Yes, they did everything they could,
Who could, as much as he could and as he could.
And we were the burning sun,
And we walked along hundreds of roads.
Yes, everyone was wounded, shell-shocked,
And every fourth is killed.
And personally, the Fatherland needs
And personally will not be forgotten.
B. Slutsky.
The Victory Day is dear to the hearts of each of us. It is dear to the memory of those who defended freedom at the cost of their lives. We must always remember the people who gave their lives for the bright future of our country. The feat of those who fought and defeated fascism is immortal. The memory of their feat will live forever in our hearts.
Not a stone of sorrow
Not a stone of glory
Do not replace a dead soldier.
May it be eternal
Memory of the heroes!
On the holy Day of May 9, we remember those who paid an exorbitant price in the name of our Victory, we remember the living and the dead.
And walks the earth
Barefoot memory is a small woman.
She goes,
Crossing the ditches, -
She doesn't need a visa or a residence permit,
In the eyes is the loneliness of a widow,
That is the depth of maternal sorrow.
She goes,
Leaving your comfort
Not about myself - worrying about the world,
And monuments give her honor,
And the obelisks bow to the belt.
We are grateful to the dead and living soldiers of that terrible war who liberated our country, gave it a future, life. The memory of the Great Patriotic War is alive. This must not be forgotten. It will always excite our hearts, and May 9 will remain the most dear holiday to the heart of every person.
The war against Nazi Germany was sacred, liberating, nationwide. In battles with the invaders, Soviet soldiers showed miracles of heroism, their wives, mothers and children, replacing those who went to the front, worked selflessly in the rear. The country strained all its forces, rallied with one thought: "Everything for the front - everything for victory!"
Wars are the fortitude and courage of soldiers and officers, this is a terrible infantry battle, these are wet trenches, this is a lack of shells, mines ...
Hearing from the sky through the gray rag-clouds.
This is sticky slush, habitual evil fatigue,
An annoying rain, charged forever and ever.
What is war?
It is a firm belief in a neighbor.
You shot next to him and got wet to the skin in the trenches.
This is a strong friendship, the high happiness of victory,
What we share with a friend, like the last piece of bread.
The Great Patriotic War was difficult and bloody. She claimed millions of human lives. In the war, our people showed such human qualities as courage, heroism, love for the Motherland, kindness.
And we did not ask for honors,
They did not expect any awards for their deeds.
We share the glory of Russia,
It was a soldier's award.
The theme of the Great Patriotic War is an unusual theme ... Unusual, because it never ceases to excite people, touching old wounds and the soul with the pain of the heart. Unusual, because memory and history have merged into one.
I, like all my peers, do not know war. I don’t know and I don’t want war. But after all, those who died, not thinking about death, about the fact that they would not see more, neither the sun, nor grass, nor leaves, nor children, did not want her either. The date of May 9 fills my heart with pride for the feat of the multinational Soviet people, who won the battle against fascism, and sadness: millions of sons and daughters of the Fatherland have forever been left to lie in their own and foreign lands. My heart bleeds when I hear the stories of our veterans about how people were brutally tortured and killed.
Soviet soldiers took up arms to save everything that is dear to them, to save themselves, their people and their country. Our people found themselves in inhuman conditions: the war brought grief, suffering, tears, was an extraordinary and special test for people. But we held out and won.
It is necessary to remember always those who fell at a combat post and the living, those who managed to return, having passed the difficult roads of war. Today, fewer and fewer people remain who survived the Great Patriotic War. As long as war-wounded people live, their memory is a bridge between war and peace. The duty of the young is to preserve this memory, adopt their experience, responsibility for the very existence of mankind on Earth.
Lives on Proletarskaya Street in the village of Levokumskoye, a respected man, a war veteran - Nikolai Ivanovich Belik. He was born on September 23, 1921 in the village of Belovodsk, Voroshilovodsk region (Luhansk region) in Ukraine. In 1937, Nikolai Ivanovich entered the Mariupol feldsher-obstetric school, graduated from it in 1940 and was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army. He served in the city of Stavropol, worked as the head of the sanitary service of a separate engineer battalion. When the Great Patriotic War began, he was sent in connection with the regrouping of military units to Ust-Labinsk. A group was assembled there and sent to Novorossiysk. Then they were transferred to Odessa at the position of the second cavalry brigade. In this composition, they defended Odessa. Many young soldiers were killed, the army suffered heavy losses. But Nikolai Ivanovich turned out to be a happy man, he survived, reached Berlin along the front roads. For military services Nikolai Ivanovich was awarded orders and medals. At the end of the war, he served for another year in Germany as a paramedic instructor.
In 1946, Nikolai Ivanovich arrived in the Stavropol Territory, Levokumsky District, at the place of residence of his parents. He lives in the village of Levokumskoe to this day. He worked in the district hospital for 48 years. Now Nikolai Ivanovich is on a well-deserved rest. A war and labor veteran lives with his wife. I would like to heartily congratulate this wonderful person on the upcoming holiday and wish him health, prosperity and long life.
Scouts, signalmen, pilots, tankmen, ordinary soldiers and modest war workers played a large role in the victory, in the success of our troops' offensives. Women and young girls also stood up to defend their homeland. They could not help responding to the common grief, since they understood that there was enough work for them at the front. The wounded need them, they are needed in the kitchen, in the laundry. And the women went to the front. They brought shells, they were snipers, pilots ... They were soldiers. In the rear, women were harnessed instead of horses to carts, sledges, and pulled plows. They were in the fields and farms to feed the front, the country. Wartime women are modest and beautiful with their youth, invincible femininity, which was not killed, but only brightened by the war.
The war is not a woman's face, let alone a child's. There is nothing more incompatible in the world than this - war and children.
Why did you, the war, stole their childhood from the boys?
And the blue sky and the smell of a simple flower?
Boys came to the factories shki of the Urals, set up boxes to reach the machine ...
Children who survived the war recall the atrocities of the punitive forces, fear, concentration camps, an orphanage, hunger, loneliness, life in a partisan detachment. The toys of the children of the war were colored glass, feathers from a pillow, and a doll's head.
My grandmother Kachagova Kalimat Magomedovna was very young when the war began. From her wartime childhood, she remembers how much she wanted to eat all the time. I was constantly haunted by fear for my life and the lives of my relatives. My grandmother also remembers how the houses, fields caught fire, everything was engulfed in flames. And the next day, grandmother saw the cat crying. She sat on the heads of a burnt house, and only her tail remained white, but she was all black. The cat wanted to wash, but could not. It seemed that the skin on it crunched like a dry leaf.
Who says that war is not scary
He knows nothing about the war.
The years of the Great Patriotic War, when the country fought from small to large, will never be forgotten. After all, this is our history, the memory of the heart. I would like to bow to all those who fought and died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War in order to continue a peaceful life, so that children sleep peacefully, so that people rejoice, love, and be happy.
Let there be only peace. Soviet soldiers saved this world.
People! As long as hearts are knocking, -
At what price happiness was won, -
Fortunately, the Great Patriotic War did not affect either me or my family. No one fought in my family. Of course, you can't say that. It would be more correct to say that none of my family was at the front. All the citizens of the Soviet Union did something so that the soldiers who fight and die there, at the front, could win. Someone dug trenches, someone stood at the machine at the factory, someone looked after the wounded in hospitals, and someone gave the last crust of bread. My grandmother was a home front worker, so I cannot say that she did not fight. Everyone fought at that time, but each fought in his own way: someone with a machine gun in his hands on the front line, and someone fought standing at the machine in the rear.
Many years have passed, but the memory of this terrible war is still alive in our hearts. Now, of course, it is difficult for us to imagine the events of that time, and, looking at the smiling old veterans, it is hard to believe that they survived the horror and chaos of the war. Look at them. Orders and medals rest on their chests. Here is a medal for courage, but for courage…. After all, medals are not given just like that, which means that a person deserves this award. These people defended their country and their homeland in the war, and if so, it means that they did not live their lives in vain.
I cannot imagine all the horror that they had to endure. Let's mentally fast forward back when today's veterans were young and did not yet know that there would be a war. Can you imagine what they had to go through? And now they are at the parade, as if nothing had happened and smiling. But look them in the eye. They cry. They cry because war is scary. Nowadays, today's young people have a clear opinion that war is romance, and on May 9th this is another reason to take a walk and have fun with friends. Tell me, is it necessary to celebrate the Victory Day? After all, now no one even remembers those terrible days. Nobody treats this day as a memory of victory anymore. Victory in one of the worst wars on earth. After all, if we had not won then, then who knows what the modern world would have become? Nobody remembers those terrible events, senseless deaths anymore. I say "meaningless" because the death of a soldier is always meaningless. Who is a soldier? A soldier is, first of all, a citizen. And who is a citizen? A citizen is a person, just a person who wants to be happy. But instead of just living and enjoying life, the soldier picks up a rifle and goes to the front. What happens to the soldiers at the front? At the front, the soldier will kill the enemies of his country, kill violently and fanatically. The soldier knows that if now he does not give his life, then all those whom he loves may die later: his relatives, friends, children, his beloved who is waiting for him at home. Think about the fact that none of the politicians, those who unleash wars, have never fought. That is why I say that the death of a soldier is meaningless, because during the battle he is far from political intricacies. During a battle, a soldier knows one thing - he must fight, otherwise those whom he loves will die, and the death of a loved one is even worse than his own death….
Now there are millions of books about the Great Patriotic War. After reading one of these books, we can learn about a war in which we were not. But we will never be able to understand the whole horror of war. Why is Memorial Day gradually turning into just another holiday for us? Because our generation no longer remembers that terrible time, and then it will be even worse. It is humanity to forget. A few more decades will pass, and our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will no longer understand the meaning of this holiday. Well, once upon a time there was a war. So what? And in a few decades, this day will no longer be marked in red on the calendar, because the memory of this war will no longer be needed by anyone. Although no one needs it today. For the second year already, an action has been taking place in our city: people are handed out St. George's ribbons. What for? For people to remember. Take a closer look at them, these ribbons are tied to bags, tied around the wrist, and braided into the hair just because it is unusual and beautiful. And only veterans wear St. George ribbons at their hearts. They remember. I also want to remember, but I can't, because I wasn't there yet. You know, sometimes it seems to me that it is good that humanity forgets everything. Yes, it's good that after a few generations people will forget this damned war, because war is very scary.
P.S. You read the school essay I wrote for my little brother.
This work was written by my daughter, Sevostyanova Alexandra, a 7th grade student.
There are no heroes of the Great Patriotic War in our family, but we often talk about this topic. This is the history of the people, the history of the country, the history of our family.
My grandmother lived on the accupted territory of Ukraine. All this is very scary and painful.
For her work, she used material from the Internet and accompanied them with her conclusions and conclusions.
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My attitude to the Great Patriotic War.
It was one thousand nine hundred and forty-one. On June 22, at four o'clock in the morning, Hitler's troops invaded the territory of the USSR. At 12:15 pm, V.M.Molotov made the following address on the radio:
Citizens and citizens of the Soviet Union!
The Soviet government and its head comrade Stalin instructed me to make the following statement:
Today, at 4 o'clock in the morning, without making any claims to the Soviet Union, without declaring war, German troops attacked our country, attacked our borders in many places and bombed our cities from their planes - Zhitomir, Kiev, Sevastopol, Kaunas and some others, and more than two hundred people were killed and wounded. Enemy air raids and artillery shelling were also carried out from Romanian and Finnish territory ...
For many, this year was fatal. Many teenagers took part in the Great Patriotic War, and many did not return from it. Wives lost husbands, mothers - sons, grandmothers - grandchildren, girlfriends - friends, sisters - brothers, and daughters - fathers. Some children could not recognize their fathers and mothers, because they died at the front. The childhood of the children was incomparable. So it was:
Nobody knew how this war would end. She came very unexpectedly and fell on the shoulders of millions of innocent people. The Great Patriotic War caused great damage to the USSR.
Many went to the front, but much less returned. The soldiers fought honestly, they were ready to lose their lives in order to save the lives of others. They sacrificed themselves correctly and defended the country. But, alas, in view of the hostilities, someone was buried in their homeland, and someone in an unknown field, in an unknown country. Someone was not destined to be buried at home, in their native fields. But nobody can understand them. No one can understand how sad and lonely it is to lie in a foreign land, in a foreign country. Your body lies in the damp earth, and your soul strives to the sky, to its native land. I want to turn into a bird and fly away to my home. Or maybe some of the soldiers did just that. They turned into birds, flew into the sky and flew away to themselves. RG Gamzatov could have correctly written in his poem: “It seems to me sometimes that the soldiers,
From the bloody fields that did not come,
Once upon a time they did not fall into this ground,
And they turned into white cranes. "
Some of them returned to their homeland, to their relatives, to those close to them ... To the loved ones, for the sake of whom they went through the whole war, for the sake of which they went to certain death. But, fate decreed otherwise. The soldiers returned and wanted to see their relatives, but saw burnt huts, villages and graves of people close to them.
All had different fates, all were different ... But all were united by one problem - the Great Patriotic War.
Victory in the war is the merit of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers. Victory in the war is the price of great losses. Victory in the war is the dream of all its victims. Victory! Victory! Victory! Everyone was waiting for the victory! But the soldiers were able to deliver this victory to us.
I believe that we must remember everyone who sacrificed their lives for the sake of "... so that the sky was blue, there was green grass." So that we can live calmly and peacefully. For the sake of the horrors of war never flaring up over our peaceful sky, so that no one else perishes or kills. Someone tried, but someone can destroy everything in one moment. We should never try to start a war and keep it going. We must keep a bright memory of all the events of this war, we must remember its heroes.
Many books and poems have been written about the war, and many films have been made. Some events of the war cannot be conveyed in words. But it is better not to see them, not to worry yourself. The best thing is to listen to and imagine the war. War is associated with the words: death, doom, veterans, fear, hunger, cold, fascism, fire, pain, letters from the front, graves, obelisks, memory, victory, peaceful life. No one can ever wish such misfortune. No one will ever be able to survive the horrors of this war and convey in words. We can keep the bright memory of the war. We must never forget about her.
The events of the Great Patriotic War teach us to be patriots and heroes. To be ready to always come to the aid of the Motherland, as our grandfathers and great-grandfathers once came. We must be equal to them, and we will be equal to them! We will do everything in our power to ensure that there is a peaceful, serene blue sky over our heads, and so that the events of the Great Patriotic War are no longer repeated in the history of our Motherland!
On the eve of Germany's invasion of the USSR, Hitler's propaganda created an impartial image of Russians, depicting them as backward, devoid of spirituality, intelligence and even incapable of standing up for their Fatherland. Upon entering Soviet soil, the Germans were amazed that reality did not at all correspond to the ideas imposed on them.
And one warrior in the field
The first thing the German troops faced was fierce resistance from the Soviet soldier on literally every patch of their land. They were especially shocked that the "crazy Russians" were not afraid to engage in battle with forces several times superior to their own. One of the battalions of Army Group Center, consisting of at least 800 people, having overcome the first line of defense, was already confidently moving deep into Soviet territory, when it was suddenly fired upon by a detachment of five people. “I didn't expect anything like this! It is sheer suicide to attack the battalion with five fighters! " - Major Neuhof commented on the situation.
British historian Robert Kershaw in his book "1941 through the eyes of the Germans" cites a case of how the soldiers of the Wehrmacht, having shot a Soviet light tank T-26 from a 37-millimeter gun, without fear approached it. But suddenly his hatch opened unexpectedly and a tankman leaning out to his waist began to shoot the enemy with a pistol. Later, a shocking circumstance emerged: the Soviet soldier was without legs (they were blown off by the explosion of the tank), but this did not prevent him from fighting to the last.
An even more striking case was described by Lieutenant Hensfald, who ended his life at Stalingrad. It was not far from the Belarusian town of Krichev, where on July 17, 1941, senior sergeant Nikolai Sirotinin for two and a half hours alone, with the help of an artillery gun, restrained the advance of a column of German armored vehicles and infantry. As a result, the sergeant managed to fire almost 60 shells, which destroyed 10 German tanks and armored personnel carriers. Having killed the hero, the Germans nevertheless buried him with honors.
Heroism in the Blood
German officers have repeatedly admitted that they took prisoners extremely rarely, since the Russians preferred to fight to the last. "Even while burning alive, they continued to shoot back." “Sacrifice is in their blood”; "The hardening of the Russians cannot be compared with ours," the German generals never tired of repeating.
During one of the reconnaissance flights, the Soviet pilot discovered that there was no one on the way of the German column moving to Moscow for tens of kilometers. It was decided to throw into battle the completed Siberian regiment that had appeared at the airfield the day before. The German military recalled how suddenly low-flying planes appeared in front of the column, from which “white figures fell in clusters” onto the snow-covered field. These were Siberians, who became a human shield in front of the German tank brigades, they fearlessly threw themselves under the tracks of tanks with grenades. When the first batch of troops died, the second followed. Later it turned out that during the landing, about 12% of the fighters crashed, the rest died, having entered into an unequal battle with the enemy. But the Germans still managed to be stopped.
Mysterious Russian soul
The Russian character for the German soldiers remained a mystery. They could not understand why the peasants, who should have hated them, greeted them with bread and milk. One of the soldiers of the Wehrmacht recalled how in December 1941, during a retreat in a village near Borisov, an old woman brought him a loaf of bread and a jug of milk, crying in tears: "War, war."
Moreover, civilians often treated both the advancing Germans and the defeated with the same good nature. Major Kühner noted that he often witnessed Russian peasant women shouting over wounded or killed German soldiers as if they were their own children.
War veteran, Doctor of Historical Sciences Boris Sapunov said that when passing through the outskirts of Berlin, they often came across empty houses. The thing is that the local residents, under the influence of German propaganda, which painted the horrors allegedly created by the advancing Red Army, fled through the nearby forests. However, those who still stayed were surprised that the Russians did not try to rape women or take out property, but, on the contrary, offered their help.
They even pray
The Germans who came to Russian soil were ready to meet with crowds of militant atheists, as they were convinced that Bolshevism was extremely intolerant of the manifestation of religiosity. Therefore, they were greatly amazed that icons were hanging in Russian huts, and the population was wearing miniature crucifixes on their chests. The civilian Germans who met the Soviet ostarbeiters also faced the same problem. They were sincerely surprised by the stories of Russians who came to work in Germany, who told how many old churches and monasteries there were in the Soviet Union, and how carefully they kept their faith, performing religious rituals. “I thought the Russians had no religion, but they even pray,” said one of the German workers.
As staff physician von Grevenitz noted, during medical examinations it turned out that the overwhelming majority of Soviet girls were virgins. "The brilliance of purity" and "active virtue" radiated from their faces, and I felt the great power of this light, the doctor recalled.
No less Germans were struck by the Russians' loyalty to family duty. So, in the town of Zentenberg, 9 newborns were born and another 50 were waiting in the wings. All but two of them belonged to Soviet married couples. And although 6-8 couples huddled in one room, no licentiousness was observed in their behavior, the Germans recorded.
Russian craftsmen are cooler than Europeans
The propaganda of the Third Reich assured that, having exterminated the entire intelligentsia, the Bolsheviks left a faceless mass in the country, capable of performing only primitive work. However, the employees of the German enterprises where the Ostarbeiters worked were convinced of the opposite over and over again. In their memoranda, German masters often pointed out that the Russians were perplexed by the technical awareness of the Russians. One of the engineers of the city of Bayreuth remarked: “Our propaganda always portrays the Russians as stupid and stupid. But I have established the opposite here. While working, Russians think and do not look so stupid at all. It's better for me to have 2 Russians at work than 5 Italians. "
In their reports, the Germans stated that the Russian worker, by the most primitive means, can eliminate the malfunction of any mechanism. For example, at one of the enterprises in Frankfurt-on-Oder, a Soviet prisoner of war in a short time managed to find the cause of the engine breakdown, repair and start it, and this despite the fact that German specialists did not manage to do anything for many days.
Students have a porridge of dates in their heads, gleaned from Wikipedia - this is the common opinion about the cultural level of school and university graduates. Is it so? Have the new generations really lost touch with their great-grandfathers and do not want to know the history of their country?
On the eve of the next anniversary of the Victory in World War II, PRAVMIR conducted a survey among students of four Moscow universities: the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, the Moscow Road Institute (GTU), the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Orthodox St. Tikhon University for the Humanities.
We asked questions:
Has anyone from your family ever fought? Are there any awards left? What did the relatives in the family, who had gone through the war, tell?
Do you remember the start and end dates of World War II?
What are the main battles?
How would you characterize Hitler's ideology? What motivated him, why did he start a war, why people were destroyed? How would you characterize the Soviet Stalinist ideology of that period?
Do you know war poems and songs?
What is your favorite war movie or book?
Students were in a hurry to pair, they were afraid of the camera, they were simply not ready to communicate. Agreed to answer, it's good if every tenth.
Those who undertook to answer, sometimes confused the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War, did not name the USA as the allies of the USSR, and Japan as Germany, often could not remember poems and songs about the war, and sometimes even used the word "Entente".
At this point, you can fall into a cultural and humanitarian depression and grieve about the historical unconsciousness. But I won't.
... Student of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. A St. George's ribbon is pinned to the blouse - he is going to congratulate the veterans. He reads an excerpt from "Vasily Terkin" to the camera.
... Senior students of MADI - in detail and thoughtfully argue about the ideology of fascism.
... A girl from St. Tikhon's, beaming with joy, speaks of war songs, comparing them to prayer.
... Near the 1st humanitarian building of Moscow State University, students are discussing the past concert in honor of Victory Day. No, no, someone is going to the monument to the dead students and staff of Moscow State University who died during the war.
Economists, technicians, theologians, and humanities. We have deliberately selected four different universities to provide more varied responses from students.
In some ways they absolutely coincided.
In their words and voices, there is a poorly hidden pride in the exploits of their great-grandfathers. They are embarrassed if they cannot remember something: “What a horror! I forgot all the military songs "," What a disgrace! I don’t remember a single battle! ”,“ When did Germany attack Poland? Oh, how embarrassing! " They try to analyze the fascist and Soviet ideology, compare, avoid unfounded assessments.
Today's student watches "Only old men go to battle", reads "The dawns here are quiet", listens and hums "Katyusha". Today's student goes to congratulate veterans. Today's student to the question: "Did your loved ones participate in the Great Patriotic War?" - Raises his eyebrows in surprise and answers in a completely not memorized voice: "There is no family in our country that has not been affected by the war."
Moreover - globalism, the borders in the world are becoming thinner. Gradually, the Great Patriotic War becomes an episode, albeit an expensive and tragic one, of World War II, World War II - an episode in the history of the 20th century, and the 20th century has already passed, it is only a date in the passport, and continues to rapidly recede.
But today's youth do not have what can be called “historical unconsciousness”.