"Let's bow to those great years"

Let's bow to those great years,

To those glorious commanders and fighters,

And the marshals of the country, and the privates,

Let's worship both the dead and the living...

The anniversary of the Great Victory leaves no one indifferent. The realization of the fact that someone sacrificed youth, sacrificed life, makes you take a different look at the world around you. And the thought that he is fragile makes one value him with greater strength, with greater respect for those who have preserved this world at the cost of superhuman efforts...

By a long tradition warmly and solemnly on May 7, a festive concert was held in our school for veterans, home front workers and all those who, because of this war, did not know a happy childhood, dedicated to Victory Day. On this sunny day, veterans of pedagogical work, who devoted their whole lives to our school, became the guests of honor of the event. The students greeted the witnesses of the brutal war with flowers and warm words of gratitude. For them, teachers and students prepared a literary and musical composition. Poems, ballads, songs and dances from the Great Patriotic War sounded from the stage for dear guests. The concert was accompanied by a slide show about military events. Moved to tears

the audience, the speech of the teacher Kudryashova Yu.V. with a poem by M.V. Isakovsky "Russian woman", about the great feat of Russian mothers, sisters and wives who remained in the rear during the Great Patriotic War. On this day, an amazing atmosphere of warmth and national unity reigned. Our dear veterans accepted the performances of the guys with gratitude and warmth. Each composition was accompanied by soft singing of the elderly. With tears in their eyes, the veterans on that day recalled everything that happened many years ago. A solemn and poignant moment of silence honored the memory of those who did not live to see our days, giving their lives for our peacetime. How old people need such meetings, how our children need such meetings! The guys got the opportunity to add their own little note to the general festive mood, to say “Thank you” to those who gave us peaceful time. In conclusion

of the concert, the director of our school, Pichugina Irina Nikolaevna, congratulated the audience on Victory Day, on behalf of all grateful descendants, she wished the veterans and children of the war health and long life on peaceful land, and also thanked them for the feat of Victory and subsequent work in restoring destroyed cities and villages. She expressed gratitude to veteran teachers for their contribution to the upbringing and education of the younger generation in the post-war period and in the period of the country's revival. The heroes were presented with flowers and small gifts, after which everyone was invited to tea. A feeling of gratitude overwhelmed all the participants of the festive concert. We once again congratulate our veterans on Victory Day and wish them good health and long life!

On the eve of Victory Day, we asked the youngest (under 25) employees of our group of companies what May 9 means to them.

Specialists working in different companies of Sotsium holding shared their thoughts on the upcoming holiday.

Vladislav Glezdov, 22 years old, electrician of linear communication facilities in the linear technical department, SOTSIUM-TELECOM

Hthen for you, as a representative of the younger generation, today means Victory?

Gone are the days of the 1950s, when the Victory of 1945 was marked by the unbridled joy of peaceful life. Life without fear of bombing, hunger, devastation. Today, the great victory of our great-grandfathers and grandfathers is felt and empathized by us, subsequent generations, as a holiday of freedom and kindness.

For the younger generation, May 9 is a great holiday. A holiday given to us by strong people. And we owe them that we now live a prosperous, peaceful life, not knowing those monstrous humiliations and hardships that befell our ancestors on the battlefields and in concentration camps, in the hungry rear and on the front line. We can enjoy the peaceful sky above our heads. We, that is, our entire younger generation, will forever remember and honor the memory of the great warriors and with gratitude wish health and long life to all participants, veterans, home front workers.

Do your family celebrate Victory Day, do they remember relatives who fought? In your opinion, is the tradition of celebrating May 9 interrupted with the death of front-line soldiers? And is it necessary, in your opinion, to celebrate it so widely every year?

Whether or not to celebrate this holiday is the business of every person, every family. But be sure to remember it!

Victory Day is one of the favorite, touching, great holidays. This holiday is celebrated in our family. We are watching the Victory Parade; We go to concert venues and parks. We also congratulate the veterans and participants of the Great Patriotic War: we give carnations, we say warm words of gratitude for the peace they gave us. And, of course, we lay flowers at the Eternal Flame memorial and at the monuments to the heroes who participated in the war. At the festive table, we remember our grandfathers and great-grandfathers who lived at that time. Some fought on the front lines, while others "forged" victory in the rear. Someone died on the battlefields, someone returned home a winner. Our heroic grandmothers and great-grandmothers worked in the rear, in hunger and cold, suffered enemy occupation, illness, loss of loved ones. And all together they survived and defeated the enemy!

The tradition of celebrating May 9 should in no case be interrupted with the passing of this steadfast generation. This holiday is a gratitude to those people who gave their lives, survived and gave us a bright future. I think that this day should be remembered every year. It shows the solidarity of generations. When the older generation is surrounded by special attention, when the whole country salutes the soldiers who fought for our freedom not only on the fields of this war.

May 9 in Russia is a big and semantic holiday. We will definitely celebrate it with the whole family; as always, watch the Victory Parade, films about the Great Patriotic War.

This year we will also try to celebrate it. At the festive table we will listen to the stories of our grandfathers and grandmothers about the post-war period. If they are not next to us, we will call and congratulate. We will watch documentaries and feature films about this war; let's go for a walk in the parks, and if on the way we meet veterans and participants in the war, we will certainly congratulate and thank.

Everything that we were taught at school, that we learned from films and books, we will tell the next generation - our children and grandchildren. Let us recall some testimonies that our parents, grandparents told us. After all, it is their closest relatives - fathers, mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers - who were participants in those great victories at the front, in the rear, in the post-war years, in the difficult period of overcoming devastation and hunger.

We want to say heartfelt thanks and wish good health to those who gave us life without war - veterans and home front workers. This must be done by everyone, regardless of whether their ancestors fought in this war or not. Liberator warriors, you will always be a role model.

Celebrating this victory, we pay tribute to our people, before all the heroes we bow our heads for all the previous victories throughout the existence of our great people.

Viktor Titov, 21 years old, 3rd year student of P. M. Vostrukhin College of Communications No. 54. Currently doing an internship in the department of corporate networks, SOCIUM-TELECOM

The defeat of Nazi Germany and its allies in Europe was achieved as a result of the joint actions of the Soviet Union and its Western allies. Paying tribute to all the fighters against fascism, it should be recognized that the main merit in the defeat of Nazi Germany belongs to the USSR.

Undoubtedly, for every prudent inhabitant of our country, May 9 is a great day, a Holiday with a capital letter. The victory that came at such a high cost, at the cost of 25 million lives, means a lot to me. The historical and world significance of the Victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War lies not only in the liberation of its territory and the preservation of the integrity of its Motherland, but also in the liberation of the peoples of Europe from fascist enslavement. As a result of the victory, the international prestige of the USSR grew immeasurably, becoming a world power, without which not a single important issue could now be resolved. These are reasons to be proud of the Motherland.

In our family, unfortunately, Victory Day is not so widely celebrated, perhaps because the relatives who fought did not achieve significant success in terms of medals. I only know about my great-grandfather: he was a tanker and died in 1941, I don’t remember the exact place. As long as the ideas of our leadership regarding Victory Day coincide with the thoughts of the people, and as long as the veterans are alive, the tradition of celebrating Victory Day will not be interrupted, and May 9 will be so widely celebrated every year. In my opinion, annually and so widely in difficult economic conditions, it is probably not worth it.

For the last couple of years, May 9 and the May holidays have been associated with writing term papers. These May holidays, apparently, will go under the writing of the WRC.

But, of course, I will tell about the Victory first of all, if there are no new victories. It's worth doing it, of course.

Alexander Tyumenev, 20 years old, 3rd year student of the College of Communications No. 54 named after P. M. Vostrukhin. Currently doing an internship in the department of corporate networks, SOCIUM-TELECOM

May 9 - Great day. This is inexhaustible pride for the many peoples who united against the threat and were able to win. Thanks to their feat, we live a free life and enjoy the peaceful sky above our heads. We have a future! And I'm grateful for that.

In my family, we always celebrate Victory Day, remembering our great-grandfather, who fought on the border of Ukraine and Russia. And there is a little story about his exploits. He began serving when he was about 25 years old; the war began when he was 27. During the hostilities, he and his colleagues were taken prisoner and put in a barn, guarded and left. We all know our dilapidated sheds, which usually contain a lot of rubbish, fortunately, this one was just like that. He managed to get out through the roof with his comrades, neutralize all the enemies and go further on the offensive. One of his comrades wrote about this to my great-grandmother. Unfortunately, no more letters have been received.

Almost everyone has a relative who fought in the war, and for everyone he is an example, a hero who gave us what we have.

Celebrate widely, of course! It is very important to remind people of the history of war and victory, and such a big holiday is like a tribute to all the people who risked their lives for us.

On the morning of May 9, I will go to Red Square to watch the parade of equipment and aviation. The latest technology will be shown there, which in the near future will be able to protect our country from possible attacks. Also look at the colorful fireworks. I'm sure it will be interesting and not boring.

The main thing is to never forget about the exploits of our heroes, and we will definitely bring up the same sense of respect for them in our children and grandchildren!

Sergey Filimonov, 21 years old, 4th year student of National Research University MAI, duty engineer of technical support service, SOTSIUM-TELECOM

For me, May 9 has always been, is and will be a Great Day. From the stories of grandparents, I know what they had to go through, what they experienced. For me, May 9 is not just Victory Day, it is the day on which the largest war ended, and in which millions of people died, thanks to them we now live.

In my family, Victory Day is celebrated by gathering the whole family at the table, stories and discussion of any moments related to the family, and after dinner, grandfather talks about the war ... I believe that the tradition does not pass and will not pass, and this holiday should be celebrated so widely !

I spend the morning and afternoon of May 9 with my family, in the evening I go for a walk to the center with a girl, and at 21.00 I usually go to the observation deck of Sparrow Hills.

I will tell my children about the cost of this victory. Of course, it is worth doing, I can’t put into words why, I just know for myself what is needed.

Ivan Chapkin, 24 years old, system administrator of the corporate networks department, SOTSIUM-TELECOM

What does Victory mean to you, as a representative of the younger generation, today?

Celebration of the victory of the Red Army and the Soviet people over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. I am grateful to all that Russia, which courageously defended its borders, despite the numerical superiority of the enemy, having won such a significant victory for us.

Do your family celebrate Victory Day, do they remember relatives who fought?

Of course, this is a single holiday for all of us; my great-grandfather fought, and fortunately, returned home.

In your opinion, is the tradition of celebrating May 9 interrupted with the death of front-line soldiers?

May 9 will be relevant as long as we remain human. We must remember those who won us a peaceful sky above our heads.

And is it necessary, in your opinion, to celebrate it so widely every year?

There is no one else to remember them but us. Moreover, they are deliberately deleted from history. So, if you don’t want only the edge of your sleeve from your grandfather to remain in the frame, celebrate as much as you can. Who but us?

I will visit my grandparents; I plan to attend any festive events organized in Moscow.

What will you tell your children about the war, about the Victory? And is it worth it, in your opinion?

I will try to unobtrusively and truthfully tell how everything really happened, without distorting the story.

“Remember, we honor, we are proud!” Essay dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War

May 9, 2015 - 70 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Just one line, but how voluminous and significant it is, how much heartache and suffering of our fathers, mothers and grandfathers, who, in spite of everything, forged such a long-awaited victory over fascism, showing heroism and courage, which have always been a hallmark of our people for many centuries. It was they who were the main creators of the victory, and the statements of some historians and politicians about belittling their role in the liberation of the peoples of Europe from Nazism cause anger and indignation.
Their heroism knows no bounds, and pride in them fills our grateful and faithful hearts. They went through the crucible of fierce battles, but remained modest and decent, glowing from the inside with human kindness, always attentive and caring, gentle and sensitive, strict but fair. This is how I remember my grandfather, Klyuev Anatoly Andreevich, who started the war in the spurs of the Caucasus and ended it in Vienna, the capital of Austria. In front of me lies an old yellowed photograph.

I will erect a granite monument to him
And I will make a fence and a bench...
And as if in the garden that they left,
I will bring my family to the grave.

What he created, I will save, decorate,
And I will teach you to take care of your children,
Let them also be in the garden that they have planted.
Grow flowers and make people happy!

And I don't want to believe it
That he left us forever
No, he lives and will live in the world!
The lighthouse lamp is on and has not gone out!

To live with honor, we must remember our history, be proud and honor those who fought for all of us. This memory is sacred and noble. And now it becomes more relevant than ever. It is impossible to believe that at the beginning of the 21st century in some Western countries, especially in the Baltic States and Ukraine, the ideas of fascism are being revived, the unfinished Bandera and Nazis are raising their heads, marching through the streets of Riga and Kiev with the full connivance and even favor of the local authorities. It is hard to believe that in the year of the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory this is happening before our very eyes. This bacchanalia must not be allowed to grow, this monster must be nipped in the bud.
And I think, I am sure that we, the descendants of the victors, will do this, will not disgrace them and give a worthy rebuff to modern barbarians and encroachers on the most precious thing for a person - his life. This is our destiny, our sacred duty to veterans, to their blessed memory.

We remember, we honor, we are proud of you!
We believe that after many years
Victory won in May
Nobody will ever forget!

X All-Russian Competition named after Vladimir Mezentsev "Young Journalists of Russia".

Nomination - "Essay".

Participant - Diana Rakhmangulova.

On May 9, 1945, the Great Patriotic War ended. This bloody battle lasted 1418 unbearably long and terrible days. Our ancestors fought not just for the Victory, they fought for the future world in which we now live, for life, past, present and future. We owe this life and freedom to our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers. It is to them that we say thank you not only today, but every day.

Every year there are less and less veterans who courageously and heroically went through all the hardships and hardships of wartime. The only thing we can do for the heroes of the Great Patriotic War is to honor and sacredly keep the memory of their truly great Victory. By passing on these bitter memories to our children, we are building a world without war in the future.

On Victory Day, the procession of the "Immortal Regiment" will pass through the streets of many Russian cities. Anyone can participate in this solemn event. The Roshchi school did not stand aside. On May 9, a column of people will also pass in Roshchino, who will carry portraits of their relatives, participants in that war. A huge number of photographs were collected for this action. After all, we must know the faces of the defenders of our Fatherland. The "record holder" for the number of photographs collected at the Roshinsky school was the 9th "A" class. There are 14 portraits hanging in their office. The class teacher Nadezhda Vladimirovna Pakhomchik held a class hour dedicated to Victory Day, where children proudly talked about the life of their ancestors.

Sparing no effort and time, the guys were looking for information about their relatives. So, Anastasia Kushvintseva and her mother contacted the Ministry of Defense with a request for information about her maternal great-grandfather. They managed to find out that Nastya's great-grandfather, Khabibulin Gilmitdin Khaibulovich, served as a mortar operator on the 1st Belorussian Front. Despite being wounded, he reached Berlin. For bravery and courage he was awarded many medals.

Our ancestors possessed great fortitude and courage. Being very young boys and girls, they went to the front without fear. Great grandfather Christina Varfolomeeva Sergachev Alexander Nikitich, and great-grandfather of Arina Kostsova Lyashov Ivan Ivanovich, met the war at the age of 18, and great-grandfather Victoria Okuneva , Yanzakov Galimula Zainulovich, went to the front as a volunteer when he was only 17 years old. By the will of fate, these brave youths spent their young years sitting in the trenches and escaping from the incessant fire.

Many of those who became a participant in hostilities were seriously injured. But they stubbornly rushed to the battlefield to help their comrades, ignoring the bloodied bandages. great-grandfather Ekaterina Stolbushkina, Markin Ivan Petrovich, died defending the Brest Fortress, when he was 21 years old. Another great-grandfather of Katya, Vlasov Nikolai Andreevich, was mortally wounded by a German shell while on a night post. great-grandfather Anastasia Kokorina , Nasonov Georgy Georgievich, was wounded three times, was taken prisoner, but after all the tests he returned to duty, continuing to carry out military service.

There were also those who did not participate in the battles, but were in constant combat readiness. Tatyanenko Grigory Ivanovich, great grandfather Irina Tatyanenko, twice drafted into the Red Army. He spent the beginning of the Second World War on the "Turkish border", then served in the Far East as the first number of a machine-gun crew.

- My great-grandfathers Stasyuk Petr Sergeevich and Shorsky Timofey Osipovich are for me an example of true stamina, love of life and dedication and, - says Ivan Gromak with great enthusiasm. – Listening to stories about their lives, I understand what a courageous people they were, combining amazing courage and extraordinary diligence. To go through the Patriotic War is a huge feat that requires eternal memory and honor. And I remember it!

Another 9th grade student, Daria Ivanova, spoke about her family.

- Two of my great-grandfathers participated in the war, Glukhikh Ivan Pavlovich and Bocharov Boris Pavlovich. My ancestors worked and fought for us to live in a free and great country. They are the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, they are my heroes, and I am proud of them!

We live in a peaceful, happy time. If not for their heroism, courage, fortitude, courage, patriotism, then we would not exist. One of these heroic people was my great-grandfather, Sergachev Alexander Nikitich. He fought in tank units. During the battles, great-grandfather was seriously injured, burned in a tank, so he did not live long after the war, he was only 38 years old. I am proud of my great-grandfather and will always remember him, - proudly says Kristina Varfolomeeva, remembering him.

After a hundred or even a thousand years, nothing will be forgotten. After all, without the memory of the past, there is no future. “War will not change the world. War is a betrayal of the whole world,” wrote L.S. Sukhorukov. Indeed, the victims of war will forever remind us of its destructive power so that we do not try to build our world on the bones of people. Ask your great-grandparents: war is a terrible time that no one likes to talk about. This is probably the worst thing that can happen to humanity. Therefore, the memory of the war remains forever in human hearts to protect them from similar mistakes. We will always honor those who won the great Victory for the world.

Diana RAKHMANGULOVA,

Municipal general education institution

Roshchinskaya secondary general education naya school, grade 10

In order for a child to truly feel all the tragedy and heroism of the history of the Great Patriotic War, fertile soil is needed in which these seeds will be sown - a developed cultural layer. Culture is not given to a child upon birth, it is instilled through proper upbringing. Therefore, it is necessary to make every effort to educate a real person in a child - thinking, empathizing, kind ...

A story left in the heart

This true story about the events of the Great Patriotic War was told to me by my grandmother - the only time in my life and only to me.

Nazi military formations, including Italians and Romanians, settled on the territory of the occupied Donbass. Settling in the occupied territory, they drove the civilians out of their homes. Nobody stood on ceremony with the locals - the dwellings were seized, and the modest belongings of the owners were simply thrown out the windows. As a result, people were forced to huddle several families in one room, separated by curtains - such housing was called a "corner".

Grandfather went to the front at the beginning of the war, grandmother remained the only breadwinner for the family. The family was poor, and soon all the more or less decent things in the house were exchanged for food, because hunger began. They ate quinoa and potato peels… My mother was three years old when the war started, and her younger sister was recently born. Having lived until the middle of the war, she never learned to walk due to systematic malnutrition ... Once, having gone in search of at least some food, her grandmother could not return: during a raid, she was caught by the police and sent to a concentration camp. The children were left in the care of the old mother-in-law.

After three months of work in a concentration camp in inhuman conditions, a transfer to Germany was scheduled. Grandmother begged to leave her, explaining with gestures that she had two children. And they took pity on her (and her younger brother, who was with her in a concentration camp, was sent to Germany, where he disappeared without a trace). Only when she returned home, it turned out that there were no longer two children - the youngest daughter died of starvation, without waiting only three days for her mother to return ...

Crushed by grief, the mother went to the cemetery and began to dig the frozen earth of the grave. She took out the coffin, opened it and began to mourn her dead child. The pain of losing a child is almost impossible to bear. It was even worse because, when leaving, the grandmother promised to return soon and the baby waited for her mother for many days, shuddering from every slam of the front door. But I didn't wait...

The story is not for the faint of heart, is it? Now imagine that I heard this story as a little girl. I was born under a peaceful sky, I watched a considerable number of heroic films about the war, and this story of my family told by my grandmother seemed so strange and scary to me ... But, becoming an adult, I discovered that my grandmother's story remained forever in my memory in the form of a scar on my heart , which begins to hurt whenever it comes to that terrible war.

Today, when I watch my children eat, I think about how terrible it is for a mother when your hungry child asks for food, but there is nothing to give him. And it really hurts inside me, although I was born after the war and did not know hunger. And sometimes photos of children tortured during the war pop up in my memory - and I shudder with horror.

Someone might say: “Well, why all these negative emotions in our peaceful life today?”

Taking the pain of war as one's own is an inoculation against distortions of history. Let there be scars on the heart from the pain experienced, but this will not allow anyone to knock down your inner moral compass, it will never make you doubt the heroism of grandparents! Having passed the pain of the war through yourself, you begin to perceive the history of your people only correctly and identify yourself with them. And the desire to go to distant lands in search of happiness disappears, but on the contrary, there is a desire to give all their talents and skills for the good of their native country and the Russian people.

Have time not to be late

While the child is small, we protect him from too cruel information about the world and people. But we must remember that the basis of human education is the age before puberty. Having entered a difficult transitional age, the child ceases to be a child - he gradually turns into an adult and breaks away from his parents. Adolescents form their own "flock", in which the opinion of peers, and even more so of the leader, becomes orders of magnitude more significant than the opinion of adults - parents at home, teachers at school.

It seems that finally, with a grown child, you can speak on an equal footing. But it may turn out that he refuses to listen to you, moreover, he will express his opinion, which may turn out to be diametrically opposed to yours. Teenagers can be stubborn and difficult to communicate, so the foundation of education must be created before entering a difficult age period. Of course, the educator himself must possess all those wonderful qualities that he seeks to instill in his pupil.

The continuity of generations

In recent years, there have been numerous attempts to rewrite the history of World War II and revise its outcome. We can say that the balance in the world, which arose after the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War, was shaken ... Therefore, today it is especially important to pass on to children and grandchildren real knowledge and memory of the Victory in the most terrible war in the history of mankind, of the heroism of our ancestors, to which we owe our present and future, life itself.

However, in the modern world, the psychological, intellectual, spiritual gap between generations is so great that society, perhaps for the first time in history, is faced with a situation where it is very difficult to pass on the experience of predecessors and the historical memory of the people to the younger generation. Let's take a closer look at how best to pass on the memory of the Great Patriotic War to our children.

Our heroic story

A very important question: how to teach history to children? Actual history always contains betrayal, treachery, and a sea of ​​blood... However, in order for children to want to be part of the people, to identify themselves with them, it is necessary to show the most heroic pages of history that cause real pride in their ancestors. This is exactly what they do in different countries of the world, and even if there is nothing to be proud of, they come up with legends. All the best is concentrated in one hero.

The history of the Russian people and state is truly heroic. However, today, when there is no state ideology, and an ongoing information war is being waged against our country, they are trying to present us completely ... This state of affairs has been going on for the third decade and, as a result, has led to the fact that even at school, children are told not about the heroism of our ancestors, but about the weakest and most difficult moments in history: about the heaviest losses and mediocre military leadership in the first days and months of the war, about detachments that drove soldiers into the attack under pain of death, etc.

Such an incorrect presentation of information, when the facts of history are sometimes distorted beyond recognition - some important things and events are hushed up, while others, on the contrary, are presented in an overly exaggerated form - as a result, children do not develop pride in the Victory of the people, but desire to justify In the worst case, schoolchildren do not identify themselves with the victorious people at all and are ready to renounce their homeland and leave the country.

Therefore, the upbringing of our children in the spirit of love for the Motherland, the transfer of the historical memory of the Russian people to them is the question “To be or not to be?” for the entire Russian world! Today, we all need to make every effort not to lose a whole generation, because today they are children, and tomorrow - the Russian people. How can we help them feel pride in the deeds of their heroic ancestors with all their being? Knowledge of real undistorted history, the formation of historical memory of the exploits of our people.

Holiday with tears in my eyes

Of course, we must begin with a holiday - the great Victory Day. Even small children can be actively involved in this important event, starting from preschool age. On the eve of the holiday, introduce your baby to the history of the St. George ribbon, purchase flags and badges with the symbols of May 9th. Show photos from the family archive and tell about relatives who participated in the Great Patriotic War, adapting these family stories for their perception by a small child.

At present, festive concerts, parades of military equipment, meetings with veterans are being organized in schools and kindergartens, where everyone can come - be sure to take part in them. Together, watch the Victory Parade on Red Square and fireworks, which are broadcast throughout the country.

For the past few years, on Victory Day, the streets of Russian cities and the whole world have been marching - take part in the procession with your child, preferably with the whole family. The memory of this significant event will remain for a long time, perhaps for a lifetime. Photos and videos of your participation in the procession will help you with this. But even more important is that special feeling of unity, when, following in a large column of people carrying portraits of heroic ancestors, you can feel like a part of a large whole - the Russian people.

Tell your child about the meaning of the Eternal Flame, lay flowers together at the Eternal Flame and the monument to the Unknown Soldier, which can be done not far from home. When the child grows up, you can organize an excursion to Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow, to the memorial complex "Panfilov Heroes" in the Moscow Region, visit Mamaev Kurgan and see the majestic sculpture "Motherland Calls!" in Volgograd and other monuments dedicated to the heroism of our people who won the Great Patriotic War.

But if we dwell on this, then Victory Day will remain for children born decades later, only a holiday. And we will not see those very tears in their eyes, which are sung in the song “Victory Day” ... To let the Great History of the Russian people and its Victory through the heart, you need to get sensual impressions - get involved emotionally, feel the pain of heavy losses, pride in heroism and the joy of the long-awaited Victory as their own.

sacred pain

No matter how much we give children information about the Great Patriotic War and how much we involve them in various events dedicated to Victory Day, this information often remains formal. Without genuine involvement, without sensual living, it is impossible to instill in children the historical memory of the people. Flags, St. George's ribbons, tunics and caps with red stars, tricolor balloons - it's beautiful, joyful and pleasant. And it should “penetrate to the bone”, hurt to the very heart, become an inoculation for life - from atrocities, from fascism, from the horrors of war. This means that it is necessary to go through mental trials, to see and hear what is unbearably painful to watch and hear, but absolutely necessary.

Offer a younger student to read a series of books "Pioneer Heroes", which tells about the exploits of children during the Great Patriotic War. Pick up other books about the war that tell the truth about it, without distorting the story. Listen together to military songs that leave few people indifferent. Watch films about the war with your child - both old and new, discuss what you see. About how they volunteered for the front en masse, how they caught spies and saboteurs, how teenagers stood at the machines, making parts for tanks and aircraft ... How the whole vast country lived with one hope, one goal - Victory! How everyone gave of himself as much as possible in order to bring victory closer.

Introduce an older child to documents from the Second World War - photos, videos, texts. In recent years, the archives of the times of the Great Patriotic War have been opened and made publicly available. Take a look at these sites with your child - read the descriptions of the heroism shown during the battles in the presentations for awards. Look with him into the faces of war children in documentary photographs - hungry, frightened, deprived of parents and shelter, tortured to death. Read the blockade diary of Tanya Savicheva or the diary of the Jewish girl Anne Frank together. Read the letters of the veterans.

With older children who are already mentally mature and ready to perceive adult information, you can watch documentary footage of the military chronicle, testifying both to the bloody battles to liberate our cities from the Nazis, and to the cruel mockery of the Nazis and those who supported them over the civilian population …

A shocking film that is very painful to watch, but necessary. For anyone who sees this film and passes it through, life will be divided into before and after. The film is a vaccine against cruelty, Nazism and the horrors of war.

Today we live under a peaceful sky, our children do not know hunger and deprivation - they eat sweet cakes and watch American cartoons. However, true knowledge about the most cruel and bloody war in the history of mankind, in which our people managed to win, is absolutely necessary: ​​at least - to save ourselves, as a maximum - to respect our roots, love our Motherland and create the future together.

For the seeds of education to sprout

Having taken up the patriotic upbringing of a child, modern parents may face problems ... A child may not want to hear about the war - such information is felt for them difficult, painful, requiring a way out of their comfort zone. Or even if the child listens and looks, he remains indifferent, not involved in what is happening on the pages of the book or on the screen. He does not identify himself with the heroes of this war and the Russian people. But do not despair.

In order for a child to truly feel all the tragedy and heroism of the history of the Great Patriotic War, fertile soil is needed in which these seeds will be sown - a developed cultural layer. Culture is not given to a child upon birth, it is instilled through proper upbringing. In a small child, the cultural layer is not yet developed - familiarization with culture continues until adolescence. Therefore, it is necessary to make every effort to educate a real person in a child - thinking, empathizing, kind.

This happens mainly due to the fact that it creates psychologically very healthy and correct associative series, gives the right guidelines in life, builds up and strengthens the inner moral core. After all, culture is an unconditional value of human life, it is an internal prohibition on manifestations of cruelty towards other people. “The Little Match Girl” by Hans Christian Andersen, “Children of the Underground” by Vladimir Korolenko or “Without a Family” by Hector Malo - such works are selected in accordance with the age of the child and the level of his emotional development, and in this way the soul of the child works and develops.

If a person's cultural layer is developed, then over time the seeds of education will sprout. And then you will find that "no one is forgotten and nothing is forgotten." And our children and grandchildren will also cry on Victory Day.

If we really take care of our children, only in this case we will have a future: we will be able to hand over the country and the state to our grown-up children with the confidence that Russia is their real Motherland, that they will preserve our great country and confidently take her to the future.

Proofreader: Natalia Konovalova