Information for Victory Day:

"Day of Remembrance and Hope"

      Every May we celebrate Victory Day. The Ukrainian people paid a high price for participating in the most terrible war in the history of the world, 1941-1945. The great feat and great tragedy of our people - their battle, their victory over the fascists - will not disappear in human memory, will not be forgotten. One can treat the Great Patriotic War in different ways, call it differently, but can one forget those who gave their lives for the happiness of others.

And today's information is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Second World War - this is only a small part of the great tribute to the fallen.

 

Video: "The best song about the Great Victory"

 

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      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  Spring is coming, and with a victorious step

In the tulip eternal fire

May passes through minutes, days and years,

He carries his memories to his descendants.

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      _cc781905- The first day of the Great Patriotic War was forever etched in the memory of millions of people. With the black shadow of the fascist invasion, the smoke of fires, death and ruins   it fell on us. And suddenly Sunday, June 22, 1941, a peaceful day of rest, turned into long years of suffering.

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A garden branch bent:   _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb5cf58d 

Apples fell in August

The earth groaned softly.

Shells tore her chest, 

War thundered everywhere,     

Slashed people fell -  

     

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      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  At the call of the motherland, 34  million 476 thousand 700 men were called to the ranks of the Red Army, in the future Victory, millions of people were behind men and women, adults and children fought side by side with the enemy.

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      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  During the war, 490,000 women were drafted into the army and navy.

      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  Women were on the front line: medics, pilots, snipers, in air defense units, communications, scouts, drivers, topographers, reporters, even tankers, artillerymen and served in infantry Women actively participated in the underground, in the partisan movement.

Women took on many "purely male" specialties in the rear, as men went to war, and someone had to stand behind a machine tool, sit behind the wheel of a tractor, become a railway conductor, master the profession of a metallurgist, etc.

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      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  The war lasted 1418 days and nights.

 

      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  In accordance with the "Barbarossa" plan developed in 1940, Germany planned to use the Arkhangelsk - Volga - Astrakhan hotline as soon as possible (in 6-10 weeks). It was a setup for a blitzkrieg. This is how the Great Patriotic War began.

 

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      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_     Створивши багаторазове перевагу в людях та військової техніки на головних напрямках offensive, the German army achieved significant success. At the end of November 1941, the Soviet troops, retreating under the blows of the overwhelming enemy forces to Leningrad, Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, left a huge territory to the enemy, lost about 5 million people killed, missing and captured, most of the tanks and aircraft .
 

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      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_   The turning point in the war took place between November 1942 and the end of 1943. Having exhausted and bled the enemy in defensive battles, on November 19, 1942, the Soviet troops launched a counteroffensive, surrounding the 22nd fascist divisions numbering more than 300,000 near Stalingrad. On February 2, 1943, this group was liquidated. At the same time, enemy troops were expelled from the North Caucasus.

However, the enemy tried to take revenge. On July 5, 1943, fierce battles began on the Kursk arc in order to regain the strategic initiative. In the course of fierce battles, the enemy's offensive was stopped. On August 23, 1943, Soviet troops liberated Orel, Belgorod, Kharkiv, entered the Dnipro,   and on November 6, 1943, Kyiv was liberated.
 

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 "Autograph of War"

Scientists of the Memorial Complex "National Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" in Kyiv introduced the museum project "Family Memory of the War".

Hundreds of families responded to the project. Museum collections were replenished with exciting family stories about the war, more than 1,000 museum items from family archives from different regions of Ukraine, based on which  a number of exhibitions were held.
      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  Look through your family albums, archives, write down family war stories, memories, stories about the war in your family's destiny, as well as about those who are currently defending the Ukrainian land in battles in the East of Ukraine, inscribes its page in the military history of our nation.

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Letters from the war

      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  Letters  from the war will tell a lot about the events of those days - they are difficult to read even now...

 

Hello, my beloved wife Halyna!

And you, my dear son.

Perhaps you have already forgotten me

I am writing to you that I am still alive.

 

Near the old western border,

Where Slavuta flows in the middle of the forests,

In a small forest glade,

There are rows of large buildings.

 

Here I am, as are all the captives with me,

I lead an unhappy life day after day,

forever, maybe we all have to grow up

I want to see you for the last time.

 

Over the years I have changed,

During this time, I became not like that,

During this time, strength and youth have flowed away,

One remained - former love.

 

When you come here and stand on the road,

You will look at the yard from afar,

In gray overcoats, a very strange hat,

You will see me among others.

 

When you won't find me alive,

Come back home, come here in the spring

And over the grave of my high

You are a poplar for me, my dear.

 

Let the slender and mighty grow,

And cold, sweat, he will endure everything,

And the early cuckoo, sometimes in the morning,

Let him sing a song about our life.

 

 

G. Slavuta,  22.06. 1943

Yakov Emelyanov

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 Konstantyn Simonov  "Wait for me..."

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Wait for me and I will return.

Just wait a long time

Wait for them to make you sad

Yellow rains,

Wait for the snow to blow

Wait when it's hot

Wait when others are not waiting

I forgot yesterday.

Wait, when from distant places

The letter will not come

Wait until you get bored

To everyone who is waiting together.

 

Wait for me and I'll be back

Don't wish for good

To all who know by heart

It's time to forget.

Let the son and mother believe

That there is no me

Let friends stop waiting

They will sit by the fire,

They will drink bitter wine

In memory of the soul...

wait And with them at the same time

Take your time to drink.

 

Wait for me and I'll be back

To spite all death.

Who did not wait for me, let him

He will say: - Lucky.

Do not understand, who did not wait for them,

Like in the midst of fire

By waiting

You saved me.

We will know how I survived

Only you and me -

You just knew how to wait

Like nobody else.

 

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      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  No one is forgotten; No one burned to ashes:

Soldier portraits on embroidered wings float.

And as long as people have memory and mothers live,

As long as the sons who tripped over the bullet live.

     Last letter

My friend found the archive of my deceased father.
And there among the papers - a letter from my grandfather from the front.
From the distant war that is closer to the heart
children and grandchildren of those who are there... beyond the horizon...

 

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Writing in front of me... With a simple pencil...
And the words cannot be made out at the edges and on the folds.
Seventy years since that war.
And the voice is getting clearer.

 

"Can you hear me, Lida?"

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"My dear, I am writing to you for the last time.
We will be thrown into battle tomorrow. I probably won't be back.
Oh, how I want to hug all of you now.
Do you remember the New Year, that same, forty-first...
We met together... All at the same table...
And you and Igor... That's how you would meet this...
And here we have snow... Remember, we are a movie theater
did you watch about the war, about the Finns last summer?
I regret that I took so much tobacco.
It's almost all gone - and you would replace it with bread...
I am writing to you, Lydok, the paper is still there...
The lieutenant gave a piece, but there is little left...
The frosts are so strong, and this is not a movie.
As for the wounded, I won't make it - there are many frozen here...
Lydok, I am writing you the last letter."

Well, how did he guess? That's how it became.

 

(Natalia Kotkina

    In memory of Valentin Razuvaev, who died in January 43
and all those who did not come from that war...)
 

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      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  From year to year the journal

      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  Your descendants away from war.

      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  But May will remind again and again,

      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  How his sons went from life.

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      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  We remember…

It was 1945. The war against fascism was coming to a victorious end. In the spring, the Soviet Army approached the capital of fascist Germany - the city of Berlin.

From April 16 to May 8, the last offensive operation was carried out. The Berlin operation was commanded by Marshal of the Soviet Union H.K. Zhukov.

On April 20, the storming of Berlin began. On April 25, the encirclement of the Berlin group was completed, the Soviet Army met with units of the allies - the American Army.

The battle for Berlin lasted until May 2. The enemy garrison capitulated. The Red flag, which symbolically became the flag of Victory over fascism, flew over the Reichstag. Battles with separate groups of the enemy continued until May 5.

On May 8, 1945, representatives of the German high command signed the Act of Surrender of the Armed Forces of Fascist Germany in Karlshorst (a suburb of Berlin).

May 9 became Victory Day, a great holiday for all mankind.

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      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  The war took them, leaving lists

those who died in a righteous battle,

obelisks froze in longing,

in granite stone structure.

 

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      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  Flowers bloom peacefully on the graves
Butterflies fly to the red sun
And those whose wings were broken by the war
They sleep in the sacred eternal sleep in the graves.

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Eternal glory to the heroes!!!

The numbers testify to human casualties:

Losses of the Red (Soviet) Army - 11 944 100 soldiers;

Including:

Died – 6 885 000 man;

Missing, captured - 4 559 000 man.

Total losses of 26 600 000 citizens (26.6 to 43.3 million people)

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Millions of people were taken away by the Great Patriotic War. It is difficult to comprehend. The death of one person is a tragedy. And when millions... The dead don't hurt. The wounds of the living continue to bleed: veterans who have lost their friends, fellow soldiers, relatives and loved ones, souls who have been shot by funeral pyres, early graying children of war who have not seen their parents.

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      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  Victory Day was not celebrated in the Soviet Union for 18 years.
Since 1947, for a long time this holiday was actually not celebrated and was a working day. This day was celebrated for the first time in the USSR only in the 1965 jubilee year. Then he became a day off.

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      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  We Remember We Win

      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  The first parade in honor of the Victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War took place on June 24, 1945 on Red Square. The decision to hold it was made by Stalin in mid-May 1945.

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Victory Day in Lutsk

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      _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  Our difficult present cannot replace the joy of the arrival of spring, and together with it, Victory Day. This day will always remain for us overshadowed  by the bitterness of losses and illuminated by the sun of Victory. They brought him as close as they could. And the people who did it should be remembered.

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Remember, friends, these people forever,

Those who returned and died in battles.

And we will all bow low to the ground to them,

We will cover their thorny path with flowers.