"History is repeated": NYT about the similarity of World War II and war in Ukraine

The current fighting in Zaporozhye is similar to the actions of the Germans in 1941 when invading the USSR. And in the territory of the Seversky Donets again there were fierce battles and the front line took place. In the territory of Ukraine there were fierce battles during the Second World War. The full -scale war is somewhat similar to what was almost a century ago. About it reports The New York Times. The driver of the Ukrainian tank Alexander Shkalikov says that the story is repeated.

Ukraine is wringing a war on the same landscape and with the same weapons, if you take into account heavy artillery and tanks that still determine the course of the Land War. Now, as before, ideology plays a significant role on the battlefield. Russia is fake Ukrainian power by neo -Nazi. The most fierce battles continue in similar places. It is noted that the defense of Kiev in many ways relied on the experience of defense of the Second World War.

One of the early success of Germany was the battle near the Azov Sea in 1941, when her troops advanced from Zaporozhye to Melitopol. For three weeks, German troops blocked the area to reach an offensive on the Crimea and surround the Red Army in the Kherson region. Ukraine is now repeating this scenario that should isolate Russian invaders in the Kherson region and create conditions for liberation of Crimea.

"Historical parallels, unfortunately or fortunately, continue to flow to the surface," says Vasily Pavlov, Advisor to the General Staff of Ukraine. When she returned the present war from Kiev to the east, she also repeated the battles of the Second World War. Seversky Donets became the front line - its high shores and wetlands served as natural obstacles, during the battles for cities and villages around.