The parade of the vanquished: 75 years ago in Moscow held a march of captured Germans
2019-07-17T07:29:12.760Z
On July 17, 1944, about 57 thousand German soldiers, captured during the liberation of Soviet Belorussia, marched through the streets of Moscow. The authorities of the USSR organized a march to show the world the scale of the successful offensive operation of the Red Army "Bagration", to raise morale at the front and strengthen faith in the victory over fascism. Conduct prisoners in Moscow instructed the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. The operation was codenamed "Big Waltz" - in honor of one of the favorite foreign films of Joseph Stalin. The parade of the vanquished became a powerful propaganda course of the leadership of the Soviet Union.
Source: russiart