🇷🇺🇺🇸The Embassy of Russia in the USA has joined the commemorative events, dedicated to the anniversary of the Victory in the Battle of Kursk.

⚔️ 80 years ago, on the 23rd of August, the Soviet people accomplished a heroic feat by crushing the Nazi formations during the 50-day battles in the area of the Kursk salient.

📽 On the occasion of this remarkable date the cinema club of the diplomatic representation hosted a landmark Soviet film «The fiery arch» - a part of film epic «Release» by Yury Ozerov. Our friends from diplomatic missions of CIS countries, compatriots, Russian journalists and representatives of Russia in the World Bank and International Monetary Fund attended the film screening.

🖼 Expositions on the Battle of Kursk and combat brotherhood of the peoples of the USSR were placed. The songs of wartime were performed.

📰✉️⚡️ While carefully studying the stands with photographs, official documents, newspaper articles and letters from the front line, the guests of the event recalled with special warmth their heroes – fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers as well as mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers, who forged the Victory with incredible work and courage on the front line and in the rear.

🏅 The Russian Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, in his welcoming speech, emphasized that the defeat of the enemy in the battle thwarted the plans of the Nazis to seize the strategic initiative and go on the offensive, turned the tide of the Great Patriotic War, ensured the advantage of the Soviet Army, bringing the Great Victory closer.

🤝 He noted that on these memorable days, we recall with deep respect and gratitude the friendship and brotherhood of the peoples of the USSR, who withstood the most severe trials that the war against the Nazi invaders brought with it.
The feeling of a shoulder and an elbow, of a united family helped the Motherland to resist and defeat the «brown plague».

📌 It is encouraging that now we continue to constructively develop fraternal relations within the CIS, build Eurasian economic integration on the EAEU platform, including during the Russian chairmanship in the union this year.

🎖Our sacred duty is to preserve the memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, to pass on to the next generation the truth about the events of those years and about the price that our ancestors had to pay to win the deadly battle with the «Nazi machine». We need to nip in the bud the exclusion and falsification of historical facts as well as any manifestations of neo-Nazism.