June 22

... autumn of 1941 was a time of fatal mistakes by the Red Army command, a time of colossal military and civilian losses in the USSR. The events of that year have endlessly been recounted in great detail in history books, in personal memoirs of the people ... ... countries around Russia, even if under different names. In Belarus, this is the Day of the Nationwide Memory of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War, while Ukraine marks the Day of Mourning and Commemoration of the Memory of the Victims of the War. The historians ...