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“We All Fought for Our Country…”

It was the title of the literary and musical performance which took place on June, 21, at the Excursion-Exhibition Centre “The People’s House”, at the evening meeting dedicated to the Day of Memory and Mourning.

The members of the meeting, Director of the Museum-Reserve, A.M.Sholokhov, Deputy Head of the Sholokhov District, T.A.Syadneva, rector of the Vyoshenskaya church, V.Polyakov, veterans of the Great Patriotic War and residents of Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya, were shown the performance by the students and teachers of the Sholokhov Teacher Training College. The literary and musical composition through the memoirs of the war veterans, old residents of the Sholokhov District, front newspapers, photos, war newsreels told the audience about the war, the defence of Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya and liberation of the district from the German fascist invaders.

In the show the personages were the Teacher School graduates of 1941. They experienced their first love, start into adulthood, worry for each other and dreamed of their future not knowing yet that the next day the war would cross out their lives.

The composition told about the Russian national fortitude, moral firmness and ability to sacrifice for the salvation of our native land.

The past 72 years separate us from that dreadful day, June, 22, 1941, when the Great Patriotic War broke out, which took away the lives of millions of people. More than 13.000 Cossack men and women of Vyoshenskaya went to the front… Every other man died defending the native land.

The memory of the day will always make us feel a great sorrow for those who defended our freedom at the cost of their lives, and we are deeply grateful for those who fought for our Country at the fronts and who working in the rear contributed to gaining the Victory.

Tatiyana Galitsyna
Olga Sivolobova