THE SIGNIFICANCE OF VICTORY IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR FOR THE PEOPLE OF EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA

Russia persistently fights for the creation of a more just world, seeking to discredit ultra-radical forces (international terrorism, Nazism/neo-Nazism). This is a natural continuation of the strategy of the Soviet Union, which made a decisive contribution to the capitulation of the Third Reich, the most powerful aggressor in history, thereby ensuring the formation of the Yalta-Potsdam world order. The article attempts to comprehend the significance of the Great Patriotic War for the peoples of Europe and North America. Practical examples show that it was the scale of the forces involved on the Soviet-German front and the losses of the Wehrmacht in this direction that allowed the Anglo-Saxon powers to maintain and then strengthen their positions. The confrontation during the Great Patriotic War severely limited the scope and duration of military actions in North Africa (ended in May 1943, two years earlier than in Europe), did not allow them to spread to the Near and Middle East, or to unite the efforts of Nazi Germany and militarist Japan. The artificial underestimation by liberal democracies of the decisive role of the USSR in the defeat of the Third Reich is traced after the West became “collective”. With the Great Victory, the Fatherland secured for itself the role of a non-Western pole of attraction within the Global North.