Dear veterans and home front workers! Dear citizens of Tatarstan!Dear compatriots!
I cordially congratulate you on your significant anniversary – the 75th anniversary of Victory in the great Patriotic war!
Two-thirds of a century has passed since that memorable day when the unforgettable voice of Yuri Levitan announced to the whole of our vast country the complete defeat of Nazi Germany and the victorious end of the most terrible and bloody war in the history of mankind. But to this day, the echoes of this long – awaited message – joyous and, at the same time, tinged with the bitterness of irreparable losses – resound in the souls of representatives of the military generation and their numerous descendants-heirs of the great Victory.
There is no need to explain to any of us what monstrous grief this cursed war brought to our native country and all our multi-ethnic people: there was not a single family where husbands, sons and daughters were not accompanied to the front with tears, where they did not receive funerals and reports of missing persons. Forever on our land and in the hearts of people remained unhealed wounds from thousands of burned cities and villages, destroyed factories and factories, destroyed cultural monuments. And no speculation, no falsification can erase this sacred memory, as well as belittle the invaluable contribution that the Soviet warrior-liberator made to rid Europe and all mankind of the horrors of the "brown plague".
For us, the Great Victory is not just a historical date, but a bright example of fortitude, heroism, self-sacrifice, courage and steadfastness of the spirit of the people of a great country, an immutable component of our civil identity, a triumph of greatness and national triumph. As the Tatar poet-hero Musa Jalil, executed by the enemies, famously said: "My friend, our life is only a spark of the whole life of the Motherland, the country of victories. Let us be extinguished – from fearless death in our homeland the light will flash brighter".
Tatarstan citizens wrote many heroic pages in the glorious chronicle of the great Victory. More than half of the 700-plus thousand people drafted into the active army from Tatarstan did not return to their homes. 225 Tatarstan citizens were awarded the highest military distinction – the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, 48 front-line soldiers became honorary recipients of the order of Glory, and more than 200,000 natives of Tatarstan were awarded orders and medals.
The entire Republic worked for Victory: it supplied weapons, ammunition, food, surgical supplies, received blockaders, and treated soldiers. 70 industrial enterprises, 33 institutes of the USSR Academy of Sciences, some Union people's Commissars and the state Bank were evacuated to Kazan alone.members of the country's writers ' Union were located in the capital of the Republic, Chistopol and Yelabuga. We had 75 military hospitals that returned 20 divisions to the front.
Today we remember by name the representatives of the heroic military generation who selflessly fought for the freedom of the Motherland and brought the cherished Victory Day closer on the fronts of the great Patriotic war, in factory workshops, on collective farm fields and in design bureaus.
The names of Musa Jalil, Mikhail devyatayev, Maguba syrtlanova, Pyotr Gavrilov, Gani Safiullin, Nikita Kaimanov, Gazinur Gafiyatullin, Pyotr Savinov, Ildar Mannanov, Nikolay Stolyarov, Gazi Zagitov, Mikhail Simonov, Sabir Akhtyamov, Boris Kuznetsov and many other heroic Tatarstan citizens will live forever in our grateful memory. All of them are imprinted in our hearts, the names of cities and towns, streets and schools, cast and carved in bronze and granite monuments, presented in the exhibitions of memorials and museums.
Unfortunately, this year, in the context of the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, a difficult decision was made to postpone the Victory Parade and all mass celebrations to a later date. But I am sure that each of us will meet with dignity on May 9 in the circle of family, relatives and friends, fully expressing feelings of high gratitude and gratitude to our beloved veterans. And after our joint efforts will overcome this insidious disease, we will all meet at the Victory Parade, in the ranks of the Immortal regiment, at solemn concerts and fireworks.
I especially want to wish long life, joy and optimism to our heroic front-line soldiers and home front workers. Let the merciless flame of war never again scorch our land, and the Banner of Victory won in battle always proudly flutters over our invincible power!
Peace, happiness, health and well-being to you, dear citizens of Tatarstan!
Happy holidays! Happy Victory Day!
President Of The Republic Of Tatarstan R.N. Minnikhanov.
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