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Battle of Moscow remembered

Published: 04 December, 2009, 10:07
Edited: 13 April, 2010, 14:53


Friday marks the anniversary of the first defensive leg of the historic Battle of Moscow. In December 1941, the German army was stopped at the entrance to the Russian capital.

 
2 COMMENTS
peter may January 06, 2010, 23:27 quote
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Winston Churchill said: "The Red Army tore the heart out of Nazi Germany" , acknowledged the terrible suffering of the Russian people & their pivotal role in defeating the Axis powers .

Zak April 13, 2010, 14:21 quote
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You Indeed" tore the heart out of Nazi Germany"(most of the Europe-minus England ,Serbia and Greece who fight all the way -from day one till the last day of victory)....You Russians are brave nation-you are the most dangerous nation on planet prooven by history facts ...Your heroic fight is by all means EPIC never to be repeated in history books(I believe) of human kind! Moskow,Leningrad(St.Petersburg),Stalingrad(Volgograd),Kursk-you name it.....Its worty to say that WW2 beggin in 1938 for Russia(In Mongolia against Japan)....IT was not a winter as some from the West try to say(Wermaht SS,Princ Eugen,Panters and so on and on, train with Russian instructors for 9 years non stop prior the WW2 in Siberia-They did know where they going and they did come prepared ) it was Russian brave heart,love for mother Russia and freedom but also Katyusha,T-34 and advanced Russian Jet-Jak-hiden from eyes of enemy) who won the victory....Glory to your Army and your nation forever!Without your victory most of Europen states (I believe world one to-Germany work on nuclear weapons at that time(latter German produce nukes for Usa)will not be today at all...Thanke you forever!

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