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Spring dawn, throwing of military flags, Soviet retaliation against Nazi Germany

From 1941 to 1945, on the vast territory of the Soviet Union, one of the largest wars in the history of the world, the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, broke out. In order to conquer Russia and obtain the so-called "living space", Hitler's Germany gathered 550 divisions, a total of more than 3 million people, and launched a war against the Soviet Union. In the face of the ferocious aggression of fascist Germany, the Soviet army and people desperately resisted, which lasted four years and won the victory in the Great Patriotic War. Out of anger at the German invaders, the Soviet Reprisals against the Nazi Germans were also very cruel.

Spring dawn, throwing of military flags, Soviet retaliation against Nazi Germany

In June 1944, in order to liberate Belarus, the Soviet Union launched the "Bagration" operation, the Soviet army four fronts totaling more than 2 million people launched a fierce attack on the German Army Group Center, in just ten days, the Soviet army advanced 550-650 kilometers, reached the Border of the Soviet Union, completely annihilated the German Army Group Center, and captured more than 150,000 people. In order to show the world the achievements of the Soviet Union, the General Staff of the Soviet Army secretly planned the "Operation Tsui Di Spring Dawn". Soon, a stuffy train full of German prisoners of war was sailing from Belarus to Moscow. By July 16, 1944, tens of thousands of German prisoners of war had been concentrated in Moscow. At the same time, the Soviet TASS news agency announced that German prisoners of war would parade in moscow on July 17, 1944.

Spring dawn, throwing of military flags, Soviet retaliation against Nazi Germany

On July 17, 1944, the "Spring Dawn Of the Tritine" began, under the unified command of the commander of the Moscow Military District, General Artemiev, the German prisoners of war were assembled at 11 a.m. at The Denamo Racecourse and Holden In the northwestern suburbs of Moscow, and the troops were divided into two routes, escorted by thousands of Soviet soldiers, to the Kursk Railway Station, the Savilovsk Railway Station and the Riga Railway Station in Moscow. Among them, head to Kursk, There were a total of 42,000 prisoners of war at the Savilovsk railway station, led by the official military ranks, a total of 1,227 generals and colonel-level officers (including 19 generals), the team marched a total of 2 hours and 25 minutes, and there were a total of 15,600 prisoners of war on the way to riga railway station, all of whom were yellow-skinned and thin, and had long since lost the appearance of the invaders, and some of them had diarrhea when they marched because of their poor health and poor food, at which time the soldiers in charge of escort would go up and kick the butts of the German prisoners and insult the German prisoners for being uneducated. At 7 p.m. on 17 July, German prisoners of war paraded down the street in 25 stuffy tankers to the prisoner-of-war camp in Siberia.

Spring dawn, throwing of military flags, Soviet retaliation against Nazi Germany

During the march on July 17, the streets of Moscow were crowded with ordinary people, some throwing stones and spitting at the German prisoners, some pointing at the prisoners and scolding, and many more shouting: "Long live the Soviets!" Germans get out! German devils go to die! "There were even people who rushed into the line and beat up the German prisoners, many German prisoners were injured by the common people, and many prisoners were killed. After the end of the captive parade, the Moscow municipal government dispatched sprinklers to sprinkle the streets through which the German captives passed, and mobilized the people of the city to carry out a major cleaning of Moscow, with the aim of thoroughly cleaning the traces of the fascist invaders from Moscow. Operation "Spring Dawn of the Green Causeway" greatly shocked the Western Allies, and also let the Allies see the strength of the Soviet army, after all, it was impossible for the Western Allied armies to completely annihilate the German Army Group Center with a million troops in ten days. The tens of thousands of German prisoners paraded through the streets of Moscow also proved to the world that the Soviet Union would win the Great Patriotic War. After the war, the Soviet Union tried tens of thousands of German prisoners and sentenced them all by hanging.

Spring dawn, throwing of military flags, Soviet retaliation against Nazi Germany

In addition to the prisoners paraded in the streets, the Soviet Union's "throwing the Nazi flag" at the Red Square military parade in 1945 completely trampled Nazi Germany under its feet. On June 24, 1945, the Soviet Union held a military parade in Moscow's Red Square to celebrate victory in the Great Patriotic War. This victory parade is also the largest military parade in the modern history of the world. On the same day, more than 100,000 Soviet troops who returned from victory passed through Red Square, and tens of thousands of artillery pieces and thousands of tanks drove through Red Square, allowing the world to see the powerful military strength of the Soviet Union. At this military parade, "throwing the Nazi flag" became a classic scene. After the passage of the infantry phalanx and the naval phalanx of the ten fronts, more than 200 soldiers appeared on Red Square dragging the Nazi flag, walked to Lenin's mausoleum, threw the Nazi flag on the stone steps in front of Lenin's mausoleum, and stomped on it fiercely, and then continued to advance. According to the Soviet hero Karpov, who participated in the "throwing of the Nazi flag" ceremony at the time, "the soldiers threw more than 200 flags of Hitler's division, as well as hitler's own Führer and SS flags, on the ground like rags, and then reflexively returned to the army." According to post-war statistics, at this victory parade, the Soviet army threw more than 280 Flags of Nazi Germany, except for Hitler's own Führer's flag and the SS flag, most of the other flags were the flags of the German Ace Army and the flags of German divisions and military units, including the SS "Skeleton" Division, the "Adolf Hitler" Division and the "Reich" Division. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union kept all these hundreds of Nazi flags in the Great Patriotic War Museum.

Spring dawn, throwing of military flags, Soviet retaliation against Nazi Germany

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