech, you can imagine how happy we all would be at the end of the campaign, because the hardships are getting more and more severe for a few more weeks. we will continue with pleasure, but then we have to finish. these letters, which have never been published before, show that the germans in the forty-first they did not even allow themselves to doubt their victory, they even

arranged a sweepstakes. how much longer will it last? moscow i'm fine. we are already making bets here that the war will end by october 30th. i don't mind. i kiss your erns sheremetyevo airport is on the left of us and the klyazma river is on the right to the center of moscow from here in a straight line 24 km. in november of the forty-first year, this whole village. the germans were already here. them. it seemed that literally the last spurt and moscow they will take in good weather. from this bell tower the germans through binoculars could easily see the towers of the kremlin. on november 7, 1941, it was cloudy in moscow, low clouds, german aviation remained at the airfields about what was happening in the soviet capital, the wehrmacht command learned not from intelligence reports, but from

reports from the information bureau. on this day, the famous parade was held on red square, not yet winners , but definitely not defeated at 6:00 in the morning, we were raised, as if on alarm, put in a car and taken out. now i remember which streets through kuibyshev street and immediately to red square we are here landed put us in line with all the soldiers, and then came out in steel, capable of destroying. everything is looking at you for the sake of his temporary german villages. yes, be worthy of these great our commanders.

i will remember his words, because they not only listened to us, who we stood on the cobblestones on red square, but the entire soviet union inspired these patriotic words forward, and we moved forward. it is known that when hitler found out about this parade, he was furious at his plans. the wehrmacht had long been supposed to occupy moscow with troops. even managed to start boxes with iron crosses to reward the heroes of the reich for the capture of the soviet capital, however, some german soldiers in moscow on red square in those days still turned out to be one of them, wolfgang morel, the war lasted only 12 days for him. in the first battle, private moth was captured. you are a very

close person for us with saliva, you have been together since childhood. accept they will come. are you sure what you're doing? is the leadership of the country correct? humble yourself. you already shot reeds, then you didn’t give such material to your report unique from the creators of the film the battle for

sevastopol thanks to military cameramen. we can see the truth with our own eyes. first oscar

i really love to tell this moment. i had a thing in the bag was a pack of german cigarettes not yet opened. they opened it. each of the smokers received a cigarette, and no one believed the rest of it, then to give back german cigarettes to a german soldier and this simply could not be. i'll be completely honest if i were a unit commander. i would also give these cigarettes, and the rest. i would hide the captured germans in myself, then they filmed it on a movie camera, soviet front-line correspondents. almost 80 years later. we

managed to find these shots. here, he is an ordinary morl under the escort of soviet soldiers, he was taken away. they were interrogated and sent to the rear. there was a driver who took us to the hospital in some roundabout way. why he took us so we understood, then the driver wanted us to see moscow, because the russians then managed to protect moscow from the german attack. and we were taken up the mountain through the red square at this very time, the invincible wehrmacht for the first time suffered a monstrous defeat. almost 600,000 germans were left lying in the fields near moscow, so many fascist corpses. all the snowy fields of the moscow region were strewn with the corpses of the enemy. somewhere our lads. they even inserted a project-deck so as not to

stray the corpses and the frozen nazis. and in some places there were whole cars. you see, frozen ones, so the battles near moscow gave us complete hope of our victory . the whole world then was intensely watching the course of the battle near moscow. recognize that the best in in the world, the soldiers had already stopped, the allegedly defeated red army in the hd reich could not be managed by joseph goebbels, they had to urgently come up with a convincing excuse, first of all for the germans themselves. we simply weren't ready. in such cold weather, the command of our ground forces was a big mistake that it did not take into account even the snow. don't wake up in russia on the other side.

the russians were very warmly dressed for this, if we took one of them into captivity, they took away his coat and put it on ourselves along with fleas, who were sitting there just like that, the explanation of the failures of the nazis near moscow dominates today in the writings of european and american historians, the soviet capital, they say, was saved not by the courage and self-sacrifice of the soviet fighters, but the autumn will unravel and a terrible frost only casually cited figures western researchers believe the ussr lost a million people killed near moscow and according to russian data, only 900,000 were wounded from them. and almost a million more - these are the dead and the missing earth. i lost consciousness. when night fell, the orderlies began to pick up the wounded, i did

not feel my legs collapse. well, imagine, i lost the phalanges of my fingers. arok i lost the phalanges of my legs alexander fetisov, like millions of his peers, went to the front as a volunteer right after school, and six months later he became an invalid. then the young man seemed that life was over. i ended up with others in moscow. but one day. i keep. there, on the trestle bed, one commander says i will lay the pistol next to me when i finish the dressing. i will take him. what should i do i'd rather shoot myself with a gun nearby. i was thinking, i was thinking what to do with this gun. 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. and 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 press to celebrate victory day and our descendants should celebrate this great holiday, he brought happiness to mankind and the most the best that a person has.

this is the outskirts. nevsky 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 charge, 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 look at the burning 80 years have passed. and here all living things breathe those battles and after that someone will say that this war can be forgotten. they constantly tried to move to the left bank of the niva, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bpyatachka nevsky, to the miltan, swallowed up about 11,000. these are only those who drowned. this is the situation for 2 months. well

, there was life expectancy. on average, i have just heard the news about leningrad is already completely encircled and will soon support. i hope that the city capitulates in time, otherwise it will be smashed at any time. this letter is dated september 8, the forty-first day of the blockade. a few days later, realizing that it would not be possible to take the northern capital from a toe, hitler accepted another decision was not to take leningrad, but to destroy it , along with the population, with cold, hunger and continuous bombing. it's the seventh of september. bombs began to fall. first time for us. even that was interesting. we imagine we went to see, what is the destroyed house in september 1941 , galina nikolaevna was nine years old.