Not only did he not mention the Soviet Union, but he also removed this world-famous photo of the Soviet Union planting a red flag in the Capitol after its invasion of Berlin. What's more, the US Department of Defense has publicly stated that the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany are defined as the initiators of World War II. To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the European Success Day in World War II, the U.S. Department of Defense published a document entitled "European Success Day: A Time for Celebration and Thinking". The document pointed out that the conflict in World War II began with the "invasion" of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union. However, the document did not mention the Soviet Union's contribution to the anti-fascist struggle.
But what's the use? This article has not only not been widely disseminated in the west, but also has not been searched in China. What is even more embarrassing is that the president of a country has actually reduced to the need to publish articles in other countries' media. Isn't this a great irony?
But what's the use? This article has not only not been widely disseminated in the west, but also has not been searched in China. What is even more embarrassing is that the president of a country has actually reduced to the need to publish articles in other countries' media. Isn't this a great irony?
Why are people so indifferent to the truth? Putin once wrote the answer in the article: It has been 75 years since the Great Patriotic War ended. Over the years, generations have grown up. The political scale of this planet has also changed. The Soviet Union claimed to have achieved an epic success in fighting Nazism and saved the whole world, but it has disappeared. Yes, with the disappearance of the Soviet Union, few people once cared about what a disappearing country had done.
From June 22nd, 194 1 year, Germany's "Barbarossa" planned to attack the Soviet Union to May 8th, 1945, when the Soviet Union invaded Berlin, the Germans surrendered. In less than four years, 27 million people died in the Soviet Union, while the total number of people who died directly due to the war in World War II was 70 million, and the Soviet Union accounted for 1/3. Besides, do you think the casualties will stop when the war is over? After World War II, the Soviet Union was devastated, medical and health facilities were severely damaged, it was difficult for the injured to get timely and effective treatment, and various infectious diseases began to spread.
In 1949 Soviet cities, 60% people died of tuberculosis, cardiovascular diseases, pneumonia and gastrointestinal diseases caused by war. During the period from 1946 to 1959, the Soviet Union averaged1million -65438+ per year.
The war has also brought serious damage to the health of men and women of childbearing age. Most men have to go to the battlefield, and their bodies are often in a state of fatigue and panic, so that many people have become disabled, which seriously affects the fertility and quality of men. In order to help the front line, most women are overworked in factories and villages. Coupled with food shortage and malnutrition, many women are in a barren and difficult reproductive state. These factors combined, resulting in the Soviet Union 1947 child mortality rate as high as 19%!
Even today, 75 years after the end of the war, the ratio of men to women in Russia is still 46.5: 53.5, and women still far exceed men. Therefore, the defeat of the Soviet generation in World War II is a bit exaggerated, but it is by no means groundless. What followed was the Soviet Union's serious contribution to World War II. The role of the Soviet Union in the European battlefield is irreplaceable, and it is the absolute pillar for the European battlefield to defeat Nazi Germany. In World War II, the Soviet army killed 6.5438+million people, and * * * annihilated and defeated 607 divisions of the German army and its allies, accounting for more than 77.5% of all divisions lost by the German army and its allies in the whole war.
The Germans lost about130,000 people in the Soviet-German war. Among them, 38 1.74 million people died and 2.5 million people were captured. After being captured, 363,300 people died and more than 7 million people were injured. The United States only killed 380,000 people, and Britain only killed 400,000 people. Together, the two countries only need to destroy 550 thousand Germans. How dare you say that I am the main force in the European war? I'm ashamed of Americans.
Of course, some people will criticize me, and our contribution should not be determined by the number of enemies destroyed. Ok, let's look at the significance of serious fighting. The Germans lost 500,000 men, tanks 1.3 million, 2500 guns and vehicles 1.5 million. The Soviet army won the battle of Moscow, declared the bankruptcy of Hitler's Blitzkrieg, broke the myth that Nazi Germany was invincible, and greatly improved the morale of the allies in that disappointed era.
The bloodiest battle in the modern history of mankind, with more than 2 million casualties on both sides, not only ended the offensive scene that Germany has been insisting on since 194 1, but also directly formed the basic change of the total strength comparison between the Soviet Union and Germany. From a global perspective, the Battle of Stalingrad, together with the simultaneous Battle of Guadalcanal and the Battle of El Alamein, was an important turning point in World War II. Defeat 30 German divisions and annihilate 500,000 Germans, 1, 500 tanks, 3,000 artillery pieces and more than 3,700 planes.
After this campaign, the Soviet army completely controlled the strategic initiative. From then on, the Germans completely lost their strategic offensive ability and had to turn to full-line defense. It can be said that the Battle of Kurs is an important symbol of Nazi Germany's failure.
What about the British and American battles in Europe? The Normandy campaign, which has been publicized by Hollywood for decades, actually faced most of the second-rate Germans of the Anglo-American Coalition forces, and this was also severely bitten by the Germans in the bitter "Ardennes Campaign". Normandy landed at 1944, and the Germans almost ran out of armored forces in the Battle of Coors at 1943. Whether the western front battlefield is opened or not, the success of the Soviet Union is only a matter of time. Anglo-American cards entered the European battlefield in the prologue of the 1944 European War. No matter how they look at it, they are a little fighting for the outcome of the war to avoid the smell of red flags planted all over Europe.
Many people may think that I belittle the contribution of the United States in the European war too much. Let me tell you a set of data.
In the 1950s just after World War II, 57% of the people in Western Europe believed that the Soviet Union had made the greatest contribution, 20% supported the United States, and 12% supported Britain. In 2004, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the trend of western European countries' comments became that 58% people thought that the United States contributed the most, and 20% people supported the Soviet Union. According to this trend, it is estimated that in 20 years, all the people who experienced the Soviet era in Western Europe will die, and 80% of them will think that the United States has made the greatest contribution.
After all, the films made in Hollywood for so many years, such as Pearl Harbor, Battle of Midway Island, Saving Private Ryan, D-Day Landing and Father's Father's Flag, are brave, full of freedom and humanity. Compared with the above, the films describing the Soviet-German battlefield are almost the same in terms of heat and expressiveness.
Most people think that it is none of our business for the United States to win glory for the Soviet Union. But think about it. If today, when the United States wins glory for the Soviet Union, we choose silence, then one day, when the West wins glory for us, when the United States says that China made no contribution in World War II and/kloc-0.7 million people died, who will stand up for us?