Joint parade in Brest.
A fact that is currently being hushed up and supplanted in every possible way by all different lovers of the USSR is the joint Nazi-Soviet parade, which took place in the city of Brest on September 22, 1939. The parade and accompanying celebrations were timed to coincide with the solemn destruction of Poland and the creation of a new border between the USSR and Nazi Germany.
Many researchers call this action not a "joint parade", but a "solemn procession", but as for me - the essence of this does not change. Guderian wanted to hold a full-fledged joint parade, but in the end he agreed to the proposal of the commander of the 29th armored brigade Krivoshein, which read: "At 16 o'clock, units of your corps in a marching column, with standards in front, leave the city, my units, also in a marching column, enter the city, stop in the streets where the German regiments are passing by, and salute the passing units with their banners. The orchestras perform military marches. " What is this if not a parade?
This is how the celebrations looked like - German and Soviet officers salute a passing column of troops:
Fascist and Soviet officers shake hands - these photos have never been shown in the USSR.
If you think that "kissing on the gums" concerned only the official "front" part, then you are greatly mistaken. Nazi and Soviet officers talked quite naturally and in an informal atmosphere, joked, laughed, exchanged cigarettes:
And they discussed new maps of Europe. All these photos in the USSR were strictly classified, as they showed that the USSR and Nazi Germany entered the Second World War as allies in the partition of Poland. Soviet citizens were not told about this - a separate mythology was invented in the USSR about how the treacherous attack on the peace-loving USSR was carried out on June 22, 1941. There really was an attack - but the fact that the USSR itself attacked Poland and Finland in the same way a few years earlier was not told to Soviet citizens.
They lied in Soviet newspapers that "the Finnish people are languishing under the rule of the White Finns" - the "White Finns" were the then analogue of the "Bendera" and allegedly existed separately from the rest of the people. The term "White Finns" by the way was a terribly absurd, typically Bolshevik newspeak, which appeared in the twenties and in which Danila Bagrov liked to express himself - the White movement in Russia (which fought against the Bolsheviks) opposed independent Finland, so calling Finnish patriots "White Finns" is nonsense ...
In fact, a simple Finnish people rose to defend Finland against the Bolsheviks - the very people that the Bolsheviks wanted to "liberate". This photo, banned in the USSR, shows how an ordinary civilian bus brings Finnish volunteers to their positions, who have taken weapons:
And in this photo you can see the so-called "ordinary" Cossacks from the Nazi troops - moreover, the Cossacks are armed with captured PPSh, probably taken from the killed Red Army soldiers.
Cossacks from the German troops read the Nazi propaganda magazine "Signal", which was published in different languages, including (since 1942) in Russian - in the hands of the Cossacks just such an option.
Well, actually the promised cherry on the cake. The photo on the left shows Sergei Mikhalkov with his brother - the same Gimnyuk and the most desperate Stalinist who incited anti-spy hysteria in the literature of the thirties and licked Stalin's ass. And on the right you can see his brother, Mikhail Mikhalkov in SS uniform, and this is not a staged theatrical photo - in 1941, Mikhail Mikhalkov, who had previously served in a special detachment SMERSH, was captured, where he introduced himself as an ethnic German from Ukraine and received a position in a tank division of the SS. As Sirozha wrote there - "there are native forests and mountains, the air is clean over the village, here the curtains are down and there is a living fascist" - I suppose, he meant his brother)
Misha's fate is generally interesting. In Latvia, he was arrested by the Soviet military, after which he immediately surrendered all the dispositions of the Germans, immediately reported that he was an officer of the NKVD and the brother of Sergei Mikhalkov, after which he was transferred to Moscow, where he found a job to his liking - he began to work as a secret agent at the Lubyanka. Under the guise of a prisoner, Mikhail Mikhalkov established friendly relations with prisoners, obtained valuable information from them, which he then handed over to the NKVD.
Later, Mikhail Mikhalkov began to publish, acted as a propagandist on military-patriotic topics, for which he was awarded many certificates of honor, as well as diplomas and prizes at the All-Union song competitions.