How to get the inscription victory will be ours. “The Fuhrer said: “Our cause is just!” How historical “sensations” are created

June 22, 1941 will forever remain in the history of our country as the day the bloody and cruel war began. NTV tells what happened on that terrible morning and how the Great Patriotic War began.

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June 21, 1941

13:00 (Berlin time) German troops received the Dortmund signal, meaning the offensive would begin on June 22 as planned.

In Germany, Colonel General Guderian checked the readiness of the advanced combat units for the offensive: “... Careful observation of the Russians convinced me that they did not suspect anything about our intentions. In the courtyard of the Brest fortress, which was visible from our observation points, they were changing the guards to the sounds of an orchestra. The coastal fortifications along the Western Bug were not occupied by Russian troops."

21:30 In Moscow, a conversation took place between the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov and the German Ambassador Schulenburg. Molotov protested in connection with repeated violations of the USSR border by German planes. The ambassador avoided answering.

23:00 German minelayers, who were in Finnish ports, began to mine the exit from the Gulf of Finland. At the same time, Finnish submarines began laying mines off the coast of Estonia.

June 22, 1941

00:10 Border troops detained a defector from the German side, Alfred Liskov, who left his unit and swam across the Bug. During interrogation, the detainee said that at about 4 am the German army would begin crossing the Bug.

01:00 Stalin summoned Chief of the General Staff Georgy Zhukov and People's Commissar of Defense Semyon Timoshenko to the Kremlin. They reported on Liskov's message. They are joined by People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov. Zhukov and Tymoshenko insist on issuing Directive No. 1.

01:45 Directive No. 1 was sent to the districts with the order to secretly occupy firing points on the border, not to succumb to provocations and to bring troops to combat readiness.
"1. During 22-23.6.41, a surprise attack by the Germans on the fronts of LVO, PribOVO, ZAPOVO, KOVO, OdVO is possible. An attack may begin with provocative actions.
2. The task of our troops is not to succumb to any provocative actions that could cause major complications. At the same time, the troops of the Leningrad, Baltic, Western, Kyiv and Odessa military districts should be in full combat readiness to meet a possible surprise attack from the Germans or their allies.
3. I order:
a) during the night of June 22, 1941, secretly occupy firing points of fortified areas on the state border;
b) before dawn on June 22, 1941, disperse all aviation, including military aviation, to field airfields, carefully camouflage it;
c) put all units on combat readiness. Keep troops dispersed and camouflaged;
d) bring air defense to combat readiness without additional increase in assigned personnel. Prepare all measures to darken cities and objects;
e) do not carry out any other activities without special orders.
Tymoshenko. Zhukov."

3:07 The first reports of artillery shelling began to arrive.

3:40 People's Commissar of Defense Semyon Timoshenko asks Zhukov to report to Stalin about the start of full-scale hostilities. At this time, the cities of Brest, Grodno, Lida, Kobrin, Slonim, Baranovichi, Bobruisk, Volkovysk, Kiev, Zhitomir, Sevastopol, Riga, Vindava, Libava, Siauliai, Kaunas, Vilnius and many others were bombed.

The chief of staff of the Black Sea Fleet, Rear Admiral I.D. Eliseev, ordered to open fire on German planes that invaded the airspace of the Soviet Union.

4:00 German troops went on the offensive. The Great Patriotic War began.

Photo: TASS

4:15 The defense of the Brest Fortress began.

4:30 The Western and Baltic districts reported the beginning of large-scale military operations by German troops on land. 4 million German and allied soldiers invaded the border territory of the USSR. 3,350 tanks, 7,000 various guns and 2,000 aircraft were involved in the battles.

4:55 Almost half of the Brest Fortress is occupied by German troops.

5:30 The German Foreign Ministry sent a note to the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR in which it stated: “Bolshevik Moscow is ready to strike in the back of National Socialist Germany, which is fighting for existence. The German government cannot remain indifferent to the serious threat on its eastern border. Therefore, the Fuhrer gave the order to the German armed forces to ward off this threat by all means and means..."

7:15 Directive No. 2 was transmitted to the western military districts of the Soviet Union, which ordered the USSR troops to destroy enemy forces in areas of border violation, as well as “to use reconnaissance and combat aircraft to establish the concentration areas of enemy aircraft and the grouping of their ground forces. Using powerful strikes from bomber and attack aircraft, destroy aircraft at enemy airfields and bomb groups of their ground forces..."

9:30 The Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Mikhail Kalinin, signed decrees on the introduction of martial law in the country, on the formation of the Headquarters of the High Command, on military tribunals and general mobilization, to which all those liable for military service from 1905 to 1918 were born.

Photo: TASS

10:00 An air raid was carried out on Kyiv and its suburbs. A railway station, factories, power plants, military airfields and residential buildings were attacked.

12:00 The People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR spoke on the radio. V. M. Molotov.
“...Today at 4 o’clock in the morning, without presenting any claims against the Soviet Union, without declaring war, German troops attacked our country, attacked our borders in many places and bombed our cities from their planes Zhitomir, Kiev, Sevastopol, Kaunas and some others, and more than two hundred people were killed and wounded. Enemy aircraft raids and artillery shelling were also carried out from Romanian and Finnish territory... Germany attacked the USSR, despite the peace-loving position of the Soviet Union, and that thereby Nazi Germany was the attacking party...
Now that the attack on the Soviet Union has already taken place, the Soviet government has given our troops the order to repel the bandit attack and expel German troops from the territory of our Motherland... Our cause is just. The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours".

After some time, the text of Molotov’s speech was repeated by the famous announcer Yuri Levitan. There is still an opinion that it was he who first read the message on the radio about the beginning of the war.

12:30 German troops entered Grodno. Minsk, Kyiv and Sevastopol were subjected to repeated bombing.

13:00 Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano said that Italy declared war on the USSR:
“In view of the current situation, due to the fact that Germany declared war on the USSR, Italy, as an ally of Germany and as a member of the Tripartite Pact, also declares war on the Soviet Union from the moment German troops entered Soviet territory, that is, from 5.30 on June 22”

14:00 The Brest Fortress continued to hold its defense. German military leaders decided that the fortress would be taken only by infantry, without tanks. It took no more than 8 hours to take it.

Photo: TASS / Valery Gende-Rote

15:00 German bomber pilots continue air raids. The Baltic strategic defensive operation of the North-Western Front of F.I. Kuznetsov and part of the forces of the Baltic Fleet began. At the same time, the Belarusian strategic defensive operation of the Western Front of D. G. Pavlov and the defensive operation in Western Ukraine of the South-Western Front began.

16:30 Beria, Molotov and Voroshilov left the Kremlin. In the first 24 hours after the start of the war, no one else met with Stalin, and there was practically no communication with him. Stalin addressed the Soviet people only on July 3, 1941. Historians are still arguing about why this happened.

18:30 One of the German military commanders gives the order to “withdraw his own forces” from the Brest Fortress. This was one of the first orders for the retreat of German troops.

Photo: TASS

19:00 The commander of the German Army Group Center gives the order to stop the execution of the first Soviet prisoners of war and create special camps for them.

21:15 Directive No. 3 was transmitted to the western military districts of the Soviet Union. In it, People's Commissar of Defense Semyon Timoshenko orders the bombing of Koenigsberg and Danzig, as well as air strikes 100-150 km deep into Germany.

23:00 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes a radio address in which he declares that England is ready to provide the USSR with all the assistance it can give.
“... We are determined to destroy Hitler and all traces of the Nazi regime. Nothing can turn us away from this, nothing. We will never come to an agreement, we will never enter into negotiations with Hitler or with anyone from his gang. We will fight him on land, we will fight him by sea, we will fight him in the air, until, with God's help, we have rid the earth of his very shadow and freed the nations from his yoke. Any person or state that fights against Nazism will receive our help. Any person or state that goes with Hitler is our enemy... This is our policy, this is our statement. It follows that we will provide Russia and the Russian people with all the help we can. We will appeal to all our friends and allies in all parts of the world to adhere to the same course and carry it out as steadfastly and steadily to the end as we will do...”

23:50 The Main Military Council of the Red Army sent out a directive that ordered counterattacks against enemy forces on June 23.

June 23, 1941

00:00 For the first time, a report from the Red Army High Command appeared on the nightly radio news: “At dawn on June 22, 1941, regular troops of the German army attacked our border units on the front from the Baltic to the Black Sea and were held back by them during the first half of the day. In the afternoon, German troops met with the advanced units of the field troops of the Red Army. After fierce fighting, the enemy was repulsed with heavy losses. Only in the Grodno and Kristinopol directions did the enemy manage to achieve minor tactical successes and occupy the towns of Kalwaria, Stoyanuv and Tsekhanovets (the first two are 15 km and the last 10 km from the border). Enemy aircraft attacked a number of our airfields and populated areas, but everywhere they met decisive resistance from our fighters and anti-aircraft artillery, which inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. We shot down 65 enemy aircraft.”

Photo: TASS / Nikolay Surovtsev

It is known that on the first day of the war, German troops advanced along the entire border 50-60 km deep into the territory of the USSR. Almost 4 more years of war lay ahead.

Victory will be ours: how the Great Patriotic War began

Victory Day is a holiday with a special flavor of triumph and pain, pride and endless sadness that has not dried up for more than 70 years. On such a day, it is especially important to remember that victory became possible thanks to the choice made by millions of our fellow citizens.

It is generally accepted that history does not know the subjunctive mood. In a sense, this is true. And yet, there is no doubt: if for one reason or another the USSR had not been able to defeat the Nazis in May 1945, the history of not only Europe, but all of humanity would have taken a completely different path.

There is nothing to say about the Soviet Union. Partially destroy, partially reduce to an animal state - this is how the Fuhrer of the German nation imagined the future of the peoples living in the “eastern territories”. That is why the Soviet people did not have the richest choice: either win, or cease to exist - disappear, sink into oblivion. Freedom or death - there is no third option, as they say.

Today, no, no, you will hear that the price of victory turned out to be too high. No, no, yes, they quote with caustic irony the lines of the song from “Belorussky Station”: “And that means we need one victory, one for all - we will not stand up for the price.” Hence, they say, millions of losses, because they didn’t stand up for the price! Following this, as usual, Stalin is blamed for everything (they say that it was his miscalculations that led to monstrous casualties) and his generals (allegedly they did not spare their people - they say, “women are still giving birth”). This is a very simplified and not entirely conscientious approach.

There is no doubt: Stalin was a cruel ruler. At the same time, like any person who makes decisions in a critical situation, during the war he made mistakes, sometimes very terrible and bloody. This is how it happened, and we need to talk about it directly. But that is not why the price of victory was prohibitive. After all, if you look at the root, it was not Stalin’s miscalculations (although there were many of them, especially at the beginning of the war) and not the general’s indifference to people (although there were probably such generals in the Red Army - in what army in the world do such things not exist?) became the reasons our many victims. The cause of the death of millions of people was German Nazism - flesh and blood the product of the “humanistic” European civilization, in case anyone has forgotten. Nazism, which came to our land to bring enslavement and death.

In Europe itself (especially in its eastern part) it is not very common to talk about this, but the fact is that by the early 30s of the 20th century, radical nationalism had become perhaps the main political trend of the Old World. Nations large and small put forward parties and movements to the forefront, openly promoting their national exclusivity and, at the same time, hatred of other peoples. Here and there their own little Fuhrers, Duce, conductors and “conductors” appeared. In this sense, Germany was no exception, and Hitler did not jump out like a jack-in-the-box. It’s just that his version of radical nationalism fell on more prepared soil.

It was an evil that few could handle. France could not and surrendered. Great Britain defended itself with all its might, but at that moment it was no longer capable of more. For the time being, the United States did not get involved in the fight at all. The Soviet Union had the opportunity to defeat the Nazis - men and women, children and old people, who at the front and in the rear showed the world a feat of amazing self-sacrifice, a miracle of unprecedented love for their neighbors and hatred for their enemies.

Ultimately, this victory was possible because millions of Soviet citizens chose freedom, knowing full well that the price of this choice would be extremely high. In the end, they survived, despite the rotten skepticism of those who did not believe in their victory, despite the vile prudence of those who cowardly waited to see whose they would take.

Remembering those who died in that war, we must also remember that the key to victory was a powerful patriotic feeling, national unity, common goals of the authorities and citizens, clearly understood tasks, and confidence in the rightness of their cause. Without this, the country would not have defeated a strong and intoxicated enemy with impunity, accustomed to the fact that other states grovel before him.

“Our cause is just. The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours". These words were first heard on the very first day of the war, June 22, 1941, in a speech by Vyacheslav Molotov on the radio. It was hard to believe then. But the prophecy still came true. As he said in the film “Twenty Days Without War,” based on the script of front-line soldier Konstantin Simonov, the main character, Major Lopatin (brilliantly played by front-line soldier Yuri Nikulin), “they thought that what would be behind them, but what would be “behind us...”

And it will be ours! The main thing is to make the right choice.

Anyone who is interested in history, at least at an amateur level, has had to deal with unexpected quotes from major politicians that turned their understanding of them upside down. Sometimes the appearance of such quotes looks like a real historical sensation.

The only problem is that often such statements are either distorted, or attributed to another person, or even invented.

At the same time, once launched, a “sensation” can then be practically unstoppable - they believe in it, desperately defend it, and use it as an argument in disputes.

A classic example is the phrase “No person, no problem,” allegedly uttered Joseph Stalin. To this day, she is cited as an example to show the inhumanity of the tyrant. But the fact is that there is not a single documentary evidence confirming that the “leader of the peoples” pronounced it.

In fact, the writer put it into Stalin’s mouth Anatoly Rybakov in the novel "Children of Arbat". At the same time, the author never denied that the phrase was his literary invention.

How Molotov stole Hitler's words

And now a fresh example of the birth of a historical “sensation” arrived, into which one of the activists of the opposition party PARNAS breathed life.

“Our cause is just! The enemy will be defeated! Victory will be ours!"

Each of us knows this famous phrase from history. Who is its author?

And here, I am sure, each of you will be mistaken - he ended his speech with it.... Hitler, speaking in September 1939 in the Reichstag in connection with the outbreak of war in Poland."

Until now, it was believed that the first person to pronounce this phrase in this form was on June 22, 1941, by the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR Vyacheslav Molotov in an address to the Soviet people in connection with the outbreak of war.

It turns out that Molotov borrowed it from the Fuhrer of the Third Reich?

The beauty of the second decade of the 21st century is that it is quite easy to find the primary source on the Internet, in this case, Hitler’s speech.

So, speaking in the Reichstag in connection with the outbreak of war in Poland, Hitler ended his speech like this: “I want to end with the same words with which I began the struggle for power over the Reich. Then I said: “If our will is so strong that no difficulties or suffering can break it, then our will and our Germany will be above all!”

"Russian history. XX century"

Of course, those who got acquainted with Hitler’s real speech asked the author of the post: how is this possible?

“Source: second volume “History of Russia. XX century 1939-2007“, team of authors edited by Professor A.B. Zubov, page 40,” the author responded on Facebook.

A scan of the corresponding page of the book containing the following text was also provided:

“Therefore, at 12 o’clock Molotov spoke on the radio, describing the German invasion as “a treachery unparalleled in the history of civilized peoples.” He ended his speech the same way Hitler ended his speech in September 1939, speaking in the Reichstag in connection with the outbreak of war in Poland: “Our cause is just! The enemy will be defeated! Victory will be ours!"

64-year-old Doctor of Historical Sciences Andrey Borisovich Zubov became known to people, even those far from historical issues, in 2014.

MGIMO professor against the “Anschluss” of Crimea

In March 2014, at the moment when the events of the “Crimean Spring” took place, Zubov wrote in the Vedomosti newspaper: “First, the parliament was seized, the prime minister was replaced with a pro-Russian one, and then this new prime minister asked Russia for help, when assistants were already here, already the day they control the peninsula. It’s like two peas in a pod to the Anschluss of 1938. And even a referendum-plebiscite a month later under friendly bayonets. There - April 10, here - March 30. Have the Russian authorities calculated all the risks of this incredible adventure? I'm sure not. Just like Adolf Aloizovich did not calculate in his time. If I had done the math, I wouldn’t have rushed around the bunker in April 1945 under Russian bombs, and I wouldn’t have eaten an ampoule of poison.”

At that time, Andrei Zubov was a professor at the Department of Philosophy at MGIMO. The management of the university considered that the historian could not continue to work within the walls of the educational institution. On March 24, 2014, a message appeared on the MGIMO website: “Numerous statements and interviews by Zubov A.B. about what is happening in Ukraine and about Russian foreign policy cause indignation and bewilderment in the university environment. They run counter to Russia’s foreign policy, subject the actions of the state to reckless and irresponsible criticism, and harm the educational and educational process. Leaving on the conscience of A. B. Zubov inappropriate and offensive historical analogies and characteristics, the management of MGIMO considered it impossible to continue A. B. Zubov’s work at the institute and decided to terminate the employment contract with him.”

Zubov, however, considered such actions illegal, and the Commission of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation on Labor Rights took his side. Professor Zubov was reinstated in his position, but left it completely on June 30, 2014. His contract expired and his employer did not renew it.

“Stalin was a bigger fascist than Bandera”

To get an idea of Professor Zubov’s views, it is worth citing a few quotes from a conversation with him on Radio Liberty, the printed version of which was published in March 2015. The material is entitled: “The regime will soon come to an end, but Russia may perish with it.”

“Compared to Stalin, Hitler is the angel of Russian history. Because Hitler, even if he wanted to, did not kill as many Russian people as Stalin killed,” Zubov states in this interview.

“As our power after 2000, especially after 2000, 2008, 2011, drifted towards Soviet in form and, I would say, fascist, but not Nazi, but fascist, in the Mussolini sense , in content, I became a dissident again,” the historian shares his experiences.

The Ukrainian media also love Zubov. Here, for example, is a quote from his interview with Ukrainskaya Pravda: “Bandera’s members were called fascists, although, of course, this was not true.

It was a typical nationalist organization of the war period with its own army, with its own terrorist wing. Many people acted this way back then. Of course, some leaders of the Ukrainian national movement were carried away by Mussolini's idea of corporatism. But Mussolini still called Joseph Stalin his best student. I think that Stalin was a greater fascist than Bandera and even Mussolini."

It is probably not surprising that the historian Andrei Zubov, with similar views, ended up in the top three of the federal list of candidates for the elections to the State Duma from the PARNAS party. The first on this list, in case anyone has forgotten, is ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, who has repeatedly publicly declared his intention to return Crimea to Ukraine after coming to power.

Having become acquainted with the personality of Andrei Borisovich Zubov, let’s move on to the book that interests us.

Solzhenitsyn's protest

The first edition of the two-volume “History of Russia. XX century" was published in 2009. Here is what Andrei Zubov himself wrote about the concept of the book: “We proceeded from the principle that the highest value of a person is freedom of will. And where it cannot be implemented freely, the state fails. Not a man for the state, but on the contrary - this is our first motto. And it is historically justified - after all, man appeared much earlier than the state and created the state for his own purposes. Now the second principle, and here we already give some assessment. Based on the first principle, the state created by the Bolsheviks was inhuman by its nature - it placed the general as the main thing, and man as secondary and subservient in relation to the general.”

Among the 40 authors who worked on the publication was the author of “The Gulag Archipelago” Alexander Solzhenitsyn. However, after working on the book for a year and a half, he left the project, less than three months before his death, explaining in a letter to Andrei Zubov the reasons for this decision:

“I agreed to support the project of creating a school textbook on the history of Russia of the 20th century, because I considered and still consider this a task of primary importance.

But when this project, under your editorship, acquired specific outlines that excluded the original plan, I realized that I could not identify with it, because I did not agree with both its uncontrollably increased volume and a number of its ideas and assessments. That’s why I ask you not to associate my name with your work in any way.”

An important point is that, as Solzhenitsyn points out, initially it was about creating a school textbook, where wording and respect for facts are extremely important.

The story of the “Krasnodar meat grinder”

But what actually happened?

Here is a striking example. The chapter in which the words allegedly spoken by Hitler appear is called “Russian Society and the Soviet-Nazi War in the USSR.” Not the Great Patriotic War, but the Soviet-Nazi one. The book, let me remind you, was published in 2009, five years before such historical concepts took hold in post-Maidan Ukraine.

The two-volume book contains many facts that, at a minimum, raise doubts. Here, for example, is this: “In Krasnodar, in the NKVD building, there was a meat grinder that ground the corpses of those executed and lowered them into the sewer. During the German occupation it was shown to foreign journalists.”

Where did this fact come from? Similar information was published in October 1944 in the Russian-language newspaper Zarya, published in Berlin. The article was called “Krasnodar meat grinder”.

It turns out that Russian historians, creating a manual for the study of the 20th century, consider it acceptable to cite as indisputable facts gleaned from the propaganda literature of Nazi Germany?

“The endings of speeches are really similar,” or Why Professor Zubov looks like Anastasia Volochkova

But let's return to the beginning - to the phrase allegedly uttered by Adolf Hitler, and later “stolen” from the Fuhrer by Molotov.

The author of the original post promised to clarify the issue with Professor Zubov himself, and he kept his word.

“In the evening, we received the following response from Professor A.B. Zubov, who is preparing a re-edition of the History of Russia, corrected and expanded into a three-volume edition,” writes an activist on Facebook, “I am very grateful to you for the work you have done. Yes, it's sad that the authors are not accurate. Although the endings of the speeches are indeed similar. In the new edition of the book, and I’m just working on proofreading this chapter, the text will be like this (I checked both the German original and the Russian translation and slightly corrected the Russian text): He ended his speech pathetically: “Our cause is just. The enemy will be defeated! Victory will be ours!". Almost in the same way, on September 1, 1939, Hitler ended his speech, speaking in the Reichstag in connection with the outbreak of war in Poland: “If our will is strong and no difficulties or suffering can break it, then our will and our Germany will be above all! »

Re-read the endings of the speeches of Hitler and Molotov, and compare them yourself. Perhaps they are “almost as” similar as a professor is similar to a ballerina Anastasia Volochkova.

Check the facts and beware of fakes!

On the Facebook page of Andrei Zubov himself you can find the following phrase: “The responsible editor and author is responsible for everything.”

We can confidently say that Adolf Hitler on September 1, 1939 did not utter the phrase “Our cause is just, the enemy will be defeated, victory is ours!” Accordingly, Vyacheslav Molotov did not borrow this phrase from the leader of the Third Reich.

The similarity of the endings of these speeches can only be seen by a person who really needs it for his own political purposes. This is not an interpretation of the fact, and not even an inaccuracy - it is not true.

This untruth is replicated in books and spread on social networks, creating a distorted picture of Russian history. This, in the end, is disrespect for historical science, for the profession of historian, and for the people who are simply trying to hang noodles on their ears.

In honor of the release of the military drama “The Cruiser” on ivi with Nicolas Cage in the title role, we decided to recall the most heart-warming and memorable films on the theme of war: ours and foreign ones.

Battalion

The story of the women's battalion, cruel, dashingly twisted and brilliantly acted, can rightfully be considered one of the best in the series of new Russian cinema. Here is a feat, and suffering, and the terrible tread of history, and tears.

Hero

A fairy tale that carries two souls through time. A gallant age devoured by war. A feeling killed by coup and revolution. That terrible year, whose centenary is getting closer, still remains a black hole in the history of our country. And films like “Hero” try to shed light on it.

Fury

A frank and creepy action movie about the last days of the crew of a tank called “Fury”. The Americans did not choose this war; it took a toll on them, as well as on our country. Incommensurable. But who stopped? Then they had more wars. But they prefer not to remain silent about the heroism of their fathers and grandfathers.

Cruiser ONLY ON SMART TV!!!

Hannibal Pictures

An epic and spectacular drama about the cruiser Indianapolis, which is carrying two terrible bombs to the Japanese shores, whose task is to turn the tide of the war. Here are human stories, wartime drama, and sadness for those who died in vain.

Fog

Another fantastic story about guys from our time who fall into the heat of the Great Patriotic War. Ordinary fighters, who only know how to run with weapons at the ready and crawl under imaginary fire, find themselves in the epicenter of death and destruction, which tests the strength of their hearts and souls.

Memories of the future

Based on the diaries of Vera Brittain, this touching and passionate melodrama tells the story of the First World War, which took the man she loved from the main character. That war was ridiculous, stupid, like all wars, inhuman and crippling. The second, of course, broke all records. It is all the more surprising that Germany quickly forgot the first lesson of the 20th century.

Stalingrad (TV series)

An epic painting by Yuri Ozerov about the most grandiose and incredible battle in world history, Stalingrad. Hitler sends two tank divisions to the Caucasus, and the only city that stands in their way is Stalingrad. No one expected that this confrontation would last more than six months and claim two million lives.

Che: Part one. Argentinean

Che Guevara - warrior, revolutionary, symbol, hero. Steven Soderbergh shot a memorial song about him: there are battle scenes in the frame, but most often the author shows silence, nature and the ocean. This all represents the freedom that Che fought for.

Saving Private Ryan

The most tear-jerking and at the same time an exemplary action movie, a drama based on real events. Let's leave the pathos about the rescue operation of one soldier behind the scenes. Yes, and not such funny things have happened in history. The fact is that

Our cause is just, the enemy will be defeated, victory will be ours

“Our cause is just, the enemy will be defeated, victory will be ours”- the final phrase of the appeal to the Soviet people, which the Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs V. M. Molotov read at 12 noon on June 22 of the year - the day the Great Patriotic War began and the USSR entered World War II. This patriotic appeal, with some variations and also in parts, was repeated several times in printed publications and oral appeals until the end of the war. It was repeated by J.V. Stalin in his first radio speech after a long break on July 3: “... all the peoples of our country, all the best people of Europe, America and Asia, and finally, all the best people of Germany... see that our cause is just, that the enemy will be defeated, that we must win”.

It is often mistakenly believed that Stalin was the first to pronounce this slogan (especially due to the speech rhythm characteristic of his speeches). However, the text of the appeal was agreed upon with Stalin and, according to some researchers, is most likely the fruit of collective creativity, so it is not possible to establish the exact authorship of the phrase.

When used, the phrase is often abbreviated, for example: “our cause is just, we will win”.

The slogan received a second life in 1945 with the establishment of the medals “For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” and “For valiant labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.” The inscription around the chest-length image of Stalin read “Our cause is just - We won.”

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