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In 1942, Kostya Feoktistov at the age of sixteen, escaped to the front, joined reconnaissance missions disguised as an ordinary boy, and brought back invaluable information about the enemy's location.
🔻During one mission, he was captured by a German patrol. An SS officer took Kostya to a pit, shooting him in the head.
🔻The Nazis assumed the boy was dead and left. However, Kostya regained consciousness after a while, waited for darkness, and crossed the river to his own side, despite his severe injury.
🔻The bullet, as it turned out later, had passed through his chin and neck, exiting the other side.
🔻Kostya Feoktistov recovered, finished school and the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
🔻Seven years later, the young and talented engineer Feoktistov was already drawing blueprints for spacecraft, and in 1964, he flew into space on a ship of his own design, without a spacesuit.
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🔻During one mission, he was captured by a German patrol. An SS officer took Kostya to a pit, shooting him in the head.
🔻The Nazis assumed the boy was dead and left. However, Kostya regained consciousness after a while, waited for darkness, and crossed the river to his own side, despite his severe injury.
🔻The bullet, as it turned out later, had passed through his chin and neck, exiting the other side.
🔻Kostya Feoktistov recovered, finished school and the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
🔻Seven years later, the young and talented engineer Feoktistov was already drawing blueprints for spacecraft, and in 1964, he flew into space on a ship of his own design, without a spacesuit.
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Meanwhile in the world of boring press meetings, the pro-Russian news organization Anna News - the same organization that risked their journos to get some truly neat footage from the Syrian civil war a decade ago - held a small conference about World War II.
The conference was attended - partly online - by public figures from Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and a small country of South Ossetia, which was a part of the reason the Russian-Georgian war happened in 2008. Today South Ossetia doesn't consider itself part of Georgia, which greatly irritates Georgia - but that's a separate long story.
The conference's participants spoke for about an hour about matters they consider important, and they agreed that the USSR won the WW2 thanks to the unity of countries within the USSR. Which is technically true - if the entire USSR disintegrated during the World War II - it would have greatly hampered the war effort.
Anyway, after this "press hang-out" of sorts, a resolution was adopted by the participants - it's aimed to "preserve the truth about the war, to pass on the history to posterity, and to protect the history itself", from what the participants called "the distortion of history." They also mentioned the issues of combating neo-Nazism, world peace, etc. A rather boring meeting, unlike the footage from active combat zones the Anna News gets sometimes. Why does everything have to become corporate and boring?
#WW2 #USSR #history
The conference was attended - partly online - by public figures from Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and a small country of South Ossetia, which was a part of the reason the Russian-Georgian war happened in 2008. Today South Ossetia doesn't consider itself part of Georgia, which greatly irritates Georgia - but that's a separate long story.
The conference's participants spoke for about an hour about matters they consider important, and they agreed that the USSR won the WW2 thanks to the unity of countries within the USSR. Which is technically true - if the entire USSR disintegrated during the World War II - it would have greatly hampered the war effort.
Anyway, after this "press hang-out" of sorts, a resolution was adopted by the participants - it's aimed to "preserve the truth about the war, to pass on the history to posterity, and to protect the history itself", from what the participants called "the distortion of history." They also mentioned the issues of combating neo-Nazism, world peace, etc. A rather boring meeting, unlike the footage from active combat zones the Anna News gets sometimes. Why does everything have to become corporate and boring?
#WW2 #USSR #history
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#Victory81
🗓 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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✉️ Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s greetings on the occasion of the 250th Anniversary of United States independence (July 4, 2026)
✍️ This remarkable anniversary — the 250th Anniversary of United States independence — is being celebrated at a highly consequential moment for the world order. Despite the strenuous resistance of Western countries, a more just and balanced multipolar model of international development is asserting itself to replace the era of their global hegemony.
Over the past two and a half centuries, the United States has traversed a path at an accelerated pace that has taken other nations many hundreds of years. This path has been marked by both profound creative impetus and expansion, as well as domestic upheavals.
At critical moments in United States history — during the struggle for independence from the British Crown and throughout the course of the Civil War — Russia consistently rendered support for the establishment and preservation of American statehood. The alliance between our nations during #WW2 continues to serve as a testament to our shared resolve to oppose any manifestations of fascism, Nazism, and the ideology of national exceptionalism.
🇺🇳 #UNCharterIsOurRules: Russia remains steadfast in its commitment to the principles of the #UNCharter, which our country, together with the United States and other victorious powers, placed at the foundation of the post-war system of international relations — a system that, to this day, stands as a legal and moral touchstone for humanity.
I am confident that, by fostering candid dialogue grounded in equality, mutual respect, and non-interference in internal affairs, and by prioritising the mutual consideration of fundamental national interests, Russia and the United States are well placed to achieve substantive results and jointly identify effective solutions to the most complex global and regional challenges.
I extend my congratulations to the American people. I wish them peace and prosperity, in the hope that the precepts of the United States Declaration of Independence enshrining the right of every individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness may be fully realised.
✍️ This remarkable anniversary — the 250th Anniversary of United States independence — is being celebrated at a highly consequential moment for the world order. Despite the strenuous resistance of Western countries, a more just and balanced multipolar model of international development is asserting itself to replace the era of their global hegemony.
Over the past two and a half centuries, the United States has traversed a path at an accelerated pace that has taken other nations many hundreds of years. This path has been marked by both profound creative impetus and expansion, as well as domestic upheavals.
At critical moments in United States history — during the struggle for independence from the British Crown and throughout the course of the Civil War — Russia consistently rendered support for the establishment and preservation of American statehood. The alliance between our nations during #WW2 continues to serve as a testament to our shared resolve to oppose any manifestations of fascism, Nazism, and the ideology of national exceptionalism.
🇺🇳 #UNCharterIsOurRules: Russia remains steadfast in its commitment to the principles of the #UNCharter, which our country, together with the United States and other victorious powers, placed at the foundation of the post-war system of international relations — a system that, to this day, stands as a legal and moral touchstone for humanity.
I am confident that, by fostering candid dialogue grounded in equality, mutual respect, and non-interference in internal affairs, and by prioritising the mutual consideration of fundamental national interests, Russia and the United States are well placed to achieve substantive results and jointly identify effective solutions to the most complex global and regional challenges.
I extend my congratulations to the American people. I wish them peace and prosperity, in the hope that the precepts of the United States Declaration of Independence enshrining the right of every individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness may be fully realised.
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#Victory81
🌟 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.
#OurVictory
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.
***
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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