The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945
A book of 35 diaries written by Soviet children in 1941-1945, the years of the Great Patriotic War, has been translated into English. The children have been sincerely writing about what they saw and felt, and that's the main value of these documents. They haven't been edited by anyone, they've been written honestly.
One boy who had to live in a foster home was writing in his small notebook about how many of his friends were dying of hunger and at the same time drew "amazing" images of food such as "ham and chicken" in the pages of his diary.
Next photography shows some orphans in Mozyr, Belorussia, 1944.
"All have died." The diary of Leningrad schoolgirl Tanya Savicheva whose entire family died during the siege of the city. The Museum of the History of Leningrad, section of defense of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
Volgograd children posing next to a flour mill destroyed during the Great Patriotic War.
Young soldier Boria Kuleshin. 1942 photograph.
Children behind barbed wire in a German concetration camp set up in the occupied part of the Karelian ASSR, 1941 or 1942.
January 02, 1942
Nowadays, why aren't our children taught these immortal lines from "Requiem" by Robert Rozhdestvensky:
Ponder them...
Onward to trembling spring, people of earth.
Quell awful war to hell with all war, people of earth!
Your dream carry forward year after year,
fill life full of wonder then!..
But those who no longer will come - never more -
I CONJURE - PONDER THEM!
???
After all this masterpiece was translated into English by a brilliant translator Walter May in the years of so-called "Cold War". The question still remains undetermined.