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We conducted a survey among young people in the street. Who does not know who won the Great Patriotic War, who is sure that in this war killed 50,000 people, someone thinks that Zhukov participated in the Battle of Kulikovo ...

And, the truth, why do they do it? They will become managers, buy a car on credit, take an apartment in the mortgage, will read "Green Mile" and watching "Twilight", listen to Lady Gaga, go for a vacation abroad will raise the same illiterate children, then even more illiterate grandchildren ... There is no need to know , there is nothing to be proud, to be a patriot - it sucks ...

And I want to talk to you about the thing that does not need to know that sucks.

Approximately 3 million 200 people lived in Leningrad before the beginning of the blockade in 1941. 900 days of blockade. About one million dead (no exact data). And only 3% of them - from shelling and bombing. The rest - from hunger!

In November, 1941. It was set minimum rate of issuance of bread working - 250 grams, dependents and children - 125 grams. This bread was from the food pulp, cottonseed meal (before the war, was used in the furnaces of steamboats), wallpaper dust vytryaski of sacks of corn flour and rye flour - it was impossible to eat. In the winter of 1941-42 frosts reach 40 degrees, there was no water, light, heat.

Now you can imagine a time when money, gold, diamonds completely lost its value? The measure has been only around the bread.

Few of the blockade are still alive. They still had not left on the plate, even a crust of bread crumbs ... even answering the question - which helped to survive? - Say, faith in victory, love of country, patriotism. Now Obsolete concepts.

But not for everyone. I have written several times about the two wonderful young women, Alyona Alyona Petrova Sahno and that makes it important, necessary and good deeds. They have realized remarkable idea - installed on the Road of Life, which was the only way to get into the besieged Leningrad, Monument ... car! How touching it, the monument - the car! Hero-machine, machine-rescuer, GAZ - AA, the legendary "lorry", which then became a symbol for the Leningrad nadёzhdy. "Lorry" went on the ice of Lake Ladoga even in the spring, at the risk of fall. In Leningrad they were carrying food and fuel back - evacuees.

The monument - a replica of a military truck, made of bronze sculptor Sergey Isakov. He even "toned" as if he had just returned from another trip.

Why beautiful young successful woman doing it? They could go to a beauty salon, buy a new car, go to the Canary Islands, to wear the diamonds and go to the party ...

They want to be remembered. Let us want that, too. Let's give her children the memory, but they shall be given to their children, and those - his will ... And then all is not lost.

Monument is just a half years, but it became popular - laying flowers to him, the couple and schoolchildren come to be photographed. And at the same time to learn that there was a war, the blockade has been the heroes and heroes are human-machine. And it's very cool!





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