Pictures from Odessa on the Black Sea from 1957 - 16 years after the outbreak of war and 13 years after the liberation of the city and the start of its reconstruction, in which many German prisoners of war were also involved.
◼️ The battles for Odessa began on August 5, 1941 and only ended on October 16 with the occupation of the city by German forces and units of the Romanian 4th Army. On April 10, 1944, the city was evacuated by the Wehrmacht and the Romanian army.
◼️ The young people in the video can look carefree into the future in 1957 - the war was years ago, Father Stalin is dead and you have no idea of the wave of corruption after 1990.
◼️ In the days of the Tsars, Russian, Yiddish, Greek and French were spoken in Odessa, today Russian and Ukrainian, with Russian being the common colloquial language.
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