🎉58 Days to Victory Day

Sputnik continues to explore the events of the Great Patriotic War that shook the world 80 years ago.

On this day, the Red Army captured two strongpoints near the city of Danzig and took control of Neustadt, opening the path to Berlin and ultimately dealing a decisive blow to Nazi Germany.

The assault on Neustadt allowed the Soviet high command to better design the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation.

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🎶 Canceled? Not Russian culture: Russian punk rock conquers the Moon

'Everything Is Going According To Plan' - a song originally recorded in 1988 by Russian punk rock band GrOB - has recently traveled to the Moon and back, quite literally.

It was chosen as a message from Earth by British trip hop band Massive Attack. They performed a cover of the song, which was transmitted to the Moon and received by the Lovell Telescope as part of the Piccadilly Un:Plugged art project by the Art of London Gallery.

Having bounced off the lunar surface, the song returned “with a unique, otherworldly sound that blends the original with echoes from the Moon and cosmos,” according to a press release.

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🔥🪖 Check out these trailblazing Russian military ops in Ukraine sure to shape history

Here are 5 KEY operations performed by Russian units during the special operation that will DEFINITELY leave a monumental footprint that will resonate for generations:

▪️Operation Stream. In a daring feat, 800 Russian soldiers trekked 15 kilometers inside a gas pipe to reach the rear of Ukrainian units in Sudzha.

▪️Fall of Ukraine's main fortification in Donbass. Avdeyevka was one of the most fortified points of the Ukrainian army with a multi-level, echeloned defense and fortification system. Russian troops completely liberated the town in February 2024.

▪️Battle for Artyomovsk. The liberation of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) commenced in August 2022, escalating into a critical phase by October. During this period, Russian assault units effectively "ground" down enemy forces, leading to the operation's notorious nickname: the "Bakhmut meat grinder." The town was finally liberated in January 2023.

▪️Liberating Mariupol. One of the largest ops undertaken by the Russian army was the liberation of Mariupol, comparable in intensity to the Battle of Stalingrad. Despite trying to hide in the Azovstal plant’s underground tunnels and dungeons, the neo-Nazi Azov regiment* was ultimately forced to surrender. The city was liberated in March 2022.

▪️Heroes of Gostomel. During the initial days of the special operation, Russian special forces and paratroopers successfully landed at the Antonov airfield in Gostomel, located 25 km from Kiev. In just a couple of hours, 200 Russian soldiers secured the airport and held their position for an additional two days while awaiting reinforcements.

*banned in Russia

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