Great Patriotic War: God cited a victory. Why does God admit wars and terrorism

World War II could be the latter. But the Russian revolution of 1917 laid the beginning of the tragic chain of events, once again put the world on the edge of the universal catastrophe. The monarchical principle in Europe was finally shaken, and the newly new democracies and the republic were too easily inclined to dictatorship. Leaders, Furera and Duchue, playing on the instincts of the crowd, easily threw it into battle in the name of this or that chimera. Against this background, the First World War became only a rehearsal of the formidable events of the future.

From the war do not leave

After February 1917, the Russian army rapidly lost its combat capability. The command had to abandon the Plan of Maritime Capture Bosphorus. The summer attack began under the "Marceles" ended with a shameful flight. Now Germany was able to transfer its best parts to the English-French Front.

After the conclusion of the Brest world with Soviet Russia, the Germans received control over the enormous territories rich in the food and raw material resources so necessary. The defeat of Russia allowed them to hold out until the end of 1918. The Versailles world could be much more hard for German and to turn it into a number of small states, which would eliminate the threat of a new global war, but due to the defeat of Russia, the winners could not achieve this.

Germany has retained its unity, and later the active recovery began. In this, she could rely on the USSR: both countries sought to get out of isolation and mutually beneficial cooperation.

Inevitable, after the prosperity of the 1920s, the Great Depression and the growing threat of Bolshevism in Eastern and Central Europe provoked in Germany the victory of Nazism. However, now it was no longer possible to create a new anthta against the Germans.

The world rapidly rushed to meet World War II. Italy and Japan this time performed on the side of Germany. France and Britain met new war In a much worse form than in 1914: as a result of victorious blitzkrig, the first ceased existence, and the second was driven into a deaf defense.

Winston Churchill not in vain called both world wars with one "new thirty-year-old war" 1914-1945. For our country, the Great Patriotic War became the inevitable rules for the revolution, but the trial was able to defeat the most terrible test, relying not to the Soviet ideology, and the values \u200b\u200bare much more significant - eternal.

In the first year and a half of the war, the loss of the Red Army killed, dead from the Russian Academy of Sciences and prisoners amounted to more than 5 million people (which has already exceeded the personnel number of the Republic of Red Army or the loss of the Russian army in the first world War). The territory was lost, at which about 40% of the country's population lived, there was an overwhelming part of the military industry, more than half of the coal and iron ore were mined, almost half of the grain was harvested. Leningrad - the "Cradle of the Revolution", which occurred the great post of 1917, after a quarter of a century after it was subjected to the Nazis the monstrous post-blockade.

Census of 1937: more than half of believers

In 1933-1938, the "godless five-year plan" thundered in the space of the Soviet country, during which the Russian Church as an organization was almost completely destroyed. But only as an organization: In 1937, a population census was held in the USSR, during which more than half of the population discovered themselves believers (as a result, the census materials were given publicity only after half a century).

By the beginning of World War II, only 4 bishops were in their departments: the Patriarchate Leningradsky Surgery (Santry), Metropolitan, Leningradsky Alexy (Simansky), and 2 of their Vicarius - Archbishops Dmitrovsky Sergius (Resurrection) and Peterhof Nikolai (Yarushevich).

However, with the beginning of the international conflict in 1939-1941. As part of the Russian Church, another 15 dioceses were formed - in the territories attached to the USSR and therefore did not experience two decades of persecution (Western Ukraine, Western Belarus, Baltic States, Moldova). True, in the first weeks of the Great Patriotic War, they were all in the occupation ...

The leadership of the Third Reich took a course on the restoration of religious life in its new territories, but intended to keep it under tight control and directly in favorable drill. However, the Nazis calculated.

The Bishop Cathedral In August 1941, a temporary church autonomy was created in the Pochaev Lavra, which was headed by Exarch Metropolitan Volyn Alexy (Gurga). The Germans could not achieve the creation of a separate Ukrainian church from the bishopath.

In October 1941, the Council of the Orthodox Church in Belarus was also held in Minsk on the initiative of the German administration, which set the proclamation of his own autocephaly dependent on the "recognition of it by all autochefal Orthodox churches." Thus, the church in the occupied territories retained a prayer connection with Moscow. In the occupation period, 33 departments were created in Ukraine, in Belarus, in the occupied regions of Russia and in Latvia.

On another line of the front, the events developed no less rapidly. Already on June 22, 1941, Metropolitan Sergius made a message in which these words were: "We will recall the Holy leaders of the Russian people, for example Alexander Nevsky, Dimitri Donskoy, who believed their souls for the people and their homeland. ... Church of Christ blesses all Orthodox to protect the sacred borders of our Motherland. The Lord gives us a victory. "

The famous appeal of Stalin dated July 3, 1941 with the words "Brothers and Sisters!" And the speech on November 7 was largely repetition of the Metropolitan Message. With the beginning of the war there was a sharp revival of church life and in the Soviet rear. Already in September 1941, the education of new dioceses began. In total, 27 new departments were created on the non-occupation of the territories during the war during the war. By the Day of Victory in the USSR, 10547 temples and 75 monasteries have already been operating (later this figure will be exceeded only in the 1990s).

Changes were distinctly affected and the warring army. On December 10, 1941, the Slogan "Proletarians of all countries, connect!". July 29, 1942, at the beginning Stalingrad battleThe day after the release of the famous Order No. 227 "Neither step back!" The Order of Alexander Nevsky, Suvorov and Kutuzov were established. Later, the Order of Glory was established, the tape of which had the colors of the St. George Cross (they were allowed to wear together). January 6, 1943, when the ring was already encountered around the 6th Army of Puulus, straps were introduced in the Red Army, which were unambiguously associated with the "old regime".

NKVD fixed army conversations: "Apparently, it is still done under the pressure of England and America or may be in order to raise the authority of the Red Army, since many nations, like Ukrainians and Belarusians, stopped love and trust her ... now All abide by the honor of the Russian military uniform. ... And maybe with the introduction of the shoulder, they will soon jump and eagle. " It was obvious one thing: the army could not exempt the Western territories of the USSR in the form that everyone was remembered as a symbol of retreat.

Rehabilitation of Russia: From the Patriarch title to the State Hymn

Since August 1943 after the Kursk battle, the Red Army (this name remained until 1946) developed a powerful offensive in Ukraine. Before winter, it was planned to force the Dnieper and free all right bank. It was these events that prompted allies to prepare the opening of the second front in Europe. In August, a decision was made on the first meeting of the highest leaders of the "Big Troika".

Throughout the autumn there was an intensive preparation of the Tehran Conference. As part of the strengthening of allied connections in the second half of September, Moscow was planned to visit Moscow by the Delegation of the Anglican Church headed by Archbishop York.

On the eve of the Kremlin activated its contacts with the Russian Church. On September 4, a famous meeting of Stalin with Metropolitans Sergius, Alexia and Nikolai took place. And on September 8, on the day of the statement of the Vladimir icon of the Mother of God, the bishop cathedral elected a new patriarch. The new patriarch title "Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia", judging by the minutes of the meeting with the head of state, was the initiative of Metropolitan Sergius itself.

In the title of the Former Patriarch - St. Tikhon - as well as the patriarchs of the XVI-XVII centuries, "All Russia" was. However, its use was hampered by the fact that Russia was formally only one of the 16 Union republics (RSFSR). As a result, a new canonical concept of "Rus" appeared, which included the whole territory of the USSR, except Georgia, where there was its own local church (at the same time, on November 19, 1943, the communication of the Russian and Georgian church was restored, interrupted in 1917).

Conserved since 1943 in the Patriarch title The concept of "Russia" means not only the territory Russian Federation, but the entire canonical territory of the Moscow Patriarchate.

On May 15, 1943, the Comintern was eliminated - the ghost of the world revolution was eliminated. The former Soviet anthem "INTERNATIONAL" also received a resignation. In the summer of 1943, a competition for the text of a new hymn was announced. Dozens of famous authors competed, but Stalin stopped at the version of Sergey Mikhalkov, in which the same word was present as in the very approved Patriarch title - "Rus".

In October, the decision was actually already accepted. Mikhalkov recalled his joint work with the city of El Registan: "We had to hear from the fellow in Peru, which was not worth it in the Soviet anthem to use the word" Russia ", because this concept is archaic, the oldest and today sounds dying. But it seemed to us that this word was significantly, in a timely manner, and perhaps it was it that attracted the attention of Stalin. "

On January 1, 1944, the new anthem first sounded on the radio: "Union of the unrealistic republics of free rallied forever Great Rus."

According to the special services, the anthem was perceived positively. As reported Stalin, the head of the main artillery management of the Red Army General-Colonel Yakovlev responded as follows: "Abroad, it will be regarded as a step back as the concession to the allies, and in fact it is not. After all, how many such steps we did for war: the commissars were eliminated - nothing happened, even better began to fight, the general officer ranks introduced, the epaulets were put on everything - discipline strengthened. His Holiness Synod created, the Patriarch was chosen, the Comintern was dissolved and finally canceled the "International", and all this is on the benefit of the Motherland. "

Head of the Intelligence Department of the Belarusian Front General Major Temmazov said: "The new text of the hymn teaches to love their homeland, the Fatherland specifically, and not at all. He adds the meaning of the concept of debris and most importantly, that Soviet Union Slotil the Great Rus. "

Head of the Main Directorate of the Engineering and Aviation Service of the Motaev Air Force: "Finally remembered about the Great Rus, and then, after all, it was completely forgotten. From the Russian lexicon, this word was crossed out. It was a big mistake. The basis of our state from which the Soviet Union arose was Russia. On this basis and need to bring up. This word creates large traditions in which we need so much. "

And the special correspondent of the Aviation Aviation newspaper "Red Falcon" Major Goledev declared even so: "This is the collection of roughly rhymed slogans, in which there is no strength and beauty, as in the monarchical hymn" God, King Gran. ".

Easter victory

The last major battles of the Second World War in Europe are raised on the passionate sadmice when Berlin was taken. In 1945, Orthodox Easter coincided with the holiday of the Great Martyr George Victorious May 6.

On this day, the headquarters of Western allies in Reims began negotiations on the surrender of the German troops. At night, the capitulation was signed, but at the request of the Soviet side in two days (on the night of May 9) a new signing was held with the participation of official representatives of the USSR. So the country has gained victory day - his civil pass.

New Western borders approved by the Potsdam Conference as a whole corresponded to those who were discussed in Russian state circles after Russia's entry into the first world war: the accession of Galicia, Ugorskaya Rus (Transcarpathia), Bukovina, East Prussia, the weakening of Germany, the restoration of Poland in ethnographic borders . The same principles were implemented in the east of the country.

In appealing to the Soviet people on the occasion of the end of World War II on September 2, 1945, Stalin said: "The defeat of the Russian troops in 1904 during the period russian-Japanese war He left the consciousness of the people serious memories. It fell on our country with a black spot. Our people believed and waited that the day would come when Japan would be broken and the stain would be eliminated. Forty years waited for us, the people of the old generation, of this day. And so, this day has come. "

Foreign Minister V.K. Molotov later recalled: "After the war, the USSR card was brought to the cottage of Stalin in the new borders - a small, as for a school textbook. Stalin jacked with the buttons on the wall:

"Let's see what happened to us ... in the north we are all right, ok. Finland before us was very guilty, and we moved the border from Leningrad. Baltic states are the original Russian land! - Ours, our Belarusians now live together, Ukrainians together, Moldovans together. In the West is normal. - and immediately moved to the eastern borders. - What are we here? .. Our Kuril Islands Now, Sakhalin is completely ours, see how good! And our Port Arthur, and our distant, - Stalin spent a pipe in China, and our CERE. China, Mongolia - everything is in order ... Here I do not like our border here! " Said Stalin and showed the south of the Caucasus. " Small Asia, Constantinople and straits did not give rest ...

Speech here, of course, is not about some "rehabilitation of the leader." He acted cruelly, pragmatic and in the interests of preserving his own power. However, it is worth remembering that even the Soviet system with its powerful state machine and the repressive apparatus from the Russian and Orthodox tradition was impossible to leave - it ultimately turned out to be stronger.

I am local, born in Vditsko. We have a lot of water: both the lake, and the River Ravan, where neither a shock, water appears. From the water and the name went. Big was the village, ancient, in 127 yards. Houses on both sides of the road stood five-lane, embarrassed. The chapel is beautiful with the icons of ancient, the fencing of blue, the knotted knobs; The linden circle grew centenary. The fence in the war was demolished when the pits under the graves of Tolly exploded. Deaders in the chapel row, like firewood, folded: a lot of them were going - not to consider ...

The highway was not - Him after the war, the captive Germans were packed, and the road itself - from Lyuban in the meadow from the royal times it takes. In 1941, there was a whole pillar from her: who is with Lyuban, who is on love with Kotomki wanders ...

In the area (3 kilometers from us) Lesopunkt before the war was, the forest railway Send. Further, in the horns - peat-enterprises: Tesovo-1, Tesovo-2, the hydrotorf mined. Over the hinking in the 41st women did a lamb against a tank band 50 meters. There were a depth of 3 meters deep, only the tanks did not go there.

In August, our troops reached out from mega. Tired, torn, wounded. Then the Germans appeared. We did not stop, the forests were afraid, in Crivino and New village. Solded.

My husband has worked my firefighter on the railway. How trains have stopped walking, went to the partisans. The three times came home, the cereal, sugar brought. The boy is our two year old, and the girl is just a month ...

In January, we began to step. According to Crivino, they were given a volley "Katyush" - took the village. We made an airfield, two sentences in the cemetery put. In the houses, the hospital was located, wounded wounded carts.

Bombed German strongly, almost every day. One bomb next to us fell, my launcher burned. The funnel still did not overgrown, water from it draws a garden to water.

In winter, the title began. Collected typhus in one house, from there - to the chapel. Many people from Typha dumped ... Then the hospital was transferred to the forest, put the tents, they were not so bombed in the forest.

Spring has become bad with food. The supplies are over, but there is no delivery. The aircraft will reset someone when canned or crackers in a paper bag, another time we will tear the hearts ... one "coroba" residents in Tyodue-Lake, after the war, have been found, the tail was scolded: for 1 kilogram of aluminum 75 kopecks paid.

In my house soldiers lived, the children regretted, shared until it was. I am a tear right in the rag and give a girl to suck. And when the sacker will give a piece ...

In May, it was completely impossible. Shelling is continuous. Three nights in the bushes spent the night. The army order for the retreat came out, and we were ordered to move along with the army.

There is nothing to do, collected children and went. On the rank to the horns of the Dotopali, and there the forest to the meat boro moved. Further there was no passage, and we were a month in the shala in the forest. How they survived - one God knows all the grass as it is, and the leaves of the leaves.

On some day, the soldiers said: "We will break through." One soldier helped me: I took the Vitak on my shoulders. God forbid him health, if it is still alive ... And I tied the girl to myself and went with everyone on the floor. What was done there - not to pass! Shooting from all sides, smoke, roar. Nyusha Mina's neighbor in Klochery soldered ... The forest burned like a bonfire, and it was necessary to go through it. In this fire from Sarafan, some straps remained, and yet somehow came out. I am surprised I am surprised that the children remained and thanks to the soldier, saved. In the small V.Masher got out, and there was no such horror and the Germans.

From our few people through the meat boring passed, the majority in the village returned and buried from hunger. And we can see God helped.

"... circumstances were so dangerous that the boat commander built the entire crew, asked:" Nikolai did not consider himself a believer, but when he went to the service, the mother blessed his icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker. He told the commander about it. He ordered to immediately bring the icon and stand on her knees, and then asked: "Pray, as you can. Hope no longer anyone "..."

Miracles in the history of Russia - the case was during the first Chechen campaign ... - Help Nicholas in the years of war - the salvation of the pilot - Hope is no longer anyone - the salvation of the soldier - Russian Madonna - the Virgin Saved residents of the Belarusian village - Psalm Power 90 (live in the help of Vyshnya ) - Gospel in Slavic

The wonderful facts of salvation are not only individuals, but also the whole nations, the story knows the great set, but why doesn't know about them? The answer may be only one: "Because they do not want to know." Is it currently closed access to the most diverse information? Is it for reading, the books of the Holy Scripture subjected to persecution? Is it for the right to analyze and compare historical evidence and irrefutable facts put in prison? No, no and NO. People prefer to scratch into television screens, read the "lightweight" press, devotion to the scurrus's bread. But the facts, as they say, the thing is stubborn.

For example, the most famous historical fact Rescue Rus from Haling of the Unbesed Tamerlane, which occurred on September 8, 1395. Who stopped then under Yel, numerous, as sea sand, the troops of the great chrome, who did not know the one of the uniform defeat? No, not a small princely army of Vasily Dmitrievich, the son of Dimitri Donsky, not a national militia and not Russian frosts and a dissolve.

It is clearly said, both in the Russian and Tatar chronicles about the woman who appeared in the vision of the Tamerlan women in the crimson clothes, who had led him to immediately remove the ravis, that he hurried to do. This woman and today is referred to as the Mother of God, and the event is annually and solemnly marked Russian Orthodox ChurchAs the day of the celebration of the Vladimir icon of the Mother of God, whom Russian people prayed to the Grand Duke and Metropolitan then very diligently. This oldest icon has been preserved for descendants in the original, and is located in the Temple at the Tretyakov Gallery.

The abbot of this temple, speaking a couple of years ago by Radonezh radio, complained: "Why, even on this day, the icon of Muscovites do not go bow?".

Waiting for its o'clock, deep comprehensive research and a wide publication of the event related to the most important periods of modern domestic history: Crimean, Russian-Japanese, First World War, Great Patriotic War, both Chechen campaigns, which are based on the spiritual population. Caspepovskaya, Port Arthurskaya, Peschanskaya, Avgustovskaya, Kazan, Holy Cross Icons of the Mother of God could tell about it.

Do not leave us with your prayers and saints. Until today, the miracles and signs that are observing us. Often they concern our host.

…It was during the first Chechen campaign. The group of our military personnel, resting in the abandoned Chechen house, as if from under the ground, unnoticed by the watch was some granny in a white handkerchief. "Urgently run out of my son outside, now the house will explode!" - she said strictly. As soon as soldiers managed to jump into the courtyard, as a strong explosion thundered. For a long time, the fighters searched for the ruins of the old woman who saved them their lives, but she rushed into the water. Yes, and strange, how could the Russian granny in the Chechen village appear?

I found her one of the fighters, only when safely returned from Chechnya home. Found in the temple by learning that the "old woman" in the icon of the St. Petersburg, the famous trustee and the intercession of many Russian people on the icon - Blessed Ksenia.

... on the night before performing the task of participating in the liberation of the city of Grozny in January 2000, the commander of one of the assault groups of the 15th regiment of the Guards Taman Division Major Anton M. Maicately prayed to God on the successful implementation of the combat mission. Raister, he saw his spiritual father, the famous Moscow priest Fyodor Sokolova, who argued about something with a wondrous gray-working elder.

At four in the morning, the assault began, during which in the Major group no fighter was even wounded, despite the fierce resistance of militants. All his soldiers were believers, each in addition to the cross on his chest, the forehead was tied by the belt with the words of the 90th Psalm: "Live in help ...".When in one of his soldiers, the fighter focused on the machine from the machine, then the bullet, only taped her head, went aside, leaving the soldier's forehead - only ordinary cones. Soon from the letter of the mother, the officer learned that his spiritual father was tragically died at that very night, giving his life for his spiritual chad, Russian soldiers. And the gray-row old man was surprisingly similar to St. Nicholas Wonderworker.

... In Trinity-Sergiye Lavra, armored steel door is kept from the ship's temple of one of the ships of the Imperial Fleet, the cruiser "Dimitri Donskaya", which received damage and sunken in one of the marine battles with the Japanese in 1904. On the door - the icon of the Saint Great Martyr and the warrior Dimitria Solunsky.

This steel door has surfaced (!) On the surface of the sea and swam among the waves, after the ship sank into the sea. After all, everyone, everyone knows that iron is heavy and in water sinks and can not swim! The door was taken ashore in a few days Chinese fishermen. How this steel door, weighing more than two pounds could be seeded from the ship and not only to emerge, but also swim in the water?

"Why don't these miracles happen everywhere," a business question of skeptics may follow, "you look, so everything would sure." But a miracle is because it is called a miracle, which is happening contrary to all the laws known to us, and is not amenable to studying. And it remains a miracle, while it is able to shake and surprise, without becoming a common phenomenon. You will not surprise anyone now with a TV, a computer. And years, so, 50 years ago, how would they be called?

Need to accept the miracle also faith. " By faith you, let you"," Says the Lord! In one evangelical parable, the died and feasting rich asks the born, the plaque of Abraham to send to His living on Earth with five brothers staying with Abraham in the heavenly abylls of a familiar beggar lazar, so that he would convince them to change her sinful and slit life. " They have prophets; let them listen to- answers his righteous. - And if who and their dead rose, will not believe" (Gospel from Luke, 16: 19-31) a terrible sentence to a person who lost one of the main gifts of God, the ability to believe.

... When a group of special forces, leaving those who pursued them on the heels of Dushmanov, finally gave out of the forces and the commander decided to take the battle, there were practically no chance of staying alive. Cartridges ended, there was no connection to cause turntables and medicines, to assist the wounded. The exhausted fighters, taking a circular defense, getting ready to accept the last fight, began to say goodbye and ask for forgiveness from each other. Request sincere, non-classno, with all souls. There was a complete submission of God and faith into it. And a miracle happened! Dress, who knew these mountains, as their five fingers, passed just a few meters from our warriors, without noticing them.

This case is described by the writer Viktor Nikolaev, a former military pilot, Major of the reserve, Afghan veterans in his book "Live in Help". His life itself indicates a miracle. During the most complex operation on the trepanitation of the skull, only a few moments who gave him the Lord, saved him life: the pebblenic was the size of a chicken egg himself burst across a second after he was removed by the surgeon. All this time, his spouse prayed in front of the operating doors, his spouse was prayed, silently reading the 90th psalm and praying God: "Heal of Lord's slave of God Victor, but not as I ask, but how are you!"

Help Nicholas in the years of war

The case was at the end of the war, when our troops stood before the fortified area of \u200b\u200bEast Prussia. Then the saint Nikolai came and commanded serving prayers before the start of the assault, warning that otherwise, many warriors would die because of disbelief, and the city would not take.

But our chiefs did not obey the testiments, many thousands of military warriors were taught there, and the fortifications were not taken. Only when the Poles approached and, having learned about the phenomenon of St., asked the priests to serve prayers, the fortified area was taken by our troops together with the army of Polish.

I heard about this case. But my meeting with the saint occurred under such circumstances.

In the spring of 1945, we prepared for the offensive, and our mortar division was moving towards the front line. By night, we approached some selenium, put the sentries. I went to check the posts, then walked away from the road, looked at the sky - and stopped as the inspected. Slavic letters came in the sky, which could not even read, because he did not know the Slavic language, disassembled only the word "God." It was some kind of insight, I thought about the meaning of being, about how to live to the end of the war, about what I expects - and so stood all night, not noticing time.

In the morning I went to the German house, recently abandoned by the owners. The furnace was natoplane, the beds are clean. I was sorry for the owners of the house, you probably have been hidden somewhere nearby. I really wanted to sleep, and I decided to get on the sofa to not mine bed. He took off his boots and only facilitated how the old man entered the room - Russian with sight, a good, in simple clothes. I decided that this is one of the Russian prisoners or exported to work to Germany and was surprised, were they really hijacked on work? Asked him: "You're from, grandfather, and how did you get here?" The old man answered like this: "You thought about the meaning of life and about death - tomorrow you will meet with her face to face, but you will not die, and you will later serve me. Until the end of the war, no bullet touches you - on the prayers of your mother. "

Then the old man began to expose me to sins, remembered my whole life. I reproached me that I did not fulfill the promises given by this mother, did not take place, but only he had examined, going to the front. "For this, you will not see her for a long time." - he said. He was replicated and Russian soldiers for disgrace, for foul language, said they would be severely punished by God».

The elder stood, and I sat on the sofa. At the end of the conversation, I asked: "What is your name, grandfather?" And leaned to wear boots. When I raised my head - there was no one in the house. I went home, looked at the wardrobe, then asked for hours, was there anyone in the house and didn't you go out? The hourly answered that he did not see anyone.

And the next day I really saw the death face to face. I went to the headquarters, pounded the machine over my shoulder. On the way I saw somehow sprung on the road. Surprised who could be there - our troops around there, and decided to come closer. When approached closer, Obomlel: German adjustments were in the shelter. Of course, all the trunks are posted on me, it was too late for the machine - I still do not have time. The commander pulled them out a gun, gave a sign so that the rest would not shoot and began to aim. Then I changed the direction of movement and began to remove from them, waiting for a shot every moment. Still thought: "Not so death is terrible as captivity, they can twist me." The whole life was then in front of me, the muscles became like stone, it seemed that they would never end these minutes, while she was under the gun directed in the back. When I went for the nearest hill, I collapsed to the ground, I thought that I was injured, but it turned out, from nervous tension. The Germans never fired. Then he reported that we had adjustments in the rear, but the Germans managed to leave and I was satisfied, because they did not touch me.

Then I gave a promise - to confess and coming up after the war, it would be guided with my wife and, which I can, serve God.

Three days later I found out that the Metropolitan of the Mountains of the Lebanese Elijah arrived in Livanrad and that tomorrow he will serve in the Nicho-Epiphany Cathedral. On November 9, after the end of Liturgy, Metropolitan Elija presented the church to the part of the relics of St. Nicholas, which to this day is in the old temple image of the saint. In a brief word, Vladyka announced the goal of his arrival at His Holy Peter - to tell the residents of him about how Russia was saved by the intercession of the Mother of God last war. "

Years have passed. And fulfilling the promise given to the saint, I became a priest.

Salvation flyer

A former military pilot told about how during the Great Patriotic War I was saved by Saint Nikolai. The mother of this pilot was a believer, and the son was far from the church, but she got tortured when the parent sewed him in military form Some kind of medallion.

To fight the pilot was in the north. Once, in battle, his plane was knocked out, and he jumped with a parachute, but still was doomed to death. He could not drown, since he was with a rescue belt, but the water temperature in the Barents Sea was so low that death would come from the cold in a couple of hours, and the shore did not see one empty sea around. Suddenly he heard splashed husked. Watching: A small boat sails to him, in it - an old man who not only dragged the pilot into his boat, but also brought to the shore, arranged on the hillock, from where the lights were visible, so rarely occurring in the north of the village.

And from there, people already hurried to help. The pilot warmed up, fed and were very surprised how he could get to the coast. There was no boat on the shore, an old man, about whom the pilot told, also disappeared somewhere. But when the pilot began to warm up and remove wet underwear, they found the medallion stitched in it. I looked at the pilot to the image - and with great surprise - I learned the old man who saved his old man. It was the icon of St. Nicholas, who his mother prayed for the help of his son and he returned from the front alive.

Hope no longer for whom

Nikolay served on a submarine. Once it happened misfortune, something serious happened to the devices and the boat, having lost control, could not care. The circumstances were so dangerous that the boat commander built the entire crew, asked: " Believers are there? Two steps forward. " Nikolai did not consider himself a believer, but when he went to the service, the mother blessed his icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker. He told the commander about it.

He ordered to immediately bring the icon and stand on her knees, and then asked: "Pray, as you can. Hope no longer anyone. " The boat surfaced, and the former sailor Nikolai now serves in the church in Vologda.

Saving a soldier

In Soviet times, we brought up in the spirit of militant atheism and skeptically treated the stories about the wonders that took place with people who lived next to us. When Mom told what happened to my grandfather during the war, I took it as an entertaining fairy tale and only once believed in the authenticity of what happened.

In the first world war, the grandfather fought with a regimental reconnaissance. He fought bravely, but never even easily wounded. Once they were transferred across the river by boats for two people each, and horses tied to boats floated on the sides. In the middle of the river, one of the horses tied to the boat, in which my grandfather was located, began to fight, hitting the whirlpool. The boat overturned - and grandfather with a partner was in the water. Although grandfather sailed well, but strong whirlpool tightened him, and he went to the bottom.

Going to the bottom, grandfather realized that, everything, death came - not to get to him! And desperately prayed to God: " Lord! How many fought - neither scratching! And how stupid it is necessary to die now, and so I want to live! " And here, suddenly, where neither take - two old old women appeared in white clothes. One of them and says: - Well, another Christian soul was praised. Other, responds: - Yes no, he is still early here to be. After these words, the grandfather immediately found himself near the coast, where colors were pulled out of the water. One of those old people was Nicholas Wonderworker, and the fact that he is the Savior on the Waters, I learned already as an adult.

Russian Madonna

This stunning case is remembered by all in the warves, where my son Peter serves in the Assumption Monastery in Belarus.

When the Germans stood in the Great Patriotic War in the monastery, in one of the temples made a warehouse of weapons. The head of this warehouse was amazed when I saw a woman who suddenly appeared, dressed as a nun, and strictly said in German: -

He wanted to grab her - did not succeed. She went to the church - and he went behind her. It was amazed that it was not anywhere. I saw, I heard that I went to the temple, - but there was no one in itself, even strained. He reported to his commander, and he says: - these are partisans, they are so clever! If it appears again - take!

Gave him two soldiers. They waited - waited, and saw how she came out again, again the same demanding words says the head of the military warehouse: - Leave from here, otherwise you will be bad ...

And goes back to church. The Germans wanted to take it - but they could not even move to the place that the magnificent. When she disappeared behind the doors of the temple - they rushed after her, but again they could not find. Zavskladov again reported to his commander, he gave the soldier two more and said:

- If it appears, then shoot on the legs, just do not kill - we will interrogate it.

Lovers are so! And when they met for the third time, they started shooting their legs without warning. The bullets beat exactly on the feet, on the mantle, and she, as she went, and goes, and the blood is not visible anywhere, nor a drop. The man would not stand such automatic queues - immediately fell. Then they frightened. Reported to the commander, and he says: - It is probably Russian Madonna ...

So the Germans called the Queen of Heaven. Then they understood the Germans who commanded them to leave the desecrated temple in her monastery. I had to clean the German warehouse with weapons from the temple. The Mother of God defended his victim to the Assumption Monastery and from bombing. When our planes threw bombs into the German units, located in the monastery, the bombs fell, but none exploded in the territory.

And then, when the fascists were driven and Russian soldiers were located in the monastery, the German pilot, twice the bombing this territory, saw that bombs fell accurately, and exploded everywhere, except for the monastery territory.

When the war ended, this pilot specially came to the monastery in order to understand that this territory is such that for the place, such a special, which he bombed twice, especially tried to bomb the second time - and never one bomb dropped at the monastery - Did not explode. And the place is gracious. It is a nasty, here the Lord did not allow that this island of faith was destroyed. And if we were all real believers - then our whole Mother Russia, Ukraine and Belarus - would live calmly and well, and no bomb took us, no! And "bombs" with a spiritual index - porn, vulgarity and violence on television and the Internet - too, would not harm.

The Mother of God saved the inhabitants of the Belarusian village

Residents of the village of Rozhkovka in September 1942 almost repeated the fate of the infamous hutney. June 22, 1941 - the beginning of one of the most bloody warrior. Neotovaya for the confrontation of Belarus quickly occupied the fascists. However, the territory covered with forests, villages and swamps was ideal for partisan struggle.

The Germans, which were limited to a long partisan confrontation, against which they could not do anything, decided to eliminate the support of the partisans - destroying the villages along with the inhabitants. The victim of such a punitive action and became Khatyn, as well as 186 Belarusian villages. In September 1942, the village of Rozhkovka Kamenetsky District, the Germans were also sentenced to burn. The village was surrounded by the troops, and the inhabitants were demolished into a pit for execution. A little more and sentence would be pursuant. How suddenly a German plane landed on the field. The German Major got out of it and demanded to stop the execution for 4 hours. After the specified time, the mysterious pilot returned with pardon in his hands. A few hours later, the whole village found out the cause of his wonderful salvation.

As it turned out, during the flight, the German pilot directly in the sky - the Virgin Mary of Virgin Mary in the blue robe and silently, the power movement ordered him to go down and stop the execution of innocent people. Major was frightened, landed on the field next to the village - canceled the shooting of villagers.

And after another time, the Lick of the Virgin, which he saw in the sky was brought. The story is now inherited. In memory of all those who died during the Liphethey on the Rozhkovsky field, a memorial sign was established. And the savior itself is now at the most honorable place in the rural church in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. For 66 years, the icon of God's mother Rozhkovsky has not changed. The paints are the same bright, but those who want to worship the shrine every year becomes more and more.

PSalm Power 90 (Live in Help)

When I was small, I was told this case. Thank God, I always remember about it. It was during the Great Patriotic War, then they took all the men to the front. Ivan Ivan from our village. They were brought to the formation in Echelon from Ivanovo in Yaroslavl.

Guys in the train in the wagons who did what they did, who saw wine, who played in the card, and he went out in the Vagon Tambour and began to read the "live in the help of Vysnyago." Suddenly, German aircraft and began to bomb the train. All echelon bombed. He does not remember how he found himself on earth and stayed alive and unharmed. Many, very much then people died. And Ivan after this bombing returned home, and he was no longer taken to the front, he remained to work in a collective farm, where almost all his life worked in a barn. Valery

Gospel in Slavic

One soldier spoke about his appeal to God during the war. In one of the battles, he was contused and stayed on earth. When I woke up, I saw the picture hitting his picture: a woman was walking on the field with two warriors in ancient armor. Warriors had bowls in their hands. The woman took something out of the bowl and invests in the mouth of some of the soldiers lying on Earth. It came to the wounded, and he has no strength to rise, wants to shout, and can not.

"And this coward," the woman said and went further. It is not clear where his strength came from, raised and shouted: - I'm not a coward, help.

"Let's see," the woman replied, find the Gospel in Slavic and always won't be with himself - then returned home alive.

Our troops have already moved away, and he had to be selected from the environment. In the near village, he found the gospel in the thrown house in Slavic language and hid it on his chest. When he left the environment, naturally came to the penalty kick and almost until the end of the war fought with the fines. The gospel sewed into clothes and constantly wore with him. In which alterations did not visit, the finnish were sent to the most hopeless places, in breakthroughs, etc.

It happened that after the fight remained alive half of the division - and he among them; It happened, four remained among them, and it happened that he was alive only alone. And yet passed on the roads of war to victory and alive returned home.

According to the results of the Second World War, many states, including winning countries, suffered serious losses. The winnings were only financial and industrial corporations, for which the most destructive war in the history of the war turned out to be a real golden residential.

"Frederich Krupp"

The German dynasty of Kruppov has always played a crucial role in the economy of German militarism. Therefore, the Versailles, concluded according to the results of the First World War, became for the Gustav of the Truck of the real tragedy. The coming to power of the Nazis not only returned the leading opportunities to the croup, but also revived the hopes for the establishment of unlimited monopolies.
In the years of the formation of the German military machine, Friedrich Krupp incomes grew rose as on yeast. Forcing the military industry during the period of the Third Reich gave Germany a powerful impetus, thanks to which she today ranks second in the world after the United States for the production of steel.
The son of aging Gustav Kruple Alfred, having learned in the late 1930s about the plans of Himmler to create concentration camps, invested in this project huge funds. For him, the camps were primarily not the factors of death, and the sources of profits that were settled in his pockets through the use of the labor of prisoners. Alfred Krupp was the owner of 10 concentration camps, it was at the box office of Kruppa received salaries camp warders and guards.
By the time of Germany, Alfred Krupp approached all the way: huge amounts of money in the currency were reliably resting in Swiss banks, documents that are denouncing it in relations with the Nazis, destroyed, and the plants were transferred under the protection of the American Military Police.

Siemens.

The military-industrial boom did not bypassed the "House of Siemens", whose steering wheel stood the third son of the founder of the famous firm. Plants that produced eclectric equipment, including radar systems with overview scan, supplied with its products an army, naval and merchant fleet of Germany. In addition to the hired workers at the Siemens plants, prisoners of concentration camps, prisoners of war and Ostarabeers, who allowed to make a family business as profitable as possible.

Standard Oil

One of the largest concerns of Germany Ig Farbenindustrie, who was the main sponsor of the Hitler's election campaign, was controlled by the American oil company Standard Oil belonging to Rockefellers. Even when the United States joined the Second World War, Standard Oil continued to cooperate with the Nazis, regularly supplying them to be merged and continuing to receive dividends. Only investments in the German economy were invested in the amount of 120 million dollars.

GENERAL ELECTRIC.

Another American company managed to catch up in war, managed by the Morganov clan, in 1946 was fined the US government for unworthy behavior. Together with the Krupp General Electric Corporation, deliberately overestimated prices for tungsten carbide, which was vital material for mechanical processing of metals necessary for the needs of the front. A fine of 36 thousand dollars was insignificant compared to $ 1.5 million, obtained as a result of fraud.

American banks

In the 1990s, the French government commission investigating the seizures of Jewish values \u200b\u200band bills during World War II, five American banks took part in the plot: Chase Manhattan, J.P Morgan, Guaranty Trust Co. Of New York, Bank of the City of New York and American Express.
Especially active was Chase Bank, which greatly corrected his affairs after the "Crystal Night" - the pogrom of the Jews of Austria and Germany, which occurred in 1938. Later, the bank froze the accounts of French Jews in the occupied France.
One of the main holders shares Chase Bank John Rockefeller directly financed Eugenic Nazis experiments. In the period between 1936 and 1941, Chase together with other American banks helped the Germans to get over 20 million in dollar terms. Banks earned on a deal more than $ 1.2 million, of whom Halmillion put himself in his chase pocket.

Swiss banks

Gitler's ambitious plans were generously funded by American and British bankers and Swiss banks performed in this. It was this circumstance that allowed the little Switzerland to stay away from the drama played in the European fronts.
Over the years of World War II, Reich leaders have invested in Swiss banks of gold in the amount of 15 billion Reichsmarocks - more than $ 40 billion at the modern rate. These were, first of all, the gold reserves of the occupied countries, as well as confiscated property. Concentration camps served as a separate source of gold arrivals, from where hundreds of kilograms of gold crowns were supplied.
Also, the Nazis were sold in Switzerland a picture of not interesting Rehi with current views of art. The Swiss dealer Gansu Vendland, for example, they sold 28 paintings of impressionists, in return by receiving one picture of Rembrandt and two tapestries of the XVI century. The paintings received from the German authorities, among whom were works by Van Gogh, Renoara, Coro, the Swiss has fully implemented.

Nestle

In 2000, a conditionally Swiss company Nestle was obliged to pay almost 15 million dollars in compensation to Jewish organizations. These are pennies in comparison with the capital that the company screamed during the war years. Nestle favorably levied the American army tons of soluble coffee, due to the overproduction of which Brazil suffered.
This popular company was admitted not so long that in 1947 she acquired a company that during the war years used forced labor. "There is no doubt, or it can be assumed that some corporations from the Nestle group who operated in countries that controlled the national socialist regime were exploited by sub-ministers," they stated in the company.
It is known that in 1939 in Switzerland Nestle provided financial assistance to the Nazi party, winning the profitable contract for the supply of chocolate for the needs of the entire German army during World War II.

Fanta.

The Fanta trade brand known for the whole world is obliged to their birth of Nazi Germany. When, after the start of the war with imports of ingredients for Kola, there were problems, the Coca-Cola manager in Germany, Max Kite, was able to quickly reorient. Its technologists managed to create a formula of a delicious chemical drink, which could be produced for Germans based on available materials.
1941 became the Debut of Phanti on the German market. The efforts of Kite on the uninterrupted work of the Coca-Cola division throughout the war allowed the company to receive significant profits, and after the end of the war, the German branch of the American company returned to the spread of Coca-Cola among American soldiers stationed in Europe.

USA

According to many experts, despite the huge expenses incurred during the war, the United States has largely won. So, the profits of American corporations rose from $ 6.4 billion in 1940 to $ 10.8 billion in 1944. President of General Motors Corporation Charles Wilson once put it: "What is good for General Motors, good and for the United States, and vice versa."
Thanks to the income of military-industrial corporations, the American post-war economy experienced a real boom.
But the United States is enriched with another way. So, after the defeat of Poland, Germany, the Government of the country was taken out a gold and coating reserve, which ultimately found himself in France. From France, Polish gold in the company with Belgian, Dutch, Norwegian and actually french gold reserves flew to Dakar, where it was expropriated by the Americans.
It is known that the gold reserve of the French National Bank was $ 2 billion. 477 million dollars, the Norwegian reserves were estimated at 84 million dollars.
In addition, owners of firms and individuals in Europe preferred to translate their savings in American banks as the most secure place. If in October 1939 in the US Federal Reserve system kept gold in the amount of $ 17 billion, then by February 1940, this amount increased by a whole billion (1 dollar 1940 is approximately 25 modern).
With the beginning of the active phase of war in Europe, the influx of gold intensively increased. Only from 10 to 14 May 1940, gold arrived in the amount of 46 million dollars in the United States, and after France was doomed, another 500 million dollars arrived in US banks.

Sweden

During the war years, Sweden was able to increase the golden stock through the trade of iron with Germany. For example, in 1939, 70 percent of the Swedish gland and 50 percent of iron ore went to Germany. With the beginning of the war, the share of Sweden in German import only increased.
In addition, Germany could not do without the production of the Swedish SKF concern, which produced bearings for military equipment.
The total price of the benefits of Sweden from trade with Reich can be estimated at 10 billion modern dollars. In the future, these capital have become a material database of reforms that led to the construction of Swedish socialism.

Portugal

This Pyrenean State took a very profitable geographical positionThat allowed her to contact with the UK, and with the countries of continental Europe. Presenting trade services, both allies on the anti-Hitler coalition and the countries of Portugal's axis managed to increase its gold reserve from $ 63 million in 1938 to $ 438 million in 1946.
The republic had huge tungsten reserves, without which the production of high-quality steel is unthinkable. It is not surprising that both the Germans and the British tried to buy him to the maximum, as a result of which the prices for metal were constantly growing.