With portraits of soldiers the protesters “Immortal regiment” dream to pass on Red Square – First Channel

At a parade in honor of Victory Day this year, you may receive a special part. With the idea of ​​May 9 to pass on Red Square with photos of the dead at the front today, the organizers were “Immortal regiment.” History of the Great War, their descendants kept as particles of folk history, then it’s “no one is forgotten”.

At the parade in honor of Victory Day this year, you may receive a special part. With the idea of ​​May 9 to pass on Red Square with photos of the dead at the front today, the organizers were “Immortal regiment.” History of the Great War, their descendants kept as particles of folk history, then it’s “no one is forgotten”.

“I do not know that I have a grandfather. All he knew the name – Victor “- says Mikhail Sidelnikov, the grandson of the Great Patriotic War.

Michael Sidel’nikov lost peace. Grandmother recently let slip about the heroic ancestor who fought in the Great Patriotic War.

Fascinated by a descendant of the family began to search the archive. Old suitcase with yellowed photos stored on the bottom of the photo is the only war veteran, the benefit with the caption: Morozov.

Hands not lowered. Asked relatives, bombed archive. Wanted to know which way the roads of war went grandfather. It turned out that was killed in the battle of Stalingrad. And now he will again be in the ranks. In the “Immortal regiment” Portrait of Victor Morozov incur grandson. For him, as for thousands of others, this action is more than just march. So learn the history of their own families.

“Every photograph – a family. People get them from albums. Scans, tell their children. This is my grandfather, my father. What is the Great Patriotic War in the faces of his family, it may be more important than the parade. We have a lot of controversy on the history books, a lot of information on the Internet, and generation responds differently to these stuffing “- said the co-chairman of the Popular Front Alexander Brechalov.

Where and how in the year anniversary of the Victory will take place” Immortal Regiment “, told today’s press conference, representatives of the Popular Front. The action will be nationwide. And it began three years ago in Tomsk. Now he walks up the whole country. 500 participating cities. With cardboard tablets look young and old, serious and smiling characters from the past. Photos of those who have not forgotten the streets of St. Petersburg river carried from adults and children. At full strength, and there was a family Kunis. Their men defended Leningrad. It took 70 years, but for the feat of his relatives still grateful to tears.

“May 9, I went with the” Immortal regiment “of the Uprising Square Palace Square and saw what a lot of people, all interested in. This year, of course, will go to repay the debt, the debt to their ancestors . When I look at his picture, I had tears pouring. How can you forget it? ” – Says the daughter of a war veteran Maria Kunis.

The Immortal regiment before going on Poklonnaya Hill, but portraits of the Great Patriotic they dream to carry on May 9 Red Square. Russian Popular Front supported the idea.

“Our grandfathers, not all, not all were able to go in June 1945 at the Victory Parade. Let their grandchildren will carry the memory of them. Maybe they have heard and seen. It seems to me a great deal” – said the director Stanislav Govorukhin.

A couple of months searching Mikhail Sidelnikov found that in memory of my grandfather’s even a school museum exhibition in one of the villages near Volgograd. But the main thing – the family found out where he is buried soldier.

“The search can be completed, but they are done, when we go there. Now every day I want to take the money, buy a ticket and go there. Lay flowers. May 9 for me and the family – is now truly on May 9th. And St. George ribbon on his chest now – really proud of and remember, “- says Michael.

After the Victory Day Sidelnikova family is going to go to Volgograd. Want to bring flowers to the grave of his hero.

Denis Davydov

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