May 9. The Victory Day.

To remember

Today our whole big country celebrates Victory Day. This is a very important day in world history, because 75 years ago in Berlin finally ended the most terrible and destructive war in the history of Russia.

The Great Patriotic War was woven into the Second World War and the Soviet Union made the main contribution to the victory over the forces of evil.

Of course, in today's world there is no single point of view on those events, but we remember the feat of the people, the feat of the country that went through hell and won.

May 9 is a holy holiday for all Russian people, and not only Russians. I believe that Ukrainians and Belarusians, Armenians and Georgians, Tatars and Kazakhs, and many other nationalities also honor this day.

When I was a young man, I could easily meet people on the street who fought in that war. The veteran could be met on the bus and in line to the store. Of course, veterans came to honor the memory of their fallen comrades at the Eternal Flame memorial.

These people could tell me a lot of what is worth hearing about war, horrors and death. They were not very willing to share their memories, as this memory hurts.

But still, sometimes I managed to get to know each other and ask a veteran about past events, about what the war was like.

And the more I learn about the war, the more frightening and ugly her face becomes.

I began to constantly go on May 9 to the eternal flame as a child. Together with father and grandfather. Now I go alone. Every year I take photographs and I have already got a small selection dedicated to Victory Day.

The weather on this day is usually sunny and warm, but it happened that it was snowing or raining that day. But people still went to the memorial and carried flowers.

I had quite a few interesting meetings while visiting the memorial.

I met many interesting people.

Today in our city and country quarantine. I can’t go to the eternal flame and lay flowers to those who died protecting our homeland from the enemy.

But I remember, and this is my main task - to remember!

It is important that we all remember and never forget about that terrible war and that it would never happen again.

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