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Today in Labor History March 25, 1919: Cossack troops murdered 4,000 Jews in the Tetiev pogrom in Ukraine, two-thirds of the Jewish population. They tossed infants into the air and dashed their bodies on the pavement and burned the Jewish quarter to the ground. The Tetiev pogrom would become the prototype of mass murder during the Holocaust. During the Russian Civil War, from 1918 to 1921, there were 1,236 violent attacks against Jews in 524 Ukrainian towns. 30,000-60,000 died in these pogroms. The Ukrainian People's Republic army, Ukrainian warlords, the Red Army and the Polish Army all participated in anti-Jewish pogroms.

The Battle of Białystok-Minsk in Jun-Jul 1941, which involved the encirclement of entire Soviet armies positioned near each city in Poland and Belarus, respectively, was one of the first victories by Nazi Germany and its Axis allies against the USSR's Red Army during Operation Barbarossa in the Second World War (1939-45). #History #Bialystok #GermanArmy #Minsk #RedArmy #SecondWorldWar #WWII #HistoryFact whe.to/ci/2-2666-en/

World History EncyclopediaBattle of Białystok-MinskThe Battle of Białystok-Minsk in Jun-Jul 1941, which involved the encirclement of entire Soviet armies positioned near each city in Poland and Belarus, respectively, was one of the first victories by...
Germany put thousands of forced laborers and prisoners of war to work on Kraftwerk Vogelsang from April 1943. It was one of five such power plants designed to help the country’s war effort.

Some 900 prisoners from a camp at nearby Fürstenberg (Oder) toiled every day to build the power plant commissioned by Albert Speer. The prisoners were malnourished and beaten. Many died.

Construction was halted in January 1945 and Soviet troops stormed the plant a month later, fighting off German soldiers’ many attempts to retake it. Scars from their fierce battles still line the walls.

Kraftwerk Vogelsang never went into operation. After winning the war, the Red Army dismantled what it could to take back to the Soviet Union. The shell and its 100-meter towers are all that remain.

For more information see abandonedberlin.com

There’s also a short film about Kraftwerk Vogelsang on the Abandoned Berlin YouTube and Vimeo channels. Take your pick!

#AbandonedBerlin #KraftwerkVogelsang #Vogelsang #powerplant #WW2 #Nazis #RedArmy #Germany #abandoned

Western media has omitted history from you. The Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp 80 years ago today on January 27, 1945. You will likely never hear a Western media source mention this fact, leaving this fact out knowing that people will fill in the blanks themselves and assume that America liberated Auschwitz, not directly lying to you, but lying by omission.
#theholocaust #auschwitz #socialism #communism #redarmy

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#GeoPol #Russia

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...#MiddleEastWar might be turning to a close. The reason being that he's interested in diverting attention and test-casing how far an aggressor can go before the "internatatiol community" puts a stop to it. (Quite far, IMO.)

I agree with your stance regarding #Afghanistan and the former #Russian invasion, when the great #RedArmy had to flee, the tail between its legs.
At present, I don't see how the #RF would hold on...