Government officials and local residents lay flowers and wreaths at the graves of unknown soldiers, monuments of military glory, memorials.
One of the most iconic and dear places for every Belarusian, connected with the Great Patriotic War, is the historical and cultural complex "Stalin's Line". It was visited by a delegation of the Minsk region to lay flowers at the famous restored artillery half-caponier, to pay tribute to the memory and respect of the heroes of the war.
- May 9 is both a sad and a bright holiday for me and my family. My grandfather was a participant in the Great Patriotic War - he met 1941 in Bryansk, worked as a director of a metallurgical plant. The Germans were advancing, and grandfather, so that the Nazis would not occupy the plant for their own purposes, decided to blow it up. He took all the people out of the shops and destroyed the plant. But one of his own people betrayed him to the Germans, they shot him, ”says a participant in the rally, volunteer Maya Smirnova. - I try to visit Stalin's Line several times a year. In my opinion, this is the largest and most grandiose open-air museum associated with the events of the war. Every Belarusian should visit this place at least once in his life.
- I remember what the Stalin Line was like before its creation. It was just a forest, and in 2004 this place began to transform. Soldiers worked, we also took part: landscaping the adjacent territory. The decision was correct - to open such a large-scale complex where you can see the reconstruction of battles, military equipment, trenches. Thousands of people come here every year: this means that young people remember and appreciate what the generation of people who we call and will always call winners have done for them,'' says Varvara Mitrofanova-Smirnova, chairman of the Loshansk village council of the Minsk region.
Written by belta.by
