Russia marks this Tuesday the 65th anniversary since the start of the counteroffensive in the Battle of Moscow.
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December 5, 2006Russia is indignant about “blasphemous†moves by Estonia to criminalize displays of Soviet symbols in public, the AFP news agency reported quoting the Russian Foreign Ministry release.
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December 4, 2006A racing car commissioned by Adolf Hitler is expected to become the most expensive car ever sold at auction, Ananova.com reports.
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December 1, 2006Russia’s army museum said Thursday that Soviet medals withdrawn from a Sotheby’s auction in London could have been stolen from the museum.
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November 23, 2006The United States and the United Kingdom treated the entrance of Soviet troops into the Baltic states in the 1940s with understanding and viewed this step as an unpleasant but necessary measure to oppose Nazi Germany’s aggression.
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The British trading house Sotheby’s has received a request to withdraw from an upcoming auction state orders of the former Soviet Union, a Sotheby’s spokesperson told ITAR-TASS.
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November 21, 2006Russia’s flamboyant ultranationalist lawmaker, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, proposed Friday that Russia should sever diplomatic ties with Estonia, its former Soviet ally in the Baltic Region, RIA Novosti agency reports.
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November 10, 2006The legendary Red Square parade of 1941 was staged on November 7 in Moscow the Associated Press news agency reported on Tuesday.
Russian veterans, soldiers and patriotic youth groups gathered to pay homage to Russia’s World War II effort and to celebrate the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
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November 7, 2006More than 3000 people came to see the Red Army beat Wehrmacht at an annual WW II reconstruction event called “Moscow Lies Behind. 1941â€.
The war games are traditionally organized by the Borodino State Military History Museum. Borodino village is near the famous battlefield where Russians fought Napoleon’s army on August 26, 1812. However, the museum also keeps the memory of the World War Two.
More than 500 people acted in the two-day mock battle that featured airplanes, tanks, authentic WW II artillery and lots of pyrotechnics. The action repeated a fight near Moscow, hence the title, with one small inaccuracy: in the actual battle of October 1942 the Soviet Army lost and German soldiers marched on towards Moscow.
Preparation for the battle took a long time and involved museum workers and numerous WW II war game reconstruction clubs fans from all over the country.
Soldiers’ uniforms — on both the Soviet and the German sides — matched the authentic WW II outfits to the finest detail. The coats, the buttons, the boots, the watches and even cigarette lighters are all either authentic, found on the battlefields years after the war was over, or carefully reconstructed from authentic materials by devoted reconstruction clubs fans.
In a years’ time the Borodino battlefield is going to see the Soviet Army triumphantly beat the Nazis once more.
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