Today is a very special day. A very special day for me. For the people of my country. For the people of Europe. And i hope for the people of the world.
60 years ago the Nazi forces were defeated in Germany, when the Soviet soldiers put a red flag over the main Nazi building, the Reihtstag. Today the German government have raised it once again , to show that they remember their history and they admire the result of the war.
I wanted to write a lot of story`s about how people have suffered and what a hard time it have been , but then i decided that it is useless. Everyone knows that the war was hard. I have heard a lot of stories from the poeple that were dieing of hunger in the blocked Leningrad, who surcicved Nazi deathcamps. I have heard them earlier, and today also. I was puting flowers to the Freedom monumental in Riga , where the main celebration in Latvia took part, and had many conversetions with war veterans and people who survived war.
But i will post only the death statistics, the photos, and let the pictures and numbers talk for themselves.
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World War 2, also known as the Second World War, was a war fought from 1939 to 1945 in Europe.
Death statistics:
Country Military Civilian Total
USSR 12 million 17 million 29 million
Poland 597,000 5.86 million 6.27 million
Germany 3.25 million 2.44 million 5.69 million
Yugoslavia 305,000 1.35 million 1.66 million
Romania 450,000 465,000 915,000
Hungary 200,000 600,000 800,000
France 245,000 350,000 595,000
Italy 380,000 153,000 533,000
Great Britain 403,000 92,700 495,000
United States 407,000 6,000 413,000
Czechoslovakia 7,000 315,000 322,000
Holland 13,700 236,000 249,000
Greece 19,000 140,000 159,000
Belgium 76,000 23,000 99,000
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The red flag over the conquered Berlin :
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Why am i posting all this? I just want to show a little piece of war. I just want people to rember that this is the victory of humanity against evil. I want people to admire the efforts made for their future, and milions of people who died for it. And I want people to rember it, and never made something like that happen again ever.
Thank you my grandparents who fought for our country , and gave me a future risking their lives.