VICTORY DAY

Happy VICTORY DAY

VE Day, or Victory Day is celebrated May 8th or 9th globally and is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi?Germany in 1945. The signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow, Russia time).?The United States of America’s President Harry S. Truman and Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared victory in Europe, celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany and fascism on May 8th 1945. Western Europe and the United States celebrate VE Day on the 8th while Russia and the all the countries listed below celebrate Victory Day on May 9th.?

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Krygyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

?* Unrecognized post-Soviet states that also celebrate 9 May

Abkhazia, The Donetsk People's Republic, The Luhansk People's Republic, Transnistria, South Ossetia, The Republic of Artsakh.

Some key details:

The Germans were rapidly advancing upon the Russian capital in June of 1941 executing the 1st phase of two plans, Operation Barbarossa, to conquer Russia in just 4 months with a massive blitzkrieg strategy. The 2nd phase was called Plan Ost.?Plan Ost envisioned the complete enslavement and slaughtering of the majority of the population of USSR.?Operation Barbarossa captured the element of surprise and the Germans were able penetrate deep into their country enabled because Hitler and Stalin had previously agreed to a non-aggression pact between the U.S.S.R. and Germany plus they had to maintain considerable forces on their border with China which was axis controlled by the Japanese and the potential there for invasion loomed. The German assault was able to wipe out all of Russia’s Air-force on the ground, a large portion of their infantry in just the first two weeks. The ferocity of the assault and relentless aggression took the Nazi war machine all the way to the outskirts of Moscow and it looked to the world Russia would soon fall. That very same month Joseph Stalin, premier of the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) from 1920’s until 1953, signed onboard with the U.S.’s Lend Lease Program. The Lend Lease Program was a program the 32nd U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed into effect just months earlier in March 11, 1941 permitting the U.S. to supply its anti-Hitler coalition allies with equipment and essential materials.?

A historical and egregiously forgotten fact of World War II was the dire, hopelessness of the Russian people’s plight in June of 1941 and the role the divinely powerful American people and industry provided to the Russians at that exact moment of need. The American people's timeliness and efforts enabled and assisted Russia to not be utterly crushed by the Germans providing direly needed and timely war fighting supplies. This support, provided on a 1-billion-dollar USD credit, provided to the Russian people was crucial in the halting of the German war machine's "blitzkrieg" upon Moscow. The American people’s spirit unified with a common goal, its powerful industries churning full steam in support of the Russian people, its war fighting effort, and ultimately the preservation of their nation’s sovereignty.?By August 1941 the first shipments began to arrive in Russia from the United States but not without great cost. The Germans learned of the convoy routes and directed their submarines to harry.??The allies suffered massive losses in the effort to get supplies to Russia as the German U-boats were able to sink over 80 cargo ships destined to Russia.

Here is a short rundown of the tonnage and sorts of supplies the mighty American industry sent to Russia FOR FREE to support their effort:

14,000+ U.S. airplanes (8,000 of which came from Alaska)

44,000 American jeeps

375,883 cargo trucks

8,071 tractors

12,700 tanks.

2,670,000 tons of petroleum products, 1,541,590 blankets, 15,417,000 pairs of army boots, 331,066 liters of alcohol, 106,893 tons of cotton, and 4,478,000 tons of food supplies were strategically “LENT” to the Russia people under an interest free, $1 billion dollar loan through the Lend Lease program.

April 25, 1945 the Russian and U.S. militaries met on the Elbe River in Germany.?The two armies grasped each other in true joy and camaraderie.?The soldiers partied, played, exchanged goods and had a merry time for weeks and there was a spirit in the world that true evil had finally been defeated and a global hope that a new chapter of world peace and societal betterment would begin.

The Russian equivalent in World War II to the infamous U.S. Army General George S. Patton was a man named General Georgy Zhukov, whom even later became the Russia’s Defense Minister.?Here is what he said of the American people’s efforts supporting his country in W.W. II:

‘And how much sheet steel they gave us!’

"Now they say that the allies never helped us, but it can't be denied that the Americans gave us so many goods without which we wouldn't have been able to form our reserves and continue the war," Soviet General Georgy Zhukov said after the end of WWII.

"We didn’t have explosives, gunpowder. We didn’t have anything to charge our rifle cartridges with. The Americans really saved us with their gunpowder and explosives. And how much sheet steel they gave us!

How could we have produced our tanks without American steel? But now they make it seem as if we had an abundance of all that. Without American trucks we wouldn’t have had anything to pull our artillery with."

The communist government of Russia at that time tried to cover the magnitude of the American industry support and need ever since the very first shipment, but as you can see by one of Russia’s most recognizable figures of W.W.II and later the Soviet presidium states of that effort.?

The American and Russian people historically, etched eternally, came together to defeat the evil of the world and displayed great work-ability in so doing. Governments then and now are different. Governance's and styles different, but the people are very much the same.

Contemplate a Russian and United States partnership and the fruits that could bear for the world, could shape an intellectually stimulating 21st century and potentially inspire a spirit of global peace and societal betterment.?

To ALL the people of the world, HAPPY VICTORY DAY

God Bless,

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