A Candle of Remembrance participant holding a candle. File photoNEW DELHI, Jun 22Representatives of the Russian Embassy in India, employees of the Russian House in New Delhi and Indian students took part in the memorial action «Candle of Memory» in the building of the Russian House in the capital of India. The Great Patriotic War began on June 22, 1941. In 1992, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, the Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of the Fatherland was established, from which this important date for modern Russia originates: on this day, everyone who fell in the bloodiest war against fascism in world history is remembered.
Day of Remembrance and Sorrow — the day of the beginning of the Great Patriotic WarParticipants of the action in New Delhi lit 22 candles and laid out rangoli — a pattern of various colors. «On this day, we gathered to pay tribute to the memory of 27 million people who became victims of the Great Patriotic War, light one candle each in memory of every dead — this is the aim of the all-Russian action, and we are part of it,» Sergei Korolev, acting head of the Russian House in New Delhi, told RIA Novosti. He noted that Nazism was not completely defeated in 1945.» The Day of Remembrance and Sorrow is a sad day, this is not a Victory Day.Unfortunately, we have to admit that even now, 81 years later, we are recording in the international situation signs of what was happening then — we are seeing the expansion of the Western military bloc, the approach to Russian borders «In fact, we are seeing a Nazi regime on our border, in a neighboring state. We are again forced to resort to the use of force to resolve the situation. And not very healthy oh, that in this world, in order to ensure peace, we have to fight,» he added. meter inscription «Remember 06/22/1941»
