"Fighters Remember the Past Days" is the official name of the annual event, which everyone knows as the Dugout. It was initially about an organized meeting of veterans as part of the celebration of Victory Day. It is always with refreshments and singing songs from the war years. There are very few participants in the hostilities of the Great Patriotic War now. Even fewer are able to come to the celebration. The tradition remains yet. Dugouts are held in all towns and regions of Pridnestrovie. The PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky visited it in Tiraspol today. The Pridnestrovian capital is the richest of the Pridnestrovian cities and districts: five out of 12 living participants in the hostilities of the Great Patriotic War live in Tiraspol: Alexander Ivanovich Popov, Maria Spiridonovna Kaznovskaya, Rashit Faritovich Rizvanov, Vera Andreevna Gubareva, Vladimir Ivanovich Gromov. Only Vladimir Gromov, a heavy machine gunner awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree and the Order of the Patriotic War, participant in two Moscow Victory Parades – 2015 and 2018, managed to participate in the Dugout this anniversary year. He reported today to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the PMR Vadim Krasnoselsky on the fulfillment of the order to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory. He said that he had to call the medics just before leaving the house. He preferred to participate in the Dugout to hospitalization despite the insistence of the ambulance doctors.
Vadim Krasnoselsky, addressing veterans and those equal to them, thanked them for their contribution to the Victorious Spring of 1945. “The Generation of Victors is passing. Only a few remain. Fortunately, you are with us, and we are with you now. I am convinced of this, you will remain in the memory of both the current and future generations forever. We were brought up this way, we were taught this way, we live this way. Studying history, you understand how great was the feat of literally every representative of the generation of Victors: both at the front, and behind the front line, and in concentration camps, and ground job – the hardest work in agriculture and in production. Everyone brought the Victory closer. More than once I asked the older generation: what is the brightest thing in your life? Everyone thought about it, but the answer was always the same: the 9th of May. Everyone remembered how they celebrated this holiday. Some in the hospital, some in the rear, some at work at the machine, some, in principle, still on the battlefield, but it was a holiday. It was a Victory, real Victory. Perhaps, Western strategists did not believe in it, as they absolutely excluded such a possibility – the axis powers. Nevertheless, it was the Victory. The victory over the Nazi-fascist ideology, victory of good over evil. I have said more than once that there are no longer attempts to rewrite history today. It is already being rewritten, unfortunately. We are like a bastion of truth, a bastion of common sense with a history that really happened and that we pass on and will pass on from generation to generation in Pridnestrovie.
Dear Pridnestrovians, once again a bow to the veterans from all the Pridnestrovian people, from me personally. Take care of yourselves, be close to us. And for all of us – remember. This is very important. Not to waver in your convictions for a minute. Not to be afraid of anyone. To tell the truth. And to fight this revanchist plague called “neo-Nazism and neo-fascism”. Thank you all for the memory. Health, prosperity and peace! Peace to Pridnestrovie!" said the PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky.
