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Most recently, the whole world, and especially of the victor countries Russia, to commemorate the date of the Second World War. In Moscow, the celebration took place on a large scale, in the parade was attended by representatives of the allies, allies against fascism.
It took many years, but history presents us with more and more frightening revelation that it was actually. And how many pages of the genuine, not a rewrite for the needs of modern politicians pages still to reveal to us, those who know about the war only from the newspapers and movies. Time passes. Those who fought and survived that carnage, is becoming less. Many, such as my father, the last war "from bell to bell," who gave this battle a few years his life, in general, try to deny everything that happened.

People of the world, for a moment stand up!
Listen, listen,
buzzing from all sides
... ... ... ... ..
Chimes, bells ringing.

By learning the truth about what war was in fact, sometimes, really want to become like an ostrich: head in the sand, and for me at least Tran-grass does not grow. I do not want and will not dig into the details of the terrible human drama. And who should answer for those who have not lived tempered nature years to finish, who do not dolyubil not felt happy to see the birth of children, not grandchildren and children, born, before the war and survived to freedom, and stole his childhood, health , parents, finally? Who can tell me in plain text that one, this and others like him were to blame for that tragedy that the world one way or another has touched every family, every home?
From my point of view, blasphemous Victory Day brandish weapons vyshagivaya slim squares on the charts. It should be dressed all in black, bear portraits, the death toll, shot, executed, buried alive and burned in crematoria ovens, as well as carry rewards those who ate the battle of nations.

Hundreds of thousands burned alive
Construct, built in rows to a number of series.
International column
Talk to us, against us.
(Excerpts from the song "Buhenvaldsky alarm"
words of Alexander Sobolev)

And in the stands should be no complacency luminous first person in the country, and the surviving veterans. On this day the entire planet should spend a day of mourning. Grief and memories - and no bravura march!
This is what will be a tribute to those who are not on their own did not live up to our peaceful prosperous days. After all, agree that no money can not replace happiness to live.
I give a link to the article which inspired me to write these few lines-reflection.
I also advise those who want to open this page on the Internet, read and feedback on it.
If the article I want to add a few words, something about the feedback I'll just say trendy now: No comment! Here it means: "I have no words!
As I said above, the father-soldier did not like talking about the war. Being a convinced communist, he was still a long time after the reserve was a teacher in high school, engaging in social activities. Once he had to be on duty in the dormitory of the Institute, where in addition to Soviet students were still living and foreigners, in particular, the GDR-sheep. I do not know how and why this theme, but the young men from friendly socialist part of Germany have brought to his father talk about the last war: apparently, knew that he was her direct participant. Upon learning that my father liberated Germany, coming to Berlin, they asked my father: "Is it true that the Soviet soldiers rampaged, raping, robbing and killing peaceful residents?"
I was not present during this conversation, I do not know how my father slipped out because he knew the whole truth. When I got home, he took a pill for a headache, and pain in my heart said - excuse me for a tautology, but otherwise convey the then state of my father, I can not: 'What could I say to them? Truth? So they would have hated not only me but our whole country! "No, then the pope kept silent about the truth. And she seems to go away with him to the grave. And you live, I highly recommend: go to this story. Read it.

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And I like to quote excerpts from several articles published in the media during the holidays.
Here they are.

Victory Day - a holiday when people who never fought, but they have all promised to those who fought, but do not have anything that someday, and they all will.
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On the eve of Victory Day WWII veteran Gorechkina Tamara, who lives in Butyrsky district of Moscow, received a strange gift - a fire extinguisher.
- Came out of my council and presented a fire extinguisher - with a puzzled look on the old gift. - More and car ... And I have rights and some not. Why is he to me? Just spit in the soul, such an insult. I immediately pressure skakanulo, barely pumped.
Really very strange Present, if not harder. But the spokesman explained the Kyiv mayor Sergei Tsoi, city authorities had no intention to mock veterans.
- It's a gift not from the city - told Komsomolskaya Pravda Choi - and from the capital's ministry. They are on the eve of the festival decided to provide veterans extinguishers for safety. And why not? What's so offensive? Especially do not give car fire extinguishers, but the most common - for residential premises. As for the gifts from the city, Moscow is doing their veterans regularly, not only on the Day of Victory: this allowance and additional benefits.
But there are special Present at the Victory Day - a festive food set. Such a gift to the city makes from year to year. So this time, except for fire extinguishers, veterans received official ration of corned beef and condensed milk.

***

"Dali would have a good pension, so that people can not save and do not count every penny - that it would be a real gratitude for the victory," - said the Chairman of the Interregional Public Organization of War Veterans, Labor, the Armed Forces and law enforcement Yuri Danilovich Volgin.

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Victory Day for the Russian authorities of various levels have long become not a holiday for those who made this victory, and in the patriotic education of youth. The money spent on organizing parades, solemn meetings with the participation of the first and second of the state, greatly exceed the amount allocated for gifts. Yes, and themselves "gifts" resemble a set of humanitarian assistance, as a token of gratitude grateful descendants, of which on the eve of talk of all the televisions and microphones.
By the way, the administration of cities and municipalities are not prepared to share information about how much money is spent on gifts.

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Example greeting gift set

Cooked and smoked sausage, 500 g 180 rubles
Coffee, 100 g 70 rubles
Wafer cake, 1 pc. 75 rubles
Krupa, 1 kg of 65 rubles
Condensed milk, 1 jar of 40 rubles
Stew, 2 banks of 100 rubles
Vegetable oil, 1 bottle 60 rubles
Total (Moscow) 590 rubles


Figures

How many World War II veterans left in Russia

In the center of 333,522
In the Volga 195130
In the north-west 160264
In the south, 144,860
In Siberia 92,782
In the Urals, 54083
In the Far East 28 105
Total 1,008,746

Source: Project "winners - soldiers of the Great War"

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Dear drivers, if you do have a feeling that this is not just a holiday, but also a tribute to the people who price their blood and lives while fighting for our future - make it a good thing!
On this day, many of those few who survived to this day, will go somewhere, maybe a visit to relatives, perhaps, to colleagues, may still be far ... You'll see them and can not go wrong that day.
Simply, if there is a possibility (as it always is, if you think) stop and offer free ride. A simple action, but this action and not just words and inscriptions on the sides of cars. 1.5 hours a holiday holidays and 3-5 liters of gasoline or diesel fuel does not overwhelm us.
Personally, I'm going that way to celebrate this holiday - to do what I can for those people who have gone through hell to protect our world from enslavement, and possibly destruction, who knows ....

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Photo of the Day in Japan

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Photo of the Day in Japan

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Most recently, the whole world, and especially of the victor countries Russia, to commemorate the date of the Second World War. In Moscow, the celebration took place on a large scale, in the parade was attended by representatives of the allies, allies against fascism.
It took many years, but history presents us with more and more frightening revelation that it was actually. And how many pages of the genuine, not a rewrite for the needs of modern politicians pages still to be discovered us, those who knew about the war only from the newspapers and movies. Time passes. Those who fought and survived that carnage, is becoming less. Many, such as my father, the last war "from bell to bell," who gave this battle a few years of his life, in general, try to deny everything that happened.

People of the world, for a moment stand up!
Listen, listen,
buzzing from all sides
... ... ... ... ..
Chimes, bells ringing.

By learning the truth about what war was in fact, sometimes, really want to become like an ostrich: head in the sand, and for me at least Tran-grass does not grow. I do not want and I will not delve into the details of the terrible human drama. But who will answer for those who have not lived tempered nature years to finish, who do not dolyubil not felt happy to see the birth of children, not grandchildren and children, born, before the war and survived to freedom, and stole his childhood, health , parents, finally? Who can tell me in plain text that one, this and others like him were to blame for that tragedy that the world one way or another has touched every family, every home?
From my point of view, blasphemous Victory Day brandish weapons vyshagivaya slim squares on the charts. It should be dressed all in black, bear portraits, the death toll, shot, executed, buried alive and burned in the crematoria ovens, as well as carry rewards those who ate the battle of nations.

Hundreds of thousands burned alive
Construct, built in rows to a number of series.
International column
Talk to us, against us.
(Excerpts from the song "Buhenvaldsky alarm"
words of Alexander Sobolev)

And in the stands should be no complacency luminescent top government and survivors of veterans. On this day the entire planet should spend a day of mourning. Grief and memories - and no bravura march!

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This is what will be a tribute to those who are not on their own did not live up to our peaceful prosperous days. After all, agree that no money can not replace happiness to live.
I give a link to a page that inspired me to write these few lines-reflection.
I will also advise those who want to open this page on the Internet, read and feedback on it.
If the article I want to add a few words, something about the feedback I'll just say trendy now: No comment! Here it means: "I have no words!
As I said above, the father-soldier did not like talking about the war. Being a convinced communist, he was still a long time after the reserve was a teacher in high school, engaging in social activities. Once he had to be on duty in the dormitory of the Institute, where in addition to Soviet students were still living and foreigners, in particular, the GDR-sheep. I do not know how and why this theme, but the young men from friendly socialist part of Germany have brought to his father talk about the last war: apparently, knew that he was her direct participant. Upon learning that my father liberated Germany, coming to Berlin, they asked my father question is: "Is it true that the Soviet soldiers rampage, raping, robbing and killing peaceful residents?"
I not present during this conversation, do not know how my father wriggled out, because he had known the whole truth. " When I got home, he took a pill for a headache, and pain in my heart said - excuse me for a tautology, but otherwise convey the then state of the father, I can not: 'What could I say to them? Truth? So they would be hated, not only me but our entire country! "No, then the pope kept silent about the truth. And she seems to go away with him to the grave. And you live, I highly recommend: go to this story. Read it.

http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/tr...t/2047877.html

And I like to quote excerpts from several articles published in the media during the holidays.
Here they are.

Victory Day - a holiday when people who never fought, but they have all promised to those who fought, but do not have anything that someday, and they all will.
***

On the eve of Victory Day WWII veteran Gorechkina Tamara, who lives in Butyrsky district of Moscow, received a strange gift - a fire extinguisher.
- Came out of my council and presented a fire extinguisher - with a puzzled look on the old lady a gift. - More and car ... And I have rights and some not. Why do I? Just spit in the soul, such an insult. I immediately pressure skakanulo, barely pumped.
Really very strange Present, if not harder. But the spokesman explained the Kyiv mayor Sergei Tsoi, city authorities had no intention to mock veterans.
- It's a gift not from the city - told Komsomolskaya Pravda Choi - and from the capital's ministry. They are on the eve of the festival decided to provide veterans extinguishers for safety. And why not? What's so offensive? Especially do not give car fire extinguishers, but the most common - for residential premises. As for the gifts from the city, Moscow is doing their veterans regularly, not only on the Day of Victory: this allowance and additional benefits.
But there are special Present at the Victory Day - a festive food set. Such a gift to the city makes from year to year. So this time, except for fire extinguishers, veterans received official ration of corned beef and condensed milk.

***

"Dali would have a good pension, so that people can not save and do not count every penny - that it would be a real gratitude for the victory," - said the Chairman of the Interregional Public Organization of War Veterans, Labor, the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies Yuri Danilovich Volgin.

***

Victory Day for the Russian authorities of various levels have long become not a holiday for those who made this victory, and in the patriotic education of youth. The money spent on organizing parades, solemn meetings with the participation of the first and second of the state, greatly exceed the amount allocated for gifts. Yes, and themselves "gifts" resemble a set of humanitarian assistance, as a token of gratitude grateful descendants, of which on the eve of talk of all the televisions and microphones.
By the way, the administration of cities and municipalities are not prepared to share information about how much money is spent on gifts.

***

Example greeting gift set

Cooked and smoked sausage, 500 g 180 rubles
Coffee, 100 g 70 rubles
Wafer cake, 1 pc. 75 rubles
Krupa, 1 kg of 65 rubles
Condensed milk, 1 jar of 40 rubles
Stew, 2 banks of 100 rubles
Vegetable oil, 1 bottle of 60 rubles
Total (Moscow) 590 rubles


Figures

How many veterans remain in Russia

In the center of 333,522
In the Volga 195130
In the north-west 160264
In the south, 144,860
In Siberia 92,782
In the Urals, 54083
In the Far East 28 105
Total 1,008,746

Source: Project "Winners - Soldiers of the Great War"

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Dear drivers, if you do have a feeling that this is not just a holiday, but also a tribute to the people who price their blood and lives while fighting for our future - make it a good thing!
On this day, many of those few who survived to this day, will go somewhere, maybe a visit to relatives, perhaps, to colleagues, may still be far ... You'll see them and can not go wrong that day.
Simply, if there is a possibility (as it always is, if you think) stop and offer free ride. A simple action, but this action and not just words and inscriptions on the sides of cars. 1.5 hours a holiday holidays and 3-5 liters of gasoline or diesel fuel does not overwhelm us.
Personally, I'm going that way to celebrate this holiday - do what I can for those people who have gone through hell, defending our world from slavery and, possibly, destruction, who knows ....

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Some religious ceremonies are accompanied by a solemn procession or a religious procession. That is the true Fronleichnam - Corpus Christi. The official name of it sounds like this: "High holiday flesh and blood of Christ." The essence of this holiday that Christians celebrated their Lord, who is not sorry for them life.
Feast of flesh and blood of Christ is celebrated every year on Thursday, following the day of the Holy Trinity, that is, on the eleventh day after Pentecost. Sometimes, this holiday is called in Latin Corpus Christi (Corpus Christi - the Body of Christ ).
On this day instead of daily Holy Mass solemnly celebrated the Eucharist - the sacrament of communion.
The Catholic Church regards the Eucharist as a sacred gift that Christ left his church, established during the last supper. No wonder the Gospel says: "And He took bread, and broken by him, said:" This is my body ... ". In this festive Thursday bread and wine represent the body and blood of Jesus. Holy Communion - this is part of believers in the sacrifice of Christ, which helps Christians to become like the Son of God.
This is a relatively new Catholic feast. It originated in the XIII century in Liège (Belgium) and was initially local. In 1251 the Vatican approved the celebration for the diocese of Liège, and in 1264 Pope Urban IV made it mandatory for the whole Church by granting an indulgence to all who took part in a mass.
In Germany, Spain and several other European countries Corpus Christi is a public holiday.

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In today's Germany, especially in lands with a predominantly Catholic population of this public holiday has won a special love.
By origin a purely religious, the holiday eventually became in many countries truly popular. It combines a strict ritual of church service, a ceremonial parade and game elements specific to the noisy pagan festivals.
During the Eucharist every Catholic may join the body of Christ through the bread, which gets in the form of wafers or host - a circular wafer of unleavened dough.
Then begins the process of around a temple or on city streets. Is headed by the priests carrying the monstrance - a portable tabernacle, to bear the holy gifts. In the monstrance on this day is bread, as the reincarnation of the flesh of Christ. For priests in the right sequence are parishioners, first honorable and noble, and then all the others. They bear the cross, relics, banners, icons, statues. As is customary in the forefront are the children who this year received the first holy communion.
House to this day gaily decorated, and the altars in the open air is covered with multicolored floral carpet. There is a beautiful tradition during the procession to scatter flower petals. From time to time the procession stopped to pray at the memorial sites. He stops it and the windows of hospitals and nursing homes. Patients usually with expectation at the windows of blessing.
A special splendor and magnificence of the procession was in the age of Baroque. Gold-embroidered robes of priests mingled with dresses parishioners, dressed in the most expensive and best dress. The banners and relics sparkled in the sun. Age of Enlightenment has made its own changes. The holiday was not so pompous. However, it appeared such innovations as tableaux vivants. The most popular characters were the angels and devils. For example, in one of the processions in Munich, hell is depicted as follows: frenzied demons with a moving platform pelted spectators ... manure.
In the years of struggle Bismarck with the Catholic Church - «Kulturkampf» in 1872-1880 years. As well as during the Nazi regime Corpus Christi was marked by the "demonstration of Catholic unity."
Over time, Corpus Christi has found new forms. Thus, at the Chiemsee (Chimsee) and Shtafelzee (Staffelsee) in Bavaria, a procession of floats on boats. Very bright and unusual is the procession on the Rhine - Gottestracht. It goes from Cologne to Mülheim.

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I, the product of a purely urban education from the common cultural considerations know what domestic fowl gives us milk, some wool, and which parts of carrots and tomatoes are suitable for eating.

However, I do not remember when and who explained to me that the cold weather in May in the middle belt of the former Soviet Union due to blooming of cherry blossoms and oak trees. This is, perhaps, all that I could boast of the knowledge of traditional wisdom.

In Germany, I started collecting, processing and translation of German proverbs. Once you start to "People's signs, I was surprised to find that they are useful not only for agricultural workers. If not just a utilitarian look that surrounds you a closer look at this carefully, you can find answers to the issue before me in the title of this article.

And yet, despite the fact that such a "great and terrible," an observer and an expert on local natural features, as I have (not counting the hundreds of thousands of farmers), have such knowledge, to the cold I am, like millions of other people in the world negatively. Moreover, for me they come as suddenly and unexpectedly, and for the other uninformed.

A pair of drawings of the last two months - a good example of that.


May

I woke up this morning, though, for some it is no longer the morning - but it's true, jokes about themselves, let them still be in the morning. Br-p, that for such a cold? Wind walk as much in the apartment, the whole sky with clouds Syze, is about to rain. Why, O God, thou didst send to us such attack? And this is after the mercury in the thermometer showed 25!

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Depress completely. You start cursing everyone and everything involved and nothing to do with nature flourishes. Forgive me, Lord, and you sometimes punished. After all, in thy eternal summer groves of paradise, lepota and grace.

And then I lit up. I ran to the calendar - and accurately: what I am ... radish, bad man. For me I do not know? Today, May 11: Right on the Day of St. Mamertusa. Do not you know that? Meet: he and four of his "comrades", the Saints, three men and a lady: Pankratov, Servatius and Bonifati, and the curtain fell, Hagia Sophia (respectively from 12 to 15 May), will have us with you for strength: cold hard all forces. In their nations and called: ice saints.

That's what they tell us about the German peasant features:

At St. Mamertsa heart of ice; head Pankratz reflects the hardness of his spirit, his armor clanking of the cold and frost; other flowers were frozen from the icy breath of the east wind, a watchdog Servatsa and, in the end, never mistaken ice Sophie!

Or this:

Pankratz, Servats, Boniface always find a place ice and frost, but in the end, never miss the cold Sophie.

Say what you will, the people's astute and observant - the greatest wisdom in the world.

So, wait, sir, dear fellow citizens, while these ice holy drunk plenty.

Incidentally, something similar is in the summer.


June

June - my favorite summer month because it starts the summer, and, therefore, for me, worked for many years a teacher connected with it the beginning of vacation time, and also because I had a late June birthday.

This June we did not enjoy a stable hot weather. However, the warm time with a minimum of rain and cloudy days the inhabitants of Düsseldorf and its environs suit. Not taking into account the gardeners, who need to regularly visit their allotments, green and abundantly watered them so that they remain so throughout the summer. Since all of the anticipated dates of sheep have been cold, I'm not much grieved on this occasion, believing, apparently, the year 2010 will fall from the general list years, came under the influence of this phenomenon.

Without going into the depths of physical-meteorological research, except to say that "sheep's cold - so-called weather phenomenon. Around 11 June (between 4 and 20 June) in Central Europe is cooling, which is noted primarily in Germany. Sheep cold does not happen every year. Because of the cool and moist air coming here from the north-west, the temperature is lower by 5-10 ° C.

Cause the cold sheep is the same as when frost in May (Eisheiligen): the difference in the heating of the soil and sea water. At that time, as the land in June, already very hot, the water in the seas and oceans are relatively cold. Passing through the European zone of low pressure carries with west to north-west, cold polar air.

This temperature decrease is called sheep because that is when the sheep are traditionally sheared, and the onset of cold weather could threaten the health of animals.

Why, you ask, in this case, shearing sheep is not transferred to other, more positive and warm during the same June? My answer straight: "I have no idea."

As you can see, this year the period of cold weather sheep moved to the upper timing of its passage, that is hit on 19-20 June. Well, this also happens.

And that's the only one saying, dragged out of my bins, on this topic:

Vom 8. - 18. Juni die Schafskält 'nun dauert, dann die Wärme wieder lauert.

Sheep cold lasts only 8 to 18 June, then we are looking forward to the heat.

Golden words!

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We have another aberration: Germany beat Argentina with a crushing score of 4:0. Now just below our windows group of idiots with wheelchair at the head like crazy dudit all passing cars, some of which correspond to it no less loud honks. Persons with disabilities on the head the whole structure: in his tall hat on legs swinging multicolored balls: everything from soft felt. Frankly speaking, I want to strangle all the more so that today the second day, very hot: +35! The apartment is warmed up - not breathe. In such a situation to work (write) is very hard. And now more and whistles. The head is splitting. The whole company is close to the garden plots on the buyout out our windows. This means that when they get bored play the pipe, they will go to drink and grill area. So sleep do not give us, and all the fumes from the barbecue will be in our bedroom. A quarter of the population, despite the hot weather is not changing, as is clothing with the colors of the German flag. Machines adhesive qualities in blankets with flag colors. Bus drivers to announce the results of matches on the connection. In general, football chaos.

The sooner the better end of the championship!

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These weeds are growing around our house.

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And here upotyanuty previously long-eared member of the family, living among the weeds. This rabbit-podrostochek, which we noticed quite crumbs, so many times we have seen that now allow himself be photographed. He posed for as long as we arrogantly refused to withdraw its bigger, and this close to an invalid from his point of view distance. And he will not forgive.

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