🔥 6 Days to Victory Day

Sputnik continues to explore the key turning points of the Great Patriotic War.

In Czechoslovakia, the 2nd Ukrainian Front continued its advance east of Brno, liberating 41 settlements.

Meanwhile, Wehrmacht troops began retreating to the Elbe to surrender to the Americans, while Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg offered the British command the surrender of three Wehrmacht armies on the condition that the Germans would not be captured by Soviet forces.

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🚨'Tyranny' and 'democracy theft': AfD's 'extremist' label prompts FIRESTORM of outrage

The designation of the 🇩🇪Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as “extremist” by Germany’s spy agency has sparked strong backlash, both at home and abroad.

🔊“Fate loves irony” was the brief but pointed reaction from Elon Musk, as he shared a sharply worded post from JD Vance.

🔊JD Vance compared it to rebuilding of the Berlin Wall, posting that AfD “is the most popular party in Germany.”

🔊US Sec. of State Marco Rubio accused the German government of “tyranny in disguise.”

🔊BSW leader Sahra Wagenknecht called the re-evaluation of AfD “questionable in substance and politically counterproductive.”

🔊The decision was a "severe blow to German democracy" and "clearly politically motivated," stated the co-leaders of the AfD Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla. They vowed to challenge the classification in court.

🔊Chairman of the French right-wing Patriots party Florian Philippot said the AfD "that wants peace and leaving the EU is on the road to being officially banned," adding that "the Euroglobalist dictatorship must be destroyed as soon as possible."

🔊Italy's deputy PM Matteo Salvini called the move “another theft of Democracy,” after French Marine Le Pen’s ban from the 2027 presidential election

🔊US independent journalist Glenn Greenwald pointed out a striking resemblance to the “Dems’ 2024 strategy,” highlighting how the West seems to believe that saving democracy means keeping its most popular political rivals off the ballot.

🔊The move marks the “first step in banning the main political opposition,” especially after the AfD recently led the polls in Germany, Norwegian political scientist Glenn Diesen emphasized.

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🔥 Russian WWII heroes laid to rest in solemn ceremony snubbed by Moldova’s pro-Western regime

A solemn burial ceremony is underway at the Serpensky bridgehead memorial complex for 22 Red Army soldiers who died during fierce 1944 battles liberating Moldova from Nazism.

🎉 The ceremony is attended by Pobeda bloc and Socialist Party members amid the refusal of Moldova’s pro-Western government to provide an honor guard or orchestra for the fallen WWII heroes.

➡️In recent years, Moldova has seen repeated efforts to restrict the celebration of Victory Day.

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