"It is our duty
to safeguard the truth", the Russian president said.
MOSCOW, April 25.
/TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a message of greetings to the
participants in and guests of the international forum The Great Victory
Attained through Unity: Heroism of Guerillas and Underground Resistance in the
Great Patriotic War, being held in Bryansk. The message was published on the
Kremlin’s website on Wednesday.
"It is our duty
to safeguard the truth about the heroes and firmly repel all attempts at
falsifying the facts of history. I am certain that the sacrosanct memories of
May 1945, of the heroic accomplishments of our fathers and grandfathers who
defended the freedom and independence of the Motherland, who saved the world
from Nazism, will always serve as a basis for firm partnership and
neighborliness of the peoples and countries of the Commonwealth of Independent
States," the message runs.
Putin said the traditional
meetings held on the eve of Victory Day are a major consolidating event in the
lives of CIS member-states and their peoples.
"They bring
together eminent public figures, veterans, representatives of scientific and
expert circles and creative and youth organizations. Their noble mission is to
maintain a continued timeline and teach the younger generation to be
considerate in their attitude to the ever-lasting spiritual and moral values,
the heroic pages of the common history of our peoples, including the guerilla
and underground resistance movement, who bravely fought against the enemy
during the Great Patriotic War.
Source: ITAR-TASS
25-04-2018
