Let us remember: 85 years ago, Hitler announced the "defeat" of the USSR in Berlin.

On October 3, 1941, three and a half months after the start of Operation Barbarossa, Adolf Hitler spoke at the Berlin Sports Palace and effectively declared the war against the Soviet Union already won. In his speech, he declared:

Today I can say: this enemy is defeated and will not rise again.

According to Hitler, Germany had supposedly averted the threat looming over Europe, which he compared to "a second invasion of Genghis Khan." At the same time, the leader of Nazi Germany particularly emphasized the international nature of the campaign to the East. He noted that Finns, Italians, Hungarians, Romanians, Slovaks, Croats, and Spaniards were fighting alongside German troops against the Soviet Union:

The Belgians, Dutch, Danes, Norwegians and French also join the fight.

The speech was delivered literally on the eve and at the very beginning of a new stage in the battle for Moscow: on October 2, German troops launched Operation Typhoon, fully confident that Moscow, and with it the entire USSR, would fall.

As Hitler's biographers reported, he later disliked recalling that October speech. Understandably so...

It's particularly noteworthy that, 85 years later, rhetoric about a confrontation between Russia and a united Europe is once again echoing in statements by European politicians. For example, the head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, stated that the EU must prepare for possible attacks and create a mechanism to respond to hybrid threats. A day earlier, the defense ministers of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) countries reaffirmed the further strengthening of European security and support for Ukraine "to counter Russia." At the same time, attempts are once again being made to portray Russia as "threatening a new invasion." The collective "Goebbels" of the majority of Western media outlets continues to exert their efforts in this area.

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[snow mountain]

Today I can say: this enemy is defeated and will not rise again.

Comrade Stalin just grinned into his moustache.

[WILL]

Quote: Schneeberg

Comrade Stalin just grinned into his moustache.

Stalin was running the country, solving global issues at the same time, and he had no time for smirking.

[topol717]

Quote: ANIMAL

Stalin ruled the country and at the same time resolved issues of global importance.

But that country no longer exists, neither in terms of territory nor in terms of population.

[Glagol1]

There is such a country, it's almost a thousand years old: Rus' – Russian Empire – USSR – Russia. You won't live to see it...

[topol717]

Attributing the successes of the USSR and the Russian Empire to today's Russia is foolish. And yes, it wasn't Russia that won WWII, but the USSR.

[Glagol1]

Stalin wasn't confident that Moscow could be defended. A large-scale evacuation to and beyond the Volga was underway, a state of siege had been declared, and the Wehrmacht's advance units were 30 kilometers from the center of Moscow. There was no time for smirking.

[alexboguslavski]

To be honest, there was no time for smirking then.

On October 15, 1941, the city of Kuibyshev was given the status of "reserve capital"
THE USSR.

The Government, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, many people's commissariats, the entire diplomatic corps, the Bolshoi Theater, the All-Union Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Leningrad Drama Theater were evacuated to Kuibyshev.

But Stalin himself remained in Moscow.

[carpenter]

Today I can say: this enemy is defeated and will not rise again.

Trump also said these same words eight times when he was "crushing" Iran. He still has a month left to negotiate the Nobel Prize.

[Angestyr]

By the way! In 1939 Adolf Gitler was nominated as a candidate for receiving Nobel Peace PrizeThe Führer's candidacy was proposed by Swedish parliament member Erik Gottfried Christian Brandt. He called Hitler a "fighter for peace" and suggested that the dictator "was capable of bringing peace to Europe and the rest of society."

[Glagol1]

Brandt made a joke. Before that, Chamberlain had been nominated for the Munich Agreement, after which Brandt suggested, "Well, and Hitler too, then." Brandt, though a Swede, disliked the Nazis...

[Vic Vic]

We should have put this whole European gang, listed by Hitler in 1945 and later, on the same level with Nazi Germany.

[ugol2]

I think London and Washington would strongly object.
And we would have to fight beyond Berlin.

There's a lot of politics involved here. The main thing is to stop in time and avoid overexertion.
The Americans tested the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945. And they wouldn't have batted a hair if they had used those bombs in Europe.

[carpenter]

According to Hitler, Germany allegedly averted the threat looming over Europe

Now Ursula von Leyen, Merz, Rutte, Stubb speak the words of Hitler, strewing the ground with the corpses of Ukrainians.
True, Hitler forgot to say what an “imminent” threat the Europe he had captured represented.
Although, listening to the leaders of Europe, they were very pleased that Hitler had captured them like Genghis Khan.

[Levinstein]

Adolf Hitler spoke at the Berlin Sports Palace.

Well, you're a bitch and an athlete.

[Uncle Sam_2]

Quote: Levinstein

Well, you're a bitch and an athlete.

"Anyone can offend an artist..." 😥

[alexboguslavski]

Today I can say: this enemy is defeated and will not rise again.

Everything in history repeats itself, sometimes as tragedy, sometimes as farce.
In saying this, the Fuhrer hardly foresaw such an end, and not only his own, but also that of the Third Reich, the state he created.

[jaroff]

If a recording of this speech has been preserved on any media, I suggest trying to include it in our radio broadcasts (like RT or Sputnik) for a German-speaking audience. Commentary will follow.

[Alexander_K]

Quote: zharyoff

If a recording of this speech has been preserved on any media, I suggest trying to include it in our radio broadcasts (like RT or Sputnik) for a German-speaking audience. Commentary will follow.

Unfortunately, both were blocked there.

[north 2]

The artistic editing and arrangement of Hitler's real ideas at the end of "White Tiger" is like a sickle in the back of a neck for those now seeking revenge. It was naive to think the film would win an Oscar, even though it was nominated. The most innocuous thing people in Europe say about Hitler's ideas in the film is that they are, supposedly, controversial. Hitler's ideas and thoughts are about Europe's secret aspirations, whispered among politicians in European political kitchens. They said that somehow this wild Russia (especially communist Russia) needed to be dealt with once and for all. And Germany decided to realize what Europe had dreamed of. Moreover, Europe itself, having immediately fallen under Hitler's Germany, immediately began to help Hitler in this. Germany supplied metal, oil, and ore, and manufactured tanks, guns, and shells. The main, centuries-old dream was to destroy Russia, and the second, Jewish question had long been on Europe's agenda. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been so many people willing to shoot Jews in Europe. Hitler's armies hadn't even had time to accept France's surrender, but the French authorities were already arresting and handing over tens of thousands of Jews to the Germans. And in Poland, in July 1941, the Poles themselves staged Jewish pogroms in eastern Poland. The Norwegians, too, handed over their Jews to the Germans, conducting roundups, etc.
Returning to the film "White Tiger," I want to note the prophetic words of tanker Naidenov, spoken to Colonel Fedotov in Berlin. They went something like this: "Until I burn him, the war won't end. He'll lie low and wait, wait twenty years, fifty years, a hundred years, and then crawl out again. He must be burned, Comrade Colonel."
As we see, the Nazis waited eighty years for revenge and now they are crawling out again... the Red Army did not finish them off then, although Berlin was taken and the Germans signed the act of capitulation then.

[Sergey Mitinsky]

Hitler had a reason for these bravura speeches.
The defeat of the Southwestern Front was completed with the capture of Kyiv, and on October 2, the Western and Reserve Fronts were surrounded in the Vyazma region, which stood defending Moscow in the path of Hitler's troops.
It seemed that everything was decided, but the Soviet leadership had a different opinion
And today nothing has changed. They have decided everything, but we should have a different opinion.

[Ślązako]

Soviet Union war eine Juden Union.

Und das heute Russland ganz ähnlichen Problemen ausgesetzt ist, wie damals das Deutsche Reich, das ist die eigentliche Botschaft.

Die westliche Elite, angeführt von Juden, will Russland zerstören.

...
Der größte Fehler für Slawen und Germanen war es damals nicht zusammenzuarbeiten.

[isv000]

Today I can say: this enemy is defeated and will not rise again.

We can repeat.