Transcript Great Victory

Great Victory 65
This year our country celebrates the greatest holiday
– 65th anniversary of Great Patriotic War. That was
an example of great heroism of Russian people.
Millions people gave their lives for our people in that
war. It was very difficult but people showed inhuman
heroism. You now, that even women and children
took part there.
WOMEN AT WAR
 The Soviet Union was the only country in the world
where women not only took care of fields and factories
but also fought shoulder to shoulder with men as front
line soldiers. It was also the only country where women
could become fighter pilots. In 1941, when Germany
invaded the Soviet Union, Major Marina Raskova , a
famous Soviet pilot , went to Stalin to convince him to set
up three women s fighter and a special training centre for
women was set up in Engels , a small town not far from
Stalingrad .
 All the girls were volunteers and most of them were
about 20 years old.
THE ‘NIGHT WITCHES’:
Soviet women pilots
THE HEROES WITH NO LEGS
What do Briton Douglas Bader and Russian Aleksei
Maresyev have in common?
The answer is simple: both were Second World War
heroes who fought… without legs.
 Bader’s career as a pilot was going extremely well. Then the tragedy struck.
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Douglas crashed while performing a complex aerobatic display. Although he
was lucky to survive, he lost both legs. But Douglas insisted: ‘They’ll have to
call me up.
Bader was given a second chance. He learnt to fly with prosthetic legs. By
1941, he had shot down 23 German planes – the fifth highest hit record in the
Royal Air Force at the time.
After the war, Douglas dedicated his life to helping charities for the disabled.
When the Nazis invaded Russia in 1941, Maresyev was sent to the front to
serve as a fighter pilot. By April 1942, Maresyev had shot down 4 German
plans. However, on the 4th of April Maresyev’s luck ran out. But he was shot
down and had to make an emergence landing. He tried to land on a frozen lake
but lost control of the plane and crashed over a forest. Badly injured, he
crawled on his hands for eighteen days and nights to reach the Russian
frontlines. By that time, his legs had become badly frostbitten and had to be
amputated.
But Maresyev refused to give up. After a long and painful struggle he learnt
now to fly with prosthetic legs. In 1943, he became a squadron leader. During
one mission Maresyev shot down 3 enemy planes.
In August 1943, Aleksey Maresyev was awarded the Hero of the Soviet
Union medal.
But Maresyev didn’t like the title of a living legend. “I’m a man, not a legend, “
he said. “There is nothing special in what I did.”
STALINGRAD
REMEMBERED
Stalingrad is probably best remembered as the place
where the Nazi expansion into Europe came up
against Russian heroic defense. For Russian people,
it is one of their proudest episodes, one of their best
military operations of the War.
Wait for me, and I’ll come back.
This poem is probably one of the most famous war poems ever written.
Konstantin Simonov wrote it at the worst period of the war. The
German army was just 30 kilometers from Moscow, Leningrad was
under, three million soldiers had been taken prisoner. The situation
looked hopeless…
To Valentina Serova
Wait for me, and I’ll come back!
Wait with all you’ve got!
Wait, when dreary yellow rains
Tell you, you should not.
Wait when snow is falling fast,
Wait when summer’s hot,
Wait when yesterdays are past,
Others are for got.
Wait, when from that far-off place,
Letters don’t arrive.
Wait, when those with whom you wait
Doubt if I’m alive.
Wait for me, and I’ll come back!
Wait in patience yet
When they tell you off by heart
That you should forget.
Even when my dearest ones
Say that I am lost,
Even when my friends give up,
Sit and count the cost,
Drink a glass of bitter wine
To the fallen friend –
Wait! And do not drink with them!
Wait until the end!
Wait for me and I'll come back,
Dodging every fate!
“What a bit of luck!” they’ll say,
Those that did not wait.
They will never understand
How amidst the strife,
By your waiting for me, dear,
You had saved my life.
How I made it, we shall know,
Only you and I.
You alone knew how to wait –
We alone know why!
ЖДИ МЕНЯ
Жди меня, и я вернусь.
Только очень жди,
Жди, когда наводят грусть
Желтые дожди,
Жди, когда снега метут,
Жди, когда жара,
Жди, когда других не ждут,
Позабыв вчера.
Жди, когда из дальних мест
Писем не придет,
Жди, когда уж надоест
Всем, кто вместе ждет.
Жди меня, и я вернусь,
Не желай добра
Всем, кто знает наизусть,
Что забыть пора.
Пусть поверят сын и мать
В то, что нет меня,
Пусть друзья устанут ждать,
Сядут у огня,
Выпьют горькое вино
На помин души…
Жди. И с ними заодно
Выпить не спеши.
Жди меня, и я вернусь,
Всем смертям на зло.
Кто не ждал меня,
Тот пусть
Скажет : - Повезло.
Не понять, не ждавшим им,
Как среди огня
Ожиданием своим
Ты спасла меня .
Как я выжил, будем знать
Только мы с тобой, Просто ты умела ждать,
Как никто другой.
The Second World War was the largest military
conflict in history. The rise of Hitler and Nazi
Germany in the late 1930s brought unimaginable
suffering to million of people. Hitler was defeated in
1945 but, without doubt, Russia and the whole of the
Soviet Union paid the highest price for the victory.
Strange Dream
People have always dreamed about a world without wars. The Canadian singer, Ed McCurdy, once had this strange
dream.
By Ed McCurdy
Last night I had the strangest dream,
I never dreamed before;
I dreamed the world at last agreed
To put an end to war
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I dreamed I saw the biggest room,
The room was full of men,
And papers they were signing said,
They’d never fight again!
And when the papers they all sighed,
And million copies made,
They all joined hands and bowed their heads
And prayers began to pray.
The people in the streets below
Were dancing round and round,
And swords and guns and uniforms,
They scattered on the ground.
Last night I had the strangest dream,
I never dreamed before;
I dreamed the world at last agreed
To put an end to war.