The international action "Garden of Memory" was held in Sydney, Australia.
Activists of the Youth Council of Australia, together with the Russian-Australian Commonwealth and the Russian Embassy in Canberra, planted three trees on the territory of the Bogoroditse-Kazan Women's Orthodox Monastery in Sydney as part of the international action "Garden of Memory". Izvestia publishes footage of the event.
"Today, activists of the Youth Council of Australia and the Russian-Australian Commonwealth, together with the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Australia, planted three trees. We planted two mulberries and one lemon," Ruslan Arutyunov, adviser to the Russian Embassy in Australia, told Izvestia.
He specified that the event was attended by children of the participants of the Great Patriotic War and their families, clergy, as well as youth. In total, about 70 people came to the rally, all of them were presented with St. George's ribbons by the staff of the Russian Embassy.
According to him, every tree planted represents a connection between the past and the future, and in this way people pay tribute to the heroic feat performed by the military.
Semyon Orshansky, a local resident and one of the participants in the Garden of Memory campaign, told Izvestia that he and his family met the war on the first day after it began, after which they were evacuated. His father was a career officer in the Red Army and a participant in the Victory Day Parade on May 9, 1945 in Moscow.
"Such actions should be continued both for those who are alive now and for those who will live, so that they remember the horrors of the war and try never to allow them," said local resident Galina Orshanskaya.
On April 23, it was reported that veterans of the Great Patriotic War, students of Yerevan universities, members of the international community "Victory Volunteers" took part in the international action "Garden of Memory" in Victory Park in Yerevan.
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