(Baonghean.vn) - Exactly on this day 72 years ago, Nazi Germany had to sign the unconditional surrender, marking the triumph of the Soviet army and people, ending the Great Patriotic War and predetermining the outcome of World War II, the most devastating war in human history.
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| The Great Patriotic War is a term commonly used in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries to refer to the part of World War II that began on June 22, 1941 and ended on May 9, 1945. Photo: People in Moscow listen to the radio broadcast announcing that Nazi Germany had invaded Soviet territory on the morning of June 22, 1941. |
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| Image of the Belarus battlefield in 1941. |
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| In 1940, Nazi leader Hitler approved Operation Barbarossa (this was the code name for the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II). And on June 22, 1941, the German air force attacked cities on the western border of the Soviet Union. |
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| New recruits leave for battle in Moscow on June 23, 1941. This was an activity in response to the call to defend the country against the invasion of Nazi Germany. |
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| Female citizens tearfully see off their relatives going to war in the Grushki district of Kiev, Ukraine on June 23, 1941. |
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| Soviet planes fly over the Peter and Paul Fortress in Leningrad. |
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| Air defense forces in Moscow in 1941. |
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| Nurses help wounded soldiers after a Nazi bombing near Chisinau. |
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| Machine gunners. |
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| The Red Army gave weapons to the Moscow militia. |
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| Women and children take shelter at Mayakovskaya metro station during a bombardment. |
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| Many volunteers came to register for military service at the Oktyabrsky Military Recruitment Office in 1941. |
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| Female pilots of the 46th Guards Air Regiment rest near a shelter. |
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| Workers and residents are building barricades outside Leningrad. |
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| Soviet farmers in a cooperative examine a downed Nazi plane. |
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| People participate in digging trenches to defend the port city of Odessa. |
Kim Ngoc
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