More than one person in my practice was interested in the frankly stupid question: who won the war after all? And why the winners are clearly inferior to the losers in many issues.
I will not touch upon the economic component of this issue. This is none of my business now, and so many copies have already been broken that I just don't feel like repeating.
Most of all I am interested in how and why such an attitude to this issue was formed. How many times the question of the need to strengthen the work on patriotic education, the revival of high moral and ethical ideals has been raised … But things are still there.
No, outwardly everything is very even. Flags and fireworks on May 9, solemn reports that the next veteran was finally given the housing that he deserved 70 years ago, stories and reports. Yes, all of you, dear readers, observe all this every year, from mid-April to mid-May. And then silence. Until next year. And everyone, apparently, is happy with everything.
I am actually standing in the center of Voronezh. Well, almost in the center. Here is the second largest mass burial of the remains of Soviet soldiers and officers who died in the battle for Voronezh in 1942-43. And only one out of 100 (or maybe this figure is even more, there is no exact data) of the soldiers is installed and lies under his own name.
Here everyone is equal: soldiers of NKVD regiments, Siberian rifle divisions, units of 40 and 60 armies, Voronezh militias.
This is how the entrance and the path leading to the memorial look like.
This is how everything else looks today.
Maybe I'm wrong. But the burial place of warriors-liberators, warriors-victors should not look like this. At least in the center of the millionth city. If only because this city bears the name of the city of military glory.
Here lie those who were able to hold the last piece of the right bank of the city. Clutching hands, teeth, lives in this small foothold. And now, 70 years later, the place of their glory looks like this. Deservedly? Rhetorical, in general, a question.
Much is now being said about the need for correct patriotic education. And it seems that something is being done. My (probably) stupid opinion is that everyone should be honored. Regardless of where the monument is located: in the center of the millionth city or at the junction in the Liskinsky district. The memory of every soldier who died in that war is our property. And I am sorry that our heritage is often treated this way.
