In Russia - the Day of memory and grief.

In Russia - the Day of memory and grief. He is the President of the Russian Federation, dated 8 June 1996 and notes on the day of the Great Patriotic War (World War II). At dawn on 22 June 1941 Nazi Germany treacherously attacked the Soviet Union. It caused a massive air strike on airfields, railway hubs, naval bases, places of quartering of troops, and many cities to a depth of 250-300 km from the state border. Against the USSR by Italy, Hungary, Finland and Romania.

The Soviet Union suffered the greatest casualties of the Second World War. The total loss of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War, which lasted 1418 days and nights, was 26 million 600 thousand people, including the military - 8 million 660 thousand people, including 6.5 million who perished in the battles.

Also in the cities of Belarus and Ukraine on the night of June 22, runs popular action "Candle of Memory". In Moscow, activists patriotic youth movements the previous evening lay flowers on the grave of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden and the eternal flame lit a candle as a sign of mourning for the dead. Then - at the Poklonnaya Hill - to the stocks joined thousands of people. Becoming a party to the action could anyone - exactly 23 hours - it was enough to set on the windowsill of their apartment lighted candle.