User:Anastasia1748/Great victory: our legacy

75th Anniversary of the Great Victory is the victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany

I stage: 1941-1942
22.06.1941 attack by fascist Germany on the Soviet Union - the implementation of the "Barbarossa" plan. The German armed forces were to defeat the USSR through a quick military operation "Britzkrieg".

5.08-16.10.1941 defense of Odessa.

8.09.1941 - 27.01.1944 Siege of Leningrad   - military blockade of the city Leningrad by German, Finnish and Spanish troops. 12.09.1941 - 10.07.1942 Battle of Crimea - military operations of the Soviet and German-Romanian troops in Crimea.

30.09.1941 - 20.05.1942 Battle of Moscow  - military operations of Soviet and German troops in the Moscow direction. In Western historiography, the battle is known as operation Typhoon.

II stage: 1942-1943
17.07.1942 - 2.02.1943 Battle of Stalingrad  - one of the most important general battle of the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War, which ended in victory the USSR Armed Forces.

5.07 - 23.08.1943 Battle of Kursk

25.07.1942 - 9.10.1943 battle of the Caucasus  - the battle of the armed forces of Nazi Germany, Romania and Slovakia against the USSR during the Great patriotic War for control of the Caucasus.

III stage: 1944-1945
June 1944 allies of the USSR opened " the second front" against Hitler and French and headed for Germany

16.04 - 8.09 Battle of Berlin - one of the last strategic operations of Soviet troops in the Europe, during which the red Army occupied Berlin 30.04.1945 Hitler's suicide

8.09.1945 official capitulation of Berlin

People
More than 43 million people have died in the war

Pilots
Gastello sent the plane to the column of enemy armored vehicles

Kozhedub shot down 64 enemy aircrafts

Pokryshkin shot down 59 enemy aircrafts

Shooters, snipers
Talalaev - destroyed over 200 opponents

Galushkin - killed 418 German soldiers and officers

Women
Kosmodemianskaya - a partisan, took part in the Battle of Moscow

Pavlichenko - the most successful female sniper in world history. She was called the Lady Death

Koroleva - a film actress, a doctor

Grizodubova was a female pilot, the first female hero of the USSR

Pioneer heroes
Checkalin, Golikov, Kotik, Kazey, Portnova

Facts
1.      After the war the Victory Day had not been celebrated in the Soviet Union for seventeen years.

2.      People drank five million six hundred ninety-one liters of vodka in just one month (December 1942).

3.      The first victory parade took place in Moscow on June 24, 1945.

4.      The Siege of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) lasted 872 days

5.      Eighty thousand of soviet officers were women.

6.      Until now, the question of the real number of deaths remains open.

7.      The most active female sniper was well known in the USA and the song "Miss Pavlichenko" by Woody Guthrie was written about her.