In 1941:
Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin sent a message which said the movement of German units in Poland, pointing to the preparation of an attack on the USSR. Together with this warning, the English Ambassador in Moscow, Stafford Cripps was sent instructions: "do Not take it for our desire to obtain the assistance of the Soviet government or the expectation that the Russians will act in someone's interests rather than their own. We just want them to understand that Adolf Hitler intends sooner or later to attack them if you will be able to do it...". On the morning of 5 April Cripps had informed Churchill that he could not deliver his message personally to Stalin: it is not allowed to see him since July 1940. Churchill agreed that the message was handed to Vyacheslav Molotov. In the end, due to the fact that Molotov evaded meeting with British Ambassador Cripps was able to pass it only on April 19, and the referee fell to Stalin until 21 April. But it didn't change anything: Stalin reacted to this information, to put it mildly, with mistrust.
In 1942:
The Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences organized the Commission for scientific and technical naval Affairs (Chairman of the academician-physicist Abram Fedorovich Ioffe, scientific Secretary Igor Vasilievich Kurchatov) and the Commission on the identification of additional food resources (Chairman-academician-physiologist Leon Abgarovich Orbeli).
Japanese troops in the Philippines , having received reinforcements, under cover of continuous aerial bombings and massive artillery fire went on the offensive. For 48 hours, the Japanese pushed the American forces at 18 kilometers.
In 1943:
With our aircraft parts on various parts of the front destroyed or damaged at least 20 German trucks with troops and cargo, referred to in the summary of the Soviet information Bureau. In the Black sea, our aircraft sank three enemy transport with a total displacement of 13,000 tons, two barges and two torpedo boats.
In 1944:
West and South-West of the city of Dubno, our troops captured the district centres of Volyn region – cities Gorokhov, Berestechko, a district center in Lviv region Lopatin, and also took more than 80 other settlements.
Aviation of the Baltic fleet struck three consecutive massive blow to enemy ships. Sunk 2 destroyer, 2 patrol boats, 1 landing barge. Aviation of the Northern fleet carried out a RAID on the port of liinakhamari.
The British launched a major airstrike, wanting at all costs to destroy the German battleship "Tirpitz", which was renovated in the Norwegian Alten fjord. In the giant ship hit many 450-kilogram bombs had killed 300 members of the team, damaged the equipment, but no armor belt or deck is not affected.
In 1945:
Troops of the 2nd Ukrainian front captured the towns of Magyarovar, Kremnica and another 150 cities and towns.
Troops of the 3rd Ukrainian front in Austria took possession of 130 settlements.
The newspaper "Pravda" reported: "the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie Peredal to the Fund for assistance to the population of the USSR suffered from Nazi invaders, £ 10,000.
By decision of the government of the Ukrainian SSR in Kiev, at Babi Yar, where at the hands of fascist invaders killed many tens of thousands of people of Kiev will be a monument. (This decision had not been enforced, in place, which killed more than 100,000 Kyivans, mainly Jews and prisoners of war, the city authorities have arranged a dump. The monument was erected in 1976 at the request of the public.)
