10. Dnipro (Dnipropetrovsk): In October 1941, around 11,000 Jews were shot in a ravine near Dnipro by Einsatzgruppe C, with Police Battalion 314, with further killings through 1943.

Ukrainian Auxiliary Police assisted in liquidating the ghetto and guarding execution sites, streamlining the Nazi operation. The initial massacre targeted the city’s Jewish population, who were marched to the ravine and shot in groups.

This is a column of Jews escorted to the execution site near Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region, October 1941.

17: Ternopil: During the Holocaust, between 13,000 and 18,000 Jews were murdered in Ternopil, then part of eastern Poland. Before the Nazi occupation in 1941, Jews made up about half the city’s population.

After the invasion, mass shootings and deportations began, carried out by German forces and local collaborators. A ghetto was established in 1942, and most of its residents were sent to Belzec or killed locally. By the Soviet liberation in 1944, only a few Jews had survived.

16. Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovohrad): From 1941 to 1942, 5000 Jews were shot by Einsatzgruppe D in rural areas outside Kropyvnytskyi.

Ukrainian Auxiliary Police supported ghetto operations and executions, aiding the Nazi effort. The shootings, conducted in multiple phases.

Of the approximately 18,000 Jews registered by the Nazis after capturing Ternopil, only 139 survived the war by hiding in city sewers or bunkers, with the help of a few local residents.

After the Jews were exterminated, Ukrainian nationalists turned on the Poles in 1943 and killed all of them.

Alexander Samoylo is an interesting character. He was a general in the Imperial Army who voluntarily joined the Red Army and went on to defeat the British and Americans who had invaded Russia to stop the Bolshevik Revolution. However, he did not personally join the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until 1944.

I would consider double genocide theory that he advocates for one of the worst forms of Holocaust denial .

I don't think you understand what I said. Stalin's practical approach is the correct ideological interpretation of Marx and Lenin. We live in the real world, under real conditions.

People need food, healthcare, housing, and so on! we're not revolutionaries just for the sake of being revolutionaries. Revolution is a means to an end, not the end itself. We don’t live in abstractions; sitting in colleges theorizing about “what ifs” doesn’t fill people’s stomachs.

300,000 German troops were encircled at Stalingrad. Hitler sent an entire tank division to break the siege and rescue the 6th Army, but it was intercepted and destroyed just 60 kilometers from the city. By the time the 6th Army finally surrendered, only 90,000 soldiers remained, barely alive.

A Sudeten German woman cries with joy and gives the Sieg Heil salute as Nazi troops roll into Czechoslovakia, October 1938.

Leon Rupnik ( the guy in suit ) was a general in the Royal Yugoslav Army who, during World War II, became the head of the Slovene Home Guard (Slovensko domobranstvo), a Nazi-collaborationist militia formed to fight Tito’s Partisans in occupied Slovenia.

He openly collaborated with the Germans after Italy’s capitulation in 1943, serving as the president of the Nazi-appointed Provincial Government of Ljubljana.

After the war, he was captured, tried for treason and collaboration, and executed by Tito’s government in 1946.

The commander of Einsatzgruppe C in the November of 1942 was Horst Böhme. He disappeared on April 10, 1945 in Königsberg and was declared legally dead later , but no one knows what happened to him .

On November 5, 1942, Einsatzgruppe C and local Ukrainian collaborators shot and killed 7,000 Jews in the city of Proskurov (now Khmelnytskyi). This is their mass grave.

Men and women of Lviv in Western Ukraine filled the streets, cheering and giving 'Sieg Heil' as German Nazi troops rolled into town on June 30, 1941 ! 🙂

You see ! It wasn't just a few bad apples ! It was the entire basket ! 🫠

On September 5, 1942 , the Kalevi-Liiva massacre commenced when a transport of approximately 1,500 Czechoslovak Jews arrived at Raasiku railway station in Estonia.

Originally destined for the Riga ghetto, the train was rerouted to Estonia due to overcrowding in Riga. Upon arrival, Nazi officials and Estonian collaborators conducted a selection process: about 450 individuals deemed fit for labor were sent to the nearby Jägala concentration camp, while the remaining were transported to the Kalevi-Liiva sand dunes and executed.

A few days later, a second transport carrying around 1,250 German Jews arrived. Similar selections were made, and those not chosen for labor were also taken to Kalevi-Liiva and killed. The executions were carried out by Estonian members of the Security Police under Nazi supervision, including Ain-Ervin Mere, Ralf Gerrets, and Jaan Viik.

In total, between 1,700 and 1,750 Jews were murdered at Kalevi-Liiva in September 1942, making it the largest mass shooting of Jews in Estonia during the Holocaust.

Ralf Gerrets and and Jaan Viik faced trial by the USSR in 1961 and executed for mass murder of Jews . Ain-Ervin Mere on the other hand retired in
Leicester , England and died a free man in 1969! 🫠 This is his picture below.

Battle of Brest Fortress monument is my second favorite after Mamayev Kurgan at Stalingrad

The Battle of Brest Fortress began on June 22, 1941, when Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa. Despite being caught by surprise, around 7,000 to 8,000 Soviet soldiers; primarily from the 6th and 42nd Rifle Divisions and the 17th NKVD Frontier Guard Detachment; mounted a determined and organized defense. They were joined by hundreds of non-combatants, including medical personnel and the families of soldiers, many of whom also took part in the defense.

The fortress was attacked by the German 45th Infantry Division, consisting of approximately 17,000 troops, supported by heavy artillery (including massive 540 mm siege mortars), Stuka dive bombers, and combat engineers armed with flamethrowers and explosives. The Germans expected to capture the fortress within hours, but instead encountered unexpectedly fierce resistance.

The main phase of organized Soviet defense lasted for about seven days, from June 22 to June 29, 1941. However, small groups of defenders continued to resist within various parts of the fortress for weeks. Isolated fighting is believed to have continued until as late as July 23, with some Soviet soldiers holding out in underground bunkers and cellars despite starvation, injury, and constant bombardment.

Although ultimately overrun, the defense of Brest Fortress became one of the most symbolic acts of Soviet resistance during the early days of World War II.