The project "The Truth About the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" launched in Moldova

The Russian House in Chisinau hosted a presentation of a new project "The Truth About the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", sponsored by the National Coordinating Committee "Victory" and the Union of Officers of the Republic of Moldova with the support of the Rossotrudnichestvo office.

The project is part of commemorative events timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and is dedicated to preserving the historical truth about those terrible and difficult days.

Everyone has opportunity to learn about unique materials of the collections of the Presidential Library Memory of the Great Victory and The Defence and the Siege of Leningrad. These are official and personal documents, photographs and newsreels, wartime newspapers, books and publications of an agitation and propaganda nature, collections of articles and biographies, testimonies of participants in combat battles, images of military and labor awards, monuments and memorial complexes.

The Presidential Library’s portal also features a virtual tour of the historical documentary exhibition 1939. The Outbreak of the Second World War. Archival documents, newsreels, photographs tell about the events that led to a large-scale world conflict, make it possible to understand the reasons for the failure of the creation of a broad anti-Hitler coalition with the participation of the USSR, as well as the logic of the actions of the Soviet leadership in the current international situation.

In full the materials of the national electronic repository are available in the centers of remote access to the information resources of the Presidential Library located in various countries of the world.