Day of Remembrance and Sorrow
June 22, 1941 is one of the saddest dates in the history of Russia. On this very day 82 years ago in the early morning, without declaring war, Nazi Germany and its allies invaded the Soviet Union. So the Great Patriotic War began, which lasted 1418 days and nights, where the USSR lost about 27 million people, but was able to hold out against the fire of the enemy.
Eternal glory to the fallen heroes who fought for the Motherland resisting deadly Nazi invasion during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.
We remember millions of Soviet people who lost their lives as a result of this war. This day reminds of all those who were killed in battles, at the expense of their lives, fulfilling their sacred duty to defend their Motherland, were tortured to death in Nazi captivity, who died in the rear from hunger and hardship. We mourn for all of them.
In this severe bloody war, the multinational people of the Soviet Union made a decisive contribution to the defeat of Hitler’s troops and liberation of the peoples of Europe from Nazism.
No one is forgotten, nothing is forgiven.
