"Kyrgyzstan’s Forgotten Role in World War II" Topic
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Tango01 | 02 Dec 2020 9:27 p.m. PST |
"Despite emerging victorious in their fight over Nazi Germany and Hitler's fascist ideology, World War II ravaged the Soviet Union, claiming the lives of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians – 26 million by some estimates. While the better-known battles of the Great Patriotic War, including the Battle of Stalingrad and the Siege of Leningrad, took place in Russia's western sphere, the tragedy of war and the scale of its devastation was undoubtedly felt all over the vast Soviet Union. Tucked away in the mountains of Central Asia, located 3,000 kilometers southeast of Moscow, the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic – modern-day Kyrgyzstan — was just one of the many Soviet republics that contributed to the war effort. By the time the war ended, it had claimed the lives of 70,000 Kyrgyz soldiers and 50,000 civilians – roughly 8 percent of the entire local population…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
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