🇷🇺🇺🇸 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answers to media questions on the occasion of the #ElbeDay
1. What kind of associations do you have with the Elbe Day?
A world-famous photo comes to mind where soldiers of the Allied armies, who met at the Elbe River, are exchanging fraternal handshakes and an embrace. Back in those days, they shared a piece of bread and raised a frontline cup to the Victory and Soviet-U.S. friendship. To celebrate the meeting at the Elbe River our country fired a salute of 324 artillery guns. Photos that have survived till our days show overwhelming and sheer joy because of the approaching end of the war.
2. What does the Elbe Day mean to you?
The meeting at the Elbe River epitomizes the brotherhood-in-arms between the Soviet Union and the Unites States that fought together against a common enemy. The memory about this event lives on. Amidst the deepest crisis in Russian-U.S. relations we can and must draw on the experience of those who had the wisdom and bravery to put aside differences in order to achieve shared goals. There are a lot of challenges in the modern world that can be hardly addressed without cooperation between Moscow and Washington.
3. How can you describe the soldiers who met each other on this historic day?
They are the heroes who managed to beat Nazi tyranny, despite countless sufferings. Their feat pre-determined a peaceful and decent life for successive generations. Soldiers of the Allied armies sought a Victory – which cost them tremendous sacrifices – that will be not just the beginning of another interwar period, but a turning point in the humankind history which would begin the age of sustainable peaceful relations between countries. Our duty to the Generation of Victors is to remember the lessons of that war.
4. Do you have any message for the Americans today as a mark of respect for their sacrifice in World War II?
We will always pay tribute to the bravery of our brothers-in-arms and honor the memory of those who sacrificed their lives in the fight against the most dangerous evil of the 20th century. Supplies from the United States and other countries helped the Red Army to bring our common Victory closer.
I cordially congratulate all veterans on the Elbe Day and wish them good health, prosperity and peaceful sky above their heads.
1. What kind of associations do you have with the Elbe Day?
A world-famous photo comes to mind where soldiers of the Allied armies, who met at the Elbe River, are exchanging fraternal handshakes and an embrace. Back in those days, they shared a piece of bread and raised a frontline cup to the Victory and Soviet-U.S. friendship. To celebrate the meeting at the Elbe River our country fired a salute of 324 artillery guns. Photos that have survived till our days show overwhelming and sheer joy because of the approaching end of the war.
2. What does the Elbe Day mean to you?
The meeting at the Elbe River epitomizes the brotherhood-in-arms between the Soviet Union and the Unites States that fought together against a common enemy. The memory about this event lives on. Amidst the deepest crisis in Russian-U.S. relations we can and must draw on the experience of those who had the wisdom and bravery to put aside differences in order to achieve shared goals. There are a lot of challenges in the modern world that can be hardly addressed without cooperation between Moscow and Washington.
3. How can you describe the soldiers who met each other on this historic day?
They are the heroes who managed to beat Nazi tyranny, despite countless sufferings. Their feat pre-determined a peaceful and decent life for successive generations. Soldiers of the Allied armies sought a Victory – which cost them tremendous sacrifices – that will be not just the beginning of another interwar period, but a turning point in the humankind history which would begin the age of sustainable peaceful relations between countries. Our duty to the Generation of Victors is to remember the lessons of that war.
4. Do you have any message for the Americans today as a mark of respect for their sacrifice in World War II?
We will always pay tribute to the bravery of our brothers-in-arms and honor the memory of those who sacrificed their lives in the fight against the most dangerous evil of the 20th century. Supplies from the United States and other countries helped the Red Army to bring our common Victory closer.
I cordially congratulate all veterans on the Elbe Day and wish them good health, prosperity and peaceful sky above their heads.