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June 22, 1941, 4:00 AM 75 years ago. Nazi invasion in Soviet Union. Glory to the soldiers-defenders

25 August 1944 - German garrison in Paris surrenders



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snakeplissken wrote:

Regarding US, i don't understand why they don't celebrate WW2 Victory. They don't have a national holiday to mark WW2 victory and sacrifices.

Just a remark regarding this extract from Pravda.ru that you posted, Snakeplissken :

It is not questionable that USSR fought at another scale against the nazi Germany, because the goal of Hitler there was the total annihilation of USSR, the country, the people, the culture, the history. That's a fact and countries of western Europe didn't suffered the same, it's true. But saying that we cannot understand is not only exagerated, it's almost insulting, coming from Pravda. We can understand and, more, we can even imagine. It's not because we suffered lower casualties that we are idiots unable to understand. This sentence by Pravda is terribly simplistic and i hope that you make your own mind not only after such outrageous declarations from such a media.

Regards.


EDIT : Just have a look at the very first post on this topic and maybe you'll see, by yourself, if we can understand or not...

On this day, 8 September 1888 was launched on ISAAC PERAL SUBMARINE.

Today marks 128 years of the launch in San Fernando's first submarine torpedo boat in history.

Isaac Peral, of cartagenero birth, but at 8 years old he moved to San Fernando, a city where he lived longer and where he developed his professional life and his invention. His house had it in the current Murillo street, near the alley Croquer, whose facade is a plaque that remembers it.

He designed and built the submarine in the Arsenal of the Carrack, in the oldest dams that exist in Spain, in the part that became known more widely as National Company Bazan and what today is called Navantia.

Envies and null capacities of governments of Spain made the project were left abandoned, despite the great potential of the submarine vessel.

Isaac Peral ran a similar fate, ending with the abandonment of his military career and taking to go to work in Germany as an engineer.

The American commander who in 1898 led the invasion of the island of Cuba made a statement post on the submarine Peral that have told the Spanish fleet with only one of those Submarines never could have won the war in Cuba.

For years the invention of Peral was abandoned in the facilities of our Bazan, until an admiral of Cartagena origin, chose to take it to that city, where it was restored and exposed.

If little or no vision of the government of the time had opted for this revolutionary invention, perhaps not he had lost the war with the United States and had been our bay of Cadiz the global epicenter of building submarines, with wealth and generating employment that might have supposed.

Unfortunately they are not the only examples in our bay has been creating great products with a high technological level and with great business opportunities.

Yves Meudal death, one of the last members of the Kieffer commandos


He was one of 177 French who landed first in Normandy on 6 June 1944, with the British and Americans.


It has marked the history of World War II and participated in the liberation of France, with his comrades of the Kieffer commandos. Yves Meudal died Friday September 9 at the age of 93 years in the Côtes d'Armor

The "Kieffer commandos," as dubbed by the media, are the only French to have participated in the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944. On 177 men landed on Sword beach in Colleville-Montgomery, 17 were killed and only 24 ended the battle without injured after 78 days of deployment. They were not yet supposed to fight 3 or 4 days.

RIP

12 September 1943.

With the Operation Eiche , Benito Mussolini is rescued by German paratroopers from Campo Imperatore.