Internet and history: The Ministry of Defence of Russia published at its website an information about foreign parts of the Red Army

On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory at the website of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation are placed declassified archival materials from the collections of the Central Archives of the War Department, telling about the creation of the territory of the USSR and the further participation in the struggle against fascism of foreign military forces.

The published documents is reflected the history of the formation of the Czechoslovak, Yugoslav, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Polish units and formations operating in the Red Army.

Among the materials there are documents on the establishment of the most famous national military formation in the Red Army - the French air regiment "Normandie".

Documents show that more than 80,000 Polish volunteers fought in the 1st Polish Army, fully formed in the Soviet Union. Its units and parts after fierce fighting were among the first who entered the liberated Warsaw.

Among the more than 250 documents published at the website of the military department - orders, appeals and reports of commanders of armies and fronts, regulations, powers of attorney, reviews of the foreign states, governmental agreements, directives, military districts, information cards awarded servicemen and telegrams, letters, memoranda notes, operative reports, and descriptions of the fighting.

Published materials are an extension of the activities of the military department, aimed at the preservation and protection of historical truth, opposition to falsification of history and attempts to revise the results of the Great Patriotic War and the World War II.