The stories of the heroic ancestors of the readers of "Evening Moscow" have become part of the museum exhibition.
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- The stories of the heroic ancestors of the readers of "Evening Moscow" have become part of the museum exhibition.


On June 19, the delegation of the editorial office of Vechernyaya Moskva handed over 100 stories of participants of the Great Patriotic War to the Victory Museum for eternal storage. They include both biographies of fighters and people who worked in the rear and hospitals during the war.
Before the event, Alexey Zernakov, Deputy editor-in-chief of the morning edition of the Evening Moscow newspaper, Vladimir Manzhula, Deputy General Director, and Maria German, Marketing Director, took part in a flower-laying ceremony at the Sorrow sculpture in the Hall of Memory and Sorrow on Poklonnaya Gora, and also observed a minute of silence in memory of those who died during the war. The Great Patriotic War.
"Our campaign allowed us to show that today the residents of Russia and the readers of Evening Moscow preserve the historical memory of our ancestors. This project doesn't just preserve the stories of those who fought in those years. He tells about the whole generation of the Soviet people, who did everything possible to ensure that Victory was ours. These are children, these are concentration camp prisoners, these are home front workers — this is every person who forged it," said Varvara Erokhina, head of the Faces of Victory project.
The preservation of stories about the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War, the transfer of materials to the Victory Museum also became an edification, a lesson, because the people who do not remember their past cannot have a future.
As Alexey Zernakov noted: "For many years, the so-called progressive public has been trying to hush up this topic, to distort the memory of our heroic ancestors. I am glad that our readers have responded to our call and sent the stories of their ancestors and family members, which will now become part of the exposition of the country's main museum dedicated to the Great Patriotic War."
The main mission and objective of the project, according to Timofey Kustov, Deputy General Director of the Victory Museum, is to convey information to the younger generation.
At the end of the event, the VM newspaper delegation visited the large-scale exhibition "The Way to Victory!" Every museum visitor can get acquainted with the stories collected as part of the "Faces of Victory" campaign. They can be accessed in the hall of the same name on a huge multimedia wall.
The "Faces of Victory" campaign was timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. VM readers had the opportunity to send stories about relatives who went through the war to the editorial office. The entire archive is presented on the official website of the newspaper and in the Victory Museum. The stories of your family's heroic ancestors can still be sent by email. Pobeda80@vm.ru .
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