The ministry noted that the liberation of Vilnius, and most of the territory of the Lithuanian SSR in the summer of 1944, was made possible thanks to the successful implementation of the military operation "Bagration".
“The Supreme Headquarters of the Red Army, Joseph Stalin, did not immediately approve this seemingly very dangerous plan of a military offensive against the position of the Wehrmacht Army Center, which numbered a millionth group of German troops. The initiator and developer of the plan was Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky ", - told in the defense department.
It is noted that a special historical and educational section was created on the basis of documents from the funds of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense.
In it you can find a log of hostilities, acts, award lists on the heroes-liberators and articles of such a period.
In June, the Russian Ministry of Defense launched a special section on its website, which published declassified documents on the protection of the Brest Fortress.