Happy Victory Day!

[Pecheneg]

My grandfather, my mother , was drafted into the militia ... 42 Missing in the defense of their native Luganska.Tolko year ago, there were documents to prove that he was gone ... A mother , 18 year old little girl worked in the Urals, Chelyabinsk in the munitions plant from the very beginning to the end of the war ... I still remember how to work , where they lived ...

[Элис]

Exhibition of children's drawings to May 9 (Svitlovodsk) and another photo from Bristol, made in Belgium (Tyne Cat) 16,000 British soldiers buried there, some 36,000, is also there, but unknown, Britain lost 7,000,000 men in the war.

[bykinist]

The other day, read about known in narrow circles of Leningrad artist of Pavel Kondratiev. An interesting detail of this theme:

"At the beginning of the war, PM Kondratiev involved in the evacuation of the Hermitage, and then volunteered for the army in the years 1941-44 and is in besieged Leningrad. Military Kondratieff was in disguise frontline airfields for naval aviation in parts of the 7th Air Base Leningrad front. And the artist, and military pilots remembered how difficult it was to save the landing site in besieged Leningrad, view and sweep not only from the air, but also from the ground. Remembering the years, the artist noted with satisfaction that the fruitfulness of the lessons that he were taught Malevich and Filonov Matiushin. Their school, in spite of all, it would seem, an abstraction from the "specific" tasks has been tested on the toughest bill. Ironically, artists dominant trend in most satisfactorily cope with such a specific task - prevented installation on the "near vision". Kondratiev remembered with gratitude not only general guidelines, but also the practical lessons of their teachers in architectonics and the ability to see the "cosmic" in height, the lessons of Malevich and Filonov, "the circular vision" - all these elements in its total proved extremely effective and apparently helped save many lives and technology. Kondratiev aimed his ideas and practical development of their great teachers to mask aircraft that have been used with success. After breaking the siege Kondratyev served military airfields in the Baltic, East Prussia, the war ended in Svenemyunde ... Save the images with the options at the airport Rzhevka disguise. "

[Pablo]

bykinist, I can not say ...
the artist must be present now, otherwise it will be fantastic ...
Fiction has always lacked, to be here and now, is, of course, for artists

[Самвел]

My grandfather.
Shahramanyan Vahan Karapetovich.
Missing in '43.

[манна]

Sometimes I think , what a feeble my generation (and me too ) , compared with our grandparents ... How many fell to their lot ...

I can understand that my grandmother went to the front in 19 years , youth characterized by emotion and feeling that " I will live forever ," but ! leave a baby whose father is also on the front ... well, I would not have been able ...

She's 41 in the encircled . Out in small groups. Guys them (along with the other signaller ) said go out in the open , the objectives will be. If they ask , tell that to the relatives in the village go. And they went , the two girls on the occupied territory ... She told me (it's not like a war to remember ) that at the beginning of the war the Germans were not evil . They were cropped with a friend , and in the villages mostly girls with braids , so they are immediately attracted attention .
 When stopped , they asked, who are you? Do not believe , but let go, threatening finger ... Valyayayaya ! ( Do not lie mol).

[natalia-v]

manna,

you have an amazing grandmother!
Beautiful and strong!