The Victory Day Solemn Meeting

Solemn meeting on the eve of the Great Victory Day is an unchangeable tradition. The PMR State Flag, the Standard of the PMR President and the Victory Banner were brought in to the sounds of the national anthem. The memory of the soldiers who fought on the fields of the Great Patriotic War, but never returned home, was honored with a minute of silence. After which the head of state Vadim Krasnoselsky addressed the veterans, deputies, ministers, military personnel and public figures present in the hall.

"80 years have passed since the Victorious Spring of 1945. It would seem that this is enough time to understand, comprehend, and draw conclusions: who provoked the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War, who allowed Germany to trample the Versailles Treaty and make it a superpower in military and economic terms, who allowed a simple corporal Adolf Hitler to become the Fuhrer, who allowed fascist Germany and the axis powers to prepare for an attack on the Soviet Union. It seemed clear who allowed the creation of the Nazi-fascist ideology, which became the cause of the Second World War, became the cause of the victims of tens and hundreds of millions of civilians, became the cause of the creation of concentration camps throughout Europe, where people were exterminated on an industrial scale based on engineering solutions, where experiments were conducted on people, where hundreds of thousands of children were killed. There was nothing like this in the world. There were various troubles, but nothing like this. Because there was no Nazi, fascist ideology. 80 years. It seemed that everything was clear: who won this terrible war, who made the main contribution to the defeat of the axis states and fascist Germany and defeated the Nazi-fascist ideology, of course. Everything is objective, everything is on the surface. Only thanks to the feat of the Soviet multinational people was it possible to liberate Europe from this terrible ideology. To liberate the axis states that fought against the Soviet people, the Soviet Union," the press service of the PMR President quotes Vadim Krasnoselsky as saying.

The PMR President reminded that Pridnestrovie met the war on June 22, 1941, like the entire Soviet Union. Our fellow countrymen resisted from the first days. Pridnestrovians fought on all fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Tens of thousands of people did not return home.

Pridnestrovie does not allow history to be rewritten today. This cannot be said about the neighboring Republic of Moldova, where the liberating soldiers are called occupiers, and the Nazis and fascists are called heroes.

Pridnestrovie has special people, with a special attitude of mind. There are a lot of front-line soldiers here. Twelve Heroes of the Soviet Union, who were previously honored in the Moldavian SSR, are natives of Pridnestrovie, they are our fellow countrymen. There are five Heroes of the Soviet Union in the sixth school of Tiraspol. This is a fact. We are different. We are different because we have not changed our principles. We remember our history. We do not have a day when we began to hate front-line soldiers. Do you understand? There will not be such a day. I am convinced of this. Each of us, each one sitting in this hall, must fight this plague propaganda with his own strength – the propaganda of Nazism, fascism and revanchism today. There are no other options. Each one according to his own strength must come to the concert, must honor his heroes, must participate in the Immortal Regiment, must lay flowers, and most importantly, must pass on historical memory and truth to generations – the truth about that war. I have always said, I am convinced of this, it is an axiom: those nations that have forgotten their past, spat on the memory of their ancestors, they are subject to oblivion and disintegration. This is an empty vessel – without the essence and understanding of the past, present and future," added the PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky.

A festive concert was held at the end of the ceremonial meeting, the audience of which was the deputies of the PMR Supreme Council. The orchestra of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic performed famous and beloved songs of the war years, Sanya Kroitor performed famous military melodies on the violin, the finalist of the show "The Voice", a singer from Slobodzeya Alexey Osichev and other Pridnestrovian vocalists performed on the stage of the Palace of the Republic.