Harrowing photos of Minsk (capital of Belarus) under German occupation, WW2. During the war, 80% of houses were reduced to rubble. Source in comments.
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1byx7j7
by ArthRol
Harrowing photos of Minsk (capital of Belarus) under German occupation, WW2. During the war, 80% of houses were reduced to rubble. Source in comments.
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1byx7j7
by ArthRol
32 comments
By the way, is the comment with link here? I have heard that reddit shadowbans links leading to sites from Belarus
War is just awful.
What European capital hasn’t been violated by Russia?
Reminds me Kharkiv these days.And beloruZZins took part in it. So not worried about it at all.
And they have a russian puppet as their president right now, who is willing to do this to his own country…
And yet they are enabling one of their neighbours to do that to another.
Just to compare: Minsk was bombed by nazis 3 days (24-27.06.1941), there was about 1000 civil casualties in total. Mariupol was bombed and assaulted by r*zzians almost 2 months (24.02-20.05.2022). There was at least 20-22 thousands of killed civilians, and possibly up to 100 000; there was about 600 victims after theater bombing. Don’t forget about crimes of these f*king bloody b*stards.
Dejavu when I look at what national socialist Ruzzia is doing to Ukraine
I have a weird obsession with brutalist architecture. Following the war, it was rebuilt. Each Soviet leader had their own building type. Minsk is the most Stalinist city there is
Tbf it looked better than some Ukrainian cities right now. Like, there’s literally nothing standing.
Could’ve sworn one of the shots was Belgrade after Nazi bombing in ’41 or the Allied in ’44. But just shows how alike some things can look.
Looks like Gaza
It looks really scary
History does rhyme
Poland lost approximately 21% of its population. As a teen I was convinced it couldn’t get any worse, but then I read that Belarus lost 25% of its population. I’m at a loss for words to describe it. And we are talking about civilians mostly, not soldiers. Russia and Germany, or any foreign dictatorship for that matter, would target ‘skilled labour,’ to put it in modern terms aimed at crippling a country, for decades. After the Germans, came the Soviets, and they are still kind of there, in Belarus.
We need to support them (the people) when the opportunity presents itself.
Does anybody know what are the buildings in the 1st and 2nd image?
They had 2m casualties during ww2
I’ve seen the movie “Come and see” just recently. The level of violence committed by the nazis is incomprehensible. The stories from the survivor are so horrible, i don’t think our brain is capable to understand it.
I’m too naive or idealist, but i hope humanity will learn from all of this someday.
What’s the large white building on the first photo?
Didn’t read the headline. Thought it was Nagasaki or Hiroshima. Then I noticed the remaining architecture.
There is no big difference tbh
That’s what happens when you let Germans visit. This is why no-one else should have to visit Mallorca.
80% of the infrastructure was destroyed? Sounds like an awfully familiar number.
They’re the good guys now.
& now they’re assisting russia with their genocide of Ukrainian civilians…
Sääli ettei Saksa voittanut matsia.
iv’e seem worse
With the Marshall Plan USA spent about 13 billion dollars to rebuild most of westerns europe! Why? Well the Soviet couldn’t be the reason for it so they had to..
Oh hey, I actually used to live in one of the few surviving buildings in one of these photos!
The thought that I might never get the chance to visit our family’s apartment there ever again fills me with sadness…
Looks like Ukrainian cities under Russian occupation.
And then came the glorious Soviet union and destroyed what was left
Harrowing here but not harrowing in Gaza 🤔
what did they learn ?
” help Russians to do this to their neighbours, it was so cool when it was done to us “