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At that time, the head of the British government, W. Churchill, who wrote in his message to I.V., held a similar position. To Stalin on September 27, 1944, the following: “I will take this opportunity to repeat tomorrow in the House of Commons what I said earlier, that it was the Russian army that released the guts from the German military machine and is currently holding back an incomparably greater part of the enemy’s forces” [four]. To the honor of W. Churchill, he did not change his attitude to the contribution of the USSR to the victory over fascism during the Cold War. So, in his speech at Westminster College in Fulton (USA), which is considered to be the starting point of its beginning, he said: “I personally admire the heroic Russian people and have great respect for my wartime comrade Marshal Stalin” [5 ].

Objective assessments of the actions of the Red Army, devoid of diplomatic considerations, are also contained in the statements of US President F. Roosevelt, according to which "... The decisiveness and success with which the peoples of the Soviet Union reject the hordes of aggressors inspire other nations fighting to maintain their independence" [ 6].

All this was evidence of the recognition of the exceptional and decisive role of the Soviet Union in the common victory over Nazi Germany and, accordingly, of the significance of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War.

The Great Patriotic War was not an ordinary war between two states. The Nazi leadership of Germany set the goal not only to inflict a military defeat, its goal was the elimination of the USSR - Russia, the enslavement and extermination of the Russian and other peoples of the Soviet Union, as well as the peoples of most countries of Europe, all those who did not belong to the "great Aryan race" and, according to the Nazis, they were simply “subhuman” (untermenschen).

To a large extent, these ideas were stimulated by the ease with which Hitler Germany conquered most of the countries of the European continent.

Austria was annexed in March 1938, and in the autumn of that year, as a result of the Munich agreement, Czechoslovakia lost a significant part of its territory. At the same time, her neighbors Poland and Hungary took a direct part in the “division of the Munich inheritance”. In March 1939, the remnants of the Czech Republic were occupied by German troops, while Slovakia, in which a pro-fascist regime was established, became a satellite of Nazi Germany. All this was done practically without a single shot or, as A. Hitler himself stated, “elegantly”. Equally elegantly in March 1939, the Klaipeda (Memel) region of Lithuania was annexed.