This year the jubilee medal, «Eighty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945», was issued by 9 May. This award was conceived for veterans of the most terrible of wars – front-line soldiers, partisans and those who forged Victory in the rear. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of them left today, at most a few dozen…
We are celebrating the eightieth anniversary of the Great Victory in the new issue of the Russian Mind magazine. With war veterans and with our contemporaries alike. Among the authors are the remarkable front – line writer Yuri Bondarev, along with famous scholars, historians, publicists, and poets who wrote about the war. Most of these stories are deeply personal, as in the country that lost many millions of its sons and daughters in the fight against the invaders, the fate of the Motherland was the fate of every citizen – from the very first day of the war to the last.
Mikhail Myagkov, a PhD in History, Research Director of the Russian Military Historical Society, will talk about the historical context in which the Great Patriotic War broke out. And the Battles of the Dnieper and Berlin, Moscow and the Caucasus will become a front-line theatre of reports and essays…
The memoirs by Elena Tarakanova, the front-line nurse who carried 102 wounded soldiers from the battlefield and was wounded twice, will take a special place. Elena Filippovna (a native of Chervonaya Polyana of the Voroshilovgrad region) kept these records almost throughout the war, at considerable risk to herself: recording testimonies from the battlefield was strictly forbidden in the Red Army.
We will also tell readers about the significant role of the Russian Church in the war days, about the clergy patriots. In our Victory issue we will remember our compatriots, the Great Patriotic War heroes: famous and even more unknown ones.
Greetings on the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, dear readers!
By Kirill Privalov
