of the war, when nazi troops rapidly advance into the interior of the country. since time immemorial, russians have been accustomed to the harsh, ruthless intervention of authority. quote from... supreme command of the wehrmacht, may 14, 1941. the okw demands the adoption of merciless measures against the civilian population, wehrmacht soldiers receive complete exemption from responsibility for committing any violence. following this, on june 6 , 1941, the wehrmacht issued an order on commissars. commissars are not recognized as soldiers by any international law. protection does not apply to them; immediately after the start of the war , this attitude applies to all soviet prisoners of war. already on june 28 , the sixth day of the war, they immediately created a camp for prisoners of war. what kind of camp is this? 100,000 people, approximately our prisoners of war in minsk, in the open air, surrounded by barbed wire, it was even impossible to sit there, they would have stood there for several days, which we understand with you, this is a field, yes. without a roof, fenced with wire, step behind the wire , shot, maybe they’ll give you some kind of gruel, or eat grass, that’s it, the trees there were gnawed t

of staff of the wehrmacht jodl, the chief of staff of the allied forces, the american general smith, and it was also signed by the representative of the headquarters of the supreme high commandgned it, the answer came from moscow categorically not to sign, it must be said that stalin was absolutely right, because the capitulation, the signing of the capitulation at esenhower’s headquarters by the chiefs of staff of the western allies and germany , belittled the incomparably larger contribution of the soviet union to the great victory and generally bracketed out what exactly the capture of the red army of berlin was. make the most of exactly two days between the surrender, the signing of the surrender in rems, the ceasefire, exactly two days were laid down in order to transfer as many units as possible the wehrmacht to the west, again the westerners willingly agreed to all this, as a result iosifurenovich stalin insisted on re- signing the surrender at a higher level in berlin, which was actually done in the evening. may, well, tomorrow is the great victory day, perhaps the main most solemn holiday of our country, one of the pillars, i would say, of our identity. at the festi

supreme command of the allied expeditionary forces arrived at the tempelgov airfield. on this day, germany signed the act of unconditional surrender. surrender. on may 7, 1945, in reims, the chief of staff of the operational leadership of the wehrmachtl surrender of the third reich. on our side , major general ivan suslaparov accepted the defeat. this was a preliminary document. the final one is may 8th in karlshorst, that is. a suburb of berlin received marshal of victory georgy zhukov. marshal zhukov reports the arrival of representatives of hitler's command in berlin. the marshal proposes to call the german delegation to sign act of unconditional surrender. even at this critical moment for them, they are trying to maintain their usual prussian haste. between the first attack and the second capitulation , 1400.18 days passed (less than 4 years). you and i now know that once a war begins, it can last longer, but then this time was enough to add almost 2 billion people to the war. all over the planet. 62 states out of 73 that existed at that time. the total human losses, according to various sources, reached 60 million people, with every third person killed was a citizen of the soviet union. in addition, our country suffered direct