“The World Was Saved By The Soviet Soldier” is an interactive project that was launched back in 2021 by the “Immortal Regiment” portal.
“As of late, more and more publications, the authors of which reshape historical events of the Second World War, appear in foreign media. We must not forget our common history and must stand together against all attempts to rewrite it. One can only resist with reasoned truth.
Videos created for the project are meant to depict how Europe was liberated from fascism.”
All film-related materials translated by Putinger’s Cat. We present the 30 episodes in the rough chronological order of the events.
Read also:
- The pre-War sabotage of the Soviet peace efforts by Britain and France, seen through the memoirs of Georgy Zhukov and the modern British press
- “Situation in several European countries with the desecration and destruction of monuments dedicated to those who fought against Nazism during World War II” – Russia’s Foreign Ministry’s report
- «Eighty Years After the Great Victory: Europe has Once Again Fallen in the Shadow of Nazism» – Reblog of Russia’s Foreign Ministry Report
- How the Anglo-Saxons Promoted Fascism in the 20th Century and Revived It in the 21st – Dmitry Medvedev
- The text of Hitler’s statement on the extermination of Slavic peoples has been published in Russia for the first time.
- The European Genocide of the Russian People
CHINA
China was attacked by Japan even before the official beginning of WWII, with the war raging between July 7, 1937 and September 9, 1945.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
POLAND (Part 1)
World War II began on September 1st, 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland. After the Red Army liberated Poland in 1945, the Soviet Union took an active part in bringing Poland back from ruin.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
- The complete list of pacts concluded between Germany and other European countries before and during World War II
- Facts about the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Treaty of August 23, 1939
AUSTRIA (Part 1)
In March of 1938, Hitler annexed Austria, renamed it Ostmark, and dipped into its resources to supply his war machine. In 1945, the Red Army liberated Austria.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
CZECHOSLOVAKIA (Part 1)
In the spring of 1939, Hitler steamrolled Czechoslovakia and turned it into a launchpad for WWII. Seven years later, in 1945, the Red Army liberated the country and assisted with rebuilding it.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
DENMARK
In 1940, Hitler took Denmark in six hours. In 1945, 108 Soviet paratroopers disarmed 12,000 Germans on a Danish island.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
- “Operation Weserübung”, the Blitzkrieg overture. Remembering April 9, 1940 – “The Dark Birds Flew”
- Memory of the plundering German occupants, preserved in the Danish underground press – from “2 Years”.
- “Russian drunks and invaders.” How they thank us for the liberation in Denmark.
NORWAY
Occupied by Hitler in 1940 due to her non-freezing northern ports, Norway was eventually liberated by the Red Army in 1945. True to its humanitarian cause, the Red Army also saved the local population from famine by sharing their own food with the people of Norway.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
- For the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Northern Norway, the WWII History Is Being Rewritten There
- The Liberation of Finnmark — a commentary by Maria Zaharova
- Under Stone Sky – Under en steinhimmel – Под каменным небом — a 1974 Norwegian-Soviet war film
FRANCE
One of the largest European countries, France held out against Hitler’s army for only 40 days. Her only hope of liberation was with the Soviet Union’s success in defeating Nazi Germany.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
YUGOSLAVIA (Part 1)
After nazi troops occupied and split Yugoslavia in April, 1941, a fierce Partisan war unfolded with the USSR’s support. Yugoslavia was liberated in November, 1944, at the cost of thousands of Soviet soldiers’ lives.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
BULGARIA
Even though Bulgaria was an ally of the Third Reich for most of WWII, in 1944, the Soviet Union helped drive the Germans out of the country, eventually, freeing it entirely, and, true to its humanitarian mission, continued providing assistance after the war by building many industrial and power plants.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
FINLAND
Hitler’s ally Finland invaded Russian north-western lands in hopes of expanding its borders eastward.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
- Finland’s Dirty Secret: From “Neutral” Ally to Hitler’s Partner – Dispelling the Finnish Myths
- The new Finnish doctrine: Ignorance, deception, and ingratitude. An Article by Dmitry Medvedev
- Finnish occupation of USSR during WWII in Soviet caricatures
- Finnish Face of Fascism, an RT Documentary
- On Historical and International Legal Accountability of Finland for the Occupation of Karelia During Great Patriotic War (WWII) (1941–1944)
- The Moscow Armistice of September 19, 1944 between the USSR and Finland
- The Art of Timely Betrayal. Why the Finnish SS avoided punishment?
HUNGARY (Part 1)
140,000 Soviet soldiers died while liberating Hungary, Hitler’s ally in WWII, almost the entire local metallurgical industry of which worked for Germany’s needs.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
ROMANIA (Part 1)
From the beginning of WWII, Romania supplied Hitler with troops and oil, until, following the coup d’état of 1944, king Michael I took the country to the right side of history by breaking relations with Nazi Germany and joining the USSR and the Allies.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
- How Russia created Romania
- The text of Hitler’s statement on the extermination of Slavic peoples has been published in Russia for the first time.
- The atrocities of the Romanians shocked even the Germans: what was the Nazi occupation of Moldavia like
EAST PRUSSIA
Thousands of Soviet citizens were forcibly taken to East Prussia to be sold as slaves during WWII. Even though the Germans were well-prepared to defend the capital city of East Prussia, Königsberg, the impregnable fortress was captured by the Soviet troops in just four days. Ever since WWII, the former capital of East Prussia has been known as the Russian city of Kaliningrad.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
UKRAINE
The Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine, currently known as the country of Ukraine, was under nazi occupation for almost 3,5 years. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was liberated at the cost of three million lives of Soviet soldiers from all over the country. Similarly, the post-war restoration of Ukraine was a collective effort, with people from all over the USSR coming to rebuild the second most populous republic in the Soviet Union.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
BELORUSSIA
The first Soviet republic to be invaded by the nazis, Belorussia was under occupation for three long years, losing one third of its population. Over two million Soviet soldiers died liberating Belorussia.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
- Heroic Defence of the Brest Fortress
- Minsk was razed to the ground by “the civilised Aryans bringing cultural enlightenment to the barbarians”
- What transpired in the «Red Shore» concentration camp for children
KARELO-FINNISH SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC
The Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic existed, as a republic of the USSR, from 1940 to 1956, when it became absorbed into the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the successor of which is modern-day Russia. In the summer of 1944, the republic was liberated from the Finnish nazis, Hitler’s allies, as the result of the Svir-Petrozavodsk Offensive Operation, during which the Soviet forces used a clever tactic to uncover enemy firing points.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
LITHUANIA
WWII nazi occupation death toll in Lithuania was 370,000 civilian and 230,000 Soviet POWs lives. On top of that, 160,000 people were forcefully taken from Lithuania to Germany for forced labour. The cost of liberating Lithuania from nazism was over eighty thousand lives of Soviet soldiers and officers.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
LATVIA
The Riga Offensive Operation of the summer of 1944 was part of a large-scale effort to free the Baltic states from the nazis, who made themselves at home on the occupied land by declaring all means of production to belong to the German state and turning the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic into a death factory.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
ESTONIA
Incredibly, there were 70,000 Estonians serving in the German and Finnish troops during the war, killing locals and Soviet Partisans by thousands. In 1944, as Estonia was being liberated from nazism, Soviet soldiers captured sea ships with Soviet POWs and Estonian locals prepared for departure for Germany. The Red Army liberated Estonia during the Tallinn Operation that became a text-book example of brilliant coordination between land forces and the Baltic Fleet.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
MOLDAVIA
Occupied by Romanian troops in the early days of the Great Patriotic War, Moldavia faced a deliberate extermination of civilians, including children. The Soviet republic was liberated at the end of the summer of 1944, when eighteen divisions of German-Romanian troops were crushed in the Kishinev cauldron.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
- The atrocities of the Romanians shocked even the Germans: what was the Nazi occupation of Moldavia like
- The previous attempt at the annihilation of Moldavia – “Operation 1111”
USA
Initially neutral, the United States of America entered WWII after Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese on December 7th, 1941. Under Lend-Lease agreements, the USA was providing the USSR and other European countries fighting the nazis with goods up until the end of the war on September 2nd, 1945.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
HUNGARY (Part 2)
Even though Hungary was Hitler’s ally in WWII, the Soviet Union sent food to save the people of Hungary from famine and assisted with rebuilding the infrastructure, after losing 140,000 of its own soldiers while liberating it.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
- “And on his chest was a medal for the city of Budapest…”
- The Hungarian “Revolt” of 1956 – a detailed historical look at the events
ROMANIA (Part 2)
Even though Romania was Germany’s ally until fairly late in the war, the USSR did not take revenge on it’s former enemy, instead helping rebuild Romania, true to its usual fashion.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
YUGOSLAVIA (Part 2)
Having first helped fight off the invaders, and, eventually, liberating Yugoslavia from the German occupation, the Soviet Union continued providing assistance to bring life back to normal.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
VISTULA-ODER OPERATION
Having already lost millions of soldiers, the Red Army had to keep going in order to liberate Europe from nazism. As such, to drive the nazis out of Poland, the Vistula-Oder Operation, during which the Wehrmacht lost thirty-five divisions in twenty days, was carried out.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
AUSTRIA (Part 2)
The Red Army liberated Austria, Hitler’s homeland, from the German occupation in 1945, delivering a powerful blow to the nazi ideology.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
- To Save Vienna: How the Red Army liberated the Austrian capital 80 years ago
- Blood and Vienna.Even After 70 Years the Soviet Soldiers Are Respected in Austria
POLAND (Part 2)
After, in 1945, the Red Army liberated Poland, the invasion of which marked the beginning of WWII seven years earlier, the Soviet Union took an active part in bringing Poland back from ruin.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
- “Warsaw ‘21” – a political thriller with a fragment on the essence of the Polish destruction of the Soviet memorials
- The Sorrow of a Warsaw Woman. Why Poland is not happy to be liberated from fascism?
- Polish insatiable pit. How much did the USSR spend on the restoration of Poland during and after the War
- The Liberation of Krakow
GERMANY (Part 1)
On April 16th, 1945, the troops of the 1st Ukrainian and the 1st Belorussian Fronts completed the encirclement of Berlin, by coming together west of Berlin, and, at the cost of 78,291 Soviet lives, liberated the German capital. The Victory Banner was erected on the roof of the fallen Reichstag on April 30th, 1945.
Germany capitulated on May 8th, 1945. Since then, May 9th is celebrated as Victory Day.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
- Repentance of Berlin.After 70 years, the Germans have an unambiguous attitude towards the Soviet victory
- “So many? Really?” Germans do not know how many Russians were killed by their ancestors
GERMANY (Part 2)
Having liberated Berlin from the nazis, the Soviet authorities, in their usual fashion, didn’t just take it upon themselves to feed the civilians of the destroyed city, but also to restore their water and sewer services, as well as metro and ambulances, reopen schools, hospitals, and reconnect residential buildings to the power grid.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
CZECHOSLOVAKIA (Part 2)
Having liberated Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1945, seven years after Hitler steamrolled it and turned into a launchpad for WWII, the Soviet Union took active part in rebuilding the country it fought hard to liberate.
Backup at Rumble
Raw video on YouTube
Read also:
- The Salvation of Prague in May 1945 by the Soviet Troops
- Prague Winter.What is the Czechs’ attitude towards the coming 70th anniversary of the Victory?
- Prague’s Shame – Petty-minded Prague-6 mayor Ondřej Kolář erases the memory of Prague’s saviour, Marshal Ivan Konev
- Ungrateful Europe.What would have happened should we push Hitler back just to our borders
As an epilogue…
“Russian Soldier Saved the World” – WWII memorial song by Artyom Grishanov.