oradour. this is what it looks like today. it is still in ruins. the french decided after the war that they would never rebuild, they would leave the ruins, preserve them as they were left at the end of the war as a memorial to what the nazis did. and, we have these photos of what oradour looks like, today, literally, today , because this morning, the president of france and president of germany visited the ruins at oradour to commemorate what they call the martyrdom of that village, to remember what happened in europe, in france under fascist occupation. now this is not the first time that french president, emmanuel macron, has visited oradour. 10 days before he was first elected president, he went there, he visited the village just before he was elected president. he visited in the company of a man who was then the last living survivor of that massacre. i said the nazis killed everyone in the village, at least everyone they could find, the nazis did kill over 600 civilians that day. but, there were about half a dozen people from the village, who

now, in 1944, about six months after oradour happened, the germans were still hanging on. but thanks in large part to the d-day invasion, they knew by the end of 1944 that they were losing. they were losing to soviet forces in the east, for sure. they were also simultaneously losing to the allied forces coming in from the west. once the allies opened that new western front with the d-day invasion, they started pressing their advantage against the nazis everywhere. not only liberating france, they clearly intend to liberate everywhere the nazis have taken over. they're pressing toward germany itself. hitler knows that his military is on the ropes. it cannot sustain the losses they're taking on both the eastern and western fronts. and so about six months after d-day, about six months after oradour, hitler decides he's going to mount a surprise of his own. he decides he's going to mount a huge german counteroffensive in belgium against the allies. the allies are basically closing in on germany's own borders and when hitler musters hundreds of thousands of men to mount a count

i watch solemn remembrance at oradour sur glane and think about our own former british prime ministerjohnson, proudly celebrating as heroes. members of the ukrainian azov brigade, an outfit formed in 2014 with the aim, according to its then leader , of ridding to its then leader, of ridding the world of semite untermensch . the world of semite untermensch. i watch all this and ask myself again who won the second world war? were the nazis the baddies or not? the world has not been more dangerous than it is now, at any moment, in any of our lifetimes, when the cuban missile crisis unfolded in 1962, the us president, john f kennedy, was fully compos mentis , certainly able to make his own way to the restroom when required . and the soviet required. and the soviet premier, nikita khrushchev, could walk in a straight line unassisted by nurse ratchet. i don't know if sunak enjoys being at war with russia, although it's hard to imagine any sane human being enjoying such a predicament . i don't know if joe predicament. i don't know if joe biden even knows his country is at war with russia. vl

occupiers turned almost the entire countryside into a desert zone, khatyn, how many such villages we had, oradourith their people. the damage caused by the occupiers amounted to astronomical figure: 75 billion rubles. this man was left alone in the world, his parents, wife, children, all here under his native birch trees. and how can one not understand the sadness of the folk singer of belarus, yakub kolos? the war took every fourth person from us, the pain of the heart does not subside even after a decade. so where did we start, going to the west to finish off the enemy, we left these inscriptions as commandments for those who remained to revive life. the war threw belarus back to the level of 1913. another national feat lay ahead. this time at the front labor. the first houses are being built in minsk. with us is the former leader of the partisan movement, pantileimon kondratevich-panarenko. the village of myshkovichie , war hero kirill prokofievich orlovsky returned to his homeland. the first furrows. sighed under the plow of the lying earth, the youth, where they moved from all over belarus,

, there is not yet a stove from sventsem, there is not yet, so to speak, khatyn, there is not yet oradour yet liditsa, but this is already fascism is already fascism, we will fight it, and we will not avoid this war, colleague, what does it mean to the end and where is this end, okay, you tell us what is the problem with this special one. operations, hear me, that there was always a calculation that they would not go to the end, they came in first a limited grouping in the country with the first territory in europe, without strengthening, then, it means that they did not calculate all these points with their assets that were confiscated, today we are talking to the end, let’s say the total gdp, the total gdp of the russian federation is a hundred times less than the total coalition gdp if we delay. we did not achieve the goal, we annexed two regions to ourselves on the basis of our constitution, do you think that this is just like that? now what you, please do not mix up the tactical mistakes that indeed there were during hostilities, but we are learning, we are learning, we are correctin

example, when the das reich division, went , went into when the das reich division, went, went into oradourbe a tax on them as they moved through france by people who were resident in that place. they were wrong and they massacred the entire village because they'd been attacked again and again and again on their way westward towards the beaches by the french resistance. and so we must remember, this was an allied effort that, you know, in the liberation of france, of course, there were the french troops, there were the french troops, there were the polish troops . there were the polish troops. basically, it was a multinational army that launched the liberation. absolutely. >> and martin, i must i must ask you, we've been watching the torch of commemoration make its tour around the uk. we've been heanng tour around the uk. we've been hearing about how important it is that people continue to remember what happened. would love to hear your view on this, how important it is to continue the teaching of history, the teaching of moments like d—day. >> absolutely crucial. crucial because history re