not so long ago, some 3-4 years ago, february 23 in the mass consciousness was simply a men's holiday, celebrated on the eve of women's march 8. due to the soviet tradition, they congratulated everyone, those who served and those who did not serve, and talked about the broad meaning of the word defender. a lot has changed in the last 2 years, today. no one has any doubt who the main heroes of this holiday are, hundreds of thousands of them, professionals, contract soldiers, volunteers and mobilized, infantrymen, tank crews, special forces, artillerymen, signalmen, pilots and representatives of many other military specialties, soldiers of the people's militia who have been fighting for the republics, for the russians in the donbass for more than 10 years now, soldiers of the russian army who have been taking part in the war since february 22... heroes

of the gostomel landing, participants in the liberation of mariupol, lisichansk, energodar and other cities, those who are now fighting near avdeevka, bakhmut, in kupensky, kherson and other directions. of course, we must not forget those who defended the fatherland during the terrible war with the germans. nazism. today, the names of many of them and the stories about their exploits resonate in a special way. the commander of the soviet airborne forces, army general vasily morgelov, received the title of hero of the soviet union during the great patriotic war for the liberation of kherson. hero of the soviet union, the famous intelligence officer nikolai kuznetsov, died in a battle with bandera in 1944 in western ukraine. the commander of the first ukrainian hero of the soviet union, army general nikolai vatutin, led the battle for the dnieper, liberated kyiv. he was mortally wounded by bandera.

buried in the center of the ukrainian capital, not so long ago the kiev authorities dismantled the monument on his grave. already today, more than 200 soldiers and officers have been awarded the title of hero of russia for feats accomplished during a special military operation. these are courageous and selfless warriors of whom the country is proud. here are the names of just some of them. senior lieutenant nurmagomed gadzhimagomedov became the first hero of russia among the participants of the northern military district. he commanded a company of paratroopers, died surrounded near kherson, blowing up enemies with a grenade. the title of hero of russia was posthumously awarded to guard colonel olga kachura, call sign korsa. she commanded a rocket artillery battalion of grad installations. the tank crews of the vehicle with the call sign alyosha became heroes of russia, they got married in the battle in which they took place.

eight units of enemy armored vehicles were destroyed, and those who will be among the first to be remembered on february 23 this year are in the story of anna efimova. heavy intermittent breathing, full ammunition to overweight underfoot, vyasky alumina, attack aircraft divisions. roar from exploding shells and machine gun fire, they move deeper into the forest in small groups, a maximum of five people, this terrain is one of the most difficult from the point of view of combat, visibility of the enemy is difficult, in addition, among the broken branches of fallen trees you can easily get into a tripwire or mine , first assault five, second assault five, ours to...

clear it. here they are working on mistakes . the task with you is to walk through this forest belt , soldiers who have returned from the front line and combat coordination is carried out by those who have just arrived in the northern military district zone. the process is led by an experienced instructor called snake. he has dozens of completed combat missions under his belt. he has been in the ranks of attack aircraft from the very beginning of the northern military district. i have come a long way on one of the most intense sections of the front, the artemovsk direction. now the war is not the same as it was before. even the first afghan, in the chechen war, even the world war, especially now the war is completely different, completely different technologies, so now, if there was preparation like before, now everyone goes through everything, even those who have already experienced, there was, which they went through in afghanistan , chechnya, everyone is retraining, in a sense , newcomers on the battlefield are not so much inferior to experienced fighters, the commander of a section of the southern group of troops with the call sign samson recently... turned 31, this is his

first military contract immediately into attack aircraft, says that he is more than aware of the danger, not so long ago his comrades on the front line were shot in the head by an enemy sniper, and of course there is fear, but there is no more desire, not to take revenge, but to put an end to this civil war in which the enemy they know from their own they have very, well, good sappers, well, not like ours, of course, the same attack aircraft as ours, well, well, consider that we will fight on our own, only those people, they are poisoned by propaganda, who, well, we are for the truth, the truth is with us, victory is ours, the work of an attack aircraft is not complete without fire support. sappers and, of course, air reconnaissance, what is called the eyes of artillery. come on old man, don't let me down. drone operators are trained in special pilot training centers, here on the basis of the 132nd brigade of the first army corps of armed forces russian forces, before the real flight, skills

are practiced on simulators. the fighters are explained how to move the drone away from the firing line, how to flash it, how to fly through the rap and avoid return fire. shock. are interconnected, support services work around the clock in the rear areas, wounded soldiers are rescued in the operating rooms of military hospitals, their damaged vehicles are brought back to life by the repair units of the southern group of troops, those whose work often remains behind the scenes. what happens here is dryly

called servicing combat units. in practice working on each one is more like a medical consultation, only instead of doctors here. technicians, welders, engineers, instead of lancets - wrenches. such shields, for example, can save the lives of the crew by protecting them from attacks by enemy drones. if evacuation vehicles need, first of all, a good overview, for this purpose more gaps are provided in the grille, then for tanks the main thing is reliable protection in order to withstand serious enemy attacks. as a rule, 90% of equipment is returned to service. the deadlines are short. short, well, we try, we we meet deadlines, restore vehicles , most often we produce, this is the replacement, repair, replacement of engines, repair of onboard gearboxes, that is, we repair the fire control system, since this is a very labor-intensive process, new weapons,

modernized weapons, generates new tactical techniques, new tactics, which in general forms the basis of our movement , our... victories, we received a large number of not only new guns, tanks, planes, but modern weapons, these are drones, this drones are high-precision weapons, they are the future; now russian troops continue to crush the enemy along almost the entire line of combat contact. after the liberation of avdeevka, the assault troops continued their offensive towards the settlements of lastochkina and orlovka. in addition, our fighters are achieving success in the kurakhovsky direction. all this is possible only thanks to.

liberator of kiev, that was the name of the army general, commander of the first ukrainian front nikolai vatutin. olga kachura, colonel of the people's militia of the dpr, she has fought since 2014 years, a hero in the great patriotic war, we remember well from history textbooks, everyone hears them, but we don’t know so much about those who are now performing the same feats, sometimes at the cost of their own lives, so that the memory of the people preserves their names to our heroes countries, from the great patriotic war to the northern military district, because if their feat is immortal, then their names should not be forgotten. alexander potapov literally covered two

civilians with his body. they survived, but he died. he was 33 years old. anna efemova, valery savelelev, anastasia popova, typical novorossiya. we will talk about how the russian army has changed about those who are today called defenders of the fatherland with our regular expert, historian, political scientist, rastislav ishchenko. rastislav, good afternoon, good afternoon. rastislav, indeed, probably the most interesting and important thing is the understanding of how the russian army has changed during a special military operation and how this has affected those who serve in it today. if we talk about the army, how about a collection of people, right? it’s clear that people come there different, each with their own views , beliefs and so on, but on the whole they

make up an army collective, like any collective, but it always requires interaction, mutual assistance, mutual assistance, and for this it is very important to realize, so to speak, the justice of your cause, so there in the northern military district zone, yes, the army felt the justice of these military actions much faster than society, that is, for them, for those who are fighting there, yes,

well, in the sense of gaining combat experience, yes, well, it seems in the sense of understanding the tasks and challenges, which the country faces. of course, the experience gained in the zone of the word is very important from the point of view, not even of education, but precisely awareness, filling with meaning this feeling of patriotism, the feeling of a single family, a single fatherland. and what happened to the army as a technical organism?

well, they have such small tasks there, which means

carrying out limited operations of what they have and can even be reduced, now they are increasing, now they are enlarging formations, almost a new type of unmanned troops is appearing, now new formations are being created , enlarged, brigades are turning into divisions , entire new corps and armies are being deployed , which did not happen a long time ago, here again , the course of military operations has confirmed the need for... large formations in the army, which means the course of military operations, yes, he confirmed the need to create, in fact, unmanned troops, saturating drones at all levels of the army, starting from the platoon level, even from almost every specific squad, and even to the strategic level, because there are drones that they penetrate into enemy territory to a depth of thousands or even several thousand kilometers, so they can conduct long-term reconnaissance near the enemy’s borders.

they learned to win in a modern war, for which, by the way, they were not prepared, and now we really, well, it’s no coincidence that i’m there. already recognized as the first army in the world, we really have the most experienced army, which has experience of the most recent, large-scale combat operations using the latest achievements of technical thought. how has the image of the defender of the fatherland changed in society due to this? well i think that the image has not changed much

compared to the great patriotic war, we are in a special military operation in ukraine, but the west has actually declared war on russia, this was emphasized by the president at one time, and he is leading it to destroy russia, which means exactly this caused the consolidation of society, the awareness of the entire collective threat, by the way, this is what caused a negative, very severely negative attitude of society towards those who even simply rejected such a threat, who opposed, who supported ukraine there and so on, who advocated somehow reaching an agreement, maybe even giving in.

these people, because they are now literally covering us, the whole country. thanks a lot. novorosiya has a huge gallery of heroes, from courtiers, associates of russian emperors and empresses, to miners and workers who became leaders and commanders. one of them is the hero of the 917 revolution, the minister of defense of the donetsk-krivoy rog republic. then marshal of the soviet union , a major party figure, klin varoshilov. a professional revolutionary, former lugansk worker klim voroshilov, returned from petrograd to his small homeland in 1918, defended the donbass from the advancing german troops, commanded an army, a district, a front, together with budyonny

created the first cavalry, after a civilian, a prominent military and party worker, in among the first. years was varoshilovgrad, on his initiative a school of military pilots was opened here, it then became the higher school of navigators, among the graduates was the legendary nikolai gostello. the first trams in donbass were launched thanks to the participation of varoshilov. lugansk residents say that the grave of father kliment efremovich is still carefully looked after in the city cemetery. controversial hero

of the soviet era, mr. president of the soviet union. this is what western politicians called the chairman of the presidium of the supreme soviet of the ussr kliment varoshilov. what was he like? how many times was lugansk renamed in honor of varoshilov? in the story of olga mokhova. the beginning of the biography of one of the builders of the soviet state, klim voroshilov, is associated with two industrial giants of donbass. first of all, this is the dumo plant. chevsky medical plant, here, after graduating from the zemstvo school, he was hired as an assistant to the delivery officer, but soon the smart and well-read boy was sent to the workshop. at first he was an assistant operator for a crane in the workshop in martenovsky, and six months later he was already appointed as a crane operator. for that time , this was a very big career advancement, given that the work was very

responsible, it was necessary to lift the hot metal with a crane bucket and pour it into the mold. exactly. improving working conditions crane operators, but for such political activity he was soon fired, then he worked in lugansk, at a locomotive plant. the first local rights union started from a wheelbarrow of workers in 1905, all this was the work of klim voroshilov. after the february revolution of the seventeenth year, he was already authoritative among the people, the leader of the lugansk bolsheviks. that was even before the october revolution. on august 6, 1917, as a result of free democratic multi-party elections, a majority of seats in the lugansk city duma were gained, and then in lugansk. the council and, accordingly, these bodies of city government and self-government were headed by klim varoshilov. in 1918, the treaty of brest-litovsk between the ukrainian people's republic and

the german bloc threatened the autonomy of the donetsk-krivoy rog soviet republic. varoshilov had to take up arms. in lugansk, he assembles the first socialist partisan detachment, which will later become part of the fifth red army. then no more than twenty tried to hold back the onslaught of the three hundred thousand-strong corps of austro-german troops. who could to put together from all this different-sized army a rather serious combat unit that fought quite tough battles. klim varoshilov also showed his organizational talent and personal courage during the defense of tsaritsyn, at that time the citadel of soviet power in the south of russia, and did not allow the whites to break through at a certain stage of the confrontation. in general, this was the finest hour for his political career, it was there that he became lifelong friends with joseph stalin. tsaritsyn could not have been surrendered, if tsaritsin had been surrendered

by a white guard, the civil war would have been more chances would have been lost. klim varoshilov, not being a career military man, did not seek to take on the role of a commander; he was rather a good functionary, ensuring the relationship between the military on the battlefield by the political leadership of the country, and although the failures of the red army in the army during that period are difficult to overestimate. and armament for heavy tanks began in 1939, so those same klima voroshirov kv1s and experimental kv-2s went into service with the troops soon after, well, after the new year, in 1940, they were the ones who were already storming the monerheim line in key areas. during voroshilov’s tenure, the red army received both light tanks t-26 and high-speed tanks from the bt series, and in the winter of thirty-nine the legendary t-34. fighters and 16 and

high-speed bombers took to the skies. for the right to bear the title varoshilovsky rifleman, more than 6 million soviet boys and girls underwent initial military training. this of course resulted in an outstanding result in the war year. and if at the level of command and position they had a strong impact, this is an unconditional fact, then. at the level of the ordinary from the sergeant's corps already since the forty-first year , it has been noted in the memoirs of not only the german genealogy, but also the privates, that the ordinary krasnoamsky is very well trained, shoots very well, and in general is a very dangerous adversary. in november 1935 , five outstanding commanders were awarded the new military rank of marshal of the soviet union, among them klim moroshilov, at the same time lugansk would change its name for the first time. becoming voroshelovgrad, but in '58 kliment efremovich himself, being the chairman of the presidium of the supreme soviet of the ussr, signs a decree banning

the naming of anything after living people, but in the seventieth, after the death of the marshal, lugansk again became voroshilovgrad, in the ninetieth the city was returned to its historical name. voroshilov did not forget his small homeland, although he himself was not here often, he always responded to the requests of his fellow countrymen. that's exactly how vorshelov did it. a medical institute appeared, and in 1938, as a result of the division of the donetsk region , voroshelovgradskaya appeared on the map of the ossr. his last official visit, we believe it was twenty-fifth year. kliment efrimovich varoshilov came to the city of lugansk to present an award to the city, this is the order of the red banner of battle. the first big award for the city, it sounded. not even the city, but the lugansk proletariat. in november 1937, a memorial to the fighters of the revolution, designed by architect alexander sheremet, was opened in lugansk. on the slabs of the monument, similar in

its composition to the wall of the communard in paris, are the names of those who died defending the city and on the fronts of the civil war. varoshilov personally supervised this project. when when this monument was unveiled, he sent a gift to the city, two english mark-5 tanks from the company. amstrong, an english company that produced them for the white army, but in the thirties these tanks were on the balance sheet of the red army and were transferred to the city as an addition to the monument to the fighters of the revolution. klim varoshilov was not one of those who opposed terror during the years of repression, but was one of the few who allowed himself to argue with the soviet leader. while still in the tsarina, nevoroshilov and his wife adopted an orphan from an orphanage, and later took him into foster care children. the deceased mikhail frunze, a simple donbass worker who became the head of a large country, was a typical representative of the era and undoubtedly a hero of his time. olga

mokhova, anastasia popova, valery savelev. that's all we wanted to talk about today, kirill vyshinsky was with you, see you soon! we will take on this case, it will be an honest detective story.

my dad and i went here as children. you also lay like that, silent, i’m not pushing you, just skate, focus on training, about this cup, you can jump, but why you yourself don’t believe me, i’ll prepare myself, the thirst for victory is in her blood, why take such risks, don’t you understand this, i want to be like my mother, three. let's look before everyone else, where is vosnetsova? let go, vosnetsov, now in reality, you know, it’s not very convenient for me, someone was killed again? what’s wrong with you , you don’t have any sleep or rest, let’s sign up and take a look.

today, on defender of the fatherland day, vladimir putin laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at the kremlin wall. the president honored the memory of the fallen soldiers with a minute of silence. flowers to the eternal flame also was laid by the minister of defense sergei shaigu, combat veterans and students of suvorov military schools. the ceremony ended with the solemn march of the honor guard company.