The war taught to appreciate life

In a Meeting of the internationalist soldiers with young people took place at the central office of “The Obnovlenie” (Renewal) Party. The chairman of the Supreme Council, Alexander Korshunov, and the head of the Committee on Economic Policy Oleg Vasilaty participated in the conversation.

The meeting was timed to the 30th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Inhabitants of Bendery Sergey Gevorkov and Fyodor Malanchuk told schoolchildren of the capital how the Afghan war changed their lives.

During the mission, Fyodor Malanchuk stepped on a mine, left without a leg. Mutilated by the war, he did not lose his thirst for life. A brave paratrooper does not tell about the horrors of war. He willingly shares with family stories. The main pride is a small grandson. The baby already put on grandfather’s blue beret. When he grows up, he will become a real man.

The Supreme Council Chairman Alexander Korshunov recalled that the Afghan war claimed the lives of almost 15,000 Soviet soldiers.

As noted at the meeting, disputes about that war do not subside. One thing is indisputable: our soldiers and officers honorably fulfilled their military duty of the defenders of the Fatherland, were loyal to the oath. Deputy Oleg Vasilaty drew attention to the main tasks performed by the Soviet troops in Afghanistan.

It was noted during the meeting that 140 industrial and agricultural facilities were built, and health and education facilities were restored during 10 years of their stay in Afghanistan.

There were poems at the meeting, in the lines of which - the pain and bitterness of Afgan. What lived, what they felt, who lost the soldiers of the Afghan war. No matter how much time passes, their memory will be stored by each fragment of those events that they were destined to witness.

Today, “Afghan” veterans are actively engaged in social activities, they live and work in their native Bendery. They are actively engaged in the patriotic education of young people together with his comrades who have passed through Afghanistan. Warriors-internationalists take over their baton from veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

Schoolchildren from Tiraspol were able to ask veterans of the Afghan war their questions. According to the guests, the main thing that the war taught them is to love and appreciate every moment of life, to treat the people around them with care.