In the name of sacred Victory
May 4, 2023
78 years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War, but the great feat of millions of soldiers is still alive in the minds of the people. Despite the fact that more than three quarters of a century separates us from this historical date, it is impossible to erase from memory what the people have suffered. That is why every year on the eve of the holy holiday for all Russians, a variety of events are held to perpetuate the memory of the heroes. The Stupino metallurgists are active participants in these events.
Cons on the great holiday, great people!
On the eve of the celebration of the Great Victory, according to their tradition, the Stupino metallurgists congratulate veterans of the Great Patriotic War and home front workers. On the eve of the 78th anniversary of the Victory, the Stupino Metallurgical Company organized a congratulation ceremony for former employees of the enterprise — veterans of the Great Patriotic War, prisoners of fascism and a resident of besieged Leningrad.
Daria Shurukhina, the leading social work specialist of the HR Department, visited and congratulated the veterans on behalf of the Stupino metallurgists and presented them with flowers, greeting cards, and food packages. The veterans were very happy with the guest and grateful to the company's staff for the attention and care shown to them.
“There are less and less people who survived the Great Patriotic War, whose share fell on hard trials, so it is important to pay attention and care to them as often as possible. This is just a small tribute to our gratitude and appreciation for the contribution they made to the Great Victory, for their work in the war and post-war years” — said the leading specialist.
In total, four veterans received congratulations from the Stupino metallurgists.
Maria Pavlovna Brykina – a prisoner of fascism. The Staronikolskaya village in the Voronezh region, where the 8-year-old girl lived with her family, was occupied by the Nazis. She recalls that it was very scary how they hid from the Germans walking around the huts. The fascists who settled in the village forced the children to work — early in the morning they drove them into the fields and forced them to collect poppy boxes and hand them over for medicinal purposes. But soon the village was recaptured by Soviet troops. The residents greeted them with tears of joy in their eyes.
Tatyana Konstantinovna Kozina — at the age of 10 she lived in the Kaluga region and was driven away to Germany. There she showed up in a concentration camp. The girl remembers the huge shepherd dogs that guarded the prisoners, the walls of the barracks covered with inscriptions. Tanya was lucky — she was soon transferred to Lithuania. There she was engaged in agricultural works — she collected potatoes, fought with weeds. May 9, 1945 became for her not only the Victory Day, but also the day of setting free.
Vladimir Alexandrovich Kochenkov at the age of 7 he was taken to Auschwitz. He was transferred there from Smolensk with his mother. She managed to hide his two brothers with her grandmother, but little Volodya fell ill and stayed at home. Having become a prisoner, the boy became an unwitting witness to the atrocities of the Nazis. Every day his mother went to work, leaving him in the barracks, and invariably returned with at least some food for her son: boiled potato peels, tiny pieces of bread. The boy spent two long years filled with fears and hardships in the camp. The day when the soldiers of the Second Ukrainian Front set the prisoners free became one of the happiest in his life.
Boris Stepanovich Lantsov was an infantryman of the Soviet Army and fought mainly with Bandera troops. He had to fight the nationalists even after the end of the Great Patriotic War, because the survived followers of the Stepan Bandera movement switched to the tactics of partisan struggle. It was possible to put an end to the Bandera underground only by the beginning of the 1950‑s. One of the main awards for Boris Stepanovich for his military feat is the Order of the Patriotic War of II degree.
Every year there are fewer and fewer veterans. That is why it is so important to hasten to show care and attention towards them, thereby expressing boundless respect for the generation of those who gave us the Great Victory.
