D-Day: What happened during the Normandy landings 80 years ago?

[@bill-wd7zs]

My Dad was there, Sword beach. He was wounded a few days later, not seriously but had a big dent and scar literally right between his eyes. I never did find out the details of that as he was great at changing the subject. RIP Dad.

[@kristoffermangila]

That means he might have heard Bill Millin's bagpipes as he landed together with Lord Lovat.

[@catherinepalmer4812]

A very brave man ❤

[@gilormsplay]

Why does this pot keep disappearing: the bigger picture is that for 500 years, Europe's policy had been to prevent Russian westward expansion. Good Old Winnie bankrupted Britain to facilitate it.

[@RabbyCalicdan]

Snappy salute to your father

[@briancase6180]

We need many, many more TV and KZbin programs covering D-Day and WWII in general. We must never cease to educate so the truth will never be forgotten or overshadowed by lies and simple laziness. Thanks for this.

[@BozoAlert23]

Good point, but I think that shows and films like Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan depicted D-Day so well that now other show could match it.

[@ZSanch]

Hearts of iron 4 is a great game that depicts many scenarios during both wars

[@anthonywalker9683]

watch the Great War and the ww2, great stuff the host Indy Neidell goes week by week explaining what happens

[@tempejkl]

@@anthonywalker9683I’ve seen that series, it’s brilliant. I’m a leftist and I was surprised to see the unbiased-ness of the show. I’m used to seeing the Hollywood misrepresentations of the USSR/Red Army so it’s refreshing.

[@tempejkl]

100% true. WW2 wasn’t even covered in our education - only WW1 and Hitler’s rise to power.

[@notrussianbot7318]

We owe these heroes the world.

[@nigermant6347]

without the russians.... what a genocide of allied troops it had been 😱

[@notrussianbot7318]

@@nigermant6347 Without the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact there would have been no war. Russia was a willing accomplice until Barbarossa.

[@Alpffine]

@@notrussianbot7318 Without the Munich Agreement there would have been no war. Britain was a willing accomplice until the Invasion of Poland.

[@tempejkl]

@@AlpffineBritain and the allies planned to destroy the USSR by helping Germany. I love how people say that the USSR was an Axis power… do they not know that the Axis was officially called the “Anti-ComIntern Pact”? The USSR was the centre of the ComIntern!

[@notrussianbot7318]

@@Alpffine Yes the democracies were the problem, not the totalitarian regimes. The USSR also had a military assistance treaty with Czechoslovakia at the time.

[@Skeeders]

I just got a sudden sense of pride for my Canadian heritage.

[@hawksquadron7302]

yeahhhhh buddyyyy fuckin rights

[@RiceCookah]

Our men were salty because of pas de calais, we punched above our weight that day.

[@yacobz]

Being Canadian rocks! This wasn't my land to begin with, but we don't like talking about that much. Genocide is what Germans do after all, not me.

[@Skeeders]

@@yacobz I believe israel has taken the torch from WWII Germany for genocidal actions...

[@ransom182]

When our 3 nations stand together there is nothing we cannot accomplish. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@Wodens-Wolf]

Then it was all handed to those that now control everything.... 🙄

[@AnthonyD-yy2in]

If more nations stood together.. there would be far less devastating wars to endure.. 🙂🙂🙂

[@Skeeders]

Unfortunately, US is now compromised....

[@katimboallan4605]

The Taliban disagree, By the time operation Neptune took place, Germany had been severely weakened by the war in the East againat USSR

[@jks1311]

@@katimboallan4605 😂

[@michaelkelly9545]

Thanks to the British for winning air superiority in the region against the Luftwaffe. Without this it would have never been possible

[@jackryan1648]

And the Polish

[@michaelkelly9545]

@@jackryan1648 of course 👌🏽 🇵🇱

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

@@jackryan1648 The Poles are underrated. Was reading about the Falaise Pocket where 2,000 soldiers of the 1st Armoured Division on Hill 262 were up against around a dozen German divisions trying to retreat out of the pocket TOWARDS THEM!!! 😲

[@tempejkl]

I mean, I doubt it would’ve been possible without the Soviet and Italian distractions either. That took up a huge amount of troops. The Allies were fighting against 12 divisions at that time, the Soviets against nearly 300

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

@@tempejkl There were 50 divisions in Italy and also 60 in France.

[@BattlefieldSoldierYT]

I Salute for those soldiers who have sacrificed their lives 😢

[@mattinterweb]

Apparently 50% of 19-24 year olds in the UK don't even know what D Day was. If that's not a damning indictment of our education system I don't know what is.

[@saxonwarrior3736]

Its a disgrace

[@Easone21]

I didn't even get a chance to learn about WWII history at school. It was all about Henry VIII, History in school is too focused and so many topics suffered because of it. Ancient Greece, Rome, William the Conqueror, War of the Roses, 13 Colonies, India, WWI, WWII. All fascinating stuff.

[@Thaitanium73]

But I guarantee 100% of them know what gender dysphoria is.

[@joecruiser]

​@@Thaitanium73 😳

[@New-ye2fl]

At least we must be getting young people away front the tvs as every year it’s all we hear about 🥱

[@AlexODriscoll-zu9nf]

proudest thing for me personally as a canadian is that we were able to take part, god bless the heroes.

[@isackawala1988]

It wasn't Just D-day that claimed the lives of these heroes. They shed their bloods from Cairo to Bengazhi to the french colonies of Algeria and Morocco. Crossed the streets of Messina in Sicily and landing at Raggio and taranto in the extreme south of Italy before making multiple attempts to break through the heavily fortified Gustav Line and the tallest Hill top monestry known as Monte Casino. And months later they made it to Rome, Captured Mussorini and many other facists. May God Bless these allies!

[@tempejkl]

Don’t forget the 26m dead Soviets and 24m dead Chinese who died fighting to eradicate facism! 80% of the European fighting was on the Eastern Front with the USSR (lend lease which made up 7% of Soviet production, and Mongolian aid which made up 25% of winter clothing and a large amount of food is important too)

[@ellicesanchez3194]

It is difficult to imagine being a leader and sending so many troops in knowing they will die, but the risk of not trying being even more catastrophic for all your people. The pressure of everyone involved must have been off the charts. Thanks for the re-cap.

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

Bernard Montgomery's original predictions were for the Normandy campaign to finish in 90 days, the Allies did it in 77 days. Under his leadership as Ground Forces Commander the campaign was completed 2 weeks earlier than predicted!

[@liamfill]

An incredible achievement in the face of adversity, no one will ever know the horrors these men lived through , we can only thank them and remember their sacrifice, lest we forget

[@dna9838]

🇬🇧🇨🇦 Canadians, awesome as usual

[@johndoe-cd9vt]

For those who don't know, 3000 french soldiers who went to UK in order to train and prepare the invasion were the first to put their foot on France (It was the first wave, so many of them have been killed, but their leader Philippe Kieffer and a few other did survive)

[@OlivierGaffuri-wc2dl]

On the 15th of August, operation Dragoon landed a powerful 1st French army in Provence.

[@thomaspickard4138]

🇬🇧❤️🇫🇷 Hugh respect from UK for all the french civilians and resistance who tried to help in any way possible not just d day but all through the war.

[@Radictor44]

Don't forget, this would not have been possible without the UK winning the Battle Of Britain

[@ryanv2324]

Keep in mind the Germans were already undermanned/undersupplied by this point due to the massive scale of fighting in the eastern front with millions of troops on each side engaged on a huge frontline

[@jevgenijs39]

💯

[@wildwoodie5670]

Keep in mind the Germans were the ones who started it!

[@carlmorris7723]

And your point

[@ryanv2324]

@@carlmorris7723 my point is that's the main reason the landings were able to take place and were successful......

[@catmonarchist8920]

And they were fighting in Italy

[@declancotter722]

6th June, the third front opens with d day. 22nd June, operation bagration destroyed the german armies in the east, inflicted over 500,000 losses and worst defeat in german history.

[@502opz346]

And now it is the time to defend Europe once again !!!

[@JamesSmith-je7vf]

These soldiers sacrificed so that the next generations could live in peace. If a new world war is forced on this generation the outcome will be very different, a war to end all wars.

[@Rohan123-b9t]

Defend Europe from who? 17000 Participants from over 130 Countries are attending Russia's SPIEF forum this week.... Proof that the World's majority supports Russia and still does business with Russia.

[@rickardnyberg4899]

Yes but before Putin invades all of it….. Not after

[@ramonruijgt4532]

good they talked about the canadians there over shadowed by americans and british most times. it was good and to the point.

[@Starsky1413]

Absolutely unbelievable courage of those soldiers I’m not religious but those guys need a prayer and love They saved us

[@morpheusspirit6609]

Absolutely incredible stories of courage, comradeship and determination. Very brave men. I salute them all. 🫡

[@gentlemanghost5993]

Those brave men deserve endless amounts of respect

[@Exotic3000]

Thanks for posting! ❤

[@MadBrit26]

Never forget !!

[@urquell6483]

extremely well said. thx.

[@GFWFight]

This makes me proud to be British 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Paws4Thought669]

They fought to keep their countries free from invasion and preserve their way off life, that's what

[@themars5452]

Thank so much USA , UK and Canada for working D-Day Operation.

[@tempejkl]

I think the Eastern front with the USSR and Italian front also made a big distraction.

[@rorysmith2415]

The American and British veterans are heroes.

[@garywagner2466]

Free French, Polish, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, etc. are all heroes, too.

[@Samps1992]

As were the Germans

[@normanwells2755]

@@Samps1992 NO.

[@Samps1992]

@@normanwells2755 very small minded

[@tempejkl]

“History shows that there are no invincible armies, and that there never has been” - Josif Stalin, 1941

[@stephenritchie268]

together forever

[@boristihon4896]

Respect to the brave, RIP to the fallen

[@JDDC-tq7qm]

What I really wanna know is what happened in the battle of Stalingrad that changed the course of WW2 completely

[@iansmith2997]

My grandfather was fighting in North Africa when this was happening.

[@robbiethepict2783]

Let's not forget the 1st Special Service Brigade, made of men from the Empire and France. Led by the 24th Chieftain of the clan Fraser Lord Lovat and his loyal piper Bill Millen, who fought their way from storming the beaches of Normandy to Pegasus Bridge 20 miles away.

[@Hew.Jarsol]

🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 Remembering the British at Omaha beach and Pointe Du Hoc

[@mrmods7912]

Unbelievable to think that on the first day of the Somme, the British suffered 20,000 dead and 40,000 casualties!!

[@tempejkl]

In the battle of Stalingrad, there was 4 million casualties (3 million dead). This was the largest battle in human history. It lasted 6 months.

[@Joker-yw9hl]

My mind also went to the Somme when looking at the casualty figures. The first world war was something else

[@jakejoseph8228]

God bless them all

[@stevec6232]

Way this guy talks Italian campaign didn't exist. War in Occupied Europe was already happening.

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

Indeed. My late father was, and forever remains, merely a 'D-Day dodger, out in Italy' in the eyes of such commentators.

[@omexico1]

Canada 🇨🇦 ❤

[@peteyspaletas2023]

"No place to hide,I better take the call, or I ..fall! "- The Fixx. Deeper and Deeper (1984).🗡

[@jbred00]

It's way operated D-day. We came in last minute after the Germans were drained from fighting the Soviets for 4 years

[@katimboallan4605]

Very true, coz in 1940,France the rest of Western Europe were under Germany control after the battle of France

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

Four years? In June 1940, Genial Uncle Joe & adolf were best pals. The German campaign in France was only possible because of Soviet supplied raw materials.

[@tempejkl]

@ClarkGreaseball80% of all fighting happened on the Eastern front.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@tempejkl The majority of the Luftwaffe and all of the Kriegsmarine, plus 1/3 of the panzers were lost in the west. 2/3 of German wartime expenditure and material resources went on their air and sea forces and these were largely destroyed by the western allies. The overwhelming vast majority of German army divisions in the east were poorly equipped, non mechanised, horse drawn, second rate rabble.

[@WhatsUpGazpacho]

I still can't imagine having to jump out of a landing craft and assault a defended beachhead

[@4sakenreaper42]

Good video

[@muhammaduddin9268]

I bet Germany hate this day because they lost the War.

[@tempejkl]

Maybe the month. Something more significant that month was Operation Bagration. Which was one of Germany’s largest defeats, to the Soviet armies. They lost 500,000, 5x more than the entire allied front in France

[@johnhughes2124]

The Butcher was kind on the 6th June, his bill could've been a lot higher

[@jrobertsoneff]

The beginning of the end was the defeat of the German army at Stallingrad.

[@yellowwasprakija2869]

Who needs actual facts like that

[@katimboallan4605]

Very true, further worsens by operation citadel

[@B1GLANDD]

The beginning of the end could’ve been many things to be honest, don’t be so sure.

[@jrobertsoneff]

@@B1GLANDD The defeat of the main German army and what the war was all about.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

The Battle of Britain in 1940 was. Everything that followed was a result of that.

[@Scar626]

0:04 - "The beginning of the end" started on 20 Nov 1942. Figure that one out for yourselves.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

It started in September 1940 in the skies over southern England. Figure that one out.

[@karagR]

We just had a patriotic rally in London and the complaint is that our government does not respect our own people. This just goes to reinforce this fact. Sunak clearly has no thought for our history and our veteran who definitely deserve better. They earned it.

[@tempejkl]

Sunak is nothing but a puppet of the bourgeoise. They have all the power - yet they did not work for their money, and they certainly weren’t the ones at the beaches of Normandy or in the skies defending Britain. Regular people were, yet they’re marginalised from politics.

[@ryanaines6617]

Canada had a score to settle after the Dieppe debacle

[@normanwells2755]

There seems to be some revisionists here (aka useful idiots) who credit the Soviet Union for this and figure that the western allies did nothing up until D-Day. The Soviets supported Germany and gleefully consumed the Baltics, half of Poland and Moldova up until the day Hitler did what he said he would. They only attacked Japan when the Pacific war appeared over and there were spoils to be had. But hey, all's fair in love and war, right?

[@the-blue-barron2791]

The allies already had a foot hold in Italy

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

Rather more than a foot hold. They had just taken Rome. Alhough General Clark, who knew how imminent D--Day was, chose personal glory for himself rather than the destruction of German forces retreating from Cassino.

[@gojo76]

God bless their brave souls

[@perucho2194]

D-day has no meaning to the West without the Russian support from the east

[@olliehooley]

Remember it was the British and the Americans suppling the USSR

[@justonecornetto80]

It did because it meant Germany was fighting a land war on three fronts and Hitler couldn't use several of his elite SS Panzer divisions to help slow the Red Army's advance into Eastern Poland as they were tied up with the British and Americans in France and Belgium.

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

@@justonecornetto80 Yeah especially the 9th SS, 10th SS, 1st SS, 12th SS, 2nd SS and the Panzer Lehr.

[@cxzact9204]

There would have been no more russia by D-Day if it wasn't for US lend-lease supplies.

[@joshuagrover795]

Operation Bagration launched two weeks later by the Red Army in conjunction with Overland, destroyed the German armies on the Eastern front.

[@pulido6974]

God-bless the free world 🇺🇲💪

[@yellowwasprakija2869]

🐑🐑🐑

[@briant5685]

free world which at that time was busy oppressing and killing natives all over,so much for the ''free'' world

[@mikestauffer7033]

the begining of the end 🤣

[@Samps1992]

👍👍👍✋

[@janinsweden8559]

How could they plan such an assault when they had no email or computers? Sending letters via the Royal Mail ????

[@garywagner2466]

Brains. Remember them?

[@pvt.potato1943]

Wireless communication has existed since the late 1800's.

[@pvt.potato1943]

​@@garywagner2466Some people today clearly don't...

[@ChrisCrossClash]

Another 🤡🤡

[@tempejkl]

Radios were invented then.

[@MaheshWalatara]

Breaking news 😂

[@EASTBAYNORCAL]

D-day was launched in mid 1944 at that time nazy Germany was severely debilitated and on full retreat the Soviet Union was pushing them back and winning all battles the time was perfect for the Americans to portray themselves as hero’s and liberators Stalin and Soviet Union had already had Nazy Germany defeated it was just a matter of time

[@spacecherry8514]

"A multitude of countries contributed..." Puppets arent allowed to say Russia

[@vitalys9986]

"D day the beginning of the end WW2" - June 44, less than a year before Soviet Union took Berlin, by this time it already broke Nazy Germany, freed its own territory and was freeing Europe. The beginning of the end was Stalingrad and Kursk. UK and US opened western front when they realised who's winning.

[@yellowwasprakija2869]

Facts

[@katimboallan4605]

Very true,

[@johnpetch4604]

The same soviets who were allied with Germany for almost 2 years

[@CristianluisContreras]

✌LOVE ALL

[@rytiskurcinskas7179]

Sky news sneaky, they stop the map just at half europe to not show soviet front...

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

Presumably, just as an article about, for example, Kursk, would not have shown North Africa or Sicily?

[@walkerpaulp6526]

Is Dunkirk movie related

[@masterchinese28]

Dunkirk was at the beginning of the War and D-Day was toward the end. Same water passage, both in France (though Dunquerque is further up the coast).

[@tempejkl]

Dunkirk was in 1940 when the Germans encircled the allied forces in Northern France near Belgium (by going around their defences). The French forces capitulated while the British ones escaped to Britain. This was 4 years later.

[@Rembie]

Whenever u hear anyone talk about the queen , Every one’s mind automatically pictures Elizabeth Who just passed away The gravitas of the name queen definitely does not fit Camilla in the least Sorry But I feel the whole country and world feels this way The queen has gone So Wind royal family down now

[@forlatagate1]

Most people went through all this back at school, what's it relevant to exactly

[@tomascarlsson1856]

This voice..

[@teez040790]

All for what

[@davidlloyd2583]

The pictures are both americans? Why not have pictures of british soldiers... Fun fact. The german troops defending the beaches were in fact Ukrainian volunteers.

[@tempejkl]

I mean the alternative was a death camp which, for Soviets, had a massive death rate. 6 million Soviet PoWs brutally died in the camps. Some Ukrainian Facists did willingly join, although the ratio of them to Red Army volunteers was massively different.

[@davidlloyd2583]

@@tempejkl 165,000 Ukrainians volunteered for the German army.

[@AB-mw8oz]

Kind of. Omaha Beach was defended by the 243rd and 709th Static Infantry Divisions which comprised of Eastern Europeans, not specifically Ukrainians, the 716th Static Division which was comprised of older Germans and the 352nd Division which was comprised of soldiers from dissolved German units, young Germans, conscripts and some Ost volunteers Utah Beach was defended by the 91st Division which was comprised of Germans and some French light tanks and 2 battalions of the previously mentioned 709th Division Gold Beach was defended by both the 352nd and 716th Divisions Sword Beach was defended by 8 Companies of the 716th Division Juno Beach was defended by a company of Grenadiers from the 716th Division and the 21st Panzer Division To blame it on the Ukrainians is a prejudice.

[@davidlloyd2583]

@@AB-mw8oz all the German units defending westwall had some of the Hundreds of thousands of Ukraine volunteers fighting in them. 352, 716, all the static units. Even the troops coming out the eastern front had Ukrainians in them. HIWIS were in every German unit from 1942.

[@AB-mw8oz]

@@davidlloyd2583 How could there be hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian volunteers when by your own accord 165,000 Ukrainian volunteers served in the German army lmao

[@pushpindermann4139]

Juno ...

[@Wodens-Wolf]

What happened?.... we chose the wrong side. Look at what happened to Britain and Europe. Enough said..

[@pvt.potato1943]

So Britain isn't speaking German and i'm not speaking Japanese? Sounds great, I ain't a weeb

[@Wodens-Wolf]

@pvt.potato1943 a lot of the English language derives from German. Just saying. In fact England exists because of our saxon kindred. That's Germanic...

[@nerijas4774]

D-Day is day when British Empire with US support could go through they border to France?

[@JesusIstheNameTakenInVain]

Make heaven rejoice? Luke 15.7

[@foreveranuj]

Note the help we got from the USSR in the East. Germany was already severely weakened by D-Day - we would've lost a lot more if the USSR didn't fight from the East. Today's Russia though - oh well.

[@rickardnyberg4899]

Soviet wouldn’t have stood a chance hadn’t USA supplied them with any materiel to use

[@КириллМакаренко-с4у]

@@rickardnyberg4899 🤣🤣🤡 troll

[@nigermant6347]

Does any expert dare to explain what had happened or how had gone day D, and next days, operations if Russians hadn't launch that massive offensive at the same time?. 😁 Any honest teacher out there dares to explain it to the young people?. Glove is on the floor.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

D-Day occurred WEEKS before Operation Bagration, and there were nearly twice as many German tanks, assault guns and tank destroyers in Normandy (2,400) than facing Bagration (1,300).

[@keifer7813]

Multitude of other countries, yet couldn't be bothered to name a few

[@djzrobzombie2813]

😮

[@simon199418]

WTF is up with Sky News and their war map fetish???

[@thejoin4687]

Let's not forget the contribution of the Ulronians.

[@hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf]

6//65

[@pyromagic7113]

If those soldiers could have seen the state of Great Britain & Europe today they wouldn't have gone 40 yards up that beach.

[@pushpindermann4139]

👽🎃📺👻😁

[@tommclovin4328]

Juat think it was the Conservative party that steered us through this war so remember that when we needed the tories

[@justonecornetto80]

It was actually a coalition government with Labour being responsible for much of the war effort on the home front. I'm not anti Tory or pro Labour but your statement is incorrect.

[@mbuguachairman]

😂why is Russia not included

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Not involved in D-Day. The western allies aren't included in Stalingrad commemorations.

[@RTMgi9]

Let's not forget Russia did most of the fighting

[@ExsTheBlues]

No they did not! They did they fighting but not in northern france!

[@arfgrogue5735]

Russia fought the Eastern front and the UK. USA and Canada, amongst all their other allies, fought the western front. While its true the Soviet Union gave so much blood in order for victory, it doesn't mean the rest of the allies didn't suffer either.

[@obvious-troll]

What about all the other Soviet states the Russians forced into the meatgrinder

[@FloofyMinari]

The Russians only fought on the Eastern Front. They didn't fight in China, nor Africa, nor Southern Europe, nor Scandinavia, nor the Pacific, nor South Asia, nor Western Europe. All Russia were good at was dying. Germans were literally outnumbered and still managed to inflict 2x more casualties on the Soviets. Talk about an incompetent Army.

[@arfgrogue5735]

@@FloofyMinari Incompetent or not, Russia was a part of the 'Grand alliance' or, in other sense, part of ' the 3 great allied powers'. They were the UK, USA, and Russia. Without Russia fighting in the Eastern front, WW2 would have lasted longer. It was also the Russians who sacrificed more than any nation in order to win. Idc tf what Russia is doing in 2024. This is the mid 1940s were on about where during that period, we were allies. They fought in only one front yet still sacrificed more to get the job done. Also, if Russia was not fighting the Eastern Front, all those countless battle hardened German divisions would have descended on France to counter the D Day landings. A two front war screwed Hitler over, and it wasn't DDay, which set that in motion.

[@wandzaa]

Weird how there is no mention of trans and women ... easy times now.

[@leighrobinson8383]

Day people saying why war in Iran

[@elliotperrotton7317]

🫡🫡🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸

[@fatehyabali]

Fb

[@yankeecanuck4448]

In Canada...we now face N D-Day. As tens of thousands of No Deodorant wearing Indian men, crowd our nation.

[@Thetruthhurts708]

Can always tell when I'm driving by Bramladesh - the smell of curry in the air.

[@mapleveritas2698]

@@Thetruthhurts708 Let me check how many Bangladeshis we have in Canada. About a hundred thousand. So, that is about 0.3 % of the population. That is one in 300. For every 300 Canadians, one is Bangladeshi. Brampton has about 600,000 people. So, assuming every one of the Bangladeshi lives in Brampton, it is still only be 1 in 6. By the way, about 28% of Brampton is of Indian origin. Not even 1/3.

[@iggy5347]

Operation liberation of taiwan in 2027 will bigger with combine troops of 2 millions troops ,350 warship , 3500 modern warplane D day will be small in scales

[@JamieW93]

Blimey sky is showing the British flag? Something much be wrong

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

Of course they are. Sir Keir has just discovered that he is fervently patriotic. Until after the election, that is.

[@sophietand3240]

Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not honor the memory of their ancestors are doomed to extinction. The unconditional act of surrender was signed by Marshal of the USSR Georgy Zhukov, who led the army that liberated all of Europe and all of humanity from fascism and erected the Soviet red flag on the Reichstag, on May 8, 1945 in the suburbs of Berlin and the witnesses were signed by the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, Marshal Arthur Tedder (Great Britain), General K. Spaats (USA) and General J. de Lattre de Tassigny (France).

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

Some might question whether the Soviet Army 'liberated' anywhere.

[@AB-mw8oz]

Some will question that... Don't remember seeing any pictures of Stalin or Zhukov marching down the Champs-Élysées. And by Stalin, Khrushchev and Zhukov's own admissions, without Western aid the Soviets would have lost the war.

[@JackGreen-gh6sw]

Vote reform July 4th 🇬🇧 🗳

[@greenhammer3263]

Russian warships have arrived in Cuba . Here we go

[@davidnossiff4494]

What about Russia offensive? I Think is missing.

[@romzislot]

Technically, russia saved us all

[@ethanragbir8311]

They really didn't.

[@FloofyMinari]

Nope. Russia NEVER fought in Asia, Western Europe, Southern Europe, Northern Europe, nor Africa. Russia didn't even declare war on Japan until 1945 lol. Russians were good at dying and thats all. Germans were outnumbered and still managed to inflict 2x more casualties on the Soviets

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

@@FloofyMinari "Russians were good at dying and thats all." To be fair they did stop the Germans at Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk and Operation Bagration.

[@FloofyMinari]

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- after millions of Russians dead and with help from the US...

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

@@FloofyMinari Germans also lost 800,000 men in Barbarossa, worse casualties than the Battle of France ( 156,000)

[@Uno-1968]

Vote R e f o r m UK 🇬🇧

[@seamusotoole8582]

I hear Rishi went the other way