YABLOKO’s activists conducted memory actions in different
Russian cities on the night from June 21 to June 22, on the
day of the 69th anniversary of the beginning o the Great Patriotic
War (Ed. The term used in Russia and the CIS countries to
describe the period of 1941-1945 of the Second World War,
when Hilter invaded the USSR).
In Moscow the activists and advocates of YABLOKO lit 1,418
candles symbolizing the number of the days of war by the monument
to the Muscovites-defenders of Moscow.
The action will start at 10:30 p.m. YABLOKO’s leaders will
also participate in the action. YABLOKO’s leaders - Sergei
Mitrokhin, party Chairman, Grigory Yavlinsky, member of YABLOKO’s
Political Committee and the founder of the party and Eugeni
Bunimovich, Moscow Ombudsman for Children’s Rights laid flowers
to the monument.
When all the candles were lit the organiser of the action
Deputy Head of the Moscow YABLOKO Ivan Bolshakov announced
a minute of silence.
“This is the memory that have to be maintained throughout
all generations – the present generation and the future generations.
We come here every year and pay tribute to the victims of
the horrible pages of our history,” Bolshakov told the journalists.
All Muscovites who participated in the action received a
DVD with Marlen Khutziyev’s film “People of 1941”. The renown
producer made this film with YABLOKO’s support.
In St.Petersburg 1,418 candles were lit by the so-called
Blockade Ice-Hole where the citizens took water from during
the city blockade at the Fontanka embankment.
Representatives of the Pskov regional branch of YABLOKO headed
by their Chair and member of YABLOKO Bureau Lev Shlosberg
paid tribute to the victims of the Second World War at the
Victory square by the Eternal Flame. The activists laid flowers
to the Grave of the Unknown Soldier and lit candles.
In the centre of Penza activists of the Youth YABLOKO lit
candles by the Victory Monument.
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from the Moscow action
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