In world history there are many tragic events and dates, at the mention of which goosebumps run through. One of these dates is the second Sunday of September, when the whole country year after year remembers the victims of the "brown plague".
Terrible time
On the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Fascism, it is customary to honor those who died on the battlefields from bombings, hunger and wounds. To remember warriors and veterans, unknown heroes and those who were tortured in captivity and concentration camps.
The victims of fascism are countless and heroic. Photos of their memory are still kept on the sidelines of many museums and willy-nilly horrify.
Honor and remember
International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism was appointed in September in 1962 not by chance, because this particular month became fatal for most of the world's countries. The Second World War began, which was planned to be lightning fast, but plus everything turned into a global armed meat grinder, notsparing no one.
At different stages, from 8 to 12 million people, from 84 to 164 thousand guns, from 6 to 19 thousand aircraft took part in it simultaneously. Against the Soviet Union, fascist Germany and its allies fielded an army of five million armed to the teeth with the latest technology.
Then the Nazis captured more than five million Soviet people and destroyed them all. There were no winners in this war, because civilization was put on the brink of destruction.
Death camps
They began their existence in Germany with the rise of the Nazis to power and were created to isolate people opposed to the Nazi regime. The camps got their name because the people, in the literal sense, were concentrated in one space.
It happened in 1933.
From 1933 to 1945, more than twenty thousand buildings were built, among which were camps:
- forced labor;
- for forwarding (they were the last station before the death camps);
- deaths that were intended for mass inhumane killings and executions.
In 1938, after the Austrian annexation, Jews were imprisoned in Buchenwald, Dahaj and Sachsenhaus.
In September 1939, forced labor camps opened. In them, prisoners died by the millions from hunger, exhaustion and poisonous chemicals.
In 1941, after the attack on the USSR, the number of buildings for military prisoners increased sharply. Many have been built onterritories of pre-existing institutions.
The notorious Polish Auschwitz was one of them.
In 1943, thousands of Soviet prisoners of war were killed in the infamous Majdanek. In order to increase the effectiveness of massacres and depersonalize the process, gas chambers were constructed for the executioners. There were four of these in Auschwitz. Up to six million Jews were gassed daily.
Fascism - yesterday and forever?
Racism and nationalism are largely related concepts, the existence of one gives rise to the other. During the Second World War, the Nazis terrorized and raped the population everywhere: both in the occupied territories and in their free land. Fascism has become a hellish cauldron for millions of people from around the world.
The most terrible thing is to admit that this disease is very firmly entrenched in the minds of modern man. One has only to look at the latest history with skinheads, the Right Sector, neo-Nazi marches in 2011 in Kyiv and you understand that the people need the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism now more than ever, otherwise everything can happen again.
We must not allow the scenario to be repeated, to forget concentration camps, gas wagons, gas chambers, fires made from human corpses, handicrafts made from human bones. We have no right! Not for this, fathers, grandfathers, husbands and sons went to the front. At the cost of their lives and shed blood, they tore out hope for a brighter future with their teeth.
September 14, 2014 was considered a mournful day in Russia. Then everything was canceledrecreational activities. Ordinary people and government officials laid flowers at memorials and graves of unknown soldiers across the country.
But September 14, 2014 in Ukraine was held under different slogans. Donetsk, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk were on fire. Kindergartens, residential buildings, hospitals - entire cities were destroyed and bombed. Not a single living place remained on the territory. It seems that people have forgotten the sad experience of our ancestors.
People! Wake up before it's too late!
Great memory
The Day of Remembrance for the victims of fascism is celebrated differently by each country that took part in the war. In the UK, for example, Remembrance Day falls on November 11th. Every year on the 11th, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France and Belgium stand still for two minutes at 11 am to honor all those who paid with their lives for our peaceful skies. In the UK, there is a tradition: from October to November, wearing red poppies in the buttonholes of clothes, symbolizing the memory of those killed in wars.
In Germany, since 1996, January 27 is considered the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism. Then there are rallies and mourning events. Day of Remembrance for the victims of fascism in 2014 was celebrated on a grand scale by Russia and England. It was the centenary of the start of the First World War. At that time, the two countries were allies in the ranks of the Entente. The losses suffered by both countries are staggering in number. But the losses of England in this war were more numerous. Hence such awe, and such a long memory of these terrible events.
In the Tower of London toOn this date, they created a fascinating installation of red clay poppies, each of which symbolizes a lost life. It was a charity event, everyone could buy poppies, and the proceeds from the collection went to help veterans and members of the armed forces.
On the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Fascism, veterans of World War II meet with young people and talk about life under the siege, battles and other remnants of the war, so that they also remember.
What to expect
So let's not forget about the grief that once instantly enslaved so many people. Are the tears of millions of civilians shed decades ago worth the revival of the nationalist spirit on an incredible scale? Of course not! So what prevents you from resisting him and not succumbing to provocations?
