Beorn and The Shieldmaiden

Red Army sniper N. Lobkovskaya “It was a hard, scary battle. We fought off counterattacks, bandaged the wounded, fired not only from rifles, but also from a machine gun,” this is how sniper Nina Lobkovskaya recalled the battle near Nevel. During the Great Patriotic War, she destroyed 89 German soldiers and reached Berlin. ❤️ Victory Museum @BeornAndTheShieldmaiden

Do Not Forget About The War Poem by: Stepan Kadashnikov, 20.04.2015 Do not forget about the war. Pass on to your descendants How great-grandfathers died in the fire, Do not betray the feat of your ancestors! Do not forget the obelisks At the place of past exploits. Even though the war no longer looms, Do still remember them! Do not forget, in an idle hour, Of those who remained at the war. Be proud of those who for sake of you Rose to their final, mortal battle. Never forget The price they paid. Keep it in memory, and then, You won't belittle the victory! Let your enemies whisper at your back: — Forget the traces of times bygone... But past experience says: — You are defeated once the Victory's forgot! Do not forget about the war. Hold up the flag of victory much higher! For doubly life will punish those Both Victory and grief forgetting... Video from Alisha Cherkasova's channel @BeornAndTheShieldmaiden

"Long live PEACE!" / "Long live the WORLD!" Soviet poster by N. Tereshchenko, 1955. 🇺🇸 US military interventions in foreign countries since WWII (incomplete list): 🇮🇷 Iran: 1946 🇨🇳 China: 1946 - 1949 🇬🇷 Greece: 1947 - 1949 🇮🇹 Italy: 1948 🇵🇭 Philippines: 1948 - 1954 🇰🇵 Korea: 1950 - 1953 🇮🇷 Iran: 1953 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1954 🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1954 🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1958 🇵🇦 Panama: 1958 🇭🇹 Haiti: 1959 🇨🇩 Congo: 1960 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1960 - 1964 🇨🇺 Cuba: 1961 🇨🇺 Cuba: 1962 🇱🇦 Laos: 1962 🇪🇨 Ecuador: 1963 🇵🇦 Panama: 1964 🇧🇷 Brazil: 1964 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1965 - 1975 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 1965 🇨🇩 Congo: 1965 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic: 1965 🇱🇦 Laos:  1965 - 1973 🇬🇭 Ghana: 1966 🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1966 - 1967 🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1969 - 1975 🇴🇲 Oman: 1970 🇱🇦 Laos: 1971 - 1973 🇨🇱 Chile: 1973 🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1975 🇦🇴 Angola: 1976 - 1992 🇮🇷 Iran: 1980 🇱🇾 Libya: 1981 🇸🇻 El Salvador: 1981 - 1992 🇳🇮 Nicaragua: 1981 - 1990 🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1982 - 1984 🇬🇩 Grenada: 1983 🇭🇳 Honduras: 1983 - 1989 🇮🇷 Iran: 1984 🇱🇾 Libya: 1986 🇧🇴 Bolivia: 1986 🇮🇷 Iran: 1987 - 1988 🇱🇾 Libya: 1989 🇵🇭 Philippines: 1989 🇵🇦 Panama: 1989 - 1990 🇱🇷 Liberia: 1990 🇮🇶 Iraq: 1990 - 1991 🇮🇶 Iraq: 1991 - 2003 🇭🇹 Haiti: 1991 🇸🇴 Somalia: 1992 - 1994 Yugoslavia: 1992 - 1994 🇧🇦 Bosnia: 1993 - 1995 🇭🇹 Haiti: 1994 - 1996 🇭🇷 Croatia: 1995 🇨🇩 Zaire (Congo): 1996 - 1997 🇱🇷 Liberia: 1997 🇸🇩 Sudan: 1998 🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 1998 🇮🇶 Iraq: 1998 Yugoslavia: 1999 🇲🇰 Macedonia: 2001 🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 2001 🇮🇶 Iraq: 2003 🇮🇶 Iraq: 2003-present 🇭🇹 Haiti: 2004 🇸🇾 Syria: 2011-present 🇺🇦 Ukraine: 2014-present @BeornAndTheShieldmaiden

FSB declassified data on lifesaving Soviet aid to the Allies in 1945 6th of May 2024 The FSB of Russia has released a statement by Adolf Hitler's former personal adjutant, SS Sturmbannfuhrer Otto Gunsche, made in April 1948 and addressed to the Soviet government. The document testifies to the events that took place at Hitler's headquarters during the preparation and conduct of the offensive operation of the German army in the Ardennes.

"The final success of the German troops in the West was prevented by the grandiose offensive undertaken by the Russian command on the entire front from the Baltic Sea to the Carpathians. This led to the cessation of the German offensive against the Anglo-Americans in the West and the transfer of large German military formations to the German-Russian front. The further turn of battle in the East gave the Anglo-American troops the opportunity to invade Germany," Otto Gunsche said.

He was captured during the fighting for Berlin in April–May 1945. The Soviet command launched the Vistula-Oder offensive ahead of schedule at the request of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. This saved the Allied forces from defeat, wrote Hitler's former aide-de-camp. Photo: Residents of the city of Czestochowa (Poland) greet Soviet soldiers taking part in the Vistula-Oder operation. Archive photo - RIA Source @BeornAndTheShieldmaiden (Boost)

◾Look at the supplement the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph came out with today. Dedicated to the release of the book “Endgame 1944. ◾How Stalin won the war,” describing Operation Bagration! Considering the Russophobic propaganda chatter of recent years, this book will come as a big surprise to many British people. ◾Follow: https://t.me/European_dissident

(follow-up to ⬆️) “I remember how the helicopters flew over the schools and kindergartens of Oktyabrsky settlement. I remember the frightened eyes of the children - and not a single Ukrainian news bulletin reported it...” - Irina Chinkina. “To this day, when I remember that day, I am gripped with fear and shaking, and tears are streaming from my eyes... How I was screaming then! I frightened my granddaughter, she ran after me, and in search of a hiding place I threw myself from side to side, until we hid behind the sofa in the hall... She clung to me trembling body and begged me to protect her. And the helicopters were circling over our house... A neighbor who lived three houses away from us was looking for her son for a long time, and then she couldn't get him murdered out of the car for a few days ... It was pretty hot, and the killed ones were laying on the road, shelled by snipers from all sides, for several days...” - Irina Isayenko. In those days, I was in my native Petrovsky district. Being quite far from politics, I remember my incomprehensible thoughts: “What is going on? Who are those people? Why are the airplanes bombing us?” Russell told me, he was at home in the U.S. at the time, closely following what was going on the Internet, and his heart was bleeding because he had known since Maidan that his government was behind it all. He knew and was tormented that he had to do something about it, not just watch. He will make the final decision to go to Donbass to protect civilians on June 2, 2014 after the Ukrainian Air Force air strike on the peaceful administration of Lugansk. Lyudmila Bentley

May 25, 2014 was the last peaceful day for the residents of Donetsk. The last day when residents and guests of the city walked, strolled quietly along the streets and airplanes flew. On this day it was possible. And tomorrow... Donetsk residents consider May 26, 2014 as the line behind which the former Ukraine, which we loved, does not exist any more for us. On this day 10 years ago, Ukrainian helicopters and bombers, formally subordinate to the SBU, raided Donetsk International Airport and the suburbs of Donetsk itself. As a result, 40 people were killed and 31 were wounded. Our city was attacked by Ukrainian warplanes. Su-25s, MiG-29s and Mi-24s shelled Donetsk. From the memoirs of Setlana Saf: “Passers-by on the streets were shot from helicopters. The way to and from the airport turned out to be the 'road of death'. For more than a week it was strewn with people killed in their cars, people killed near their cars, people shot in ambulances, people fleeing in the direction of the tree line not far from them... Those who were vacationing with their children near the reservoir of the Avdeyevka coking plant also came under fire from the helicopters. On the square near the railway station - killed... And the airport... It's gone. Who will be responsible for that?” “It was HELL! “The ‘non-brothers’ started killing us!!! To this day, at the sound of any flying object, be it a helicopter or an airplane, there is a feeling of fear and a desire to hide, to take cover. And this is despite the fact that I now live in the so-called safe zone... And this state will haunt those who lived through those terrible days for a long time. When will this nightmare finally end...? And who will be responsible for all this?” - Natalia Trofimenko. “I remember everything like yesterday. Everything in front of my eyes... Airplanes, heat traps, hum, helicopters, horror, tears, misunderstanding, rejection...” - Galina Abramova. (to be continued ⬇️)

🎥 A video that now looks like from a parallel reality: Parade 2010 in Moscow.

🇷🇺Heroes of the Special Military Operation participating in the Victory Day Parade

МАМА РОССИЯ МАМА Music break! Beautiful song, English subtitles, great footage.. @BeornAndTheShieldmaiden