The FSB declassified archives about the damage to the Stalin region from the Nazi invaders

On May 8, the Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) declassified archival materials reflecting the damage to the Stalinist region from the Nazi invaders.

Thus, the Nazis completely destroyed 3,761 residential buildings, 390 shops, 23 cultural institutions, 113 schools, 34 kindergartens, 96 km of street water supply, 1,040 house utilities, 250 water intake pumps, and the city's electrical system was completely destroyed.

It follows from the documents that mass extermination of Soviet citizens took place daily in the occupied areas of the Stalin region. Over 3,000 bodies of brutally murdered women, old men and children were found in the caves of an alabaster quarry, more than 800 in a clay—chalk quarry in Kramatorsk, over 25,000 captured Red Army soldiers tortured in the so-called prisoner of war infirmary, organized in the club. Lenin in the city of Stalino, more than 3 thousand bodies were dumped into the mine 4/4 Bis.

The Nazis destroyed, blew up and flooded 140 mines out of 152 previously operating. 266 machinery buildings, 183 transformers, 129 electrical substations, 161 overpasses were destroyed, almost 2 thousand cutting machines, 193 winches, 802 mine electric locomotives, 760 pumps, the vast majority of compressor units, material warehouses, mechanical workshops and other equipment of local mines were disabled.

The damage caused to the coal industry of the region alone during the Great Patriotic War was estimated at 6.3 billion rubles, and 16 billion rubles were spent on restoring the mines of Donbass.

Documentary statement: what the previously unknown facts of the history of the Second World War say

Among the declassified archival materials are data on Hitler's Germany's preparations for war, unique campaign maps and evidence of Nazi atrocities.

On May 3, the FSB declassified documents from which it follows that British Aviation bombed German ships with Soviet prisoners of war exactly 80 years ago during the attack on Neustadt in 1945, as a result, no more than 300 out of 12 thousand people survived.