FSB declassified documents about Nazi crimes in Gorlovka during WWII

During their stay in Gorlovka, and especially before the retreat in 1943, the German invaders destroyed everything they could not carry in cold blood. This is evidenced by the archival documents of the Office of the Federal Security Service (FSB) for the Donetsk People's Republic, which were preserved and declassified on June 4.

At that time, all factories, power plants, cultural institutions, the power grid, schools, hospitals, which formed the basis of the peaceful life of the city, were completely destroyed and burned.

Thus, the Nitrogen-Tuck plant was completely destroyed. Sergo Ordzhonikidze. The total amount of damage amounted to more than 243 million rubles. In addition, the Coke Chemical Plant, the Kirov Machine-building Plant, the Nikitovsky Mercury Plant, the Gorlovka Pipe Plant and other enterprises of local industry were destroyed. It was not just a war, but the methodical wiping of Gorlovka from the face of the earth, the ministry stressed.

Declassified materials are evidence, proof, and memory. At present, it is important to keep the truth, speak about it aloud and not allow it to be distorted, because now the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are striking at Gorlovka, destroying what has been created for decades.

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 20, the Directorate of the FSB of the Russian Federation for the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) declassified documents on the crimes of the German Nazis in the city during the Great Patriotic War (WWII) on the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of Mariupol from Ukrainian militants. Thus, the Nazis completely burned down 1,593 houses, destroyed 46 schools, 101 libraries, and completely destroyed all medical and cultural institutions in the city.