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“LAGING UNA REGIMENT PERIMETER MARCH!”
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This still photo was taken from a stock footage film made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II. A military newsreel which featured Filipino soldiers training In California showed the “FIRST ALL-FILIPINO REGIMENT” of the U.S. Army. The 1st Filipino Battalion was originally formed at Camp San…
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“Warfare in the industrial age requires a careful balance of mass and quality.
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A single perfect tank cannot offer the same combat power as ten adequate but imperfect tanks. Most American tankers would have preferred to be sitting on a more powerful tank like the Panther, but no commander would have been content to substituted his many Shermans for a much smaller number…
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General Vasily Chuikov
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In April 1944, members of the 62nd Stalingrad Army, part of the 8th Guards Army led by General Vasily Chuikov, marched triumphantly through the streets of Odessa, their faces hardened by years of brutal combat. The city, once occupied by Nazi forces, had been liberated by the Soviet Red Army…
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Yakov Dzhugashvili, Joseph Stalin’s first son.
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He shot himself because of his father’s harshness towards him but survived. After this, Stalin reportedly said, “He can’t even shoot straight.” In 1941, during World War II, Yakov was captured while fighting the Germans. Realising it was Stalin’s son, Adolf Hitler then made an offer to Stalin that he…
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THERE WAS NO FORGIVENESS FOR GAZA CHILDREN.
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Insulting leniency no longer in front of US prosecutors, where jails are full of poor, but in front of innocent Gaza children torn apart or dead. For them there was no forgiveness, nor will there be. Capital has no feelings, only interests. THERE WAS NO FORGIVENESS FOR GAZA CHILDREN Omar…
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PATRIOTIC, ANTI-FASCIST, PARTIZAN.A partisan fighting against fascism, hanged at the age of 18 in January:
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ZOYA KOSMODEMYANSKAYA’ aka TANYA ;“The comrades! Why are you so depressed ? Be brave, fight, crush fascists, burn, destroy! I ain’t afraid to die Comrades! Happy to die for my people! ”Zoya, the child of a librarian and a teacher, was a Hero of the Soviet Union. He joined the…
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“You hang me now, but I’m not alone.
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There are 200 million of us. You can’t hang us all. They will avenge me.” – – Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, November 29, 1941 On November 29, 1941, 18 year old Soviet resistance fighter and partisan Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was executed by the Nazis. Zoya had been caught after setting fire to stables…
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Today We Remember And Honor.
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🏅 On February 27, 1943, Alexander Matrosov performed an immortal feat, which became known and will always be remembered as Matrosov’s feat – he sacrificed his life for his Motherland and his comrades in arms. On that day, Matrosov’s battalion was ordered to attack an enemy stronghold near the village…
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Heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
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🔷Nikolai Gastello (1907-1941)Military pilot, commander of the 2nd squadron of the 207th long-range bomber aviation regiment, captain. He worked as a mechanic and was conscripted into the Red Army in 1932. He joined the aviation regiment and became a pilot. Nikolai Gastello took part in three wars. A year before…
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This is Lyudmila Pavlichenko (aka “Lady Death”),
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a Soviet sniper with 309 confirmed kills from 1941 to 1942. She is considered the top five military snipers of all time and the most successful female sniper in history.In June 1941, Pavlichenko was a 24-year-old college student studying history at Kiev University when Germany invaded the Soviet Union. She…