Day of Remembrance and Sorrow - the day of the beginning of World War II
June 22, 1941 is one of the saddest dates in the history of Russia - the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow - the day the Great Patriotic War began.
This day reminds us of all those who died in battles, tortured in fascist captivity, who died in the rear from starvation and deprivation. We grieve for all those who, at the cost of their lives, have fulfilled a holy duty, protecting the Fatherland in those harsh years.
Early in the morning of June 22, 1941, without a declaration of war, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, inflicting a massive blow to military and strategic targets and many cities. Thus began the Great Patriotic War, which lasted 1418 days and nights, and in which the USSR lost about 27 million people, but was able to survive.
