Day of Victory of millions

Victory Day was celebrated in the capital today. The celebrations that were attended by the PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky, Chairman of the PMR Supreme Council Alexander Korshunov, Vice Speaker Galina Antyufeeva and other officials, began with the raising of the Victory Banner over the main square of Tiraspol.

The legendary red banner is an exact copy of what was raised above the Reichstag in the spring of 1945. The original of this banner is kept today in one of the museums in Moscow and is the official symbol of the victory of the Soviet people over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. A copy was handed over in May 2014 in Pridnestrovie. The Banner has been raised for eight years over the Pridnestrovian capital on the morning of May 9 to the sounds of the anthem of the Soviet Union, the victorious country.

Flowers were laid at the Memorial of Glory immediately after the banner was raised. This year there are no veterans of the Great Patriotic War here, only the heirs of that Victory. The veterans are slowly leaving. If a few years ago there were about two thousand of those who defended the Motherland with weapons in their hands in 1941-1945 in Pridnestrovie, now there are less than a hundred veterans and those equivalent to them. They are all about a hundred years old, and veterans often cannot stand even a short flower-laying ceremony. Speaker of the Parliament Alexander Korshunov spoke about the importance of Victory Day in history and the preservation of the memory of those days in the modern world.

Flowers from the President, from the leadership of the Pridnestrovian parliament and from representatives of state authorities fell to the Eternal Flame and on each granite slab, where the names of the fallen defenders of the Fatherland are engraved. More than 40 thousand natives of the Pridnestrovian land went to the front, among them 12 Heroes of the Soviet Union. Their names were heard today at the Memorial of Glory in Tiraspol. More than 18000 of our countrymen died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, and approximately 50000 more civilians died in the occupation. The President considered that it was a common victory for the whole country, those who defended the land with weapons in their hands, and those who sometimes did the impossible in the rear.

The leadership and residents of the republic congratulate veterans, remember the dead and dead participants in the Great Patriotic War and victims of fascism despite the "red" level of terrorist threat this year. Suvorov Square in Tiraspol is traditionally the center of celebrations. After the official part of the event ended, people of various generations began to come here to pay tribute and honor the memory of those who gave their lives defending the Motherland. Victory Day after 77 years is one of the most important in the calendar of the Soviet and Pridnestrovian citizens.