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Did you know?

— that Hitler and his general staff first realized that nazi Germany couldn’t win the war in December 1941, when
Germans were forced back by Moscow?

— that the Red Army during WWII was the first army in modern times to let women serve as soldiers on an equal footing with men?

— that the world’s greatest disembarking of troops took place across the river Dniepr in the autumn of 1943 and involved over 3,000,000 soldiers, far greater than D-Day?

— that the Soviet authorities in 1946 assessed that in addition to the terrible loss among civilians and soldiers, a further 20 million children were never born in the Soviet Union because of war?

— that the Red Army liberated the first nazi concentration camp, Majdanek, on July 23 1944?

— that of the total of over 70 million people who lost their lives in the war, 30 million died in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union and most of the remaining 40 million died in China?

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