Alexander Korshunov, “Your brother-in-arms is an example for young Pridnestrovians”

Memorial events dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan took place in Bendery. Hundreds of city dwellers, schoolchildren, students with portraits of perished warriors-internationalists, veterans of the Afghan war took part in a memorable march, passing from Liberation Square to Heroes Square, where a solemn rally was held near the memorial sign "Black Tulip". Together with the residents of Bendery, Chairman of the Supreme Council Alexander Korshunov, parliamentarians Anton Onufienko and Ruslan Gareev passed through the city streets.

Portraits of 15 soldiers killed in Afghanistan, internationalists from Bendery are in the hands of schoolchildren. The war in Afghanistan lasted 9 years and 51 days and took the lives of almost 15 thousand Soviet soldiers. Another 54 thousand people were injured, 298 were missing. Among those who survived and come every year to remember the dead fellow soldiers, the veteran of Afghanistan, guard lieutenant colonel of the landing troops Valery Kuznetsov.

The rally at the memorial sign "Black Tulip" began with a theatrical performance. The lines of letters of the Soviet soldiers, revived in the voices of the heroes, in which they turn to their mothers, wives, invigorate and hope to return home alive, with trepidation and tenderness, did not leave anyone of the rally participants indifferent. The contribution of veterans of the Afghan war to the education of young Pridnestrovians was noted by the Chairman of the Supreme Council Alexander Korshunov.

The rally participants were addressed by the head of the Bendery State Administration Roman Ivanchenko, the head of the city council Yuri Kara, the chairman of the city’s Union of Soldiers-Internationalists Anatoly Nazimov, and the mother of the deceased internationalist soldier from Bendery Oleg Korovchenko.

The son of Nadejda Korovchenko did not return home. The memory of those killed in Afghanistan was honored with a minute of silence. Fresh flowers were laid to the "Black Tulip".