The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation launched the literary project "Generations of the Great Victory!"

MOSCOW. On Thursday, April 8, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs launched the All-Russian patriotic campaign “Generations of the Great Victory!”, Dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and the Year of Literature in Russia.

As the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Elena Alekseeva said at the presentation of the action, the essence of the project is that starting from April 9 for a month, videos will be posted on the main pages of the websites of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Public Council at the Ministry of Internal Affairs on which veterans are former employees of internal affairs bodies affairs, as well as students of secondary educational institutions and university students will declare the work of Russian poets who wrote poetry about the war. In total, at the moment, the participants in those events, together with the younger generation, have already recorded 67 videos, and every day more and more authors and readers join the action.

The first video presented at the conference was dedicated to the significant event of that war - exactly 70 years ago, on April 9, 1945, the Soviet army took the city of Königsberg, which was one of the main strongholds of the Nazi troops. A poem dedicated to that memorable date was declared by the Great Patriotic War veteran, participant in the Königsberg assault, retired police colonel Vadim Britvin and Tatyana Balabaeva, a student at the Moscow Police College.

According to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, today in the ranks of the department’s veterans there are more than 12 thousand veterans of the Great Patriotic War, of which more than 4 thousand are participants in the war, 367 people were awarded the sign “Resident of the besieged Leningrad” and the medal “For the Defense of Leningrad”, as well as over 6 thousand home front workers.

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