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Russian MFA 🇷🇺
30.04.202517:07
#FacesOfVictory
🌟 #Victory80: During the battle of Berlin on April 30, 1945, Red Army soldier Nikolay Masalov rescued a German little girl — by risking his life, Masalov took the kid to safety from the zone that was under heavy Nazi fire.
This brave and honourable deed by Nikolay Masalov was immortalised in the worldwide famous 'Liberator Soldier' monument in Berlin. It was unveiled back in 1949 in Treptower Park, where over 7,000 Red Army soldiers, who perished in the Battle of Berlin, are entombed. The centrepiece of that famous memorial complex, the figure of a Soviet soldier holding a German girl, has become a symbol of the noble mission of the Red Army, which saved Europe from the 'Nazi plague', and of the Great Victory of the Soviet people over Nazi Germany.
***
In the morning of April 30, 1945, before the Red Army attack on a Nazi defence outpost, the Tempelhof Airport, Nikolay Masalov heard a child crying. Marshall Vassily Chuikov recalled in his memoirs: “The kid’s voice sounded as if it came from under the ground, calling out again and again a word that is understandable to everyone, ‘Mutter, Mutter’.”
Nikolay Masalov hurried to rescue the kid. Risking his life, the soldier crawled across a bridge over the Landwehr Canal, which was under enemy fire, and saved a three-year-old girl. He found her near the body of her mother, who had been killed by the Nazis during the shelling.
Masalov took the girl and moved back to the Soviet positions, which the enemy kept under heavy machine-gun fire. In return, the Soviet forces had to opened artillery fire on the Nazi positions.
— this is how Marshall Chuikov wrote later in his memoirs about Masalov’s heroic feat.
People all around the world knew about Nikolay Masalov, a humble Soviet soldier and a legendary #WWII veteran. But he never considered his heroism as something extraordinary. He did not like speaking about it, and when he did, he did not talk much:
💬 “I am a Russian soldier. Anyone would do the same in my place.”
#WeAreProud
🌟 #Victory80: During the battle of Berlin on April 30, 1945, Red Army soldier Nikolay Masalov rescued a German little girl — by risking his life, Masalov took the kid to safety from the zone that was under heavy Nazi fire.
This brave and honourable deed by Nikolay Masalov was immortalised in the worldwide famous 'Liberator Soldier' monument in Berlin. It was unveiled back in 1949 in Treptower Park, where over 7,000 Red Army soldiers, who perished in the Battle of Berlin, are entombed. The centrepiece of that famous memorial complex, the figure of a Soviet soldier holding a German girl, has become a symbol of the noble mission of the Red Army, which saved Europe from the 'Nazi plague', and of the Great Victory of the Soviet people over Nazi Germany.
***
In the morning of April 30, 1945, before the Red Army attack on a Nazi defence outpost, the Tempelhof Airport, Nikolay Masalov heard a child crying. Marshall Vassily Chuikov recalled in his memoirs: “The kid’s voice sounded as if it came from under the ground, calling out again and again a word that is understandable to everyone, ‘Mutter, Mutter’.”
Nikolay Masalov hurried to rescue the kid. Risking his life, the soldier crawled across a bridge over the Landwehr Canal, which was under enemy fire, and saved a three-year-old girl. He found her near the body of her mother, who had been killed by the Nazis during the shelling.
Masalov took the girl and moved back to the Soviet positions, which the enemy kept under heavy machine-gun fire. In return, the Soviet forces had to opened artillery fire on the Nazi positions.
“Thousands of artillery guns and mortars opened fire at the enemy. Thousands of shells and mines covered the return of theSoviet soldier rescuing a three-year-old German girl from the death zone,”
— this is how Marshall Chuikov wrote later in his memoirs about Masalov’s heroic feat.
People all around the world knew about Nikolay Masalov, a humble Soviet soldier and a legendary #WWII veteran. But he never considered his heroism as something extraordinary. He did not like speaking about it, and when he did, he did not talk much:
💬 “I am a Russian soldier. Anyone would do the same in my place.”
#WeAreProud
Reposted from:Russian MFA 🇷🇺
07.05.202521:52
#Victory80
🎥 Eternal Heroes — an RT Doc Film.
Synopsis: The documentary pays tribute to those who defended the USSR against fascist invaders during World War II.
The film tells the stories of some of the last surviving veterans of the Great Patriotic War, ordinary Soviet citizens, who became heroes in the fight against Nazism.
Among them:
🏅 103-year-old Valentina Minaeva, a surgical nurse who served in three wars and saved hundreds of lives;
🏅 100-year-old Vitaly Kolesov, an artillery commander who survived the horrors of the war, including the Battle of Stalingrad;
🏅 98-year-old Nikolay Teplotanskikh, a volunteer tank driver who repeatedly rescued wounded comrades and miraculously survived himself.
With each passing year, the number of veterans diminishes, with many now over 100 years old. Yet, their memories of wartime trials remain vivid.
Witness the poignant recollections of those who lived through the horrors of war.
#TheSovietSoldierSavedTheWorld
#LestWeForget
🎥 Eternal Heroes — an RT Doc Film.
Synopsis: The documentary pays tribute to those who defended the USSR against fascist invaders during World War II.
The film tells the stories of some of the last surviving veterans of the Great Patriotic War, ordinary Soviet citizens, who became heroes in the fight against Nazism.
Among them:
🏅 103-year-old Valentina Minaeva, a surgical nurse who served in three wars and saved hundreds of lives;
🏅 100-year-old Vitaly Kolesov, an artillery commander who survived the horrors of the war, including the Battle of Stalingrad;
🏅 98-year-old Nikolay Teplotanskikh, a volunteer tank driver who repeatedly rescued wounded comrades and miraculously survived himself.
With each passing year, the number of veterans diminishes, with many now over 100 years old. Yet, their memories of wartime trials remain vivid.
Witness the poignant recollections of those who lived through the horrors of war.
#TheSovietSoldierSavedTheWorld
#LestWeForget
Reposted from:Russian MFA 🇷🇺
08.05.202520:48
"Soviet Union & South Africa: Allies in World War II"
✍️ Article by Roman Ambarov, Russia's Ambassador to South Africa
💬 May 9th 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, the most important and dramatic part of #WWII, a triumph that came at an immense human cost and shaped the course of modern history.
These days, we are celebrating the decisive contribution of the Soviet Union to the Victory over Hitler’s Germany and the liberation of Europe from Nazism. #LestWeForget that nearly 90% of all Nazi military casualties occurred on the Eastern Front, and it was the Red Army that stormed and single-handedly captured Berlin.
Nearly 27 million lives were lost in the Soviet Union alone – one in every seven citizens. <...> Practically everyone has some kind of personal connection to that era of righteous struggle and sacrifice. <...>
My own grandfather... was one of the principal designers of the T-34, a legendary Soviet-made battle tank.
We will always remember that during World War II South Africa was our ally and an important member of the Anti-Hitler Coalition.
South African waters were of strategic importance during the period when the supply route through the Dardanelles was closed. Cape Town, for example, played a crucial role in the Lend-Lease freight. Around 3,000 South African seamen served in the Royal Navy... carrying valuable supplies to our northern ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk to relieve the besieged Leningrad.
<...> A South African aircrew found themselves in the liberated Crimea to witness the historic Yalta Conference of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. <...>
***
Moscow and Pretoria re-established diplomatic relations on 21 February 1942, just weeks after Hitler had failed to capture Russia’s capital city.
Between 1942 and 1945, South African charities such as the Medial Aid for Russia and the Friends of the Soviet Union, raised about £1m (approximately R 1.2b today) to purchase and donate to the Soviet Red Cross much needed medications, surgical equipment, food, clothes, footwear, and other essential goods. <...>
In our Embassy in Pretoria, we keep a stack of copies of declassified diplomatic correspondence dating those years. Looking through these faded typewritten pages gives me a peculiar moving feeling. Among the reports of Soviet Consul General’s encounters with top officials of the Union of South Africa like Prime Minister J.C.Smuts and Secretary of External Affairs D.D.Forsyth, there are numerous records regarding public diplomacy and fundraising events organized by pro-Soviet groups all around South Africa.
In July 1944, the University of the Witwatersrand hosted the two-day African-Soviet friendship congress. In November 1944 the Friends of the Soviet Union launched the Soviet Pavilion. Up to 250,000 people visited it. <...>
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh “Leningrad” Symphony, a work that became a musical manifesto of resistance to Nazism, was premiered on 9 July 1944 in Joburg and, two month later, in Cape Town.
***
Today, it is frustrating to see that some people begin to perceive Nazism as some sort of abstract evil of the past. In fact, the ideology of Nazism has always been rooted in particular concepts of racial superiority and European colonialism, things that South Africans may understand better than anyone else.
Given this vile nature of Nazism, its ultimate defeat in 1945 laid the foundations of the world as we used to know it. The UN Charter, the era of decolonization and independence in Africa and Asia, the fall of apartheid, and the rise of the Global South – none of these, indeed, would be possible without our Victory in the Great Patriotic War 80 years ago.
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#Victory80 #RussiaSouthAfrica
✍️ Article by Roman Ambarov, Russia's Ambassador to South Africa
💬 May 9th 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, the most important and dramatic part of #WWII, a triumph that came at an immense human cost and shaped the course of modern history.
These days, we are celebrating the decisive contribution of the Soviet Union to the Victory over Hitler’s Germany and the liberation of Europe from Nazism. #LestWeForget that nearly 90% of all Nazi military casualties occurred on the Eastern Front, and it was the Red Army that stormed and single-handedly captured Berlin.
Nearly 27 million lives were lost in the Soviet Union alone – one in every seven citizens. <...> Practically everyone has some kind of personal connection to that era of righteous struggle and sacrifice. <...>
My own grandfather... was one of the principal designers of the T-34, a legendary Soviet-made battle tank.
We will always remember that during World War II South Africa was our ally and an important member of the Anti-Hitler Coalition.
South African waters were of strategic importance during the period when the supply route through the Dardanelles was closed. Cape Town, for example, played a crucial role in the Lend-Lease freight. Around 3,000 South African seamen served in the Royal Navy... carrying valuable supplies to our northern ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk to relieve the besieged Leningrad.
<...> A South African aircrew found themselves in the liberated Crimea to witness the historic Yalta Conference of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. <...>
***
Moscow and Pretoria re-established diplomatic relations on 21 February 1942, just weeks after Hitler had failed to capture Russia’s capital city.
Between 1942 and 1945, South African charities such as the Medial Aid for Russia and the Friends of the Soviet Union, raised about £1m (approximately R 1.2b today) to purchase and donate to the Soviet Red Cross much needed medications, surgical equipment, food, clothes, footwear, and other essential goods. <...>
In our Embassy in Pretoria, we keep a stack of copies of declassified diplomatic correspondence dating those years. Looking through these faded typewritten pages gives me a peculiar moving feeling. Among the reports of Soviet Consul General’s encounters with top officials of the Union of South Africa like Prime Minister J.C.Smuts and Secretary of External Affairs D.D.Forsyth, there are numerous records regarding public diplomacy and fundraising events organized by pro-Soviet groups all around South Africa.
In July 1944, the University of the Witwatersrand hosted the two-day African-Soviet friendship congress. In November 1944 the Friends of the Soviet Union launched the Soviet Pavilion. Up to 250,000 people visited it. <...>
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh “Leningrad” Symphony, a work that became a musical manifesto of resistance to Nazism, was premiered on 9 July 1944 in Joburg and, two month later, in Cape Town.
***
Today, it is frustrating to see that some people begin to perceive Nazism as some sort of abstract evil of the past. In fact, the ideology of Nazism has always been rooted in particular concepts of racial superiority and European colonialism, things that South Africans may understand better than anyone else.
Given this vile nature of Nazism, its ultimate defeat in 1945 laid the foundations of the world as we used to know it. The UN Charter, the era of decolonization and independence in Africa and Asia, the fall of apartheid, and the rise of the Global South – none of these, indeed, would be possible without our Victory in the Great Patriotic War 80 years ago.
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#Victory80 #RussiaSouthAfrica
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30.04.202517:07
🇷🇺🇧🇾 The Presidents of Russia and Belarus took part in the plenary meeting of the Great Heritage, Common Future International Forum of the Union State (April 29, 2025)
💬 Vladimir Putin: Esteemed Alexander Grigoryevich, friends.
I would like to greet you on this heroic and sacred land. This land is sacred for all the people of Russia, and for all the people of the former Soviet Union, too. It is here that the Great Heritage, Common Future International Forum is taking place.
Organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia, the event brings together speakers of parliaments, chairs of parliamentary committees, civil activists, researchers and experts from about 20 countries. It is important that foreign participants come from former Soviet republics, as we have just heard, and also from Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America.
It is symbolic that this forum is taking place in the Hero City where the fate of the entire world was once decided. <...> The fortitude and courage shown by the Red Army soldiers, the unity of the entire multiethnic nation became a formidable force. The enemy was halted and routed on the banks of the Volga. A decisive blow was dealt to the Nazi war machine, turning the tide of the war and clearing the path to the West, to Berlin, to the Great Victory, the 80th anniversary of which we will be celebrating very soon, on May 9.
🌟 #VictoryDay is one of the most significant holidays, held sacred in Russia as well as in most former Soviet republics. During the war, our nations went through the most bitter trials together, but they defended their independence and future. The defeat of Nazism is our shared legacy.
We are expecting the leaders of a number of states at the celebrations in Moscow. We highly appreciated many countries’ decisions to send military crews to march shoulder to shoulder with Russian soldiers at the Victory Parade on Red Square. <...>
Many participants of the current forum actively collaborate with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation. We are grateful to all who contribute to the legislative support of constructive partnerships among CSTO Member States. <...>
☝️ 2025 was declared the Year of Peace and Unity in the Fight Against Nazism in the #CIS. Many countries are holding memorial, social, cultural and educational events, such as the Immortal Regiment march, which has become nationwide. This is our tribute to the memory of our servicemen who perished during the war and an expression of our deep gratitude to our veterans, the generation of winners
We are all aware of the unfathomable price our peoples paid for victory over Nazism, and immense sacrifices we made. There is no doubt that people in Russia, Belarus and other countries will never forget the lessons of that war.
The main of them is obvious: we must do everything in our power to fight against the revival of Nazism and the proliferation of destructive ideologies, namely, Russophobia, antisemitism, national and religious intolerance, as well as the so-called exceptionalism, which camouflage claims to global domination and attempts at pressure or interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states.
It is also important to work together to form a more just multipolar world order based on respect for the interests of each other and the right of every country to its own development pattern.
❗️ We firmly believe that the global community should join forces to create a new architecture of equal and indivisible security, which would safely protect all states without detriment to the interests of others. This is especially important for Eurasia. Our common continent must become a territory of peace and stability and an example of sustainable economic, social and humanitarian development.
This new architecture could be based on the existing multilateral cooperation formats, such as the Union State, the #CSTO, the CIS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, #BRICS, #ASEAN and other respected and influential organisations.
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💬 Vladimir Putin: Esteemed Alexander Grigoryevich, friends.
I would like to greet you on this heroic and sacred land. This land is sacred for all the people of Russia, and for all the people of the former Soviet Union, too. It is here that the Great Heritage, Common Future International Forum is taking place.
Organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia, the event brings together speakers of parliaments, chairs of parliamentary committees, civil activists, researchers and experts from about 20 countries. It is important that foreign participants come from former Soviet republics, as we have just heard, and also from Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America.
It is symbolic that this forum is taking place in the Hero City where the fate of the entire world was once decided. <...> The fortitude and courage shown by the Red Army soldiers, the unity of the entire multiethnic nation became a formidable force. The enemy was halted and routed on the banks of the Volga. A decisive blow was dealt to the Nazi war machine, turning the tide of the war and clearing the path to the West, to Berlin, to the Great Victory, the 80th anniversary of which we will be celebrating very soon, on May 9.
🌟 #VictoryDay is one of the most significant holidays, held sacred in Russia as well as in most former Soviet republics. During the war, our nations went through the most bitter trials together, but they defended their independence and future. The defeat of Nazism is our shared legacy.
We are expecting the leaders of a number of states at the celebrations in Moscow. We highly appreciated many countries’ decisions to send military crews to march shoulder to shoulder with Russian soldiers at the Victory Parade on Red Square. <...>
Many participants of the current forum actively collaborate with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation. We are grateful to all who contribute to the legislative support of constructive partnerships among CSTO Member States. <...>
☝️ 2025 was declared the Year of Peace and Unity in the Fight Against Nazism in the #CIS. Many countries are holding memorial, social, cultural and educational events, such as the Immortal Regiment march, which has become nationwide. This is our tribute to the memory of our servicemen who perished during the war and an expression of our deep gratitude to our veterans, the generation of winners
We are all aware of the unfathomable price our peoples paid for victory over Nazism, and immense sacrifices we made. There is no doubt that people in Russia, Belarus and other countries will never forget the lessons of that war.
The main of them is obvious: we must do everything in our power to fight against the revival of Nazism and the proliferation of destructive ideologies, namely, Russophobia, antisemitism, national and religious intolerance, as well as the so-called exceptionalism, which camouflage claims to global domination and attempts at pressure or interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states.
It is also important to work together to form a more just multipolar world order based on respect for the interests of each other and the right of every country to its own development pattern.
❗️ We firmly believe that the global community should join forces to create a new architecture of equal and indivisible security, which would safely protect all states without detriment to the interests of others. This is especially important for Eurasia. Our common continent must become a territory of peace and stability and an example of sustainable economic, social and humanitarian development.
This new architecture could be based on the existing multilateral cooperation formats, such as the Union State, the #CSTO, the CIS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, #BRICS, #ASEAN and other respected and influential organisations.
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