Today, on the eve of the great Victory Day, I am happy to bring to your attention some stories from the Collection published in 2005 by philologists who had graduated from MSU in 1955, and entitled ‘Tuned to Jubilee’.
The Editor-in-Chief who complied the Literary Miscellanies of Reminiscences by graduated philologists, Galina Georgievna Kopylova was telling at our meeting:
« …On January 5, 1998 at the meeting of our Year, it has been proposed that we should publish a Book of Reminiscences about ourselves and out time. Everyone liked the idea, and so the book was published in 2003.
It was presented on the 22 of May in the University Old Building in Mokhovaya Street, in our loved lecture hall, where we had been studying.
January 25, 2005 the second Literary Miscellanies of Reminiscences was published under the title of ‘Tuned to Jubilee’: it is 50 years since our year have graduated, 250 anniversary of Moscow State University, and for all our people – 60 years of OUR GRAT VICTORY in the Patriotic War.
We couldn’t miss the date, we couldn’t help thinking of those bitter but the sacred chapters of our history…»
And now although this year of 2013 is not a jubilee, our parents’ generation and we do remember these pages, for it’s not that we are just ‘happy to bring to your attention…’; no, we cannot help doing this, it’s our duty.
It’s the debt that we have to pay up to the end of our days, so not a single usurper in our country dares rewrite our history, affront the memory of those perished and humiliate the old ones, pull through pseudo reforms of our culture, education and art, trying to lure maliciously our children with their third-rate tricks.
But our children are the offspring of liberating warriors and great grandchildren of the victors who smashed Hitler’s occupationist plans in the 20th century, and in the 19th, those of Napoleon’s.
Once in Arkhangelsk Goubernia (Region) in a glorious town of Kargopol, I’ve seen a wooden blockhouse pained in red with the words dating back to the Great Patriotic war across its wall.
The words read: ‘We want not an inch of others’ land, but we won’t give an inch of ours’.
Since St. Alexander Nevsky, this has been what our Motherland stands on.
THE GREAT VICTORY DAY GREETINGS!
From ‘Tuned to Jubilee’ (2005). Part I: ‘Scorched with War’:
- Yelena Popova (Bryzgunova)
“I’m all from There” - Galyna Kopylova
“Echo of War” - Inna Yerina (Pashinyna)
“It’s a Legend Now, but my Heart is Still Bleeding” - Маргарита Сюрина
КО ДНЮ ВЕЛИКОЙ ПОБЕДЫ - ИЗ АЛЬМАНАХА «ЭХО СТАЛИНГРАДА»
B.G. Anpilogova
«The 1940s, Thundery Years…»