The memory of Soviet soldiers honored at memorial cemetery in France

Victoria Ivanova. Employees of the foreign Ministry of Russia and CIS countries paid tribute to the victims within France Soviet soldiers - they laid Flowers at the Memorial cemetery of Soviet soldiers in the city of Noyers-Saint-Martin.

"Today in this cemetery We remember the events of 70 years ago. On 8 may 1945 for Europe end of the Second world war. In this cemetery found their own peace more than 4 thousand Soviet soldiers. We cannot and we cannot forget that More than twenty million people - men, women, children and the elderly - with the Soviet land paid with their lives for our freedom, " said the Commissioner of the local municipal administration.

To honor the memory of Soviet soldiers at the burial sites were about five hundred people. In addition to diplomats in a small town a hundred kilometers from Paris came the veterans of French military power, the descendants of Russian emigrants and citizens of the Fifth Republic, who wished to pay tribute. Most of them took in the usual Victory red carnations, which then remained in the same small triangular monuments, under which lie the remains of Soviet soldiers.

Flowers to the Central monument at the burial sites have placed the delegations of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Israel. Individual wreath laid Russian veterans, who arrived in Paris in time to participate in celebrations dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory. Solemn silence activities violated only the verses of the national anthems of countries and military staccato commands of the controller. At the end of the celebrations over the cemetery sounded the melody of the song " Holy war ".

After the main event, when the guests and the participants had already left the territory of the cemetery under a March " Farewell of Slav ", the monument came a small delegation of diplomats and members of public organizations of Ukraine. Their flower-laying ceremony lasted about ten minutes and as the main, accompanied by French Znamenny groups.

Soviet memorial cemetery in Noyers-Saint-Martin was founded at the end of the 1970-ies, when the Soviet Union decided to rebury the remains of soldiers located in different cities of the Fifth Republic.


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