For 7 hundred years, the Russian people
had to fight incessantly to
prevent conquest in one land
Why
why were all these attempts to
conquer Russia made
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perhaps Russia itself can answer
this question take a
look half the globe
north to south it stretches from the
north pole to the border with india
one country occupies 9 million
square miles
our own country can
fit here three times another about a
million square miles will remain
in the territory of Russia the
sun always shines somewhere when its western
border is twilight it's already dawn on the eastern frontiers by the
pacific ocean
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Or rather the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics
deep in the mountains are rich deposits of
gold and silver
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fox covers millions millions of acres a
quarter of all forest areas
belongs to Russia
and as for fuel such as coal,
it is here many tons of even more important
fuel oil is extracted in the amount of 230
million barrels per year Black gold
flowing from underground it is here 45
percent of the total world reserve what
else is iron in Russia its more than 10
billion tons imagine how much
steel can be made from it
here is the wealth of Russia
fertile land stretches over many
millions of acres that has appeared due to the abundance of
oil and coal allows you to grow anything
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also cotton grows here three
million 800 thousand bales a year and sugar
is bred here a large number of
cattle cows for sheep meat for the sake of wool
as far as the eye can see
grain fields
oats barley rice and most importantly wheat
1/3 better than wheat in the world yes Russia is very
rich
but it has not only raw materials and
agricultural products Russia it is
also people
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193 million people
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skins
people from different republics constituting the
Soviet Union speaking more than a
hundred different languages ​​But this people of one
country
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Who are these great Russian descendants of the
first settlers of these places who
have been the main population for a thousand years
or are they Cossacks famous warriors warriors of the
wide expanses of the Danube River
or maybe they live in southwestern Ukraine
here the granaries of the Soviet Union live
Little Russians known as Ukrainians
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Armenians
Ingush Chechens
living according to the laws of the Caucasian mafia
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or Mongols
or maybe Bashkirs
Tatars Buryats Yakuts from remote places in the
mountains of the Urals
maybe Russians these are people of snowy
regions of permafrost settlers
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Who are the Russians
who are those who live in the wild north or those
who live in the capital Moscow where ancient
monuments of architecture are
interspersed with modern buildings
where old Russian cabs
still compete with brand new
limousines
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Whether they work in factories or they
serve in the army they are
masons or they are traffic controllers
sailors or limiters
schoolchildren or pensioners
nurses or and engineers
window cleaners Or salesmen
housewives
or postal workers
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what
size is Russia the greatest country in the world
raw materials without limit
meme human resources 193 million
people are the reasons why the
aggressors tried to conquer Russia
these are the reasons why not we will be able to
avoid further aggression when we
talk about new territories we should
think about Russia Fate itself shows
us The way there Adolf
Hitler in relation to Russia was
passed down from generation to generation and
now Hitler Germany dreams of
world domination the
answer to such plans can only be
world security Russia
joins the League of Nations will set
itself such a goal
1934 Russia joined the League of
Nations again and again its representative
Litvinov proposes to sign an agreement
on joint actions of the countries that signed
on September 6, 1935 the country that I
represent
in the League solely for the purpose of maintaining
indivisibility of the World on September 21, 1938, the
League of Nations is still
strong enough to
prevent or stop aggression by common efforts, there
can be no negotiations or
compromises and Although some countries
were in favor of stopping aggression by common efforts,
other countries such
as Germany Italy Japan Motherland
intend continue on the path of aggression
Manchuria
Ethiopia
then Hitler conquered Austria
Czechoslovakia and in 1939 Poland the
first step towards Russia but his
movement to the east was interrupted by France
Britain declared war on him
because of this Germany had to turn
to the west
1940 as we saw the
Western Union and the Nazis successfully
tried to bring Britain to its knees
german generals were already ready to take
over the planning
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in the southeast
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too good grain for the hungarians the
german soldiers needed it more than
hungary was bauxite from bauxite they make
aluminum and aluminum is used to make
planes and finally Hungary had an army
as well trained as the German one but
quite suitable for the fight against
Russian weapons in Romania there was not only
grain but also not
to the last drop to increase the power of
its war machine
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more cannon fodder to attack
Russia But most importantly it
has a common border with Russia
but it had ports on the Black Sea
from which German submarines could
carry out attacks on the Russian fleet in the
spring of 1941 The Hungarian reactionary
government under the dictates of Admiral
Horthy the
Romanian young king Mihai who
was just a toy in the hands of the
Hitler Puppet
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and the Bulgarian king Boris, a faithful
follower of
German imperialism,
sold their countries
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he was wrong the
Greek army knew how to not only beautifully
wear a uniform after heavy fighting, the
Italians advanced a little deeper into
Greece, after which the Greeks had a
brilliant company and pushed the
Italians back by capturing Albania Hitler
was in fury
pr his ally's company oval delayed
his own invasion of Russia he
sent the final ultimatum
but the Yugoslavs and Greeks were not going
to retreat so easily
Nazi slavery did not appeal to them
April 6
German bombs
Nazi Italian troops launched a
massive attack from all sides the
consequences were predictable
resistance was broken
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into many parts
due to the famous passage of Napoli, and at the end of
April, the svasti koparil on the ancient
city of Athens, the conquest of the Balkans was
completed
The entire force of the German army could now
be turned against Russia
, there was no time to wait, but time
played into the hands of the Russians, their industry,
which had only recently begun to develop just
like our own was
designed for peaceful purposes
now it was rebuilt for war
instead of going to tools the
industry will never be able to cover
all the needs But what can they do they will
produce
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at the same time the army began to grow everything
more and more young people were
called up for serious military
training to help defend their
country
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conquering the Balkans, the Nazis opened the
Eastern Front stretching from the
Black Sea to the Baltic, but Russia, for
its part, signed by which it
passes the lands lying in the way of the Nazis
these lands so whose these were the lands
the Nazi offensive began from five
different directions and plus more north
On June 22, forty-one,
this was the Great Date, the border was violated by
more than 200 tank divisions more than 2 million
people The front line stretched more
than 2,000 miles in length from the White Sea
to the Black Sea imagine the
scale of the battle near the border the offensive
was carried out along the entire front line the
troops were concentrated on three
most important objects
invaded Ukraine
it was the best cry Blitzkrieg peace
gave Russia another six weeks and Germany
another victory the
way to the east was already laid on the way to
Moscow there was only one obstacle left
Smolensk German high command
but then strange events began for the
first time after Germany
began its blitz campaign
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and October 15
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Russia
lost its best agricultural territories
some of the best industrial
facilities
millions of its people
thousands of tanks and aircraft
Despite all six weeks stretched
for 6 months
and the blitz stumbled weaker
and eventually died out
what happened
Let's try to
analyze the first in this spontaneous
confrontation
you can see how this tactic
is used in each company it is necessary to
destroy the enemy with one single
blow ignoring the losses with a
huge all-destroying blow Adolf
Hitler
remember the companies that you have already seen
in this film more her troops were
located on the border the blitz broke through
through them, only 18 days more,
France was captured
along the border, the breakthrough began sedan and the
capture was carried out The
Balkans, the Yugoslavs pulled their forces of the
border, the breakthrough was successfully carried out and
after 12 days Yugoslavia surrendered, the Germans
planned the same blitz against the
Russians
But the Russians developed their own
strategy using the advantages of
vastness its Eastern Territory, the
Russian strategy was
based on defense in depth
line by line going inland and
when the attack was made on the first
line, it retreated until they
connected with the second,
then another
breakthrough was made again, a small part of the army was
lost, but again the line in front was connected
thus The deeper the
Germans penetrated into Russian soil, the stronger
their opposition became until they
faced an impregnable wall and
lost all their clothes to use their
strategy that they
counted on as the
Germans won back a piece of land But their
company failed
Russian tactics allowed to withstand the blow
and dragged out the war for a longer period
than the Germans had planned the Russians also
had other tactics that allowed them to inflict
losses on the Germans
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Germans invented mechanized blitz
warfare they had an army on wheels that
erased the Earth
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use mobile fortifications Oni
used their cities as cover and
made the blitz become an ineffective
tactic
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the more cities were destroyed
the more difficult it was to use German tanks in them the
names of these Russian
cities are familiar to us
Rostov Kharkov
Kursk Smolensk
one by one they disappeared from the face of the earth
But the Russians were able to make their city
fortresses
Odessa hostilities took place here
for two months
until the complete defeat of the Nazis in the Crimea
Sevastopol he withstood all attempts by the
Germans to break through
to the city every
district every street
every house
every room was defended to the
last
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it was not possible to save the city to
destroy the Germans
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strategies were developed by the Generals But
it was the people who won the battles
on June 22, 1941, when the Russian people
first learned about the invasion of their country, the
determination was already written on their
gloomy faces Fight and die but
never retreat They knew the question
was who occupied which part of the Earth
It was a matter of life and death of
steel June 22, 41 This is not just a
war,
this is a war of all Russian people,
we must not only eliminate the danger
looming over us, but also to free all the
people whom the fascists subjugated,
so the call was made that spread
throughout all the factories and villages from every
Russian city or village
people were drawn to respond to the call
from that moment only one thing mattered
Victory
caused widespread mobilization
it was for all
women and men there was no longer a
difference age did not matter
it didn't matter if you could
hold a gun in your hands you were a soldier
whether you worked in a factory or cultivated the
fields you were a soldier
whether you drove a locomotive whether you
drove a ship or a tractor you
were still a soldier everything you
did was part of that war
everything could have been used by the enemy
every yard of wires was carried away
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the same was done from factories plants
oil depots aircraft hangars
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even a giant lady under the Dnieper construction,
which was spent not only steel
concrete but also five long years of labor and
which are only one year gave Ukraine the
opportunity to enjoy the
benefits of electricity now, under the
onslaught of the enemy, it is being destroyed
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completely devastated
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flame only so that the conqueror does not get anything
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and in places where the
German army has already passed other troops began to form
troops without uniforms whose home there was a forest of
partisan troops, this army received a
minimum of Glory, but did great things to
achieve them the events almost never went down in history
look at these faces you will meet them
again among the prisoners of war
or read their names on the mass
graves
many of them had nothing to lose
waiting for a fight
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destruction of the routes of communication of supplies of
the enemies themselves
their weapon was dynamite and surprise
they did not ask for mercy and they themselves spared no one.
Here they are, what kind of
Partisans,
here is the burn that they leave, this is the
Red Army.
Here they are the reasons why throughout the
territories conquered by the Germans
in all five hundred thousand square
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here are the reasons that after 5.5 months of a
blitz war after the Germans were already
so close to their goal,
they were stopped almost in front of the
gates of the Kremlin, these
are the reasons that all Hitler
's assurances that Until December the swastika
would be installed over the Kremlin were
not destined to come true
and it was not the Nazi conquerors who marched through the streets of the ancient city
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What were the results of the invasion
Nazis on Russian soil Until December
41 in In the second film, The Battle for Russia, you
will see how the Russians not only defended
themselves from the German attack, but saved the world
from the army of aggressors encroaching on the will and
freedom of people
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