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Victory will be ours!

- War! War!

On June 22, 1941, German fascists attacked our homeland. They attacked like thieves, like robbers. They wanted to capture our lands, our cities and villages, and our people either kill, or make their servants and slaves. The Great Patriotic War began. She lasted four years.

It was not impossible way to victory. Enemies attacked us unexpectedly. They had more tanks and aircraft. Our armies retired. Fights walked on the ground, in the sky, at sea. The great battles thundered: Moscow, Stalingrad, battle on the Kursk arc. 250 days did not give up the enemy heroic Sevastopol. 900 days in a terrible blockade was kept courageous Leningrad. Caucasian fought bravely. In Ukraine, in Belarus, in other places, the invaders of the Terrible partisans have rolled. Millions of people, including children, worked at factory machines and in the fields of the country. Soviet people (the Soviet Union - the so-called in those years our country) did everything to stop the fascists. Even in the shortest days, they firmly believed: "The enemy will be broken! Victory will be ours!"

And now came the day when the offensive of the invaders was stopped. Soviet armies drove the fascists from their native land.

And again battles, battle, battles, battles. More and more powerful, all the disadvantaged strikes of Soviet troops. And the most long-awaited, the greatest day. Our soldiers reached the borders of Germany and stormed the capital of fascists - the city of Berlin. It was 1945. Spring bloom. There was a month May.

Fascists recognized their complete defeat on May 9. Since then, this day has become our great holiday - Victory Day.

The wonders of heroism and courage showed our people, protecting native land from fascists.

The Brest Fortress stood on the border itself. Attach her fascists on the very first day of war. Thought: day - and the fortress they have in their hands. For a whole month, our soldiers held. And when the forces were not left and the fascists broke into the fortress, her last defender wrote a bayonet on the wall: "I'm dying, but I do not give up."

There was a great Moscow battle. Fascist tanks rushed forward. At one of the fronts of the front, 28 Heroes soldiers from the division of General Panfilov were blocked by the enemy's road. Tens of tanks knocked the fighters. And they went all and walked. They were exhausted in battle soldiers. And the tanks went and walked. And yet did not retreat in this terrible battle of Panfilovtsy. Did not miss the fascists to Moscow.

General Dmitry Karbyshev was wounded in battle and was in captivity. He was a professor, a very famous military builder. Fascists wanted the general to move to their side. Promised life and high posts. Dmitry Carbyshev did not betray his homeland. The fascists of the general executed. Brought out in a strong frost to the street. Purred cold water from hoses.

Vasily Zaitsev is the famous hero of the Stalingrad battle. From his sniper rifle, he destroyed three hundred fascists. Unfortunate for enemies was hares. I had to call the fascist commanders from Berlin the famous arrow. This is who will destroy the Soviet sniper. It turned out the opposite. Zaitsev killed Berlin celebrity. "Three hundred first," said Vasily Zaitsev.

During the battle near Stalingrad, a field telephone interrupted in one of the artillery regiments. Original soldier Titayev's communications officer under the fire enemy crawled to find out where the wire is torn off. Found. Only tried to twist the ends of the wires, like a fragment of the enemy projectile fell into a fighter. Titaev did not have time to connect the wires, then, dilding, he firmly lit her lips. Earned communication. "The fire! The fire!" - the teams were spawned again in the artillery regiment.

Many deaths brought us war. Twelve soldiers of Grigoryanov were members of a big Armenian family. Served in one branch. Together went to the front. Together defended the Native Caucasus. Together with everyone went forward. Berlin reached one. Eleven Grigoryanov died. After the war, residents of the city, in which Grigoryans lived, in honor of the heroes put twelve poplars. The current poplar has grown. They stand exactly in a row, like soldiers in the ranks, are high and beautiful. Memory eternal Grigoryans.

Teenagers and even children took part in the fight against enemies. Many of them for courage and courage were awarded combat medals and orders. Valya Kotik at twelve gave a scout in the partisan detachment. At fourteen years, for his feats, became the most young hero of the Soviet Union.

In Sevastopol, the ordinary machine gunner fought. Accurately broke the enemies. Left alone in the opposite, accepted an unequal battle. It was wounded, contuge. But he retained the trench. Destroyed up to one hundred fascists. He was assigned the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The name of the Marthercher Ivan Bogatyr. Do not get better last name.

The fighter pilot Alexander Pokshkinin knocked down the first fascist plane at the very beginning of the war. Lucking tops. The number of planes shot down by him is 5, 10, 15. The names of the fronts are replaced, on which the pilot fought. It grows, the heroic account of victories is growing - 20, 30, 40. The war approached the end - 50, 55, 59. Fifty-nine aircraft enemy knocked down the fighter pilot Alexander Tashkin.

He became the hero of the Soviet Union.

Became twice the hero of the Soviet Union.

He became three times the hero of the Soviet Union.

Eternal glory to you, Alexander Pokshkinin, the first three times the hero in the country.

But the story of another feat. The pilot Alexei Maresyev was shot down in air combat. He survived, but was seriously injured. His plane fell on the territory of the enemy in the deaf forest. Standing winter. 18 days he walked, and then plenty to his. He was picked up partisans. The pilot frosted his legs. They had to amputate. How to fly without legs?! Maresyev learned not only to walk and even dance on prostheses, but the main thing is to manage the fighter. In the first air battles, he knocked down three fascist aircraft.

They walked the last days of the war. Heavy battles were carried on the streets of Berlin. Soldier Nikolai Masualov on one of the Berlin streets, risking life, under the fire enemy made a crying German girl from the place of battle. War is over. In the very center of Berlin in the park on a high hill, the monument to the Soviet soldier is now towers. It is with a saved girl in his arms.

When, on the Western border of the USSR, the sun rays were only going to illuminate the land, the first soldiers of Hitler's Germany stepped on Soviet land. The Great Patriotic War (Went) Already almost two years already, but now the heroic war began, and it will not be for the resources, not for the domination of one nation over the other, and not for the establishment of a new order, now the war will be the sacred, folk and the price of it will be life, real and Life of future generations.

Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Start of magnitude

On June 22, 1941, he went on the four years of inhuman efforts, during which the future of each of us hung almost in the hairs.
War is always a disgusting occupation, but The Great Patriotic War (Went) It was too folk that only professional soldiers participated in it. On the defense of the Motherland, all the people rose, it was from Mala to Great.
From the first day Great Patriotic War (Went) The heroism of a simple Soviet soldier became a role model. The fact that in the literature is often called "standing at death" was completely demonstrated in the battles for the Brest Fortress. The praised soldiers of the Wehrmacht, who conquered France in 40 days, and forced England to shower on their island, faced with such resistance that they simply could not believe that ordinary people fight against them. As if it was warriors from the epic tales, their breasts arose to defend each Pyats of the native land. Almost a month, the garrison of the fortress beat off one attack of the Germans after another. And this, just think, 4,000 people who were cut off from the mainstream, and which did not have a single chance of salvation. They were all doomed, but never succumbed to weakness, did not fold weapons.
When the advanced parts of the Wehrmacht goes to Kiev, Smolensk, Leningrad, battles still continue in the Brest Fortress.
Great Patriotic War All the time characterize the manifestations of heroism and resistance. Whatever in the territory of the USSR, which terrible would not be repressions of tyranny, the war was equal.
A vivid example of changing the relationship within society, the famous appeal of Stalin, which was made on July 3, 1941, contained the words - "Brothers and Sisters". There were no more citizens, there were no high ranks and comrades, it was a huge family consisting of all the peoples and nationalities of the country. The family demanded salvation, demanded support.
And on the Eastern Front continued battles. The German generals first encountered anomaly, and you won't call it differently. Developed by the best minds of the Hitler's General Staff, a lightning war, built on fast breakthroughs of tank compounds, followed by the environment of large parts of the enemy, no longer worked like a clock mechanism. Finding into the environment Soviet parts with battles broke out, and not folded weapons. To a serious degree, the heroism of soldiers and commanders threw the plans of the German offensive, slowed down the promotion of enemy parts and became a turning point of war. Yes, yes, precisely then, in the summer of 41, the plans of the German army were completely torn. Then there were Stalingrad, Kursk, Moscow battle, but they all became possible thanks to the unparalleled courage of a simple Soviet soldier, who stopped the German invaders with the price of his own life.
Of course, in the manual of military actions there were beggars. We must admit that the command of the Red Army was not ready for Went. The doctrine of the USSR assumed a victorious war on the territory of the enemy, but not on his own land. And in technical terms, Soviet troops seriously inferior to the Germans. So they went to the cavalry attacks on the tanks, flew and hit the German assues on old airplanes, burned in tanks, and retreated, without giving a bar without a fight.

Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Battle for Moscow

The plan for the lightning seizure of Moscow by the Germans, finally suffered a wreck in the winter of the 41st year. About the Moscow battle is very written, films were shot. However, each page of the written, each frame from prescribed the unparalleled heroism of Moscow defenders. We all know about the parade on November 7, which passed on Red Square, while German tanks went to the capital. Yes, it was also an example of how the Soviet people are going to defend their country. The troops went to the forefront immediately from the parade, while entering the battle. And the Germans could not stand. EUROPE IUTURERS stopped. The nature itself came to the rescue defenders, they hit the strongest frosts, and it was the beginning of the end of the German offensive. Hundreds of thousands of lives, widespread manifestations of patriotism and devotion to the homeland of soldiers in the environment, soldiers near Moscow, the inhabitants who first kept the weapon in their hands, all this was an insurmountable obstacle on the enemy's path to the heart of the USSR.
But after the legendary offensive began. German troops were discarded from Moscow, and for the first time knew the bitterness of the retreat and defeat. It can be said that it was here that the fate of the whole world was predetermined in the snow-covered localities, and not just war. Brown plague, until that time, absorbing the country behind the country, the people outside the people, turned out to face to face with people who did not want, could not stick their heads.
The 41st approached the end, the western part of the USSR lay in ruins, the occupation troops leaned, but nothing could break those who were in the captured territories. There were traitors, what to hide, those who switched to the side of the enemy, and forever melted themselves with shame and the rank of "policeman." And who are they now, where are they? Does not forgive the sacred war of traitors on their land.
By the way about the "Holy War". The legendary song very accurately displaced the state of the society of those years. The folk and sacred war did not tolerate the subjunctive decline and weakness. The price of victory or defeat was life itself.
G. made it possible to change the relationship of power and church. Subjected to many years of persecution during Went The Russian Orthodox Church helped the front with all their might. And this is another example of heroism and patriotism. After all, we all know that in the West Pope simply leaned before the Hitler's Iron Fists.

Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Partisan War

Separately worth saying about the partisan war during Went. The Germans first met with such fierce resistance to the population. Regardless of where the front line took place, the enemy constantly conducted fighting. Not a minute of peace could not get the invaders on the Soviet Earth. Whether it is the fourth of Belarus or the forest of Smolensk region, the steppe of Ukraine, the death of the invaders was waiting for death! In the partisans, they left all villages, together with families, with relatives, and from there from the innermost, ancient forests were struck by fascists.
How many heroes gave rise to the partisan movement. And old and very young. Young guys and girls, who went to school yesterday, today matured, and made the feats that will remain on the century in our memory.
While there were fighting on Earth, the air, in the first months of the war, fully belonged to the Germans. A huge number of aircraft of the Soviet Army was destroyed immediately after the start of the fascist offensive, and those who managed to rise into the air could not fight German aviation on an equal footing. However, Herism B. Went Manifests not only on the battlefield. Low bow all we, living today, give the figs. In the most severe conditions, under constant shelling and bombing, factories and factories were exported to the east. Immediately upon arrival, on the street, in the cold, became workers to machines. The army continued to receive ammunition. Talented designers created new arms models. On 18-20 hours a day worked in the rear, but the army, no matter what did. The victory was in price at the cost of the huge efforts of every person.

Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Rear

Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Blood Leningrad.

Blood Leningrad. Are there people who would hear this phrase? 872 days of unparalleled heroism covered this city by eternal glory. German troops and allies, and could not break the resistance of a blockade city. The city lived, defended and caused response strikes. The road of life, which connected the blockade city with the mainland for many, became the last, and there was not a single person who would refuse, who would be tore and did not take in this ice ribbon food and ammunition to the Leningrads. Hope never died. And merit in this entirely belongs to ordinary people who exceeded the freedom of their country!
All history of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 written by unprecedented feats. Close up by your body an ambrusura of enemy dota, rushing with grenades under the tank, go to the ram in the air combat - could only real sons and daughters of their people, heroes.
And they were rewarded! And let the sky over the village of Prokhorovka became black from the soot and smoke, let the water of the northern seas took the dead heroes every day, but no longer stopping the liberation of the birthplace.
And there was the first salute, August 5, 1943. It was then that I went countdown to salutes in honor of the new victory, the new liberation of the city.
The peoples of Europe today do not know their history, the true history of the Second World War. It is thanks to the Soviet people who live, build their lives, give birth and raise children. Bucharest, Warsaw, Budapest, Sofia, Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, all these capitals were released by the price of blood of Soviet heroes. And the last shots in Berlin commemoration of the end of the scary nightmare of the 20th century.

The war plan against the USSR under the codenate name "Barbarossa" Hitler approved on December 18, 1940. He sought to establish German Heger-Resection in Europe that it would be impossible without defeating the USSR. Germany attracted the natural wealth of the USSR, which had a value as strategic raw materials. The pleasure of the Soviet Union, according to the Hitler's Men, would create the conditions for the Second on the British Islands and the seizure of the English Co-Block in the Middle East and in India. The strategic plan of the Hitler's command (Blitzkrieg "- a lightning war) consisted in the following: destroy Soviet troops focused in the western regions of the country, rapidly promote into the depths of the Soviet Union, to take his most important political and economic centers. Moscow Dol-Zhna was destroyed after her capture. The ultimate goal of the military operation against the USSR is the exit and a fastening of German troops on the line Arkhangelsk - AC-Trach.

June 22, 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union.Hitler violated the German-Soviet pact of nonpads 1939

German troops fell by three groups of armies. The task of the North Army Group is to destroy the Soviet troops in the Baltic States, take the ports in the Baltic Museum, Pskov and Leningrad. The Army Group "South" had to defeat the power of the Red Army in Ukraine, to seize Kiev, Kharkov, Donbass and Crimea. The most powerful was the center of the "Center" armies, coming on the territory of the central direction to Moscow.

On June 23, the main co-melting rate for managing combat actions is created in Moscow. On July 10, it was transformed into the supreme command rate. Her chairman was Stalin.

Starting stage (June 22, 1941— November 19, 1942).

1941

On June 22, the Germans switched to the border of the Soviet Union in many directions.

By July 10, the fascists, moving in three strategic directions (Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev), captured the Baltic States, a significant part of Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine.

July 10-10 - September - Smolensk Battle, in terms of the city, the surroundings of the units of the Red Army, promoting the fascists to Moscow.

July 11 - September 19 - the defense of Kiev, the loss of the go-kind, the environment of the four armies of the South-Western Front.

December 5, 1941 - January 8, 1942 - counteroffensiveness of the Red Army near Moscow, Germans overlooking 120-250 km. The strategy of the lightning war was pro-rolled.

1942

January 9 - April - the onset of the Red Army, the Moscow and Tula region, the regions of the Kalininsky, Smolensk, Ryazan, Oryol regions were released.

May - July - the offensive of German troops in the Krym, the fall of Sevastopol (July 4).

On July 17 - November 18 - the defensive stage of the Sta-Lingrad battle, the plans of the German co-melting on the lightning seizure of the city are torn.

July 25 - December 31 - a defensive battle in the North Caucasus.

A radical fracture (November 19, 1942 - December 1943).

November 19, 1942 - February 2, 1943 - the offensive of the Red Army under Stalingrad, the environment and plenia of the 6th Army of Feldmarshal Paulus and the 2nd Tanza Army with a total number of 300 thousand people, who was a fundamental fracture in The course of the Great Domestic War.

1943

July 5 - August 23 - Battle on the Kursk Arc (July 12, a tank battle near Prokhorovka), the final transition of the strategic initiative to the Red Army.

August 25 - December 23 - the battle for the Dnieper, the liberation of the left bank of Ukraine, Donbass, Kiev (6-1--November).

1944 g.

January - May - offensive operations near Le Ningrad and Novgorod (Leningrad blocked lifted), near Odessa (liberated) and in the Crimea.

June - December - Operation "Bagration" and a number of other offensive operations on the liberation of Belo-Russia, Lviv-Sandomir operation in Western Ukraine, Operations for the liberation of Romania and Bol-Garia, Baltic States, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

1945

January 12 - February 7 - Vorol-Oder operation, most of Poland liberated.

January 13 - April 25 - the East Prussian Operations, taken by Königsberg, the mainly fortified bridgehead of Eastern Prussia.

April 16 - May 8 - Berlin Operation, Taking Berlin (May 2), Capitulation of Germany (May 8).

The Great Patriotic War was a composite hour of the Second World War, in which Hitler Germany and its allies opposed the powerful An-Tigitler coalition. The main participants of the co-alice were the USSR, the USA and the United Kingdom. The Soviet Union made a decisive contribution to the defeat of fascism. The East Front has always remained the main thing during the Way World War.

The victory over Germany and Japan strengthened the authority of the USSR worldwide. The Co-Old Army completed the war of the most powerful army of the world, and the Soviet Union became one of the two superpowers.

The main source of victory of the USSR in the war was the informal courage and the heroism of the Soviet people at the front and in the rear. Only on the Soviet-German front were broken 607 enemy divisions. Germany lost more than 10 million people in the war against the USSR (80% of their military in terms of terror), 167 thousand artillery guns, 48 \u200b\u200bthousand tanks, 77 thousand aircraft (75% of all their military equipment). Victory went to us a huge price. The war claimed almost 27 million people (including 10 million soldiers and officers). In the enemy rear killed 4 million partisans, underground workers, civilians. Over 6 million people found themselves in the fascist captivity. Nevertheless, in the people's consciousnesses, the long-awaited Victory Day became the brightest and joyful holiday, meaning the end of the most bloody and destructive of wars.

The main periods of the Great Patriotic War.

Plan

1. USSR on the eve of war. Periodization of the Great Patriotic War.

2. The beginning of the Great Patriotic War: Causes of military catastrophe in the initial period of war.

3. The root fracture in the war. Stalingrad and Kursk battle.

4. Victory of the Red Army at the final stage of the war (1944-1945).

5. Results and lessons of the Great Patriotic War.

Key concepts and terms:war, Revision, Politics of the Agressor, Collective System, Munich Credit, Anchlus, Fascism, Nazism, Fascist Aggression, Anti-Fascist Coalition, Strange War, Blitzkrieg, Second Front, Partisan Movement, Land Liz, Strategic Initiative, Native Fracture

At dawn on June 22, 1941, Hitler Germany attacked the Soviet Union. On the side of Germany, Romania, Hungary, Italy and Finland spoke. The grouping of the aggressor troops numbered 5.5 million people, 190 divisions, 5 thousand aircraft, about 4 thousand tanks and self-propelled artillery attitudes (SAU), 47 thousand guns and mortars.

In accordance with the Barbarossa plan developed in 1940, Germany planned as soon as possible (for 6-10 weeks) to enter the line Arkhangelsk - Volga - Astrakhan. It was an installation on blitzkrieg - Lightning war. So the Great Patriotic War began.

The main periods of the Great Patriotic War.

First period (June 22, 1941 - November 18, 1942) From the beginning of the war before the onset of the Soviet troops near Stalingrad. It was the hardest for the USSR period.

Having created a multiple superiority in humans and military equipment at the main directions of the offensive, the German army achieved significant success. By the end of November 1941, Soviet troops, retreating under the blows of the superior enemy forces to Leningrad, Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, left the enemy a huge territory, lost about 5 million people killed, missing and prisoners, most of the tanks and aircraft .

The main efforts of the German fascist troops in the fall of 1941 were aimed at capturing Moscow. The battle for Moscow lasted from September 30, 1941. Until April 20, 1942. On December 5-6, 1941, the Red Army moved to the offensive, the front of the opponent's defense was breaking. The fascist troops were discarded from Moscow at 100-250 km. Moscow capture plan failed, the lightning war in the east did not take place.

The victory near Moscow had great international importance. Japan and Turkey abstained from entering the war against the USSR. The increased authority of the USSR on the world stage contributed to the creation of an antihytler coalition. However, in the summer of 1942, due to the mistakes of the Soviet leadership (primarily Stalin), the Red Army suffered a number of major lesions in the north-west, near Kharkov and in the Crimea. The German fascist troops came to Volga - Stalingrad and the Caucasus. The persistent defense of the Soviet troops in these areas, as well as the translation of the country's economy for military rails, the creation of a coherent military economy, the deployment of the partisan movement in the rear of the enemy prepared the necessary conditions for the transition of Soviet troops in the offensive.

The second period (November 19, 1942 - the end of 1943) - Native fracture in the war. Exhausting and extinguishing the enemy in defensive battles, on November 19, 1942, Soviet troops were transferred to counteroffensive, surrounded by Stalingrad 22 fascist divisions with a number of more than 300 thousand people. On February 2, 1943, this group was eliminated. At the same time, the enemy troops were expelled from the North Caucasus. By the summer of 1943, the Soviet-German front stabilized.

Using the front configuration favorable configuration, the fascist troops on July 5, 1943 passed into the offensive under Kurisk to return the strategic initiative and surround the Soviet grouping of troops on the Kursk arc. In the course of fierce fighting, the opponent's offensive was stopped. On August 23, 1943, Soviet troops liberated Eagle, Belgorod, Kharkov, reached the Dnieper, on November 6, 1943. Kiev was released.

During the summer-autumn offensive, half of the enemy divisions were defeated, significant territories of the Soviet Union were released. The disintegration of the fascist bloc began, in 1943 it was out of the war Italy.

1943 was the year of the indigenous fracture not only during the fighting on the fronts, but also in the work of the Soviet rear. Thanks to the selfless work of the rear by the end of 1943, an economic victory over Germany was obsessed. The military industry in 1943 gave the front of 29.9 thousand aircraft, 24.1 thousand tanks, 130.3 thousand guns of all kinds. It was more than the Germany made in 1943. The Soviet Union in 1943 was superior to Germany for the production of basic types of military equipment, weapons.

Third period (the end of 1943 - May 8, 1945) - The final period of the Great Patriotic War. In 1944, the Soviet economy reached the highest lift for all wartime. Industry, transportation, agriculture has been successfully developed. Military proceedings increased especially rapidly. The release of tanks and sau in 1944 compared to 1943 increased from 24 to 29 thousand, and combat aircraft - from 30 to 33 thousand units. Since the beginning of the war, by 1945, about 6 thousand enterprises were put into effect.

1944 was marked by the victories of the Soviet Armed Forces. The entire territory of the USSR was completely liberated from the fascist occupiers. The Soviet Union came to the aid of the peoples of Europe - the Soviet army liberated Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, made his way to Norway with battle. Romania and Bulgaria declared war in Germany. Finland came out of the war.

Successful offensive actions of the Soviet Army pushed allies on June 6, 1944. Open the second front in Europe - Anglo-American troops under the command of General D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) landed in the north of France, in Normandy. But the Soviet-German front still remained the main and most active front of World War II.

During the winter offensive 1945, the Soviet army dropped the enemy by more than 500 km. Poland, Hungary and Austria, the eastern part of Czechoslovakia were almost completely liberated. The Soviet army came out to Oder (60 km from Berlin). On April 25, 1945, there was a historical meeting of Soviet troops with American and English troops on the Elbe, in the area of \u200b\u200bTorgau.

Fights in Berlin were exclusively fierce and persisting. On April 30, the banner of victory over Reichstag was empty. On May 8, the signing of an act on unconditional surrender of fascist Germany took place. May 9 - became a day of victory.

From July 17 to August 2, 1945 took place Third Conference of the heads of the Government of the USSR, USA and Great Britain in the suburbs of Berlin - Potsdam, which took important decisions on the post-war device of the world in Europe, the German problem and other issues. On June 24, 1945, a parade of Victory was held in Moscow on Red Square.

The victory of the USSR over Hitler's Germany was not only a political and military, but also economic. This is evidenced by the fact that in the period from July 1941 to August 1945, a significantly more military equipment and weapons were made to the USSR than in Germany. Here are specific data (thousand pieces):

This economic victory in the war became possible due to the fact that the Soviet Union managed to create a more advanced economic organization and achieve more efficient use of all its resources.

War with Japan. The end of World War II. However, the end of hostilities in Europe did not mean the completion of the Second World War. In accordance with the fundamental agreement in Yalta (February 1945 G.) The Soviet Government on August 8, 1945 announced the war of Japan. Soviet troops launched offensive actions at the front with a length of over 5 thousand km. Geographical and climatic conditions in which the fighting was held were extremely difficult. The upcoming Soviet troops had to overcome the ridges of a large and small Hingane and East Manchurian mountains, deep and stormy rivers, anhydrous desert, difficult forests. But despite these difficulties, the Japanese troops were defeated.

In the course of persistent battles for 23 days, Soviet troops liberated Northeast China, North Korea, the southern part of Sakhalin Island and Kuril Islands. 600 thousand soldiers and officers of the enemy were captured, a large number of weapons and military equipment were captured. Under the strikes of the Armed Forces of the USSR and its allies in the war (primarily the United States, England, China) Japan on September 2, 1945 capitulated. South part of Sakhalin and the island of Kuril Rudda moved to the Soviet Union.

The United States, having dropped atomic bombs on the 6th and 9th of August 9, laid the beginning of a new nuclear era.

Thus, the Great Patriotic War was an important part of the Second World War. The Soviet people and his armed forces were made on their shoulders the main burden of this war and achieved a historical victory over Hitler's Germany and its allies. The participants of the Anti-Hitler coalition were made to the victory over the forces of fascism and militarism. The main lesson of World War II is that the warning of the war needs the unity of the actions of peace-loving forces. During the preparation of the Second World War, it could be prevented. Many countries and public organizations tried to do this, but the unity of action was not achieved.

Questions for self-test

1. Tell us about the main periods of the Great Patriotic War.