Orthodox youth congratulated veterans on Victory Day. God with us! Happy Victory Day! Catacombs and partisans
Congratulations on Victory Day to the readers of the Orthodoxy and the World portal from the chairman of the editorial board of the portal, Archpriest Alexander Ilyashenko.
Dear brothers and sisters!
Victory Day is a holiday that, I think, leaves no one indifferent. I want to remind you that in the distant and victorious year of 1945, Easter was May 6, coinciding with the day of memory of St. George the Victorious. That is, our people won the victory on Easter.
The German people are a great people, a talented people. Recall, for example, that printing was invented in the 15th century by the German Johannes Gutenberg. It is difficult to find spheres of culture, art, science, industry, to which the German people would not have made a significant contribution. These people were not godless - it is known that there were crosses on German military equipment, and on the buckles of soldiers - the inscription "Gott mit uns" (God is with us).
Nevertheless, the victory was won by the Soviet people. As you know, since 1917 the government of our country has been fighting with faith, so the Red Army was an atheistic army. But it was to this army, to the Soviet people, that the Lord granted victory. This means that the German army, which formally did not deny God, in fact turned out to be ungodly, and the formally atheistic Red Army turned out to be pleasing to God and faithful to God. Because the generosity shown by the Russian people is unprecedented.
Unfortunately, we know little about the war from this point of view. But remember the refrain of the famous song “Get up, huge country ...”: “Let the noble fury boil like a wave, the people’s holy war is on.” Tell me, please, can something be sacred for materialists? This is not a term from the materialistic vocabulary, but from the church.
Or let's remember "Vasily Terkin": "The battle is holy and right, a mortal battle is not for the sake of glory, for the sake of life on earth." Awesome! How did the people perceive both the song and the poem by Tvardovsky! And in many other works about the war, it is considered just as deeply. For the Russian people, it really was a struggle for faith. Of course, even “with dark fascist power”, but you can’t build anything on hatred – irresistible power can only come from love.
The Lord says: “There is no greater love than if a man lays down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). The point is not how many prayers you read and bows to, but whether you can give your life, as Christ gave it for the life of the world?
So the Russian people gave it up for the life of the world. It is terrible to think what the world would have expected if the “dark fascist force” had defeated: gas chambers, genocide, maybe a very well-fed life for those who remained, but life is absolutely soulless, demonic. Against this demonic principle, the demonic spirit that stirred up in those terrible, tragic years, the spirit of the Russian people rose up, and it turned out to be pleasing to God. Victory in the Great Patriotic War is not just a victory over a strong enemy, but a victory of an essentially Christian spirit over a dark one.
With this great Victory, I wholeheartedly congratulate, first of all, dear veterans. May God grant you long life, and from us - deep sincere gratitude. I congratulate those who survived this war as a child, experiencing hunger, cold, horror and deprivation, and those who did not see the war. We should all remember it, be grateful to those who, in inhuman conditions, wrested victory from an exceptionally strong enemy. Congratulations to all on Victory Day!
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We sincerely congratulate our readers, all Russians and just EVERYONE on the 74th anniversary of our country's victory over Nazi Germany. This is one of many such events, when Russia, without exaggeration, saved the whole world at the cost of the lives of its citizens.
The notorious Europe often “helped” us in this noble mission: both in 1812 and in 1914, so it’s hard to even understand what good things we took from there so that we could always be listed as “developing” and catching up ...
On this day, it is embarrassing for us to divide society into Old Believers and other confessions, because it was the victory of good over evil, because even the date coincides with the holiday.
Against the backdrop of cities and countries transformed for the holiday, the only sad thing is that, according to statistics, more than 70% of Europeans believe that the United States liberated Europe from the Nazis, and about 60% of modern Japanese think that the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by ... the USSR.
We, for our part, promise to tell the truth and only the truth, trying, like gold diggers, to find it in the muddy water of information and a very difficult breed of national history.
On the occasion of the holiday, we offer a selection of materials prepared by us in 2015 together with the editors of our friendly Ural newspaper. Hurry up to see some stories told in the first person, as well as a very educational film about who actually fought against us in the last century ....
The Old Believers cast tanks for the front at their own expense
An amazing fact is described in the book of the famous political figure Nikolai Ryzhkov "The Economy of the Soviet Union during the Second World War", published in 2010. The publication has nothing to do with the Old Believers, however, it contains one important fact, which was previously only occasionally voiced by some Ural Old Believers as a legend, since such information could not be preserved in official history ...
“An interesting event happened in Sverdlovsk during the war,” the author writes. - A large batch of T-34 tanks, a total of 32 vehicles, was bought by an artel of gold diggers-Old Believers from Berezovsky (satellite city of Yekaterinburg). They asked that crosses be painted on the turrets of the tanks, and the inscription: "God is with us!" So this unusual column passed through the city of Sverdlovsk ... Later, the tanks were handed over to the front.
This quote was discovered and provided to the editors of the Obshchina newspaper by a professor at the Ural Institute of Business Ivan LYAKHOV
Photo of the T-34 tank in Europe from the site http://foto-tankov.ru
Video pause: with whom did we fight?!
Coca Cola Uber Alles. War is good money for big corporations.
World-famous modern firms made money on the second world war, not disdaining to work on two fronts. Material from Poznavatelnoe.TV channel
About the first persons of the Victory
Bits of history about the front-line Old Believers in the village of Pristan, collected by the editor of the Old Believer newspaper "Obshchina" Maxim Gusev. Now only one Old Believer front-line soldier, Sergiy Kolpakov, 92 years old, remains on the pier ...
To the front - at the age of 16
Mikhail Fadeevich Karavaev, born in 1925. He went to the front as a young man. Was wounded twice. He received the second group of disability, but returned alive. He was the chairman of the church community for 17 years and died in 2005.
Catacombs and partisans
Nifont Ivanovich Golyanov fought on the southern front. In Kerch, I saw underground catacombs and partisans who fought there. Among them was the pioneer intelligence officer Volodya Dubinin. The boy died, and Nifont Ivanovich said that on that day everyone cried, not hiding tears.
In 1945, the unit in which Golyanov served was sent to the Eastern Front, to the war with Japan. He returned home only in 1946 and lived another sixty years, dying on December 17, 2006.
"For victory over Japan"
Fought on the Eastern Front Alexey Mikhailovich Kuleshov. He served from 1940 to 1946. Participated in battles with the Japanese and received the medal "For the victory over Japan" and the Order of the Patriotic War. After the war, returning to the Pier, he worked on a collective farm and a state farm. Died in 1994.
Brother died in front of brother
Brothers Salamatov Stepan and Ivan Fomichi fought in one part. Stepan died in front of his brother. Their brigade held the hill under mortar fire. One of the mines hit Stepan directly. Ivan, in a letter to his relatives, said that they found only one leg from that.
Fire, smoke, the roar of guns
Pavlin Nikiforovich Shevaldin fought near Stalingrad, on Mamaev Kurgan. Days and nights were mixed up from the constant shelling, the sky and the earth were not visible - solid fire, smoke and the roar of guns. God saved: remained alive and returned home. Died April 7, 1999.
Almost a year in the hospital
Flegont Vasilievich Trubeev was born in 1908. Called to war in 1941. In the battle near Moscow he was wounded and sent to a hospital in Novosibirsk, where he lay for eight months, after which he was commissioned and sent to the labor army in Pervouralsk, where he stayed until the end of the war. He returned disabled. He was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War and commemorative medals. Died in 2001.
Killed ... June 22, 1942
Ivan Illarionovich Utkin called up for war in 1941 and a year after it began, on June 22, 1942, he died and was buried in the Moscow region. His brother, Nikolai Illarionovich, also died near Moscow. Where and when is unknown.
From the first days at the front
Alexander Pavlovich Trubeev from the first days of the war - at the front. He returned wounded with a shrapnel under his heart and lived in constant danger with frequent heart attacks until the age of 84. Throughout his life, he actively helped the church and priests in repair, construction, and in various household chores. He was a carpenter and a joiner, a bricklayer and a glazier - a jack of all trades. Died May 22, 2008.
Everyone fought and returned the wounded, sick, disabled
Glushkov Lukoyan Sergeevich, Glushkov Nikifor Sergeevich, Bochkarev Platon Vasilyevich, Malyshev Fadey Gerasimovich, Golyanov Nifont Ivanovich - all fought and returned wounded, sick, disabled. Calmed down in different years ...
Ivan Stepanovich Syropyatov served in the army and was at the front until 1946.
YES IT WILL NOT BE! ETERNAL MEMORY TO HEROES!!!
THE LISTS ARE
– Arkhipov Egor Emelyanovich died at the front.
– Arkhipov Pavel Polikarpovich died at the front.
– Bulatov Vasily Osipovich died near Leningrad.
– Kashin Vasily Antonovich went missing in 1942.
– Balashov Efim Kuzmich- died.
– Glushkov Andrey Petrovich died at the front.
– Balashov Alexey, Peter and Yakov- died. No other reliable information about them was found.
– Melekhov Ivan Kirillovich died near Moscow in 1941.
On May 9, young people from the Association of Orthodox Youth Movements “Georgiyevtsy!”, Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanitarian University and the Russian Orthodox University congratulated the veterans on Victory Day.
The congratulations took place in fulfillment of the words of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who, on May 2, after the end of the Divine Liturgy in the Church of the Resurrection of the Intercession Stauropegial Convent addressed young people: “I know that today there is a group of young people in the church. On the first day of Easter, I met with our youth activists of the city of Moscow. It was a great Easter joy for me to see these young faces. I know that the young people who are here will be in connection with the Victory Day with veterans, old people who need help, who are not just waiting for congratulations on Victory Day, but who are waiting for healthy and young people to show solidarity, kindness, human participation ... I bless you, my dear co-workers, to carry out this good deed and bring Easter joy to those who fought for the Motherland.”
Orthodox guys, who were joined by many of their friends, relatives, acquaintances, all over Russia sincerely thanked the veterans who had passed the years of the War today, gave them small gifts.
In Moscow, young boys and girls split into two main groups and met in the morning in Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill and at the walls of the Russian Orthodox University (RPU).
The first group of young people was dressed in a military uniform, sewn on the model of the uniform of the times of the Great Patriotic War. They headed from the walls of the RPU towards Petrovka Street and Theater Square. The guys sang military songs, read poems and took pictures with veterans and passers-by. They gave flowers and holiday cards, pre-printed by the organizers. It is symbolic that postcards were distributed to everyone who wished to congratulate the veterans, starting from May 6, the day of Great Martyr George the Victorious. 
The second group met in Victory Park, led by priest Philip Ilyashenko, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of History of PSTGU, Chairman of the Youth Commission at the Diocesan Council of Moscow. They were also joined by PSTGU graduates, acquaintances from among the parish youth, and even children. Boys and girls presented flowers, postcards and chocolate to the veterans. Then they went to the walls of the Church of the Great Martyr George the Victorious on Poklonnaya Hill and performed a concert with military songs and dances, which they had been preparing for several months. 
About two hundred spectators gathered for the concert, who happily sang along and danced with the guys. Then the young people went to the city center, singing songs and congratulating passers-by on the holiday. 
It was difficult to find the right words to express gratitude to the veterans, many guys were very worried. But the main thing is that they managed to show that the memory of the Victory is alive for the younger generation and will always be in the heart of everyone who loves their homeland.
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