User:Starlink11/75th Anniversary of the Great Victory

2020 is a special year for our country. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the signing of the German surrender deed. The Great Patriotic War ended 75 years ago. Soviet Union was the only country that was able to defeat the fascists. President V.V.Putin declared 2020 the Year of Memory and Glory in honor of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. www.tass.ru/obschestvo/6642848 The Battle of Moscow is the first decisive battle of the Great Patriotic War. https://www.oborona.ru/includes/periodics/armedforces/2014/1118/145114597/detail.shtml Moscow, being the capital of the USSR, was of strategic importance - the outcome of the war depended on the outcome of the battle for Moscow. While defending the capital of our Motherland, thousands of soldiers and commanders displayed unprecedented heroism. Starting in the fall of 1941, a campaign against Moscow with an overwhelming advantage in troops and equipment, the German hordes were defeated and driven back. The whole world saw that the Red Army was not broken, it was capable of winning. The Soviet people’s spirits rose. Army Group Center comprised 75% of all German tanks and about half of the aircraft on the Soviet-German front. https://www.mil.ru/winner_may/history/more.htm?id=12285621@cmsArticle The Nazis of the Center group had more people, tanks and aircrafts. The tank army of General G. Guderian launched an offensive in the Moscow direction on September 30, 1941, the main German forces on October 2. Having broken through the Soviet front, the Nazis surrounded a significant number of Red Army units in the area of Bryansk and Vyazma. More than half a million Soviet soldiers died or were captured, and a huge gap of 500 km was formed in the defense line west of Moscow. But the desperate resistance of the encircled Soviet armies delayed the enemy's onslaught on the capital for two weeks. https://mil.ru/winner_may/history/more.htm?id=12109346@cmsArticle Rumors of a German breakthrough reached Moscow on October 16. The evacuation of the remaining enterprises began in the city, part of the population rushed to the east. To prevent panic in the capital, a state of siege was declared on October 20 and a curfew was imposed. https://may9.ru/history/articles/bitva-za-moskvu/