The liberation of Brest in Soviet newspapers in July 1944
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18033857
Abstract
The article describes materials devoted to the liberation of Brest from Nazi invaders on 28 July 1944, published in Soviet newspapers on 29–30 July 1944. It provides information that during three years of occupation the German forces created a powerful, deeply echeloned fortified area in the Brest region—15–20 kilometers of approaches to Brest were transformed into a continuous fortified line, while the city itself was a strong military fortress. Nevertheless, despite the considerable enemy forces, the large quantity of weapons and military equipment, and the strict order of the German command to hold Brest “at any cost,” Soviet troops liberated the city in less than two days. The article analyzes the content of publications on the liberation of Brest in the central Soviet newspapers “Pravda” (organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU), “Izvestia” (organ of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR), “Krasnaya Zvezda” (organ of the People’s Commissariat for Defense of the USSR), as well as in the republican newspaper “Sovetskaya Belorussiya” and the Brest regional newspaper “Zarya” dated 29–30 July 1944.
About the Author
I. F. Bogdanova
I.S. Lupinovich Belarusian Agricultural Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Belarus
Belarus
Irina F. Bogdanova, PhD in Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Research and Scientific and Methodological Activities, Senior Researcher
AuthorID: 971576
Minsk
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Bogdanova I.F. The liberation of Brest in Soviet newspapers in July 1944. Library & Information Discourse. 2025;5(1-2):37-50. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18033857
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