On June 22, 1941, at dawn, without declaring war, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union

On June 22, 1941, at dawn, without declaring war, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union Enemy aviation launched massive attacks on airfields, railway junctions, naval bases and peacefully sleeping cities. This is how the Great Patriotic War began. The main events of that day were unfolding on the western borders, and most of the country still knew nothing about it. On June 20 and 21, graduation ceremonies were held in the cities. On June 22, there was not a word about the war in the morning newspapers either, because the editors did not have time to print the issues with the terrible news. And only at noon Moscow time, the Deputy Chairman of the Council of People s Commissars of the USSR People s Commissar of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov made an address on the AllUnion Radio. He said: The Red Army and the entire Soviet people will wage a victorious Patriotic War for the Motherland, for honor, for Source: May 9 ru The song Sacred War, which became a kind of Source: East Calling t. me, EastCalling