MOSCOW, 11 Aug. Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu told at the Territory of Meanings youth forum why he serves the Fatherland and called Russia the best country. “Serving the Fatherland and being a patriot, in my opinion, are inseparable things. I serve not because I must constantly emphasize and reaffirm that I am, behold, a patriot of my country. No, not at all. I think that our country is the best. I believe that our country needs protection. I believe that our country should be the attitude towards elders is the same as it was for a hundred or two hundred years there, not the same as it is in some other countries — what we observe when everything has already mixed up, and no one can understand why and for what values «, — noted the minister. As an example of a patriot of Russia, the head of the military department cited the cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich. «When I met him, he came to me with the proposals he wanted. He tried to help and helped all the time. He came, gave a charity concert in Japan and said:» Everything that I earned, I want into one of the conflict zones in our country then on the territory of the Soviet Union, «Shoigu said.
Zhirinovsky called for a change in Russia's policy towards neighboring countries. Among other examples, the minister named the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko and the bard Bulat Okudzhava. «These are people who loved our country very much and were its patriots. Okudzhava generally fought for our country and, in my opinion, never regretted it. And his songs speak about this. Therefore, serving and being a patriot are inseparable things,» noted the minister. Among the symbols of Russia, Shoigu listed Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova, Fyodor Chaliapin and Robert Rozhdestvensky, Andrei Voznesensky, victory in the Great Patriotic War, veterans, past and modern commanders. «That is, this is what constitutes the history of our country, the integrity of our countries, symbols of our country, «the general added.
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