MAY 9, 2015 – 70 YEARS SINCE THE VICTORY IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

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Just a few days separate us from the 9th of May –
OUR VICTORY DAY IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR.

70 years of peaceful world…

These years were so different: the years of outstanding achievements and outrageous irresponsibility, the years of right decisions and crazy mistakes, the years of success and failures, of great discoveries and fussy mess…

But the main thing, these were the 70 years of peace.

And over these years, several generations grew up, millions of people were brought up to replace those millions who perished fearlessly and have not been counted yet to the last person: missed in actions, dead of hunger, tortured to death in concentration camps, executed by shooting and hanging in occupied lands.

What a beautiful city our Moscow is from the height of the Vorob'yovy Hills!

Let's recall everyone who saved the capital of our Motherland in the Great Patriotic War…

It is so pleasant to admire our city from observation site while eating ice cream from a wafer cup!

Let's recall everyone who died of hunger in besieged Leningrad…

And there will be salute in the evening – from the Vorob'yovy Hills, it will be an unforgettable sight!

Let’s recall everyone who perished: in Brest Fortress, at Rzhev, at Novgorod, Smoliensk, who fell in combats to save Stalingrad, Kursk, Minsk, Kiev, who fell in the final days of war liberating Warsaw, Prague, who reached very Berlin…

All our land is covered with those perished in the years of the Great War.

They are our land.

We’ve learned this at one's mothers’ knees…

The sky over the spire of Moscow State University is so bottomless, so blue! The spire is glaring against it as the Star of Bethlehem…

So they are marching in countless rows over the sky: over the spire of the University, over the Vorob'yovy Hills, over Red Square, over all our country…

They are our sky.

Every second we breathe them in…

They are in our lungs and our hearts, in our mind and our blood.

They are we.

HAPPY HOLIDAY! HAPPY VICTORY DAY!

Margarita Siourina, May 2015, Moscow

 

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