In Moscow, noted the 70th anniversary parade in '41

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in Moscow, noted the 70th anniversary parade in '41

At the celebrations in Red Square was attended by grandparents and grandchildren.

Marched on the main square on Monday said znamnatelnuyu date - the 70th anniversary parade in 1941 that started the crisis in the Great Patriotic War, Moscow garrison soldiers and Interior Ministry troops, and four thousand representatives of children's movement of capital.

They went by printing step on the pavement, as were besieged in Moscow, their grandfathers and great grandfathers, went straight away to the front, which was already only a few miles from the center of Moscow. Some of those who survived (and in the capital, and now account for 12.5 thousand defenders of the defense of Moscow), admired the participants in the march from the audience stands.

And when the orchestra of the Moscow garrison burst "Holy War", from the area where you just demonstrated military footage, the men came in the form of the sample in 1941 - as if she stepped towards the front-line youth to veterans.

Memories of her warmed and rolled into the square weaponry since the war. Famous T-34 tanks, lorry GAZ-A, the legendary "Katyusha" ... All of them are found in places of battles near Moscow and restored hand search groups of participants.

Most the same main characters - 40 participants of the parade of the 41-year of 65 Muscovites - yesterday went to Red Square "UAZ", exactly in the breadth, on which traveled five long years of war. And they were dressed again in form, but celebratory, sewn by the Government specifically to this day - a fashionable gray coat, black astrakhan hat, dark blue suit, which looks so beautiful decorations and medals.

True, they have demonstrated it's later in the Bolshoi Theater, which just went to Red Square for a meeting with the president. Here it was very cold - minus 7, and therefore all but tightly plowed. But the blankets, laid by in advance by the organizers on the chairs for veterans, no one had taken refuge - although it takes years of his own, but the fighting spirit they still apparently strong.

Two months were preparing to march. Going well here in the Red Square parade to the anniversary and grandparents and grandchildren has been fourteen years in a row. And it is difficult to say which of them need it.

"I - party all the parades - and 1941, and 1945, and all future!" - Proudly told the "RG" Leonid Shevelev, marched as a private throughout the war. He considers himself lucky: "Our family is unique in the yard, from which went to the front and three brothers all came back."

A thirteen-year Volodya Malofeev and Nicholas Trunov, seventh graders Moscow Cossack Corps (both grandfathers had not returned from the war), were happy that they trusted the first time on striding legendary cobbles.

You had to see what people were serious guys, when they chanted along with the rest of the march: "We swear to love and defend Moscow and Russia!" These boys went to military school because they believe: it will help them to become real men. But it is already clear that what happened - and they are followed by grandparents say, "Behind Moscow, nowhere to retreat."

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Celebrating the 70th anniversary parade in 1941 held in Moscow and Samara.

Samara (then Kuibyshev) in the first year of the war actually was the second capital of the country - there was evacuated and many government ministries. November 7, 1941 there is also a military parade, the anniversary of which is now widely celebrated Samarans. Of course, the main parade was held in the early morning of the 41st at the Red Square in Moscow - that contributed to the weather. It was snowing, which is partially paralyzed flying enemy aircraft.

Nevertheless, it was shot down almost forty Nazi bombers, and no plane not reached the heart of the country. The parade lasted 25 minutes, after the men went at once to the front.

In Samara, was preparing a backup plan - on the personal order of Stalin's parade was to take place in any case.

Today, marking the 70th anniversary parade on November 7, the main area of ​​the country went almost 7000 people.

Among them were representatives of the Ministry of Defense, the Interior Troops and numerous youth and community education groups in Moscow. Marched and military equipment since the Great Letter of - T-34 tanks, antitank guns, "lorry" - GAZ-A, the legendary "Katyusha", motorcycles and wedgies.

All of them are found on the ground battles near Moscow and restored hands of participants searching movements. Traditionally, the parade, which lasted for an hour, was closed to the sound of the march "Farewell of Slav" performed by the Moscow garrison combined orchestra.

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