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Russia celebrates the 65th anniversary of the counteroffensive beginning in the Second World War on December 5, the Itar-Tass news agency reports.
It has been 65 years since the counteroffensive was launched on December 5, 1941 along the front from Kalinin (Tver) to Yelets. Historians consider the 1941-1942 Battle of Moscow to be one of the most outstanding operations in the Second World War and a key turn in the course of the war.
The battles continued 200 days and involved over seven million men and officers, 53,000 field guns and mortars, 6,500 tanks and over 3,000 warplanes on both sides.
The meeting of the Moscow Council of People
