News Commonwealth of Independent States - Day of memory and grief: the countries Commonwealth of Independent States remember the Great Patriotic War beginning

Source: interstate TV and radio company "Mir" To Russian Federation are noted today Day of memory and grief. 82 years ago the Great Patriotic War began. The first the blow was accepted by defenders of the Brest fortress. Today there remember those who battled for the Victory, reports interstate TV and radio company "Mir". Exactly in four fifteen mornings 82 years ago in the Brest fortress the first shells became torn. Fascist Germany planned blitzkrieg. On all operation took away some hours. Fortress held on 32 days without water and food. One of the fighters which name we already never learn, left an inscription on a wall: "I die, but I do not give up. Farewell, Homeland! "...