Putin commemorates the anniversary of the start of the Nazi invasion
Today falls the 81st anniversary of the start of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany. A surprise invasion, given that Berlin and Moscow were allies, since 1939, thanks to the Pact sanctioned by Molotov and Ribbentrop, and the secret Protocol that accompanied it for the division of the middle lands (not only Poland, but also the Baltics, Finland and Romania). Pact, the one signed in a Moscow adorned with swastika flags on August 23, 1939, which resulted, in a short time, in the entry of the Germans into western Poland (on September 1) and in that of the Red Army in the Eastern Poland (September 17). For Moscow, June 22 is the “Day of Remembrance and Mourning”, “the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War”, of the defensive resistance to the German forces which ended, after enduring enormous suffering, also by civilians, in Stalingrad and Leningrad first of all, with the victory of May 9, 1945.
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