08 May 2012
The site is elaborated to the 67th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War
by SE “Lugansk State Medical University”
MAY 9 – VICTORY DAY
PRESENTATION dedicated to Victory day
(the presentation shows the veterans of our university)
May 9 is a special and solemn day in our people’s life. According to an old tradition we celebrate victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Victory Day … These words are very dear to our heart. Years and decades have passed, new generations have appeared, but the great deed of our people will never be forgotten. Our ancestors wined that dreadful deadly battle against fascist Germany. That war lasted for 1418 days and nights. All the people worked hard for 1418 days and nights to bring the victory closer. The work was hard, cost huge losses, incredible efforts and terrible ordeals.
None of our holidays has grey hair in temples. This one has. None of the holidays has tears in the eyes. This one has. Millions and millions of lives, peoples’ fortunes were burnt by the fire of the Great Patriotic War. This was had been a severe trial for our people and army. Soviet soldiers selflessly showed outstanding heroism in the battles against the enemy. More than 7 million soviet people were decorated with orders and medals for courage and valour, more than 11,5 00 were awarded the honorary title “Hero of the Soviet Union (highest military award in USSR)”.
One of the old soldiers said: “We, brought as patriots, bravely went to the front to give our lives for our Motherland. But it turned out that it was not difficult to die. It was more difficult and necessary to stay alive. Only living brings victory”.
Figures of Statistics
The Great Patriotic War lasted for 1418 days – it was the most cruel and bloody war among all known. It brought away the lives of 27 million people.
It seemed it did not have any premises to start. Some times earlier USSR and Germany had signed a peaceful treaty, but on June 22, 1941 treacherously attacked the Soviet country. Soviet people were busy with peaceful work – they were building plants and factories, growing wheat, bringing up children and did not show any militant attitudes. They did not have any experience at war, industry was working for improving the technical level of the country to turn it from an agricultural country into an industrial one. The war forced to change the plans of peaceful development and directed it to military one in order to arm the army. It was not only industry that needed re-building. Peoples’ psychology and way of life had to be changed. Peaceful people put on military overcoats and went to defend their state from fascists. Even medics, the people of the most human profession, fulfilling their patriotic and professional obligation, went to the rows of defenders. They provided medical help to the soldiers both at the front line and hospitals. They made an impossible thing – 72,5 % of wounded returned to the front line. Such rate had not had any army before. At war there were 4 academicians, 22 honoured workers of science, 275 professors, 558 associate professors, 1119 candidates of medical sciences, 200 000 doctors and 500 000 medical sisters. Medics selflessly saved lives of the wounded, cured them, so soldiers could return to the front line and continue their struggle against the enemy. The state appreciated military medics’ work: 47 people were awarded the title “Hero of the Soviet Union” and 50 000 were decorated with orders and medals.
References to sources about war

http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/great-patriotic-war/index.htm
the site tell about the chronology of the war events

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyj8Tc06Xzk
the presentation accompanied with the anthem of war

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/ukraine/great-patriotic-war.htm
the article tells about Ukraine in Great Patriotic War

http://www.great-victory1945.ru/
the site tells about the Soviet Union at war and about medical service in particular