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🇷🇺🏴 The library in the Scottish town of Airdrie recently opened an exhibition dedicated to one of the most touching chapters in the history of relations between the peoples of our countries: the "Scottish Album," which was sent by the women of that town to the residents of besieged Leningrad in the fall of 1941, and the "Leningrad Album," which was sent in return from the encircled "northern capital" to Scotland.
The exhibition features copies of two albums. The first contains handwritten messages of support, poems by Robert Burns, and drawings, as well as the signatures of several thousand female workers of plants and factories, members of communist organizations, and parishioners of churches in Airdrie and Coatbridge. The album, prepared over the course of two weeks, was handed over to the Soviet embassy in London and then shipped to Leningrad. In the besieged city, these words of support were read out loud at public meetings. The residents of Leningrad needed to know that even in distant Scotland, their heroic struggle and the trials they endured were not forgotten.
In early 1942, an album was created in response, containing watercolours and lithographs depicting Leningrad, words of gratitude and determination to confront the common enemy, and thousands of signatures from women of the city on the Neva. In 1943, the album arrived in Airdrie and became the centrepiece of the "Russia Week" exhibition.
Copies of the albums are available for viewing by appointment. The exhibition also features archival materials about the creation of the "Scottish Album" and events held in the region during those years to raise funds to support the Soviet Union fighting fascism, as well as the book "Immortal Regiment" featuring memoirs by St. Petersburg schoolchildren about their great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers who heroically defended our homeland.
🤝 On the eve of Victory Day, Consul General of Russia in Edinburgh Denis Moskalenko and his wife visited the exhibition and thanked the staff of the Airdrie Library for their contribution to preserving the memory of the heroism of the residents of besieged Leningrad and the joint struggle of our peoples against Nazism during World War II.
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The exhibition features copies of two albums. The first contains handwritten messages of support, poems by Robert Burns, and drawings, as well as the signatures of several thousand female workers of plants and factories, members of communist organizations, and parishioners of churches in Airdrie and Coatbridge. The album, prepared over the course of two weeks, was handed over to the Soviet embassy in London and then shipped to Leningrad. In the besieged city, these words of support were read out loud at public meetings. The residents of Leningrad needed to know that even in distant Scotland, their heroic struggle and the trials they endured were not forgotten.
In early 1942, an album was created in response, containing watercolours and lithographs depicting Leningrad, words of gratitude and determination to confront the common enemy, and thousands of signatures from women of the city on the Neva. In 1943, the album arrived in Airdrie and became the centrepiece of the "Russia Week" exhibition.
Copies of the albums are available for viewing by appointment. The exhibition also features archival materials about the creation of the "Scottish Album" and events held in the region during those years to raise funds to support the Soviet Union fighting fascism, as well as the book "Immortal Regiment" featuring memoirs by St. Petersburg schoolchildren about their great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers who heroically defended our homeland.
🤝 On the eve of Victory Day, Consul General of Russia in Edinburgh Denis Moskalenko and his wife visited the exhibition and thanked the staff of the Airdrie Library for their contribution to preserving the memory of the heroism of the residents of besieged Leningrad and the joint struggle of our peoples against Nazism during World War II.
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🗓 On June 20, 1945, the Red Banner No.5 — the legendary #VictoryBanner — was delivered from defeated Berlin to Moscow.
This was the very Banner that Red Army soldiers of the distinguished 150th Infantry Division — Mikhail Yegorov, Meliton Kantaria, and Alexey Berest — had raised over the Reichstag on the night of May 1, 1945.
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The Red Banner, riddled by Nazi bullets and stained with blood, became the main sacred relic of the Soviet people, the symbol of Victory in #WW2.
🎖 The great honour to deliver the legendary Banner to our Motherland was granted to the famous Red Army soldiers — the Heroes of the Battle of Berlin — Sergeants Yegorov, Kantaria, Syanov and Captain Neustroev, who, shoulder-to-shoulder, during the most fierce and bloody battles with the Nazis, raised the Victory Banner over the dome of the defeated Reichstag.
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On May 22, 1945, the Soviet 'Krasnaya Zvezda' (the Red Star) national newspaper reported the following:
Upon being delivered to Moscow, the Victory Banner was initially placed at the headquarters of the battalion of the 1st Belarussian Front. Later, the legendary Banner was sent to the Central Museum of the Armed Forces, where it remains today.
🇷🇺 The legendary Red Banner is a symbol of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the key relic of honour for all the peoples of our country as well as the descendants of the Victorious generation in the former Soviet Union republics.
🗓 On June 20, 1945, the Red Banner No.5 — the legendary #VictoryBanner — was delivered from defeated Berlin to Moscow.
This was the very Banner that Red Army soldiers of the distinguished 150th Infantry Division — Mikhail Yegorov, Meliton Kantaria, and Alexey Berest — had raised over the Reichstag on the night of May 1, 1945.
Learn more about the Battle of Berlin
The Red Banner, riddled by Nazi bullets and stained with blood, became the main sacred relic of the Soviet people, the symbol of Victory in #WW2.
🎖 The great honour to deliver the legendary Banner to our Motherland was granted to the famous Red Army soldiers — the Heroes of the Battle of Berlin — Sergeants Yegorov, Kantaria, Syanov and Captain Neustroev, who, shoulder-to-shoulder, during the most fierce and bloody battles with the Nazis, raised the Victory Banner over the dome of the defeated Reichstag.
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On May 22, 1945, the Soviet 'Krasnaya Zvezda' (the Red Star) national newspaper reported the following:
It was decided to deliver the Banner to Moscow as the historical relic of our military glory. <...>
The Victory Banner is to be delivered, by the guard of honour, to the capital of our great Motherland, where it is to be kept for further generations in the memory of the Great Victory.
Upon being delivered to Moscow, the Victory Banner was initially placed at the headquarters of the battalion of the 1st Belarussian Front. Later, the legendary Banner was sent to the Central Museum of the Armed Forces, where it remains today.
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🕯 June 22 is the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow – a date commemorated across Russia and other CIS countries.
At dawn on June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany treacherously invaded the Soviet Union. Thus began the Great Patriotic War.
On this day, Russians remember their fallen relatives and compatriots – the 27 million Soviet people whose lives were taken by the war.
Yet on that very first day, words were spoken that foretold its outcome:
During the war, some 34 million people served in the Red Army. Nearly 8.7 million never returned home.
The war lasted 1️⃣,4️⃣1️⃣8️⃣ days and nights. It ended in Berlin – with the Red Banner raised over the defeated Reichstag and the signing of Germany’s unconditional surrender.
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At dawn on June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany treacherously invaded the Soviet Union. Thus began the Great Patriotic War.
On this day, Russians remember their fallen relatives and compatriots – the 27 million Soviet people whose lives were taken by the war.
Yet on that very first day, words were spoken that foretold its outcome:
“Our cause is just. The enemy will be defeated. #Victory will be ours”.
During the war, some 34 million people served in the Red Army. Nearly 8.7 million never returned home.
The war lasted 1️⃣,4️⃣1️⃣8️⃣ days and nights. It ended in Berlin – with the Red Banner raised over the defeated Reichstag and the signing of Germany’s unconditional surrender.
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The Soviet Union entered the Great Patriotic War to the words of the immortal song The Sacred War:
Arise, vast country,
Arise for a fight to the death
Against the dark fascist force,
Against the cursed horde.
Let noble wrath
Boil over like a wave!
This is the people's war,
A Sacred War!
This people’s war also took the form of a spontaneous and nationwide partisan movement.
📄 On June 29, 1941, a directive was issued calling for resistance in territories occupied by the Nazi invaders:
In areas occupied by the enemy, partisan detachments and sabotage groups are to be formed to fight units of the enemy army, to ignite partisan warfare everywhere, to blow up bridges and roads, damage telephone and telegraph communications, set fire to warehouses, and so on.
In the occupied areas, unbearable conditions must be created for the enemy and all his accomplices – they must be pursued and destroyed at every step.
⚔️ The partisan and underground resistance involved around 1 million fighters and 6,200 partisan units. They destroyed 20,000 enemy trains and helped eliminate 600,000 invaders.
🎥 © Russian Military Historical Society
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✍️ On this day 85 years ago, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom concluded the Anglo-Soviet Agreement on Joint Actions in the War Against Germany.
The document was signed in Moscow on 12 July 1941 by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and British Ambassador to Moscow Stafford Cripps, just weeks after Nazi Germany invaded the USSR. Both sides pledged to support each other in every possible way during the war and undertook not to negotiate or sign a separate peace with Germany.
The Agreement brought together two nations with profoundly different political systems in the face of a common enemy and laid the foundation for the Anti-Hitler Coalition. It was broadened the following year by the Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London in May 1942.
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The document was signed in Moscow on 12 July 1941 by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and British Ambassador to Moscow Stafford Cripps, just weeks after Nazi Germany invaded the USSR. Both sides pledged to support each other in every possible way during the war and undertook not to negotiate or sign a separate peace with Germany.
The Agreement brought together two nations with profoundly different political systems in the face of a common enemy and laid the foundation for the Anti-Hitler Coalition. It was broadened the following year by the Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London in May 1942.
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🌟 On July 12, 1943, the #BattleOfProkhorovka took place — the most brutal tank battle in history, which had a profound impact on further course of the Battle of Kursk and the entire #WW2.
In terms of both its scale and the number of armor units engaged, the Battle of Prokhorovka remains unparalleled in military history, with up to 1,200 tanks and self-propelled guns (SPGs) involved in that combat from both sides.
Having crushed the Nazi armor units at Prokhorovka, the Soviet forces deprived the enemy of its offensive potential near Kursk and launched a decisive counteroffensive in the battle.
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By July 1943, a huge part of our country’s territory was still under the Nazi occupation. The Nazis continued to hold Minsk and Kiev, but following the Wehrmacht’s defeat at Stalingrad and in the Caucasus, the offensive capabilities of the Nazi war machine had been effectively exhausted.
In an effort to regain the strategic initiative on the Eastern Front, the Wehrmacht command developed a summer offensive plan, codenamed Operation 'Citadel'. The objective was to destroy two Red Army fronts simultaneously — the Voronezh and Central fronts — and to eliminate Soviet tank reserves near Prokhorovka in the Belgorod Region.
❗️ Had the operation succeeded, the Nazis would once again have embarked on the offensive on Moscow.
In preparing the operation, the Nazi command intended to deliver its main strike against Soviet positions using its elite and most combat-ready armoured formations. Hitler’s Army Groups 'Centre' and 'South' were reinforced with approximately 130 'Tiger' tanks and more than 200 'Panthers'. The Nazis also committed the Ferdinand heavy self-propelled artillery unit, equipped with powerful armour, to the operation.
By July 10, despite suffering heavy losses, German forces had managed to penetrate the defences of the Voronezh Front, but their further advance was halted.
Under these circumstances, the command of Army Group 'South', led by Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, planned to launch a surprise attack near Prokhorovka using the SS Panzer Corps and Army Detachment 'Kempf'. From there, the invaders hoped to break through to the city of Kursk with lightning speed.
⚔️ On July 12, in an effort to disrupt the enemy offensive, forces of the Voronezh Front launched a pre-emptive strike. The operation was commanded by Lieutenant General Pavel Rotmistrov. Near Prokhorovka, the German II SS Panzer Corps clashed with two Soviet Guards Armies: the 5th Guards Army under the command of Alexey Zhadov and the 5th Guards Tank Army commanded by Rotmistrov.
After completing a 30-50-kilometre night march, Soviet tank units launched their offensive at 6:00 am, following a powerful artillery barrage. At the same time, Soviet aircraft carried out massive air strikes against enemy positions.
By the end of the day, Prokhorovka remained in the rear of Soviet forces.
❗️ The defeat suffered by the Nazis in this battle had catastrophic consequences for the Reich, with the enemy losing over 300 of the 400 tanks it had committed, which amounted to three-quarters of its deployed armoured vehicles.
☝️ As a result of the Soviet forces' decisive actions, the main forces of the German Army Group 'South' finally exhausted their offensive capabilities and, on July 16, had to abandon the positions they had occupied at the start of the Battle of Kursk.
The strategic initiative ultimately passed to the Red Army.
Today, Western pseudo-historians and propagandists posing as journalists attempt to diminish the significance of the battle.
However, history does not deal in hypotheticals, and the facts speak for themselves. 👉 We have repeatedly debunked disinformation circulated in Western media regarding the Battle of Prokhorovka.
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In terms of both its scale and the number of armor units engaged, the Battle of Prokhorovka remains unparalleled in military history, with up to 1,200 tanks and self-propelled guns (SPGs) involved in that combat from both sides.
Having crushed the Nazi armor units at Prokhorovka, the Soviet forces deprived the enemy of its offensive potential near Kursk and launched a decisive counteroffensive in the battle.
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By July 1943, a huge part of our country’s territory was still under the Nazi occupation. The Nazis continued to hold Minsk and Kiev, but following the Wehrmacht’s defeat at Stalingrad and in the Caucasus, the offensive capabilities of the Nazi war machine had been effectively exhausted.
In an effort to regain the strategic initiative on the Eastern Front, the Wehrmacht command developed a summer offensive plan, codenamed Operation 'Citadel'. The objective was to destroy two Red Army fronts simultaneously — the Voronezh and Central fronts — and to eliminate Soviet tank reserves near Prokhorovka in the Belgorod Region.
❗️ Had the operation succeeded, the Nazis would once again have embarked on the offensive on Moscow.
In preparing the operation, the Nazi command intended to deliver its main strike against Soviet positions using its elite and most combat-ready armoured formations. Hitler’s Army Groups 'Centre' and 'South' were reinforced with approximately 130 'Tiger' tanks and more than 200 'Panthers'. The Nazis also committed the Ferdinand heavy self-propelled artillery unit, equipped with powerful armour, to the operation.
By July 10, despite suffering heavy losses, German forces had managed to penetrate the defences of the Voronezh Front, but their further advance was halted.
Under these circumstances, the command of Army Group 'South', led by Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, planned to launch a surprise attack near Prokhorovka using the SS Panzer Corps and Army Detachment 'Kempf'. From there, the invaders hoped to break through to the city of Kursk with lightning speed.
⚔️ On July 12, in an effort to disrupt the enemy offensive, forces of the Voronezh Front launched a pre-emptive strike. The operation was commanded by Lieutenant General Pavel Rotmistrov. Near Prokhorovka, the German II SS Panzer Corps clashed with two Soviet Guards Armies: the 5th Guards Army under the command of Alexey Zhadov and the 5th Guards Tank Army commanded by Rotmistrov.
After completing a 30-50-kilometre night march, Soviet tank units launched their offensive at 6:00 am, following a powerful artillery barrage. At the same time, Soviet aircraft carried out massive air strikes against enemy positions.
By the end of the day, Prokhorovka remained in the rear of Soviet forces.
❗️ The defeat suffered by the Nazis in this battle had catastrophic consequences for the Reich, with the enemy losing over 300 of the 400 tanks it had committed, which amounted to three-quarters of its deployed armoured vehicles.
☝️ As a result of the Soviet forces' decisive actions, the main forces of the German Army Group 'South' finally exhausted their offensive capabilities and, on July 16, had to abandon the positions they had occupied at the start of the Battle of Kursk.
The strategic initiative ultimately passed to the Red Army.
Today, Western pseudo-historians and propagandists posing as journalists attempt to diminish the significance of the battle.
However, history does not deal in hypotheticals, and the facts speak for themselves. 👉 We have repeatedly debunked disinformation circulated in Western media regarding the Battle of Prokhorovka.
#OurVictory
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