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The anniversary of the meeting on the Elbe was celebrated on Saturday, April 25, the Parliamentskaya Gazeta newspaper writes. On this day, 75 years ago, Soviet and American troops met near the Torgau (Germany), located on the Elbe River. Now this event is rightly called historical.
The advanced units of the 1st Ukrainian Front met with reconnaissance groups of the 5th Corps of the 1st American Army. As a result, the Nazi troops operating in northern Germany were cut off from the troops located in the southern part of the country.
The head of the Russian Military-Historical Society Vladimir Medinsky called the meeting on the Elbe an example of how human and political relations between the great powers in world history should be built.
An online conference timed to coincide with the anniversary brought together political scientists and historians from two countries. It replaced the in-person conference, which was supposed to take place in Torgau.
According to the scientific director of the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences of Russia Sergey Rogov, American historiography clearly calls the US contribution to the victory over fascism decisive. US historians in their writings on World War II are ready to partially share the victory with Great Britain, and the Soviet Union is “mentioned in passing”.
Russkiy Mir
