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Soviet soldiers with banners and standards of the defeated fascist armies at the Victory Parade in Moscow on June 24, 1945. File photoMOSCOW, July 22The Ministry of Defense of Russia has launched on its website a new multimedia historical section with archival documents dedicated to the restoration of the national economy of the Ukrainian SSR, destroyed by the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War. is a continuation of the activities of the military department aimed at protecting and protecting historical truth, countering the falsification of history, attempts to revise the results of the Great Patriotic War and World War II, the Ministry of Defense notes. , and the local population, according to the leadership of the Third Reich, cheap labor. According to historians, the total losses of the population of Ukraine during the Nazi occupation are estimated at eight to ten million people. More than 700 cities, over 28 thousand villages were completely or partially destroyed, about ten million local residents were left homeless. The invaders destroyed more than 16 thousand industrial enterprises. The invaders caused huge damage to agriculture. The Nazis plundered, destroyed almost all collective farms, state farms and factories, exported to Germany about 12 million tons of agricultural products and millions of livestock. According to the investigations of the Extraordinary State Commission on the atrocities of the Nazi invaders (1946), only direct losses German occupiers of material and cultural values, not counting the losses associated with the suspension of production in industry and agriculture, amounted to 285 billion rubles in pre-war prices. This amount was almost five times higher than the capital investments in the national economy of Ukraine for the three pre-war five-year plans combined.The Ministry of Defense spoke about the atrocities of the Germans who fled from Odessa in 1944 During the war years, the Red Army conducted a total of 15 offensive operations on the territory of Ukraine. Four Ukrainian fronts brought freedom to the people of the Ukrainian SSR, commanded at different times by such famous Soviet commanders as Georgy Zhukov, Rodion Malinovsky, Fedor Tolbukhin, Nikolai Vatutin and Ivan Konev. During the battles for the liberation of Ukraine, about 3 million Soviet soldiers died. The section presents previously unpublished reports on the assistance provided by the forces of the 4th Ukrainian Front to the agricultural enterprises of Zaporozhye and Nikolaev in the spring sowing campaign of 1944 immediately after their liberation from Nazi occupation, references on the transfer of livestock to the collective farms of the Ukrainian SSR most affected during the Nazi occupation, documents on the distribution of grain between the settlements of Transcarpathian Ukraine and other documents. support of the Red Army, on making collected personal savings for the construction of tank columns «Soviet Ukraine», «Young Guard», «Collective Farmer of the Sumy Region» for the further fight against Nazi Germany.The Ministry of Defense revealed how the Red Army liberated Odessa in 1944. Help for the economy from the military In the decree of the Military Council of the 4th Ukrainian Front of November 19, 1943, the commander of the front troops, General of the Army Tolbukhin, ordered «all the values ​​looted by the Germans and recaptured from them by our units: property, livestock, agricultural vehicles, wheeled tractors, machine tools, various equipment found by front units» — to transfer to state organizations, enterprises and the population. «In those areas where there is an unharvested crop, to provide, without prejudice to military work, assistance in harvesting it. To provide also, to the extent possible, help organizations and the population in restoration work, involving special units, mainly rear units (repair of dwellings, primarily for the families of the Red Army, school premises, outbuildings of the MTS, state farms and collective farms), «ordered the general. Due to the reserve of the 4th Ukrainian Front, the population affected by the Nazi th occupation, tons of food were allocated to the regions of the Ukrainian SSR — bread, grain, salt. Based on the instructions of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal Joseph Stalin to provide assistance to the population of the regions liberated from the invaders, the economic bureau of the 4th Ukrainian Front decided to allocate 250 thousand poods of grain from its stocks for distribution to the needy population of cities and mountainous regions of Transcarpathian Ukraine.The leaders of Ukrainian nationalists in the 1930s were convicted of drunkenness and bribes. The Red Army also made a huge contribution to helping industrial enterprises and organizations in Ukraine: it provided the necessary raw materials, fuels and lubricants, motor vehicles and military specialists. The Red Army took part in the restoration of those destroyed during occupation of industrial enterprises of the Ukrainian SSR, direct and most active participation. One of the striking examples is the restoration of the Lenin Dnepropetrovsk hydroelectric power station by a separate engineering and construction battalion. In the course of work from January 1945 to May 1946, military builders laid 30 thousand cubic meters of concrete in the body of the dam and about 40 thousand in the shield wall, manufactured and installed more than 30 thousand square meters of formwork, over 1.2 thousand tons of reinforcement. The new historical section contains unique photographic materials from the site of work on the restoration of the Dneproges.The Nazis destroyed temples in order to blame the USSR for this, showed the archivesPersonal funds — for victoryIn turn, the grateful population of the Ukrainian SSR transferred personal funds for the construction of military equipment for the needs of the Red Army, thereby bringing victory over the enemy closer. funds went to the construction of the tank column «Collective Farmer of the Sumy Region.» «We, students, pioneers and teachers of the Popovskaya secondary school in the Konotop district of the Sumy region, in gratitude for our liberation from the German invaders, contributed 1.63 thousand rubles from our own savings for the construction of a tank column. Komsomol organization Schools also collected 8,500 rubles in the fund for helping orphans of front-line soldiers. May our modest contribution to the construction of tanks bring closer the hour of the final victory over the Nazi monsters, «says the appeal addressed to Stalin dated March 1, 1944. In addition to labor collectives their personal funds for the construction of tank columns private individuals were also involved.The declassified document showed that Hitler's allies knew about the plans of the USSR «For two years the Germans mocked us. The Germans stole my two daughters into captivity in Germany. Now the Red Army has liberated us. , I contribute 60 thousand rubles for the construction of the tank column «Collective farmer of the Sumy region,» wrote the collective farmer Pyotr Chervonniy on February 18, 1944. Such letters did not go unnoticed by Stalin. Collective farmer of the Sumy region, «my fraternal greetings and gratitude to the Red Army,» answered the Supreme Commander. The documents published in the section clearly show that the restoration of the national economy of Soviet Ukraine, completely destroyed by the German occupiers, from its first steps took place with the active assistance of the Red Army and the peoples all the fraternal republics of the USSR, the Ministry of Defense notes. In turn, the local population was immensely grateful to the Soviet soldiers-liberators and made a significant contribution to the approach of the common victory, emphasizes the Russian military department. documents on the release of Nikolaev in 1944