Hello everyone,
Wargaming, as a part of its (Russian) “Remember everything” campaign (with the upcoming 9th of May celebration in Russia), started a cycle of clips about the Russian victory in WW2. In part 1 comes the interview with Major-General of tank armies Alexander Fyodorovich Fen. He describes the operation on river Berezina, the deed of a crew of Pavel Rak and meeting Marshal Alexander Vasilevski.
English subtitles are available in the video.
Major-General Alexander Fyodorovich Fen is a veteran of WW2. He took part in the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, liberation of Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Baltic republics. He commanded a tank, also a tank platoon, then a company, he also became the Chief of staff of the tank batallion of the 5th Tank Guards Army. The war ended for him in Gdynia (Poland) as a deputy commander of the tank batallion. During the war, he destroyed 12 enemy tanks, he was wounded 4 times, twice his tank caught on fire. For the liberation of Belarus as a part of 31st Brigade of 29th Tank Corps, he was awarded with the order of Alexander Nevsky.
In part 2, former medic instructor Maria Mikhailovna Rokhnila appears, talking about transporting the seriously wounded deputy commander of the brigade to a hospital on the other side of river Volga on ski on ice. For fulfilling this combat task, she was awarded the Medal for Battle Merit.
Maria Mikhailovna Rokhnila was a medical instructor of medic platoon of the 290th Vislensk Guard Rifle Regiment, 95th Poltava Guard Rifle Division of the 5th Combined Arms Guard Army. She took part in the battle of Stalingrad and Prokhorovka. She was awarded with the Order of the Patriotic War (1st Class), Medal for Battle Merit (1942) and Medal for Courage (1945), Medal for the Defense of Stalingrad and Medal for the Liberation of Prague.
Yeeeah… all hail commrade Stalin and peace that he made!
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Eh, Stalin has nothing to do with this…
“started a cycle of clips about the Russian victory in WW2″
With that too? ;)
Such a pitty that all people will see here is “OMG THEM RUSKIES ARE CELEBRATING STALIN STILL !!!!111″ … feels sad, knowing that normal people went to war to defend their country and they just want to celebrate their victory.
Interesting video SS, thanks for sharing.
Going that way, you can say that “normal people went to war to defend their country” in Werchmacht, SS and other nazi units.
War is war. Commies are commies. Nazis are nazis. Victory of USRR – which, without help from USA and UK (Lend-Lease, anyone?) would fall in 1941 – created the Cold War and millions of casualities – in gulags, Holodomor, Katyn, Sibir.
Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, etc. suffered from russian rule and stupid communism, and lost a chance to stand up after war.
No, my friend. I can’t stand that allies helped those people. It made things far worse than even crazy Hitler fantasies.
‘Going that way, you can say that “normal people went to war to defend their country” in Werchmacht, SS and other nazi units.’
And it was the case for some people. Did you read Guderian’s book?
‘Above all, however, this book is geared to my fellow former tankers.
For them, it is intended as a reminder of those difficult times. We did
exactly what our fe llow soldiers in all the other branches of the service
did-our duty!’ (http://pastebin.com/ypcPiRKM)
I’m not saying all people was soldiers and are ‘kind, and only did their job’, ofc not! I’ll never said this, don’t get me wrong.
But I think we should respect these people who died. It wasn’t their fault. Blame the Government for what they did!
@BelegUS riiiiiight and USA is a country that has “democracy”
looks like u know nothing about history …
Show me error in my logic, else GTFO.
And, again – I’m not from USA.
1st: Going into war with the goal of world dominance and extermination of hundreds of millions of people doesn’t count as “protecting your country”.
2nd: “It made things far worse than even crazy Hitler fantasies.” You mean that some nations being 40 years under bolsheviks was worse than their extermination in case of German victory?
@ Bel you are only talking about the soviets but yet you forgot the rest of the world and especially usa and their “we bring democracy to your country” and yet have more enemies than allies..
people are talking about soviets and Stalin but forget about, USA, France, Belgium, UK, Ottoman empire and so on..
And i never said you are from USA :/
believing soviet (communist) russia was a failure, is your right, and that Stalin was a criminal, most of us would agree with you. But equating Nazism with Communism is a huge step in relativism, by such standards you would argue that Nazism was nop worse than Monarchy or Liberal wetsern capitilism. Such equations are shallow and extremely dangerous. Nazism posited the extermination of entire peoples because of their ethinicity, Nazism posited the enslavement of other peoples for the same reasons. Whatever the crimes committed in Soviet Russia under Stalin, Russia fought against Nazism, and for that we can all be grateful at least.
We should be grateful because instead of exterminating people based on their race, they exterminated much more people based on their political views or other such reasons. Ask Ukraine if it’s grateful to the USSR…
Communism ideology: kill/steal from rich/terrain owners/fabric owners etc. Kill those who have other ideals and vision. Kill those who . Kill your own people with famine from Your tragic decisions.
Nazism ideology: kill all Jews/gypsies/russians, enslave Slavians to work for you.
TBH I can’t see much difference.
Going by your logic I can risk thesis that Nazi Germany fought against Communism. We can all be grateful at least for that.
Your logic is bad, and You should feel bad.
That’s quite enough.
OK, EOT from me.
Sorry, SS.
Wehrmacht wasn’t nazi, it was a profesional army filled with regular german people.
Yet it took a large part in the slaugthers and massacres organized by the 3rd Reich. It started in Poland and France, and kept happening until the very last days of the war. It can be argued that the regular german trooper wasn’t any better than the average savage, baby-eating, woman-raping red army soldier.
I can’t stand the pseudo-historians that plague any discussion on internet. Such as guys claiming stuff like “Victory of USRR… created… millions of casualities – in gulags, Holodomor, Katyn, Sibir.”.
Moron heard of a few names and think he’ll look smart by spitting them all out in a single sentence. Well, that’s not how it works, saddly.
Edit: And, to add to that, I can’t stand the image of respectability gathered by the German army after 45. It was the first to repeatedly break any law of war, in 1870, then in 14-18 and then in 39-45, and yet you find moronic people singing praises to the “regular, honorable german Wehrmacht” everywhere on the internet.
So, tell me who killed Polish elites in Katyn after taking part of Poland in 1939, hand in hand with Nazis, who sent innocent people to gulags during and after the war, and who was responsilbe for Holodomor in Ukraine.
You are a moron, sir.
>Victory of USRR… created… millions of casualities – in gulags, Holodomor, Katyn, Sibir.
WOW, there were a time machine in USSR!
“History of great victory” -> that was way to “victory” for commies.
This is so sad.. The soviet union lost 20 million people in WW2, not one of them was Stalin yet stupid children today only talk about him. This is about the 20 milion people who died defeting the Nazis. Think about that..
The truth is as follows:
1. USSR is responsible for MILLIONS of deaths of its own citizens. Much more than 3rd Reich.
2. USSR was an ALLY of Hitler, they together attacked Poland at the start of WWII (no, the war didn’t start in 1941 as some think).
3. Stalin was a criminal.
4. Stalin is beloved and worshiped in Russia, by most of the citizens.
That has again nothing to do with remembering the sacrifice made to defeat the Nazis.
1. It was a communist country which tied to reshape the society and everything that was the same within that society for centuries. In any case that has nothing to do with the 20 million dead
2. So was every other western country. They stood by while he annexed parts of his neighburs. They wanted him to turn against their communist enemy in the east. Only when they saw that they can not sure that hitler will turn on the Soviets, did they become hostile to him. Look up some history before you speak. Try Neville Chamberlain, the british PM.
3. So was Churchill. He commanded an empire that enslaved most of the world. He spoke very loudly about the liberty of european nations, while denying the same to India and any other country whose “liberty” was not in the intrest of GB.
4. So is Churchill
As you can see.. Every medal has 2 sides. Only when it comes to Russia some people have only one side in mind.
Murica stronk education?
No. I’m not from “Murrica”.
Look at the post from 1:07 pm.
Putin propaganda successful ?
Hail Stalin, who have conquered Eastern-Europe and sent hundred thousands to the Gulag, lot of them without reason. Hail the soviets, who have raped millions of women and girls, part of them to death.
They were not humans, they were barbarians. At least the germans were civilised.
A son of a bitch is a son of a bitch if you paint him in white, black, red, yellow or green… i never like the logic of “X was a criminal, hail Y that defeat him even when he was same shit as X”.
I respect soldiers not monsters on uniform that do things with no name using “hey he do it first” as excuse.
I prefer never suffer the civilised germans… but in same way i prefer don suffer soviet barbarians, not a great diference…
I am sure the jews found the Germans oh so very civilized. The Russians were scum too, no denying that.
germans as civilised people and the same time criminals of war, is not mutually exclusive.
russians were not barbarians, were just uneducated.
Germans civilised? ever heard of the, you know, Holocaust? or the scorch earth policy they implemented when they retreated from Eastern Europe? or killing prisoners that have surrendered?
oh pls, like germans are the only ones who committed atrocities?
russians did it too, jews did it too, and americans did it too!
but yes by civilization germans were top at some moment before the allies destroyed their civilization!
so if there is anyone to blame for it are russians, brits, french, muricans and jews!
Germans had their cruel and unfair laws, but 90% of the time they obeyed it. With Russians – you never knew what were they going to do. It was like a (russian, heh) roulette.
“At least the germans were civilised.” Talk about a Nazi-appologist.
For Christ sake. 2014 and saying that ALL German were monster.
Where are you from? Did your country never, never, did anything wrong?
He’s not a Nazi-appologist, who could be one? He’s just saying that German aren’t monster.
Stop blaming all the German for what a few German did.
And, yes, not all soldiers from WWII were Nazi Just look at the AfricaKorps ;)
Talking about conquer, concentration camps and mass rapes, finishing his post with “Germans didn’t do that, they were civilized.” deserves its own new level of stupid.
He also said all Russiands are barbarians and monsters
… yeah…
got to love these kinds of generalization though……
Let the sh*tstorm commence.
They’re all at it, up there ^
it’s kinda pathetic how some people can’t let it go…
what happened happened now why would we need to mention it again >:[
No not actually we need to learn(cause it seems that we didnt) learn from this and not the same result happens again denying and not talking about such critical part is dump IMO
but they are people who are either biased or dont want to learn
I mean yes we do have to learn from it, I wasn’t talking about denying. I meant we should accept what happened and work towards this never happening again, not bicker about who was what seventy years ago.
Hitler + Stalin = twin tyrants
Lol, “liberation” of Ukraine, I’m sure Russian stronk history books call it that..
Hastening to add that I have the upmost respect for these veterans, they sacrificed so much for so little that I shouldn’t have posted my last remark without a disclaimer.
Liberation of Moldova ?#!@&
Rapture of Moldova is correct.
So where’s the part of standard communist propaganda where they say they didn’t need any help of any other countries to topple the facist scums and that they single handedly won the war?
And saved Europe from Nazis. And brought peace. And have shown the beauty of communism to eastern Europe. And defeated the bourgeoisie scum that was threatening the proletariat masses.
…they killed the aristocracy that i’m part of, those scum’s uneducated farmers should work my land and STFU! glory to the Tzar and death to communist traitors!
” liberation of Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Baltic republics”
*occupation.
”Liberation of Baltic republics”.
Yeah, right…
The monotonous dribble coming out of the majority of FTR viewers is disgusting. Its like I’m on CNN’s comment section or some other cesspool of the internet.
i jerk off to the sound of name
Am I the only one here that really cares of the people that are in these videos? Or I mean..look at the amount of medals and awards they both have( especially the woman…damn) they did what they were supposed to do, fighting for a cause, good or bad, does not matter because they weren’t the ones that were pulling the strings. Poor SS, he tries to show something that should be an example of courage and maybe respect the ones that have fallen and are still alive and for what they have witnessed, and you people start a flame war where there should not be one on this forum
Knowing that WG are such Stalin lovers. I was wondering. What if the russian “rebels” reach their office in Kiev and fucks them all in the ass with sticks and molotovs.
Will they defend their HQ or just say : fuck yea thanks for coming to “liberate” us. Lets kill some ukrainians!
I reckon maria would of been a hot piece of ass back in the day (:
People are people.
We have and have had monsters and humanists in all countries.
A lot of horrible things have been done by men and some of these collective crimes stick out for their extremes.
The Third Reich is one of the most recent superlatives and no one will deny that.
There are other countries which had their share in multitude injustice as well.
Are they comparable or equal?
Well I think every crime and injustice is bad in the first place but of course some are sad major examples.
However – The original sin is a concept belonging to religion not to science or history.
If you judge every generation for the past of their people you will never get anywere.
You will just maintain and feed a system of prejudices and hostility.
If that is something you guys deem a vision for our future – so be it.
But don’t think you’re any better than those you judge.
I think there is no problem to remember war heroes of a nation that defended itself.
Most of the soldiers probably didn’t fight for the political system in the first place but for the motherland.
Why do people react negative about it then?
Because it is a known concept that heroes and commemorations get instrumentalized by politics.
Is there a way to avoid it?
Probably – but as long as certain people nurture people’s hatred against other people be it subliminal or open they will succeed in exploitiation and provocation of hostily among “different” people.
Are we different?
We have different cultures and different traditions but basically we have the same needs.
Quote: anonymoususer on May 4, 2014 at 1:57 pm said:
Knowing that WG are such Stalin lovers. I was wondering. What if the russian “rebels” reach their office in Kiev and fucks them all in the ass with sticks and molotovs.
Will they defend their HQ or just say : fuck yea thanks for coming to “liberate” us. Lets kill some ukrainians!
Quote End.
Sorry to burst your imaginary bubble. But WGs HQ is in Minsk, Belarus. So the scenario you describe is pretty impossible.
Most “western” gamers barely make a difference between Ukraine, Russia and Belorussia…
They still think STALKER and Metro 2033 (game) are Russian… and those games attract the gaming elite…
yeah… sad…
Both STALKER and M2033 are Ukrainian, and I’m very grateful that they were able to create such beauties.
Sadly, Russian’s only have some piece of shit re-named versions of Blitzkrieg…
correct sir,
but the imperialistic brainwash Russians think they own east Europe, and they celebrate the murder of millions of people + enslavement of millions more as a Victory for the human race.
best thing is russian “veterans” live in wood huts big a my toilet room.
best regards from germany
What a piece of shit, eh?
How about this one: Best part about German veterans is that they dont exist. Put into the ground like they deserve or hunted by war tribunal groups or hiding in shame.
Best regards to you in Germany, we all remember!
Political rambling coming and going one after another… Good job.
the imperialist communist autocratic aristocratic killers morons actually think they won a War ?
so funny….
past is past but russian government is bullshit