Russian Tanks Move to Ukrainian Borders on March 9 11, 2014
Cemetery of Russian soldiers
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Russia: See Sukhoi Su-24M attack jets test their mettle
Video ID: 20140917-047
W/S ZOOM IN Jet fighter takes off
M/S Sukhoi Su-24M taxiing
M/S Sukhoi Su-24M stationary
M/S Sukhoi Su-24Ms stationary
C/U Pilot standing over cockpit
M/S Sukhoi Su-24M being prepped by ground crew
M/S Pilot and ground crew
M/S Sukhoi Su-24M being prepped by ground crew
M/S Pilot climbs up steps to cockpit
M/S Sukhoi Su-24M taxiing
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The Russian Air Force conducted low-altitude, extreme weather drills over the Rostov Region Wednesday. Pilots of the Sukhoi Su-24M supersonic, all-weather attack jet practiced flying as low as 50 metres (164 feet) off the ground and reached speeds of over 1,000 kmph (621 mph).
The aim of the exercise was to recreate challenging combat flight conditions.
Crews also rehearsed destroying targets in conditions of low visibility and trained in various emergency situations, including piloting a damaged aircraft and landing on a damaged runway.
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Антоха. Путешествие из Магадана в Европу / Journey from Magadan to Europe (English subs)
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Всем привет!
Мы в Португалии, на мысе Рока, самой западной точке континентальной Европы.
Уже неделю мы находимся в пути и снимаем новый сложносочиненный выпуск.
Один из самых грустных фактов про Россию звучит так: больше 50 процентов населения нашей страны никогда не были за границей.
Понятно, что основная причина – в том, что люди за пределами Москвы и еще пары городов живут очень скромно.
Но параллельно с этим уже много лет нам рассказывают, как же за пределами России плохо. Эмигранты, гей-парады, бездуховность – ну вы сами все знаете.
Наша позиция: путешествия – это неотъемлемая часть процветания и прогресса. Если ты видишь, как устроен чужой мир, тебе гораздо проще обустраивать мир собственный. Ну а если где-то действительно плохо, лучше узнавать об этом самому, а не по пламенным речам людей из телевизора.
Поэтому мы придумали следующее:
1. Выбрали очень классный и – важное – НЕпопсовый маршрут по Европе.
2. Взяли с собой человека, который не так искушен путешествиями, как мы.
Те, кто смотрел наш выпуск про Колыму, наверняка помнят Антоху – нашего водителя, очень яркого парня, который появился всего на пару минут, но покорил абсолютно всех. Антохе 33 года и он никогда не был за пределами стран бывшего Советского Союза.
Мы проехали почти 1500 километров от Страны Басков до Лиссабона – таким образом, чтобы Антоха, житель самого востока Евразии, оказался в самой западной ее точке.
У выпуска, который вы увидите, две задачи:
1. Интересно провести время
2. Показать, что мир – большой и классный. И гораздо лучше быть частью это мира, а не настороженно смотреть на него из-за забора.
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I do not know how in the West, Russians believe the concept of Nazism and fascism as synonyms. When we say Kiev Nazis or fascists from Western Ukraine, we mean the same thing.
Namely, people who are obsessed with Hitler about the superiority of one race or nation over others.
In Western Ukrainian fascists (Nazis) has its heroes. This is Bandera, Shukhevych who were servants of Hitler in World War II.
So..There is a war between the Russians, the local population that lives here 1000 years and the Nazi government in Kiev, which the United States led to power.
As a result of the bloody coup, the Nazis from Western Ukraine came to power.
They are a minority, and in the case of democratic elections, they would never have come to power. Then the United States made a bloody coup, as they are able to do it all over the world.
Thus, the United States went to war against the Russian population of the South and East of Ukraine, who lived here 1,000 years and no where to go will not, of course.
I'd like to work for the Russian government, but do not work.
And actually just want to help as best I can. To bring the truth to the world. Free of charge and at the expense of their own time.
I do not know about a help from Russia. Maybe it goes. Also, do not know, maybe go help with the West for Kiev.
What else?
Russian Donbas really fighting against fascism! The Nazis came to power in Kiev seriously consider themselves a superior race. It's funny to hear for non-Ukrainians. But it is. Ukrainians in fact it is Russians. Western historians only in the 20th century had called their - Ukrainians .
Ukrainians do not fight against the Donbas, almost. Basically, fighting Nazis from western Ukraine.
In Donbass no Russian army. Here are fighting Russian who live here 1,000 years.
The first Russian state Kievan Rus was here.
They are the locals. And, of course, volunteers from around the world help us!
The State Dept. United States began the war , who arranged the illegal coup in Kiev.
And he led the Ukrain. Nazis to power.
Putin does not want the new lands, otherwise would have long ago captured the whole of the Ukraine, easy!
The Kiev Nazis commit genocide!
Ask if something is unclear, I will answer.
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For russians, 75 years later, stalingrad is a battle to remember
For russians, 75 years later, stalingrad is a battle to remember
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Kursk
Kursk is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym Rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German struggle during World War II and the site of the largest tank battle in history. Population: 415,159 (2010 Census); 412,442 (2002 Census); 424,239 (1989 Census).
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Greece: Athens march decries fascism in Ukraine
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M/S Anti-fascism march in Athens
M/S Anti-fascism march in Athens
C/U Posters in Anti-fascism march in Athens
W/S Protesters wielding posters at anti-fascism march
C/U Posters in Anti-fascism march
M/S Protesters wielding banner in Anti-fascism march
SOT Despina Koutsoumba, Antarsya parliamentary candidate (Greek): We came here today to support the Ukrainian people, to support the Ukrainian anti-fascists that have suffered casualties from Ukraine's fascists, from a government that the EU (which claims to be democratic) supports. We denounce the Greek government that holds the EU presidency because it hasn't denounced the fascist crimes in Ukraine. We think that they don't care at all about the drama the Ukrainian people go through. They only care about supporting the EU interests in the wider area.
C/U Protester holding poster with names of cities in Ukraine
M/S Protesters wielding banner at anti-fascism march
M/S Protesters holding banner at anti-fascism march
C/U Crossed-out swastika poster
M/S Protester holding red flag
C/U Red flags
W/S Protesters at anti-fascism march
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Greece: Athens march decries fascism in Ukraine
Hundreds of protesters descended on the European Union offices in Athens, Tuesday to protest against the recent events in Odessa and against fascist politics in Ukraine.
The protest was organised by a group called the Athens-Piraeus Antifascist Syndicate.
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Ukraine: Armed men take control of Antratsyt city hall
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M/S Flag of the Don Cossacks
M/S Antratsyt city council
C/U City council sign
M/S People outside city council
M/S Russian and Don Cossack flag
M/S Engine
M/S Security outside city council
SOT Anti-Kiev protester (Russian): I served in Afghanistan. I know what war is. Now is not war. Why we are separatists? We are not separatists. We are ordinary people. Many people come here after work to protect our family, home and land.
W/S People gathered outside city council
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Ukraine: Armed men take control of Antratsyt city hall
Russian and Don Cossack flags were hoisted above the entrance to Antratsyt's city hall in the Luhansk region on Monday, replacing the Ukrainian national flag.
Armed anti-Kiev protesters have been occupying the building, since 30 demonstrators entered it five days ago.
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Yekaterinburg Victory Day (День Победы) Parade Test Run 2017
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German Battle between the Donets and the Don Rivers - Operation Barbarossa 32560a HD
This World War II German newsreel was retrieved from a U.S. Navy archive, and is now part of the Periscope Film collection. Made for propaganda purposes during the war by the German newsreel company Degeto Weltspiegel and sold to the home market in Germany, these newsreels provide a fascinating look at the German military. These German newsreels were seized by the U.S. government following the war, and ended up in the collection of the U.S. government.
This newsreel shows part of Operation Barbarossa, when German forces advanced towards the River Don. The film shows the push towards Moscow and Stalingrad on the Eastern Front.
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Ukraine: Slavyansk local says Ukrainian forces fired at his house
Video ID: 20140505-039
SOT, Reporter (In English) and Roman, resident (In English):
Reporter (In English): In English could you tell me what happened?
Roman, resident (In English): What happened... I heard the shooting when I was at home and three bullets shoot into my house. I was sitting at home and now I came here to see what was happening.
Reporter (In English): Who shot you? Who shot your house?
Roman, resident (In English): I don't know the bullets were flying. Nobody knows.
Reporter (In English): Who do you think it was?
Roman, resident (In English): I know that when it is war, the bullet does not know whom to shoot. It's a war.
Reporter (In English) Are you okay, are you hurt?
Roman, resident (In English):No, they were very small bullets and they just hit the roof and they did not hurt my house.
Reporter (In English): What is your name?
Roman, resident (In English):Roman.
Reporter (In English): Do you think it was the Ukrainian army?
Roman, resident (In English):Yes, of course. It is the Ukrainian army -- they came here, and they began this, and they say it is anti-terrorist operation. But we do not need their operation here. We do not need them. We don't need people dying. We don't need them.
Reporter (In English): How are you feeling at the moment?
Roman, resident (In English):I am very sad, I am upset. It is very hard to see what is happening here.
Reporter (In English): What do you want to happen?
Roman, resident (In English):I want peace here. I do not want the Ukrainian army. I don't want them here.
SCRIPT
Ukraine: Slavyansk local says Ukrainian forces fired at his house
Roman, a local man from Slavyansk, told a reporter that his house had come under fire from the Ukrainian army on Monday.
Roman initially said he did not know who had fired at his house as in war, bullets do not know whom to hit but later said it was the Ukrainian Army. He then said that we do not need their operation here. We do not need them. We don't need people dying. We don't need them.
The man said he was unhurt but very sad about the situation in Slavyansk, and that he wants peace here and not the Ukrainian army.
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Tiger I
Tiger I listen is the common name of a German heavy tank developed in 1942 and used in World War II. The final official German designation was Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf.E, often shortened to Tiger. It was an answer to the unexpectedly impressive Soviet armour encountered in the initial months of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, particularly the T-34 and the KV-1. The Tiger I gave the Wehrmacht its first tank mounting the 88 mm gun in its first armoured fighting vehicle-dedicated version: the KwK 36. During the course of the war, the Tiger I saw combat on all German battlefronts. It was usually deployed in independent tank battalions, which proved to be quite formidable.
While the Tiger I was feared by many of its opponents, it was over-engineered, using expensive materials and labour intensive production methods. Only 1,347 were built between August 1942 and August 1944. The Tiger was prone to certain types of track failures and immobilizations, and limited in range by its high fuel consumption. It was expensive to maintain, but generally mechanically reliable. It was also difficult to transport, and vulnerable to immobilization when mud, ice and snow froze between its overlapping and interleaved road wheels in winter weather conditions, often jamming them solid. In 1944, production was phased out in favour of the Tiger II.
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Ukraine: Barricades of burnt vehicles litter Kramatorsk
VideoID: 20140506-041
W/S Burnt out bus
M/S Burnt out bus
SOT, resident, (in Russian): Please look what is behind my back, this is how they are freeing us. I would like to tell Barack Obama, let them all look, how this Yatsenyuk is freeing us. We all despise him, and not one of us will give him a hand in anything, we are not going anywhere with fascists.
M/S Vehicles in road blockade
SOT, resident, (in Russian): This is the freedom army that came? Excuse me but is that really a freedom army? They are bastards, pure bastards and not one person will vote for them and wont go with them. I want the whole of Europe to know this, they should stop closing their eyes and their ears.
M/S Burnt out vehicles in road
M/S Men in road at road block
M/S Food placed on road block
M/S Barricade in Kramatorsk city centre
M/S Woman selling flowers outside Kramatorsk city centre
W/S Kramatorsk city
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The charred remains of burnt out vehicles cluttered Kramatorsk's streets Tuesday after anti-Kiev activists set the vehicles ablaze in previous days to fortify barricades surrounding their camp in the city centre.
One local decried the presence of Ukrainian forces in the area, asking this is the freedom army that came? and urging Barack Obama to look how this Yatsenyuk is freeing us.
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Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present) | Wikipedia audio article
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Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present)
00:02:41 1 Background
00:07:06 1.1 Euromaidan and Anti-Maidan
00:09:29 1.2 Russian political actions
00:11:55 2 Crimea
00:12:04 2.1 2014 annexation
00:15:08 2.2 Renewed conflict in 2016
00:16:36 2.3 2018 Kerch Strait incident
00:17:32 3 Donbass
00:19:17 3.1 March–July 2014
00:23:59 3.1.1 Weapons supply
00:28:23 3.2 2014 cross-border artillery shelling
00:29:44 3.3 August 2014 military invasion
00:34:11 3.3.1 Luhansk region
00:36:34 3.3.2 Donetsk region
00:38:24 3.3.3 Mariupol incursion
00:39:33 3.3.4 Result
00:40:25 3.3.5 Reaction
00:48:18 3.4 November 2014 escalation
00:55:55 3.5 2015
01:11:12 3.6 2016
01:11:59 3.7 Details of Russian involvement
01:26:09 3.7.1 Russian medal count
01:28:33 3.7.2 Training facility
01:31:29 3.7.3 Governance
01:32:06 4 Reactions to the Russian invasion in Crimea
01:32:17 4.1 Ukrainian response
01:34:06 4.2 US and NATO military response
01:36:31 4.2.1 Baltic states
01:38:27 4.2.2 Black and Mediterranean Seas
01:39:53 4.2.3 Poland and Romania
01:42:02 4.2.4 Relations with Russia
01:43:14 4.3 Military actions in other countries
01:43:24 4.3.1 Belarus
01:43:46 4.3.2 Turkey
01:44:24 4.4 International diplomatic and economic responses
01:48:47 4.5 Financial markets
01:49:49 5 Reactions to the Russian intervention in Donbass
01:53:03 5.1 Russian protests
01:54:13 5.2 Ukrainian public opinion
01:55:08 5.3 International reaction
01:56:27 6 See also
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In February 2014, Russia made several military incursions into Ukrainian territory. After Euromaidan protests and the fall of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, Russian soldiers without insignias took control of strategic positions and infrastructure within the Ukrainian territory of Crimea. Russia then annexed Crimea after a referendum in which Crimeans voted to join the Russian Federation, according to official results. In April, demonstrations by pro-Russian groups in the Donbass area of Ukraine escalated into an armed conflict between the Ukrainian government and the Russia-backed separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. In August, Russian military vehicles crossed the border in several locations of Donetsk Oblast. The incursion by the Russian military was seen as responsible for the defeat of Ukrainian forces in early September.In November 2014, the Ukrainian military reported intensive movement of troops and equipment from Russia into the separatist-controlled parts of eastern Ukraine. The Associated Press reported 80 unmarked military vehicles on the move in rebel-controlled areas. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission observed convoys of heavy weapons and tanks in DPR-controlled territory without insignia. OSCE monitors further stated they observed vehicles transporting ammunition and soldiers' dead bodies crossing the Russian-Ukrainian border under the guise of humanitarian aid convoys. As of early August 2015, OSCE observed over 21 such vehicles marked with the Russian military code for soldiers killed in action. According to The Moscow Times, Russia has tried to intimidate and silence human rights workers discussing Russian soldiers' deaths in the conflict. OSCE repeatedly reported that its observers were denied access to the areas controlled by combined Russian-separatist forces.The majority of members of the international community and organizations such as Amnesty International have condemned Russia for its actions in post-revolutionary Ukraine, accusing it of breaking international law and violating Ukrainian sovereignty. Many countries implemented economic sanctions against Russia, Russian individuals or companies – to which Russia responded in kind.In October 2015, The Washington Post reported that Russia has redeployed some of its elite units from Ukraine to Syria to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In December 2015, Russia ...
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Battle of Stalingrad | Wikipedia audio article
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The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia.
Marked by fierce close quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, it was the largest (nearly 2.2 million personnel) and bloodiest (1.8–2 million killed, wounded or captured) battle in the history of warfare. After their defeat at Stalingrad, the German High Command had to withdraw vast military forces from the Western Front to replace their losses.The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using the 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intensive Luftwaffe bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. The fighting degenerated into house-to-house fighting; both sides poured reinforcements into the city. By mid-November 1942, the Germans had pushed the Soviet defenders back at great cost into narrow zones along the west bank of the Volga River.
On 19 November 1942, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, a two-pronged attack targeting the weaker Romanian and Hungarian armies protecting the German 6th Army's flanks. The Axis forces on the flanks were overrun and the 6th Army was cut off and surrounded in the Stalingrad area. Adolf Hitler ordered that the army stay in Stalingrad and make no attempt to break out; instead, attempts were made to supply the army by air and to break the encirclement from the outside. Heavy fighting continued for another two months. By the beginning of February 1943, the Axis forces in Stalingrad had exhausted their ammunition and food. The remaining units of the 6th Army surrendered. The battle lasted five months, one week and three days.
Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses | Wikipedia audio article
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Throughout Jehovah's Witnesses' history, their beliefs, doctrines, and practices have engendered controversy and opposition from local governments, communities, and religious groups.
Many Christian denominations consider the interpretations and doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses to be heretical. Some religious leaders have accused Jehovah's Witnesses of being a cult. According to law professor Archibald Cox, in the United States, Jehovah's Witnesses were the principal victims of religious persecution … they began to attract attention and provoke repression in the 1930s, when their proselytizing and numbers rapidly increased.Political and religious animosity against Jehovah's Witnesses has at times led to mob action and government oppression in various countries, including Cuba, the United States, Canada, Singapore, and Nazi Germany. The denomination's doctrine of political neutrality has led to imprisonment of members who refused conscription (for example in Britain during World War II and afterwards during the period of compulsory national service).
During the World Wars, Jehovah's Witnesses were targeted in the United States, Canada, and many other countries for their refusal to serve in the military or help with war efforts. In Canada, Jehovah's Witnesses were interned in camps along with political dissidents and people of Japanese and Chinese descent. Activities of Jehovah's Witnesses have previously been banned in the Soviet Union and in Spain, partly due to their refusal to perform military service. Their religious activities are currently banned or restricted in some countries, for example in Singapore, China, Vietnam, Russia and many Muslim-majority countries.