On April 25th 1980, during the Iran hostage crisis, an American helicopter crashed into a transport plane and caught fire. Eight American soldiers and one Iranian civilian were killed.

　On April 25th 1980, during the Iran hostage crisis, an American military helicopter crashed and caught fire after colliding with a transport plane. As a result, the fire destroyed both aircraft, killing eight American soldiers and one Iranian civilian. The bodies of those who died in the fire were scattered around the wreckage of the two aircraft.

　The American military operation to free the hostages at the American embassy on April 25th 1980 was a complete failure. A commando unit of the American military departed from an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf in eight helicopters. They were scheduled to meet up with a transport plane at a predetermined point in the Iranian desert. Two of the helicopters had already encountered technical problems on the way, forcing the operation to be suspended. After the rescue operation was suspended and refueled, the helicopter crashed and caught fire at around 2:40 p.m. after colliding with the transport plane.

　As a result, the fire destroyed both aircraft, killing eight American soldiers and one Iranian civilian. Five of the 14 American Air Force crew members on board the EC-130 and three of the five American Marine Corps crew members on board the RH-53D and three of the five US Marine Corps crew members on board the RH-53D were killed. The EC-130 was a single-engine light utility helicopter, while the RH-530 was a heavy transport helicopter family. Furthermore, as soon as the rescue operation was known to Iran, the hostages at the US embassy were dispersed to secret locations in Iran.

　The Iran Hostage Crisis began on November 4th 1979, when around 3,000 militant Iranian students stormed the American Embassy in Tehran and took nearly 60 American diplomats hostage. On September 22, 1980, Iraq invaded Iran, and the Iran-Iraq War broke out. In the US presidential election on November 4, 1980, President Jimmy Carter suffered a landslide defeat. The American embassy hostages were freed on January 20th 1981, just a few minutes after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as President of the United States. They had been held hostage for approximately 444 days.

 

In June 1941, the Germans executed the Greeks who had resisted in the Battle of Crete by shooting them. The death penalty prisoners were killed instantly by a single shot. The Cretan civilians who had weapons threw themselves into the battle. Many Greek civilians were shot dead under martial law.

  In June 1941, the Germans executed the Greeks who had resisted in the Battle of Crete by shooting them. The death penalty was carried out with a single shot, and the condemned died instantly. Cretan civilians who wanted to take up arms threw themselves into the battle. Many Greek civilians were shot dead under martial law. When Crete was occupied by the Germans, the reprisals for resistance were merciless. From June 1st to June 6th 1941, when Crete was first occupied by the Germans, 200 people were executed.

   The Battle of Crete resulted in 426 Greek military deaths, 1,742 British military deaths, 1,737 military injuries, 11,835 prisoners of war, 1,990 German military deaths, and 1,995 German military personnel unaccounted for. In particular, the losses of the elite German airborne troops exceeded 8,000.

The atrocities committed by the German army in the village of Kalatza in the Argolis region of Greece broke out in June 1944. On June 4th 1944, the German occupation forces, enraged by the Troizenians who were resisting by raising their heads, rounded up all the men of Kalatza and locked them up in a warehouse. The following day, on June 5th, the Germans selected 23 men between the ages of 18 and 55 and took them to a dried-up river near the Trachian-Kranidi road in the Nihori settlement, where they were executed. On the main road of Nihoritika, the Kranidi Road, there was torture and murder of 18-year-old Vassilis Bouras, who was hanged for three days. The German military executions were carried out as a form of retaliation for the actions of ELAS in the area.

  In Greece, resistance against the German occupation forces broke out between 1941 and 1944. Initially, all of the Greek resistance groups started out with the same goal, but they gradually became divided due to the intervention of foreign powers seeking to gain influence. This led to the differentiation of the Greek national resistance organizations, such as the EAM, ELAS, WEAPONS, as well as the EDES and the Greek Army.

Maj. Gen. Percy W. Clarkson, CG, 10th Corps, and Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy, Chairman of Far Eastern Advisory Commission and members of the Commission look over ruins of Hiroshima.

 Undisclosed photos of Japanese

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Maj. Gen. Percy W. Clarkson, CG, 10th Corps, (left) and Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy, Chairman of Far Eastern Advisory Commission (right) and members of the Commission look over ruins of Hiroshima.

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左から、第10軍団のパーシー・W・クラークソン中将（CG）、極東諮問委員会のフランク・R・マッコイ委員長（右）、および委員会のメンバーが広島の廃墟を見下ろす。

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On May 25th 2024, two Russian guided bombs hit the center of a shopping center in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, and a police officer registered the bodies in the parking lot after performing an autopsy.

    On May 25th 2024, two Russian guided bombs hit the center of a shopping center in Kharkov, the second largest city in Ukraine, and a police officer registered the bodies in the car park after performing an autopsy. A woman stood by the bodies, stunned and grief-stricken. The police officer then took care of transporting the bodies.

   On May 25th 2024, the Russian army dropped two gliding bombs on the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, hitting the Epitsentr hypermarket at the busiest time of day. According to Ukrainian authorities, there may have been around 200 people in the building when the bombs hit. Immediately after the impact, a fire broke out in the shopping center, and the entire shopping center was engulfed in flames. This Russian bombing has been confirmed to have killed 19 people and injured 54 more. The mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, called the second Russian bombing of the city center pure terrorism.

   The first shock wave shattered the aisles, where the merchandise from the home improvement store was piled up almost to the ceiling. The next Russian bomb fell like a comet a few seconds later, unleashing a blaze that reduced the megastore to ashes. Immediately after this attack, the Russian army attacked Kharkiv again, this time targeting a residential area in the center of the city, injuring 14 people. The third bomb landed behind the Epi-Center, a shopping complex in Kharkiv, but failed to detonate. Russia fired more than 3,000 bombs every month, with 3,200 used in May alone.

The Russian army used hacked bombs and an expanded air base network to make Ukraine's frontline towns disappear faster. The Russian military constructed airstrips less than 100km from Ukraine and routinely fired bombs at Ukraine from multiple bases within Russian territory. There are 51 bases used by the Russian military within 600km of Ukrainian territory, including 3 in the occupied eastern regions of Ukraine, 6 in the Crimea, and 32 in Russia.

Warning: A police officer registers a dead body after two Russian guided bombs hit the Epicenter shopping complex in Khakiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 25,2024. Andrii Marienko, AP 

Women and girls of all ages from the village of Nemmersdorf were raped, mutilated and killed by the Soviet Red Army in East Prussia, and the German army lined up the corpses, conducted autopsies and recorded the scene.

   On the Eastern Front of World War II, women and girls of all ages from the village of Nemanesdorf were raped, mutilated and murdered by the Soviet Red Army as they invaded East Prussia. The Nazi German army lined up the corpses of the murdered residents and conducted an autopsy to record the war crimes of the Soviet Red Army. The Nemmersdorf massacre was a mass murder of civilians that broke out on October 21, 1944.

   During the first invasion of East Prussia, the Soviet Red Army committed a war crime in the village of Nemanndorf, located north of Goldap. The Soviet Red Army soldiers who occupied the village of Nemanndorf found many residents, especially women and children, on October 21, 1944. Twenty-four hours later, the village of Nemmersdorf was retaken by German troops.

   According to reports from German soldiers, the village of Nemmersdorf was strewn with corpses. Four naked women were nailed to a ladder truck standing on the left side of the farm road. In the apartment block, a total of 72 women, children and one 74-year-old man were murdered. Several people were killed by shots to the back of the skull, and the skulls of infants were smashed to pieces. The bodies of almost all the women, as well as those of girls aged between 8 and 12, showed signs of rape.

   Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda for the Nazi German regime, arrived at the crime scene in Nemmersdorf and took photographs and made a film. On November 2, 1944, the German weekly newsreel depicted the war crimes in the village of Nemmersdorf in East Prussia. It was not just Goebbels' propaganda, but a terrible reality.It sounded like very suggestive propaganda, and it brainwashed the German people to inspire fear and hatred of the Soviet Red Army and to carry out even more fanatical resistance.

   The Nemmersdorf massacre stirred up the imagination of millions of German women with fear and hatred of the Soviet Red Army, and they fell into a kind of killing frenzy. From the winter to the spring of 1945, thousands of German women committed suicide in response to the word that the Soviet Red Army was invading, and many of them killed their own children before they died.

The bodies of Vietnamese people who starved to death were piled up in heaps and transported away by car for disposal. From the winter of 1944 to 1945, the Japanese army occupied Vietnam and a shortage of rice spread throughout the country.

　　The bodies of Vietnamese people who starved to death were piled up in heaps and transported away by car for disposal. From the winter of 1944 to 1945, starvation spread throughout Vietnam, which had been occupied by the Japanese army, and became increasingly severe, with a shortage of rice spreading from the countryside to urban areas and even to the capital, Hanoi. In many areas, entire families, entire neighborhoods, or almost entire villages died. In order to avoid being discovered by the Japanese soldiers, Vu Anh Ninh secretly took photographs of the starving Vietnamese.

　　The greatest disaster caused by the Japanese military's five-year rule of Vietnam was the food crisis. The French colonial rule, which lasted for more than half a century, and the five-year Japanese military occupation had made Vietnamese production and living conditions miserable. In particular, the Japanese occupation policy, which positioned Vietnam as a base for supplying food and other goods, deprived the Vietnamese of the rice they had produced, and forced them to grow jute (a type of hemp used to make bags and rope) instead of food crops such as corn, causing them to suffer from a shortage of food.

　　The winters in the northern part of Vietnam between 1994 and 1945 were particularly cold, and this added a double whammy to the people who were already suffering from food shortages. As a result, there were huge numbers of people who died of starvation. One theory suggests that the number of people who died of starvation was as high as 2 million. Despite this, the Japanese army's warehouses were piled high with rice.

In Vietnam, in particular, the cold winter arrived next to the hungry, and the temperature dropped to 4 degrees in the capital Hanoi on the Lunar New Year of the year of Atdau (February 13, 1945). There were old women crying and screaming, naked children lying on mats huddled in the corners of walls, fathers and children lying naked on the roadside, and twisted corpses scattered everywhere. The number of victims was 2 million out of Vietnam's population of less than 10 million. In the mountainous regions of northern Vietnam, the army and the people rose up against the occupation of the area by attacking the bases, but they destroyed the warehouses of grain and salt that had been distributed to the people and stored for the soldiers and guerrillas. From March to July 1945, the Vietminh instigated the destruction of rice warehouses. People were encouraged to destroy their granaries themselves, incited not to pay taxes, and asked to demand the distribution of rice.

In the midst of the red terror of the government of Béla Kun, the leader of the Hungarian Revolution, hundreds of suspected counter-revolutionaries were executed in May 1919, and Lenin's son posed with their corpses.

 　Hundreds of people accused of “counterrevolution” were executed by the death penalty in May 1919 during the “Red Terror” of the Kun regime led by Béla Kun, the leader of the Hungarian Revolution. 1919 , the bodies of victims of the Red Terror and the revolutionary terrorist group Lenin's Boys were posed. In the spring of 1919, the Kun regime was overthrown by an invasion by the Romanian army and was short-lived.

　　In November 1918, with the support of the Soviet Union, Kun established the Communist Party of Hungary. He launched a campaign against the government of Mihály Károly. In March 1919, after being released, Kun successfully staged a coup and declared the establishment of the Communist Hungarian Soviet Republic. The new government collapsed four months later in the face of the advance of Romanian troops. After the fall of the Kun regime, counterrevolutionary forces carried out reprisals in the form of similar massacres. In the Great Purge of the late 1930s, Stalin had Kun executed by court order.

　　The Hungarian Red Terror was a period of repressive violence and suppression carried out by the Hungarian Communist Party in the Hungarian Soviet Republic, which existed from March 21 to August 1, 1919. The main anti-communist forces massacred people they considered to be enemies of the state. The Hungarian Soviet Republic established a revolutionary terror group, including Lenin's children, in accordance with the Bolshevik method of the Soviet Union. Up to 590 people were killed in the Red Terror.

In the aftermath of World War I, the Austro-Hungarian monarchy collapsed as Germany was defeated on the Western Front in 1918. On November 16, 1918, shortly after the abdication of Charles I of Austria-Hungary , immediately after the abdication of Charles I of Austria-Hungary, proclaimed the Hungarian Democratic Republic, with himself as its provisional president, and was inaugurated as president on January 11, 1919. On March 21, 1919, Károly was arrested by the new government of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, a communist party.

On the Eastern Front of World War II, in November 1942, the German army executed Yugoslav patriots by hanging. In retaliation for the first partisan resistance, the German army carried out a massacre in the fall of 1941.

    On the Eastern Front of World War II, in November 1942, the German army executed Yugoslav patriots by hanging. The German invasion led to the collapse of Yugoslavia due to internal divisions. From 1941 to 1945, the occupying forces were torn apart by a civil war between the Yugoslav communists, Croatian fascists, Serbian royalists and the German occupation forces. At least one million people died.

   In the spring of 1941, the Wehrmacht occupied Yugoslavia, and the multi-ethnic state collapsed. After that, nationalist groups became the first partisan units in World War II. The partisans, a lightly armed militia, retreated to the mountainous regions and fought against the occupying German forces. In retaliation for the first partisan resistance actions, the Germans carried out a mass extermination in the autumn of 1941. The partisans refrained from large-scale resistance. The number of civilian victims increased considerably in the months that followed, due to the gang-hunting by the German SS in 1943. The comprehensive armed uprising of the partisans was declared after the occupying German forces had become exhausted and the general situation of the war had turned against them.

  The Axis powers' occupying forces - the German, Italian, Hungarian and Bulgarian armies - committed atrocities against the Yugoslav population. In retaliation for partisan attacks and resistance, they massacred large numbers of civilians and hostages. The most famous incident was the Kragujevac massacre by the German army, and the Waffen-SS unit of the Albanians killed more than 400 Orthodox Christians in Andrijevica. The Hungarian army's Novi Sad massacre killed between 3,000 and 4,000 civilians in the southern region of Bačka. In the Podum massacre by the Italian army, on July 12th 1942, the Italian occupying forces killed 91 Croatian civilians in the village of Podum in retaliation for a partisan attack.

    The partisan revenge was covered up, and many people who did not actively participate in the partisan movement and prisoners of war were arbitrarily punished, detained, interned, exiled, killed, and oppressed by being considered collaborators with the German army. The massacre of Yugoslavian fascist fighters in Bleiburg, and the massacre of the Gottscheer and Danube-Swabian ethnic minorities. Yugoslav partisans carried out the Foibe massacre against the Italian population in the autumn of 1943 and the spring of 1945. Even after the war, the area where the massacre took place was kept off-limits to the general public as a restricted military area.

On April 13th 1950, just before the Korean War, Ri Ho-je, the leader of the Korean People's Guerrilla Army in North Korea, was killed in battle with a counterattack force from the South Korean military police, and his head was severed from his body.

　　On April 13th 1950, just before the Korean War, Ri Ho-je, the leader of the Korean People's Guerrilla Army in North Korea, was killed in battle with a police unit of the South Korean military. At that time, the head was decapitated from Yi Ho-je's corpse. In August 1949, Yi Ho-je's Korean People's Guerrilla Army incorporated a small-scale guerrilla unit in Odaesan, near the 38th parallel, and the guerrilla army became a force of about 400 men, invading Bonghyeonsan to the north of Gyeongju. Suppression by the ROK military police force. By around December 1949, Yi Ho-ji's Korean People's Guerrilla Army had collapsed.

　　In December 1945, at the beginning of the period of American military rule over the Korean Peninsula, Yi Ho-ji led the Cheongun as the chairman of the General Federation of Korean Youth Organizations in North Korea. Soon after that, he became active as a leader of the left-wing youth movement as the chairman of the Democratic Youth League of South Korea, the predecessor of the Socialist Youth League of North Korea. As left-wing activities became illegal in South Korea, he defected to North Korea and became the director of the Kangdong Political Academy, an agency for training agents.

　　The Kangdong Political Academy was an agency for training the Korean People's Guerrilla Army, which were North Korean agents, and became the military base of the South Korean Workers' Party. Lee Ho-ji participated in the Jeju April 3rd Incident, which broke out on April 3rd, 1948. In the Yeosu-Suncheon Incident, which broke out on October 19th 1948, the military rebelled and civilians were killed. In June 1949, Lee Ho-je led 360 or so guerrilla fighters trained at the Kangdong Political Academy, following orders from the Democratic Front for the Unification of the Fatherland in North Korea, and moved south along the Taebaek Mountains. They took in some of the military rebels from Yeosu and set up a base in the Odaesan area, close to the 38th parallel.

Col. Jr. Hall, Surgeon of 10th Corps, has a little boy on display for members of the Far Eastern Advisory Commission. This boy lost hair due to radiation effects and since then it has grown back.

Undisclosed photos of Japanese

Atomic-bomb survivors

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Col. Jr. Hall, Surgeon of 10th Corps, has a little boy on display for members of the Far Eastern Advisory Commission. This boy lost hair due to radiation effects and since then it has grown back. He is otherwise in good health and will not suffer any effects of the atomic bomb.1/26/1946

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On October 30, 2024, Lebanese rescue workers carried the body of a boy who had been buried under the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli air strike in Sarafand, southern Lebanon.

　　On October 30th 2024, Lebanese rescue workers carried the body of a boy who had been buried under the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli air strike in the southern Lebanese town of Sarafan. At least 19 people were killed in the Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese town of Sarafan, the majority of them women and children.The town of Sarafan, located between Sidon and Tyre in southern Lebanon, was hit by an Israeli air strike. The Israeli military announced that it had targeted facilities associated with Hezbollah, a Lebanese armed group.

　　According to estimates by the Lebanese government, the war with Israel forced around 1.2 million Lebanese citizens to flee their homes. According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, more than 2,800 Lebanese citizens were killed and 12,900 were injured after October 8, 2023, when Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel and retaliatory attacks began. Israeli ground forces invaded southern Lebanon in the early hours of October 1, 2024. On October 19, a drone (unmanned aircraft) was launched from Lebanon and landed in a residential area near Prime Minister Netanyahu's home in Caesarea, northern Israel.

　　Four foreign workers and three Israelis were killed on October 30th in a rocket attack from Lebanon into northern Israel. A rocket from Lebanon crashed into an agricultural area in Metulla, Israel's northernmost town, killing four Thai workers and one Israeli farmer. A few hours later, according to the Israeli army, 25 rockets from Lebanon hit an olive grove on the outskirts of the northern Israeli port city of Haifa. This attack killed a 30-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman, and injured two others. In Israel, at least 63 people have been killed by rockets, missiles and drones fired by Hezbollah, with around half of those killed being Israeli soldiers. More than 60,000 Israelis have been evacuated from their homes for more than a year in towns and cities along the border. 

Warning: Rescue workers carry the body of a boy who was found under the rubble of a destroyed building that was hit Tuesday night in an Israeli airstrike, in Sarafand, south Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) 

In November 1917, Canadian soldiers carried trench mats to the front line at the Battle of Passchendaele on the Western Front of World War I. In the background, Canadian soldiers were deporting German soldiers who had been taken prisoner and transporting the wounded to field hospitals.

  In November 1917, Canadian soldiers carried trench mats (wooden walkways and bridges) to the front line at the Battle of Passchendaele on the Western Front of World War I. The reason for this was that Canadian soldiers were deporting German soldiers who had been taken prisoner and transporting the wounded to field hospitals. The Canadian soldiers moved the trench mats so that their feet would not get stuck in the mud. The mild weather in the area around Ypres in the western part of Belgium came to an end, and the terrain became impassable due to the continuous rain. The terrain became large puddles of mud, and thousands of corpses floated in them, but the offensive was not called off.

   At the Battle of Passchendaele, the British, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian armies dealt the German army its greatest blow. The French army suffered a major defeat in the Battle of the Chemin des Dames, and an uprising broke out within the army. It began on July 31st 1917 and ended on December 1st with the fall of the village of Panzhendl. The total number of casualties from the Battle of Passchendaele was estimated at 340,000 for the British and 250,000 for the Germans. Despite the overwhelming number of casualties, the front line itself only advanced 8km to the north and 2km to the south, and the battle became a futile conflict.

   The Battle of Passchendaele was a tragic month in August 1917, with 75,000 Allied and 50,000 German troops killed. On September 22, the Allied and German lost around 20,000 men on the eastern ridge of Ypres. On September 26, around 17,000 men were lost in the Forest of the Polygon. On October 4, around 26,000 men were lost at Broodzande. 9, the Australian army lost around 13,000 men at Tainkote. On October 12, the German army lost around 13,000 men to machine gun fire from the Allied forces, who were ordered to attack in bad weather.With rain falling day after day, they were knee-deep in mud, attacked from both sides in a hopeless situation, and exhausted, resulting in many casualties.

　

Between 1921 and 1922, due to a famine in southern Russia, men dragged the bodies of two family members who had starved to death and carried them for burial or cremation. The survivors buried the dead, but sometimes they were forced to eat them.

 1921年から1922年にかけて南ロシアの飢饉により、男性が家族2人の餓死した死体を引きずり、埋葬または火葬のために運んでいた。生存者は死者を埋葬したが、時には食べることを余儀なくした。ロシア内戦の混乱により引き起こされた南ロシアの飢饉と伝染病により、1921年から1922年にかけて数百万人が餓死して命を落とした。この飢饉は、レーニン・スターリン体制が引き起こした最初の飢饉による巨大な人災の犠牲者であった。その後にも、1929年から1933年の集団化と飢饉、1936年から1939年の大粛清によって数百万人が殺害されて命を落とした。これは20世紀の歴史において、いかなる国においても国家政策によって引き起こされた最大の悲劇の連続であった。

　1921-1922年のロシアの飢饉は、1921年の春先に始まり1922年まで続いたロシアにおける深刻な飢饉であった。この飢饉で推定500万人が死亡して、主にヴォルガとウラル川地域が被害を受けた。飢えた人間が他の人間の肉や内臓を食べるカニバリズムの行為または実践が発生した。さらにコレラやチフスなどの伝染病が飢饉による死因となった。1918年から1921年にかけてのロシア内戦にて、食料を栽培者から食料を奪い取り、軍隊や支持者に与えた。

　他の大規模な飢饉は同様に、推定値にはかなりの幅がある。1920年代初頭のソビエトの公式出版物では、1921年に飢饉と関連疾患により約500万人が死亡したと結論づけた。数字は教科書にも引用されている。20世紀に戦争、飢饉、テロによって数千万の犠牲者が出たと示唆された。

　他の大規模な飢饉と同様に、推定値には幅がある。1920年代初頭のソビエトの公式出版物では、1921年に飢饉と関連疾患により約500万人が死亡したと結論づけ、教科書にも引用された。20世紀に戦争、飢饉、テロによって数千万の犠牲者が出た。深刻な干ばつと不作、1914年以来の継続的な戦争、ソ連当局による強制的な農場の集団化、農民からの穀物や種子の徴発、連合国によるソ連の経済封鎖もすべて、飢饉の犠牲の一因となった。

In the Battle of Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy, the German army was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army, and in January 1944, a German messenger fled to the command post, weaving his way through gaps in the defensive line and past the bodies of dead German soldiers.

 　A German messenger escaped to the command post by threading the gaps in the defensive line and the bodies of dead German soldiers. After mid-January 1944, the German front in Ukraine also collapsed. A sign of the impending disaster in the Ukrainian region was the encirclement of ten German divisions near Korsun-Shevchenkivsky (Cherkasy) by the Soviet Red Army. From January 24 to February 16, 1944, in the Battle of Korsun-Cherkassy, the Soviet armies of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian fronts of the Red Army launched an offensive to encircle and destroy the German Army's 6th Army Group's 58,000 German combatants in the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket, south of Kiev in Ukraine.

　　On the Eastern Front of World War II, in January 1944, the German Army's Southern Army Group retreated to defensive positions along the Dnieper River in Ukraine. Some of the German troops formed trenches that stretched for about 100 km from the main positions. The Soviet Red Army trapped the German troops in a pocket near the Dnieper River. The German army, which was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army, lost about a third of its men, who either died in battle or were taken prisoner. After that, the weather turned bad and the ground became a thick quagmire, and the German army vehicles got stuck.

　　The German army, which was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army in the Korsun-Cherkassy pocket, had about 45,000 of its original 58,000 soldiers escape, and about 36,262 of these managed to escape. In addition, about 4,161 wounded soldiers were evacuated by aircraft, and a total of about 40,423 people managed to escape. The German army suffered losses of around 19,000, and the Soviet Red Army suffered losses that exceeded those of the German army, with a total of 80,188 casualties in the three weeks of fighting.

During the Winter War of World War II, the bodies of Russian soldiers from the 44th Division of the Soviet Red Army lay dead from exposure to the cold on the roadside on January 20th, 1940, after the Battle of Suomussalmi by the Finnish Army.

　　After the Battle of Suomussalmi in Finland during World War II, the frozen bodies of Russian soldiers from the 44th Division of the Soviet Red Army lay by the roadside in the snow on January 20, 1940. During the Winter War, the Battle of Suomussalmi broke out between the Finnish and Soviet armies. The Battle of Suomussalmi took place from November 30, 1939 to January 8, 1940. It was a victory for the Finnish army against the superior Soviet forces in the bitter cold. The casualties of the Battle of Suomussalmi were as follows: of the 35,000 Soviet soldiers, more than 30,000 were killed in action and 2,000 were taken prisoner. The Finnish army suffered 2,000 casualties or went missing, and the number of Finnish soldiers killed in action or missing was around 2,000.

　　The only route for the 153rd Division of the Soviet Red Army to attack the northern part of Lake Ladoga was through the village of Suomussalmi. At Suomussalmi, the Soviet Red Army was completely caught off guard by a small-scale counterattack by the Finnish army. The Soviet troops, who had been driven out of the village, endured repeated attacks by the Finnish army for three days with considerable determination and courage, but in the end, they lost their fighting spirit and a large number of soldiers fled.

　　The Finnish artillery and bombing smashed the ice on the lake, drowning large numbers of Soviet soldiers who were fleeing across it. The Finnish army ambushed the Soviet 44th Division on the road. In the intense cold of -43℃, even the Soviet Red Army's guns froze and they were left poorly equipped. Once again, the Soviet army fought a reckless and clumsy battle and was destroyed. The Battle of Suomussalmi was a chance victory for the Finnish army and did not affect the course of the war.

The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. The Soviet invasion of Finland began on November 30th 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty on March 13th 1940, three and a half months later. The Winter War gave rise to a false impression of the capabilities of the Soviet army, and this in turn encouraged Nazi Germany to attack the Soviet Union.