View of the destroyed Kyiv during the Great Patriotic War. File photoMOSCOW, May 9.On Victory Day, the Russian Ministry of Defense launched on its website a new historical section «In the grip of criminal unconsciousness». The department notes that the section tells about the battles of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War for the cities of the western regions of Ukraine, about the Red Army heroes who performed feats in these battles, about the historical memory that is preserved by the graves of soldiers and memorials in their honor, and about the crimes of the Ukrainian authorities, which is trying with all its might to erase this fraternal memory of the peoples. «The section presents operational documents of the 1st and 4th Ukrainian fronts, registration cards military graves and memorials erected in places of fierce battles; award materials for soldiers of the Red Army; evidence of the barbaric attitude of Ukrainian nationalists to Soviet monuments, to their own heroic past,» the Ministry of Defense emphasized. In particular, the section talks about the memorial complex «Hill Glory» in Uzhgorod. In 73 common and 147 individual graves of the complex, 960 Soviet soldiers were buried, most of whom died during the Great Patriotic War. In front of the Eternal Flame of the memorial, there is an inscription on the stele: «Eternal glory to the heroes who perished in the battles for freedom and the independence of our great Batkivshchyna!» («Eternal glory to the heroes who died in the battles for the freedom and independence of our great Motherland!») The section publishes magazines of the Red Army's military operations for cities in Western Ukraine. The documents mention the detailed situation at the front, describe in detail how, in particular, the troops of the 60th Army liberated Lvov.In Kherson, portraits of WWII heroes were returned to the Alley of GloryThe archive map shows how the detour of the 15th Rifle Corps cut off all the retreat paths of the Brod group of the enemy in the direction of Lvov, as a result of which numerous Nazi troops, among which was the 14th SS division «Galicia » (also known as «Galicia» — a unit that included Ukrainian collaborators), could not take part in the battle for the city and were defeated. The section also publishes information about the heroic deeds of the fighters, many of whom were from Ukraine. So, in particular, the documents indicate that the medal «For Courage» was awarded to the sanitary instructor of a rifle company, sergeant of the medical service Fedor Pisarishin. weapons,” the document states. The section also provides evidence of the barbarism of Ukrainian nationalists, with the participation of the authorities, destroying Soviet memorial complexes, trying to erase the fraternal heroic memory. a monument to one of the founders of the Communist Party of Bukovina — Semyon Galitsky. «Soviet rubbish has no place in our beautiful city!» — commented on the abuse of memory in the Chernivtsi city council. «The current government in Ukraine is trying with all its might to steal the memory from its people. And returning it is our main task!» — conclude in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
