The Ministry of Defense declassified information about foreign formations as part of the Red Army
"The published documents reflect story the formation of the Czechoslovak, Yugoslav, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Polish units and formations that operated as part of the Red Army, "- says the channel. There are also documents on the formation of the French regiment Normandie, the most well-known to Russians.
“Documents show that more than 80 thousand volunteer Poles fought as part of the 1 of the Polish Army, fully formed in the USSR. Its parts and formations after fierce fighting were among the first to enter liberated Warsaw, ”writes RT.
From the report of the command of the Normandy air regiment it follows that from 1942 to 1945, the French pilots “made 5 thousands of combat missions and destroyed the enemy's 278 aircraft, almost all of the personnel of the international aviation regiment were awarded military orders and medals, and four military personnel were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union ", the newspaper notes.
The site contains more 250 documents, including "decrees, powers of attorney, reviews of foreign ministers, government agreements, directives of military districts, registration cards of awarded military personnel, as well as telegrams, letters, memoranda, operational reports and descriptions of hostilities."
The publication of these materials aims to preserve and protect the historical truth from falsification and attempts to revise the outcome of the Great Patriotic and World War II.
- Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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