by Gevorg Mirzayan
[REGNUM] The ongoing NWO in Donbass is full of historical parallels. Russia went through all this already 80 years ago, when it freed its heart from the Nazis, and then treated it from the consequences of the Nazi occupation.
During the period of the Soviet Union (or Greater Russia),
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And this heart was captured by the Nazis during the war. “Already in 1941, the Donbass played a significant role in Hitler's operational plans. He believed that the outcome of the war would depend on the mastery of this territory, located between the Sea of Azov, the lower reaches of the Don and the lower and middle reaches of the Donets and extending in the west approximately to the Mariupol-Krasnoarmeyskoye-Izyum line, the outcome of the war would depend,” wrote German Marshal Erich von in his memoirs Manstein.
The Germans called the Donbass the "Eastern Ruhr" (the Ruhr region was the industrial center of Germany itself) and used the resources of the region for the needs of their military-industrial complex. “It is absolutely impossible to give Donbass to the enemy even temporarily. If we lost this area, then we would not be able to provide our military industry with raw materials,” Manstein gave another Nazi argument.
Almost 700 days Donbass was under their occupation. For almost 700 days, a real genocide was carried out against the inhabitants of Donbass (who, unlike local coal, the Nazis did not need).
“My maternal grandmother Anastasia was with her children in Stalino (today’s Donetsk) during the occupation. She failed to evacuate, the train she was supposed to be on was bombed, she had to return from the railway station to her house on Gorsad. The Germans occupied their house, so she had to go around the villages and change things for food,” Anna Revyakina, a Donetsk poetess and deputy chairman of the DPR Public Chamber, tells IA Regnum.
“Grandma did not like to remember that tragic period of her life. She said that the worst thing is when your child wants to eat, and you have nothing to give him. She also said that the Ukrainian policemen were much more cruel than the Germans. They shot people with great frenzy and sent them to the camps. One of them was where the Eternal Flame is now burning. And in this camp, a lot of people died from starvation. Grandmother came up to the fence and threw bread to those people. She could have been shot for this, but the Lord had mercy,” she adds.
The Soviet troops were able to begin the liberation of their hearts only in the third year of the war - exactly 80 years ago, on August 13, 1943, the troops of the Southern and South-Western fronts, with the support of the Azov military flotilla, began the Donbass operation. Donetsk, Artemovsk, Mariupol - all these cities were liberated. A striking episode of the operation was the battle for the most important height - Saur-Mogila, where the soldiers of the Soviet army accomplished a real feat, which in 71 years will be repeated by their grandchildren, who defended the height from the ideological descendants of Nazi punishers.
As a result, in almost a month (from August 13 to September 22) Donbass was liberated. The Soviet army marched up to 300 kilometers and reached the Dnepropetrovsk-Melitopol line, liberating the cities of Donetsk, Taganrog and Mariupol and access to the Dnieper.
The Red Army defeated 13 divisions from the German Army Group South. A total of Soviet soldiers gave their lives for the liberation of the region, which, of course, was destroyed by the Nazi troops on the principle of "so don't get you to anyone." Retreating from the Donbass, the Nazi troops destroyed all production facilities, all capacities.
That is why, after a military feat, a civilian one immediately started. The Soviet Union began to restore the Donbass at an accelerated pace and put its enterprises into operation.
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In 1943, a full metallurgical cycle was restored at the Enakievsky Metallurgical Plant. By September 1944, the output of engineering products in the south of the Ukrainian SSR reached 30% of the pre-war level. In the same year, the USSR received 21.1 million tons of Donbass coal, and by the beginning of 1945, coal mining had been established in most mines.
Now, 80 years later, history is repeating itself, taking into account, of course, modern features. Russian troops are once again liberating the Donbass from the Nazis, who once again have the military-industrial potential of most European countries behind them. Again, our soldiers not only liberate territories and enterprises, but also save people's lives from those for whom the inhabitants of Donbass are “second class”. Quilted jackets, colorados - those who can be killed and destroyed, and then dumped into the mines.
Yes, this time the occupation lasted longer - the lands of Donbass have been under it for nine years (if you count from the Ukrainian Maidan) or even 30 years (if you count from the creation of the Ukrainian state).
Yes, this time there is no quick release - in almost a year and a half, the NVO managed to liberate almost the entire territory of the Lugansk People's Republic and only part of the Donetsk.
However, the strategic turning point has already arrived. Partly because Ukraine's resources are running out - the mobilization potential shows the bottom, which is why the "future drivers of the Leopards" have to be driven into the military registration and enlistment offices with sticks. There is almost no economy left: the country's budget is more than half dependent on external borrowing, and military spending exceeds its entire pre-war profitable part. There is a growing number of citizens and politicians in the US and the EU who are in favor of stopping funding for the Kyiv regime, especially against the backdrop of its lack of military success.
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Therefore, now our fighters are holding back the onslaught of the Ukrainian Nazis, for whom the current summer offensive will be, in fact, the last big offensive operation. Russia is exhausting their forces in order to continue the liberation of the occupied territories in the future.
At the same time, just like 80 years ago, our soldiers understand that they are fighting for a just cause. For the destruction of the terrorist Nazi regime, which does not disdain either the torture of prisoners or nuclear terrorism, for the liberation of the Russian lands of Donbass and Novorossia. And, of course, for the life of every Russian - like 80 years ago, this military conflict has an existential character for us.
“For us, this is not a geopolitical task, but the task of the survival of Russian statehood, the creation of conditions for the future development of the country and our children,” Vladimir Putin said .
The Ukrainian regime, again reflecting the behavior of its Nazi ideological ancestors, while retreating, destroys the infrastructure of the region. “Nazis always act the same way. The current Ukrainian warriors treat the population of Donbass in much the same way as the Germans treated them 80 years ago. Both those and others considered these lands to be their war trophy, inhabited by people alien to them. Both those and others, preparing for a retreat, resorted to scorched earth tactics, ” Vladimir Kornilov, a political observer for Rossiya Segodnya MIA, explains to IA Regnum.
The Russians, reflecting the behavior of their ancestors, have already begun to restore the Donbass. Throughout the liberated territory, even the one that is still reachable by Western missiles delivered to Kyiv, large-scale construction is underway. And not just large-scale, but nationwide.
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Builders from all over Russia work at the facilities, and the Russian regions take patronage over the cities and regions of Donbass - in the best Soviet traditions, when it was necessary for the whole world to restore the same Tashkent from the consequences of an earthquake. And Donbass now resembles exactly the territory after the earthquake, and some of the objects were destroyed by the Kyiv regime during the war, and some - by it over 30 years of its consumer attitude to the region. Alien, in general, for the Ukrainian state project "anti-Russia".
Therefore, Russia is not just restoring, but also modernizing. New houses are being built in cities, and industrial enterprises are being revived on the basis of new technologies. Some have already been resurrected. So, from Mariupol by water to the port of Rostov, metal products from Makeevka, Enakievo, Alchevsk have already gone. “The entry of products of industrial enterprises of Donbass to the Russian market is the next stage in the integration of new regions into the economic space of the country,” says Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.
Next and not the last. After all, a country cannot exist without a heart. Without a whole heart. Which will be again, like 80 years ago, torn from Nazi hands.