Organization and Activities of the Military Tribunals of the Leningrad Front during the Defense of Leningrad

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
N. A. Petukhov ◽  
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Yu. M. Kuntsevich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
World War ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
Military Tribunal ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
The Military ◽  
First Time ◽  
Legal Training

75 years passed after the end of the Great Patriotic War, during which the Soviet people made the main contribution to the victory over the worst enemy of mankind – Hitler Germany. It is necessary to remember this and keep forever for future generations the heroic deeds and exploits of the Soviet people in the harsh years of World War II. This article on a large factual archival material comprehensively describes the activities of the military tribunal of the Leningrad Front in the conditions of the Great Patriotic War. For the first time, issues such as the formation of military tribunals of the front, the organization of military judicial work, the forms and methods of legal training of judges and the interaction of the tribunals with the Military Council of the Leningrad Front were reflected.

MAJOR MILESTONES OF BELARUSIAN COLLABORATION DEVELOPMENT DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
ALEXEY IPATOV
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
World War ◽  
Special Services ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Red Army ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Military

The article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of Belarusian collaboration during the World War II and the fight against it during the operation «Bagration» to liberate the territory of the Belarusian SSR. The main attention is paid to the activities of its individual representatives and a number of organizations that attempted to cooperate with Nazi Germany for «liberation» from the «Soviet yoke». It emphasizes the interest of the military and political elite of the Third Reich in cooperation with such organizations and the desire to fully control their activities. The author comes to the conclusion that thanks to the actions of Red Army, a significant part of the Belarusian collaborators was eliminated. The remaining supporters of «independence» after the end of World War II often continued their anti-Soviet activities during the cold war, actively cooperating with the special services of Western countries.

scholarly journals What the Files Reveal: Making Everyday Architecture Talk

Dimensions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-172
Author(s):  
Benedikt Boucsein
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
World War ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Reconstruction Period ◽  
First Time

Editorial Summary Typically, design projects leave traces in building archives. Benedikt Boucsein sees great potential in this practice, as it can be used for a research methodology that explores archival material from the designer’s perspective, especially for work that is otherwise not archived. In his text Benedikt Boucsein illustrates this through the example from everyday architecture of the reconstruction period after World War II, which he denominated as »Grey Architecture«. One major insight of this research was that the building files were more important for the research than the actual buildings, and that working in the archive helped make this particular architecture »speak« for the first time, unveiling how the built environment is produced. He concludes that archival material may, especially for everyday architecture, be more important than the actual building, and that the designer’s view is decisive in understanding this material. [Ferdinand Ludwig]

scholarly journals The Soviet Press of the Great Patriotic War about the French Squadron “Normandie-Niemen“

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Galina N. Kaninskaya ◽  
Natalya N. Naumova
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Air Force ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Alliance ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military

The article is devoted to the participation of French pilots of the Normandy squadron in battles on the Soviet-German front as part of the Red Army in 1943-1945. After the defeat of France at the first stage of World War II (1940), the occupation of its territory by Germany and the organization of the Resistance movement “Fighting France” in London by General Charles de Gaulle, the pilots joined him expressed a burning desire to fight the enemy in the skies over Soviet soil. Their participation in the ranks of the Soviet Air Force was a unique event in the history of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union (1945-1945). The article analyzes the information of the Soviet press during the war years about the French squadron “Normandie-Niemen”, which fought in the Soviet Air Force on the Soviet-German front. It is shown that Soviet readers during the Great Patriotic War could get a very complete and reliable idea of the military exploits of French pilots, find out the names of heroes, get acquainted with the military everyday life of officers, appreciate their patriotism and sincere friendly feelings for the Soviet Union and its people. Along with stories about the air battles of the Normandy, the articles of Soviet correspondents contained information about the history of France, how the pilots reacted to the defeat of their country, how and where they fought in the first stage of the Second World War. The press of the war years gave brief sketches of the everyday life of French fighters on Soviet soil, about the curious events that happened to the pilots of the squadron. On the example of newspaper publications 1943-1945. about the military alliance of our and French pilots, you can get an idea of how the cooperation of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition developed and strengthened.

SOURCES ON THE PARTICIPATION OF SOVIET PEOPLE IN THE FRENCH RESISTANCE MOVEMENT. PART 1

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-52
Author(s):  
Roman V. Lebedenko ◽  
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Victoria B. Prozorova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
World War ◽  
Soviet History ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Resistance Movement ◽  
First Time ◽  
Reference Apparatus ◽  
French Resistance

Based on Russian and French materials, a comparative analysis of the informational value of French and Soviet (archived in Russia) documents on the participation of Soviet citizens in the French Resistance was carried out for the first time, their authenticity and reliability were evaluated. In this article, the authors examined the difficulties of documenting the participation of Soviet people in the French Resistance during and after World War II. The authors showed how the processes of “liquidation” of the Resistance structures and the repatriation of displaced Soviet citizens caused lacunae in the archival holdings. The article reveals the history of the formation, description and use of documentary systems preserved in France and Russia about the participation of Soviet people in the Resistance, as well as the creation of their scientific and reference apparatus. The authors demonstrate how those sources were used in the historiography of the Resistance in various periods of Soviet history and Franco-Russian relations. The authors provided the most relevant information about the libraries, museums and archives that store and collect those documents; for the first time, recommendations are given for working with their scientific and reference apparatus, as well as an advice to Russian-speaking researchers of the Second World War, including the family history researchers.

ATTEMPTS OF FALSIFICATION OF THE NATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1941–1945

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-43
Author(s):  
V.F. MARUKHIN ◽  
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A.I. UTKIN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Character ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of

The main purpose of the article is to analyze the attempts to falsify the national character of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. The article examines the main directions of falsification of the history of World War II, its causes and consequences. The totalitarian and revisionist theories popu-lar in the West are criticized. The authors come to the conclusion that discrediting history and falsify-ing the contribution of the Soviet people to the victory in the Great Patriotic War have destructive consequences for the entire state.

Going Home Again: America After Vietnam

Worldview ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Richard John Neuhaus
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Air War ◽  
Deja Vu ◽  
Déjà Vu ◽  
The Military ◽  
First Time

The “After Vietnam” in the title says something about the American mood, not about the military realities of America's war in Indochina. This reminder is unfortunately necessary, for too many of us seem able to forget the brutal air war in which our country has dropped more than six and a half million tons of bombs (more than three times the bomb tonnage dropped on Europe, Africa and Asia in all of World War II) on a region about the size of Texas. There is a fearful deja vu about accepting an invitation to speak to “American conscience and consciousness after Vietnam,” for the first time I spoke to the “post-Vietnam” situation was in 1968, and one cannot help wondering if in 1976 this present statement will seem as naively sanguine as does that of 1968. Nonetheless, and if for no other reason than to maintain our sanity, it is inevitable that we reach beyond the present horror and try to anticipate the shape of American conscience and consciousness after these years of madness.

scholarly journals Lieutenant-Colonel Constantin Apostol, From Glory To Unfair Humiliation

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-233
Author(s):  
Gheorghe Calcan
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Studies ◽  
Military Career ◽  
Home Town ◽  
Horse Riding ◽  
The Military ◽  
First Time

Abstract Constantin Apostol (1903-1995) was a prominent representative of the interwar Romanian horse riding [1]. He was born in Săgeata, Buzău County [2], attended primary school in his home town, high school in Buzău and military studies in Târgovişte and Sibiu. As far as his military career is concerned, C. Apostol advanced up to the rank of a lieutenant-colonel. He participated in various international competitions, winning many awards, including the first prize, in countries, such as: England, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Germany, France, Italy, Poland. He took part in the military operations of World War II, both in the East and in the West, being decorated for his actions on both war fields. After the establishment of the communist regime, Constantin Apostol was continuosly humiliated, and finally imprisoned. In our work, the author aims to present, for the first time ever, precisely this final stage of his life.

The genocide of the Soviet people: from history to law, no statute of limitations

2021 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Alexander N. Savenkov
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Military Tribunal ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
Second World

Based on the analysis of a significant array of historical facts, normative legal acts and legal positions of domestic and foreign scientists, the article presents a legal assessment of the recognition of genocide as a crime committed against the peoples of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945. The legal bases of countering attempts to re-evaluate events and revise the results of the Second World War are investigated. Special attention is paid to the importance of the Russian constitutional guarantees provided by the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 2020 for the protection of historical truth. The confirmation by the Russian courts of the fact that the German-fascist invaders committed war crimes and crimes of genocide, the investigation by the Investigative Committee of Russia of criminal cases about these crimes, is considered in the context of the inevitability of responsibility as one of the central principles of law. The article substantiates Russia’s strict commitment to the results of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal in the legal consolidation of the facts of genocide against Soviet citizens and notes the need to implement the constitutional obligation of the Russian state to honor the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland, to ensure the historical sovereignty of the country by legal means, not to allow the significance of the feat of the Soviet people in the defense of the Motherland to be diminished.

Industry of the Astrakhan region during the Great Patriotic War

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10-4) ◽  
pp. 76-84
Author(s):  
Sergey Vinogradov ◽  
Yuliya Eshchenko
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
World War ◽  
Soviet Leadership ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Look

Based on a large number of archival documents, some of which are being put into scientific circulation for the first time, and the latest works of Russian historians and specialists on World War II, the article gives a new look at the role of the economy of the Astrakhan district/region during the Great Patriotic War. The authors came to the conclusion that the Soviet leadership managed to effectively dispose of the natural resources and geopolitical position of this territory, thereby strengthening the country’s military and economic potential.

scholarly journals Narrative sources on the events of the Great patriotic war in the Kuban

2020 ◽  
pp. 88-93
Author(s):  
Ju. G. Bich ◽  
T. A. Samsonenko ◽  
E. L. Mishustina
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Southern Region ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
Difficult Times ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

This article presents the results of studies on the daily history of the Soviet period of our state during the difficult times of World War II. The work considers the southern region of the USSR, the territory of the Krasnodar Territory (the city of Krasnodar and the village of Pavlovskaya.) Some local families left the Kuban at the beginning of the war and left, for example, to evacuate. Others were forced to stay, during the occupation of the region and its capital by the Nazi troops in 1942-1943 they were in the Kuban, in Krasnodar. This article is based on both previously unpublished memoirs of city residents collected by the authors (memoirs by Razinskaya S.A., Zhigir E.G., Morozova E.V., Yesayan M.A.) and published as personal memoirs and diaries (Khudoley I.I., Chalenko K.N.). For the first time, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Victory of our country in World War II, an attempt was made to put into scientific circulation these materials, telling about the pre-occupation period of the Territory and the city of Krasnodar, as well as directly the time of the occupation of the southern region by fascist invaders. It is concluded that the stories of ordinary people – eyewitnesses to important historical events, the so-called narrative sources (oral and recorded memoirs, letters, diaries and school essays) provide historians with invaluable material to restore the picture of everyday life of the military historical era.There is no conflict of interests.

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