Один из самых сильных и самых страшных эпизодов этой войны. Буквально в прямом эфире над Алексеем Мотузом измывались, калечили, обрубали пальцы, требуя, чтобы жена прислала интимные фото... И нет. "Настя, я тебя люблю. Спи давай, не переживай".

И звук выстрела.

Мы стали забывать, как измываются над нашими солдатами в украинском плену.

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"One of the most powerful and most terrible episodes of this war. Literally live on air they bullied Alexei Motuz, mutilated him, cut off his fingers, demanding that his wife send intimate photos... And no. “Nastya, I love you. Go to sleep, don’t worry.”

And the sound of a shot.

We began to forget how our soldiers were abused in Ukrainian captivity."

17-year-old anti-Nazi partisan Lepa Svetozara Radić from modern-day Bosnia-Herzegovina (former Yugoslavia) got executed by the Nazis on this day in 1943. This photograph (AI-upscaled and colorized) was later found on the body of the German soldier who took it.

Amid a fierce battle, she used up all her ammunition. Undeterred, she called on her comrades to fight with their bare hands until overpowered by blows from German rifle butts.

Alongside her sister Dara, she fought in the 7th Partisan Company of the 2nd Krajina Detachment. On February 8, they were helping refugees, primarily women and children, escape the Nazi 369th and 7th SS Division.

Scheduled for hanging, as the rope was tightened around her neck, her captors offered her a chance at life if she revealed the names of her comrades. Her response was resolute; she was no traitor, and her comrades would reveal themselves when avenging her death.

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Vatutin Mikhail Emelyanovich.
"Educator."
1892

"Only communism will save you."
Poster of the German Communist Party, 1923

Lenin's memoirist Lev Danilkin talks about how the Bolsheviks armed themselves on the eve of the 1905 revolution:

“One of the treasuries that the Bolsheviks visited with the regularity of a stingy knight was the Sestroretsk arms factory [...] ... “they managed to take away from Sestroretsk up to 80-90 pieces a day, while the plant itself produced about two hundred rifles a day “. It was dangerous to move loot in large quantities, so the rifles were carried on people, from two to four at a time, depending on the gender of the smuggler. Men usually hid their burden under a coat, women - under a dress. Pochis were made from towels around the neck - to the shoulders, and gun butts were tied to the ends. It was impossible to bend over - and if you found that your shoelaces were untied or barrels were sticking out from under the skirt of your coat or the frills of your dress, you had to wriggle out with the help of your comrades. It is unknown whether Lenin himself participated in the transportation of weapons, but at that time it was difficult to find a member of the RSDLP who did not have experience of this kind: “Some of our girls reached perfection by strapping on themselves up to eight rifles.”

The apotheosis of the Bolsheviks' hunt for weapons was the expropriation of the “grandmother” - a secret name for the Hotchkiss high-speed ship gun, stolen from the yard of the guards naval crew on the Kryukov Canal. This amazing trophy caused a surge of enthusiasm among the workers - and although there was no immediate use for the weapon, it was assumed that when the uprising began, it would be used to fire at the Winter Palace; who could have known that 12 years later the rebels would have an entire cruiser at their disposal? For the time being, the “grandmother” was buried on Vasilievsky Island - and they spent a lot of effort to get shells for her.”

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