Clementine Churchill returned from a trip to the battlefields

The wife of the British Prime Minister, Clementine Churchill, accompanied by the secretary of the Committee of the Russian Relief Fund, Mrs. M. Johnson, returned to Moscow from a trip she made to the battlefields, Izvestia writes.

"Mrs. K. Churchill, who visited Stalingrad, the Caucasus, the Crimea, Odessa and Kursk, visited hospitals, hospitals, children's institutions, got acquainted with the progress of reconstruction work in areas liberated from the Nazi invaders," the issue says.

There were exactly 5 days left until the Great Victory.

During her stay in Odessa, Clementine Churchill attended the May Day military parade, visited medical and cultural institutions, and talked with British and French officers and soldiers released from German captivity by the Red Army.

On the evening of May 5, the chairman of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women, Valentina Grizodubova, hosted a reception in honor of the guests, which was attended by Soviet diplomats and the wives of government members.

The material was published as part of the Izvestia special project "80 days to Victory."

All articles of Izvestia during the Great Patriotic War can be found in the electronic archive.