This day in history

1941: WWII Victims Remembrance Day in Ukraine.

1941: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union, marking the beginning of the “Great Patriotic War.”

1941: Soviet border-guards and back-up units resist inexorable Wehrmacht offensive in the south of Latvia, Lithuania, in the west of Belarus, and in western Ukraine.

1941: OUN-Bandera advance units enter Ukraine, following Wehrmacht troops, in order to establish local Ukrainian self-government.

1942: Soccer fans in Nazi-occupied Kyiv watch a game between a Luftwaffe and Kyiv Dynamo teams, with the Ukrainians beating the Germans (5:3), later to become known as the “death match,” courtesy of Soviet propaganda, whereupon all Soviet players were allegedly shot by the Nazis.

1944: The Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainians SSR adopts a decree authorizing a Soviet version of a tender for the re-planning of Khreshchatyk Street.