Today Russians celebrate their heroes who drove back the NAZI invasion at immense cost to themselves. The Eastern Front was actually West for Russians but relative to Germany it was East. That was the theater for some of the worst loss of life in WWII and that's setting aside but not ignoring the death camps.
The Eastern Front was one of the worst battlefields which ever existed and the Russian soldiers of Victory Day kept it from getting any worse.
RT: ‘We were schoolchildren thrown into war’: WWII hero recalls bravery & horror on Eastern Front
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One of the most decorated World War II veterans still alive, 91-year-old Konstantin Fedotov, talks about being drafted as a teenager, what makes a good infantry scout, and the images still seared into his mind more than 70 years after the conflict ended.
Konstantin was a 15-year-old schoolboy when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, and he still vividly remembers the “pervasive unease” he and his classmates felt, anxious for snippets of news on radio, realizing their lives had irrevocably changed.
- RT
© Konstantin Fedotov
You can see he's just a boy but his eyes have already seen more than any kid should ever see.
These Russians are our brothers, mates; what's more, they're brothers in blood. We might have been speaking German without them just as they would without us. We never would have made it without them after Hitler got the jump on the entire world and had he consolidated Europe the war would have gone on for a hundred years.
Major salute to Konstantin Fedotov who came from a generation braver than we may ever be. They saw what needed to be done and they fuckin' did it. So many of them were lost in that fight it changed the demographic for men in Russia after that.
© Alexander Vilf / Sputnik
RT: Victory Day celebrations across Russia
The Eastern Front was one of the worst battlefields which ever existed and the Russian soldiers of Victory Day kept it from getting any worse.
RT: ‘We were schoolchildren thrown into war’: WWII hero recalls bravery & horror on Eastern Front
© Типичное Одинцово / YouTube
One of the most decorated World War II veterans still alive, 91-year-old Konstantin Fedotov, talks about being drafted as a teenager, what makes a good infantry scout, and the images still seared into his mind more than 70 years after the conflict ended.
Konstantin was a 15-year-old schoolboy when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, and he still vividly remembers the “pervasive unease” he and his classmates felt, anxious for snippets of news on radio, realizing their lives had irrevocably changed.
- RT
© Konstantin Fedotov
You can see he's just a boy but his eyes have already seen more than any kid should ever see.
These Russians are our brothers, mates; what's more, they're brothers in blood. We might have been speaking German without them just as they would without us. We never would have made it without them after Hitler got the jump on the entire world and had he consolidated Europe the war would have gone on for a hundred years.
Major salute to Konstantin Fedotov who came from a generation braver than we may ever be. They saw what needed to be done and they fuckin' did it. So many of them were lost in that fight it changed the demographic for men in Russia after that.
© Alexander Vilf / Sputnik
RT: Victory Day celebrations across Russia
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