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The 65th Victory Day in Vyoshenskaya

On May, 9, the residents of Stanitsa  Vyoshenskaya marched in a holiday column headed by the veterans of the Great Patriotic war, to the memorial of the perished soldiers. There was a solemn meeting dedicated to the 65^th anniversary of the Great Victory.

More than 13 thousand of our countrymen went to the front of the Great Patriotic war. Every second of them didn’t return home, having perished for their native land. No matter how long it may pass, we would remember their names forever. The Great Patriotic war would never pass into oblivion in the memory of our people.

On that day the meeting participants also remembered their countryman writer, a war correspondent, the author of moving war essays, the story “The Science of Hatred” and the novel “They Fought for Their Country”, colonel Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov.

As the war began, Sholokhov addressed his telegram to the State Defence Commissar Timoshenko about his readiness of joining the country’s defenders. He conveyed his State Prize for his novel “And Quiet Flows the Don” to the State Defence Fund.

In the July of 1941 the writer went to the front as a war correspondent to the Soviet Inform Bureau, to the newspapers of “Pravda”, “Krasnaya Zvezda”, he took part in the battles under Smolensk at the Western front and under Rostov at the Southern front, he shared hardships of those severe days of the Volga battle with the soldiers, he went through the war as far as the German boundary, went to the soldiers in the suburbs of Konigsberg.

Colonel Sholokhov’s field shirt was decorated with the Order of the Patriotic War of the First Degree, the medals “For Defending Moscow”, “For Defending Stalingrad”, “For the Victory over Fascist Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945”.

After the war the writer, as well as his dear countrymen, participated in reestablishing the economy destroyed by the war, reviving the Don villages and stanitsas, went on working over his novel “They Fought for Their Country” and wrote the story “The Fate of a Man”.

Congratulating the stanitsa’s countrymen for the Victory Day the director of the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve Alexander Mikhailovich Sholokhov emphasized the importance of bearing in memory the value of gaining peace in the native land. We are highly elated about the war veterans who went through the battle crucible, pain of losses, sufferings, put out their unbending spirit, crashed the cruel enemy and brought liberation to their country and the peoples of Europe.

On that day a grand gala concert took place in the main square, and in the evening old and young enjoyed a disco and a firework and loudly cheered the Victory.

S. Gribanov