Civil and Political Life in Russia during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) |
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A historical overview of the political and civilian events between 1941 and 1945. |
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This section will give a brief history of the civil and political events that took place throughout the USSR during the years of the Great Patriotic War. Joseph Stalin himself will also be profiled at a later time. |
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Timeline 1941-1945
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13 April | Stalin signs non-agression pact with Japan. |
22 June |
German invasion of the Soviet Union. | |
23 June | Hungary and Slovakia join Germany in declaring war on the Soviet Union. | |
26 June | Finland declares war on the USSR. | |
29 June | Stalin, Malenkov, Voroshilov, and Beria form Defense Committee. | |
12 July | The Soviets sign a mutual assistance pact with England against Nazi Germany. | |
7 August | Josef Stalin names himself the supreme leader of the USSR. | |
25 August | Soviet and British forces enter Persia to keep them from joining with the Axis powers. | |
1 September | Mass deportations of Volga Germans begins. | |
16 October | Elements of the Soviet government leave Moscow for Kuybyshev. | |
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20 February | United States grants the Soviet Union a one billion dollar loan. |
5 April | Congress of Slavic Peoples is held in Moscow. | |
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Winston Churchill visits Moscow. The Lend-Lease program is in full operation between US and USSR. |
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- | Stalin is again named Time Magazine's 'Man of the Year'. | |
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January | V. I. Kurchakov is directed by Central Committee of USSR to organize a new scientific establishment in Moscow to study 'uranium based weapons'. |
German 6th Army surrenders in Stalingrad. | ||
13 April | German forces discover the bodies of 4,143 Polish soldiers executed at Katyn. | |
ComIntern is dissolved. | ||
October |
Sergius becomes Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. |
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19 October |
The Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers began with the primary goal of improving allied relations with the Soviet Union. |
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October |
Second Moscow Congress is held. | |
28 November |
Teheran Conference is held in Iran. It is the first meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. Together they plan the future course of the war and the design of the post-war world. |
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26 January | Soviets issue their report on the Katyn Forest massacres. |
11 May | An order banishing the entire Tartar population of the Crimea to Siberia is signed. | |
21 August | Soviet representatives meet with officials from the United States, China, and England near Washington to plan for the creation of the United Nations. | |
22 August | The Russian dancer and choreographer, Michel Fokine died at the age of 62. He was a great influence on classical ballet. | |
20 September | Soviet Union and Finland sign a provisional peace treaty. | |
9 October | Winston Churchill and Stalin meet at the Third Moscow Conference. | |
19 October | Third Moscow Conference ends. | |
13 December | The Russian abstract artist Vasily Kandinsky died. He had left the Soviet Union in 1921. | |
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4-14 February |
Stalin attends the Yalta Conference in the Crimea. |
May |
Vienna and Berlin are taken by Soviet forces. | |
17 July - 2 August | The Potsdam Conference is held (Stalin, Attlee, and Truman attend). | |
24 July | Eisenstein wins the Stalin Prize for his Ivan the Terrible, Part I. | |
8 August | Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria. | |
14 August | Japan accepts the Allied terms of unconditional surrender, ending World War Two. | |
2 September | Japan signs surrender document and the Second World War ends. |