Rewards on the jacket of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Archival photo UN, May 8. In honor of the 77th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Permanent Missions of the CIS countries to the UN launched an online project about the poems of front-line poets, the press secretary of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN told RIA Novosti Fyodor Strzhizhovsky.» On the eve of the 77th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, the permanent missions of the CIS countries to the UN are launching a joint online project «Motives for Victory,» Strzhizhovsky said. According to him, within the framework of the project, the participating countries will will publish on social networks lines from the works of their front-line poets, who brought victory closer not only with courage and exploits on the battlefield, but also with their creativity. «Their poems were memorized, they went on the attack with them, they found encouragement and consolation. These lines contain the incredible power of words, which rallied millions of people around a common goal — the fight against fascism,» Strzhizhovsky said. This year, as the diplomat noted, the initiative is focused on the poetic traditions of the peoples of the USSR. «Decades have passed since then, but today , as then, the motives for victory are heard in many languages,» he said.
