Leaders of Russias pro-Kremlin ruling party have advised members to publicly compare the war in Ukraine with a key World War II fight on its 80th anniversary today, the Kommersant company daily reported Tuesday.On Feb.
2, 1943, Soviet soldiers effectively repelled Nazi soldiers and delivered Adolf Hitler his first surrender in the war in the then-named Stalingrad.
The anniversary of the Soviet victory at Stalingrad comes nearly one year after Russia got into Ukraine.Recommendations sent to members of the United Russia party in the lower-house State Duma this week urge them to mark the Stalingrad anniversary with social media posts comparing the battle to Russias present military project in Ukraine, according to Kommersant.
Like the Battle of Stalingrad 80 years earlier, [the war in Ukraine] is the frontier we cant back down from, United Russias recommendations reportedly state.The defending Stalingrad declared as much as 2 million lives in 200 days of fighting from July 1942-February 1943.
Soviet leader Josef Stalin, after whom the southern Russian city was named for almost 4 years, provided his soldiers rigorous not a single action back orders at the risk of being shot.
Kommersant kept in mind that United Russias recommendations reference the 2014 outbreak of a separatist war between Kyivs forces and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, composing: Stalingrad was protected for eight months, Donbas for 8 years.
Todays events on the scale of repercussions will mean the exact same for Russia as during the Great Patriotic War [World War II]: the enemy will run and well release our way to Victory, the recommendations were priced estimate as saying.Kommersant also reported that United Russia members were prompted to assist Stalingrad veterans with home issues and to hold so-called lessons of courage in schools as part of the anniversary events.Meanwhile, roadway indications at the entrance to contemporary Volgograd have been replaced with Stalingrad in honor of the 80th anniversary ahead of President Vladimir Putins expected check out there.Russian authorities, including President Vladimir Putin, have looked for to justify the intrusion of Ukraine by comparing Kyivs treatment of Russian speakers in Ukraine to the actions of Nazi Germany.