Most modern school known as the Great Patriotic War.They also know the date of the attack on Poland in 1939, on 1 September.It turns out that one and a half years between the two events in our country, nothing much happened, people just go to work, to meet the dawn over the Moscow River, Komsomol sang songs, well, maybe sometimes allowed themselves to dance tango and foxtrot.Such is the nostalgic idyll.
In fact pattern produced hundreds of films, apparently, is somewhat different from the realities of the time.All the people of the Soviet Union worked and not as it is now.There was no image-makers, support menendzherov and merchandisers work is considered only the specific cases related to the production of items necessary for the country.Mainly - weapons.This situation existed for years, and when World War II began, just became even harder.
that Sunday morning, when German troops attacked our borders, something happened that was inevitable, but it does not happen as expected.No rattling fire, flashed steel combat vehicles, going to the violent campaign.Huge stocks of weapons, food, medicine, fuel and other essential military goods were destroyed or captured by the advancing Germans.Aircraft, focusing on the borders is against the airfields were burned to the ground.
the question: "When the Great Patriotic War?" - It would be better to answer, "July 3".AND IN.Stalin had called her during his radio address to the Soviet people, "brothers and sisters".However, the term mentioned in the newspaper "Pravda" in the second and third day after the attack, but then he is not taken seriously, it was a direct analogy with the First World War and the Napoleonic Wars.
Numerous scholars of the Great Patriotic War unfairly pay little attention to its initial period, which is characterized as the largest military catastrophe of all time mankind.Number of irretrievable loss and captured the millions, vast areas at the mercy of the invaders with their population and industrial potential, which had quickly incapacitate or evacuate.
Nazi hordes were able to reach the Volga, he took it a little more than a year.During the First World Austro-Hungarian and German forces entered deep into the "backward and lapotnoy" Russian Empire on the Carpathian Mountains.
From that moment, when the Great Patriotic War, before the liberation of the entire Soviet land was about three years old, filled with grief, blood and death.More than one million citizens who were captured and ended up in the occupation, went over to the invaders, were formed by the division and the army entered the Wehrmacht.None of the kind during the First World and the speech could not go.
Due to the enormous human and material losses of the Soviet Union after World War II experienced huge difficulties expressed in the famine of 1947, the general impoverishment of the population and the devastation that is still felt somewhat now.
