The Nazis from the «shock group» among the burning buildings in the Warsaw ghetto. File photoMOSCOW, June 22 Before attacking the USSR in 1941, the German Nazis planned to use the tactics that their Ukrainian followers are now using — to destroy churches to blame the Soviet military for this, and to play on the feelings of believers, follows from archival documents published on Wednesday by the Ministry of Defense. The military department launched on its website a new historical section «Heroes of the First Days of the Great War», timed to coincide with the 81st anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War, in which unique documents from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation were published.< p>"Many churches and cemeteries of all faiths are used for warehouses, firing positions and observation posts… Obviously, in a future war against the USSR, the German command intends to spread reports that the Reds are bombing churches and cemeteries. This tactic can play well on the religious feelings, mainly of the Poles", says the special report of the head of the intelligence department of the headquarters of the Western Special Military District of the USSR dated June 3, 1941.
The Russian Ministry of Defense emphasizes that such practices are resorted to today the Ukrainian military, in particular in the case of the Svyatogorsk Lavra (DPR), which the Russian army was accused of destroying. Hitler knew about the plans of the USSR