Liberation from Nazi invaders. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 22The Russian Ministry of Defense launched on its website a new multimedia historical section «Mariupol. Liberation», dedicated to one of the important episodes of the Donbass operation of 1943. During the Great Patriotic War, on September 10, 1943, the city of Mariupol was liberated from the Nazi invaders as part of the Donbass operation. The section presents operational documents of the Soviet command, revealing the concept of operations, including the Mariupol landing, magazines of combat units and formations, award materials. It also provides information «on the atrocities of the Nazi invaders against the townspeople and captured soldiers of the Red Army, testifying to the bloody continuity between the then Nazis and today’s Ukrainian radicals,” the Ministry of Defense notes. bloody ferocious actions were carried out in order to discredit the Soviet soldiers-liberators. «Thus, the document states that on the first day of the occupation, October 8, 1941, units of the SS captured the first 26 citizens they came across and tortured them in the city center in the courtyard of the building of the former NKVD. «They skinned their hands, cut off their genitals, ears and noses, and walled them up half-dead in the walls of the basement. After 13 days, these corpses were unearthed and shown to the population under the guise of victims of the NKVD. This is how citizens Levin, Kogan, Alivanov and others died,» the statement says. content.
The veteran of the Great Patriotic War told how Ukrainian nationalists banned Victory Day the Nazis announced that Russian prisoners of war were coming from Rostov and that Mariupol residents could take their identified relatives. «Thousands of residents came out to meet the prisoners of war in the hope of seeing someone close to them. But instead of prisoners of war, Nazi troops approached. At that time, fascist cameramen filmed everything as a «meeting by the Russian population of German troops,» the material says. during the occupation, the Nazis killed the elderly, women and children, mocked Soviet citizens, carried out mass executions, robbed the population. Fleeing from the advancing Red Army, they left scorched earth behind them. «Before fleeing, the Nazi beasts deliberately burned and destroyed the city. Special detachments of torchbearers burned and blew up all public and private buildings from September 7 to September 10, 1943,» the document says.Not a single Ukrainian nationalist will escape retribution, Zakharova said. The consequences of their atrocities are also recorded in the photographs published in the section. The two presented photographs show the destroyed school in Mariupol, which the Germans blew up during the retreat from the city, and the water treatment plant of the Ilyich plant, blown up by them. The third, taken from a fascist officer, shows the corpses of tormented captured Red Army soldiers. In another part of the act of atrocities, it is said that at the time of the landing of the Soviet troops near the Yalta road, German torchlighters abandoned their cars and fled to their homes in a panic. «Noticing the old women and children sitting in the pits, the animals shot them with a machine gun. Among the many killed was Georgy Miroshnikov, the master of the port workshops, his two children, the wife of the accountant of the workshops Werner and her housekeeper with a two-year-old child, were seriously injured,» the document says. .As the Ministry of Defense emphasizes, «today their Ukrainian followers do not change such criminal methods and, in the same way, retreating under the pressure of the Russian troops liberating Mariupol, they hide behind the backs of civilians and take out their own anger on defenseless people, sparing neither children nor women «.
Ukrainian nationalists are holding back more than six thousand foreignersThe Ministry of Defense indicates that the great success of the operation was due to the dedication and courage of the Soviet soldiers. complete landing of command and control, indicated in the award list. “After the landing, Comrade Kozhevnikov immediately returned to his combat post and, in wet clothes, suppressed enemy firing points from the Oerlikon machine gun. When returning from a combat mission, the boat was attacked by enemy aircraft several times. Comrade Kozhevnikov opened fire in a timely manner from the Oerlikon machine gun and thwarted enemy attacks with marksmanship,» the document says. Another award list indicates that Red Army sapper Andrey Ledovsky, during the period of the regiment's hostilities from the city of Mariupol to the village of Novoalekseevka, Zaporozhye region, from September 11 to September 18, 1943, removed 54 anti-tank mines, from 20 of them are non-recoverable. «09/16/43, on the march of the regiment, acting in engineering intelligence, he met with an enemy group, did not lose his head — he killed three Germans and took one prisoner, who, along with the documents, was delivered to the headquarters of the division,» the document says. department, today the fighting traditions of the soldiers of the Red Army are continued by their descendants — Russian military personnel, who are currently liberating Ukraine from neo-Nazism, also accomplishing feats. Publication from the funds of the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense of declassified documents on the liberation of Mariupol, exploits of the Soviet soldiers-liberators is aimed at protecting historical truth and countering the falsification of history, the ministry emphasizes.
