residents and guests of belarus, traveling around our country, do not always know that somewhere nearby, unnoticeable from the road , there are impressive monuments dedicated to the events of the great patriotic war. these events

did not necessarily take place in large cities, often a small village or field turned out to be the site of heroic battles and terrible human tragedies. such places remember the feat of our people, remember the genocide of the belarusian people, remember the price at which the victory was achieved. in the bobruisk district of the minsk province, now it is svetlogorsk gomel region, in the forest thicket, surrounded by a swamp, near the river of the same name , a small village, ala, was hiding.

drive them out! there were three children in the family. everyone was still asleep,

only the youngest boy could not sleep, he ran out of the hut to the gate to see what was going on. the cows carried away a trail of dust, manure and milk smells. the air smelled of lilac, which grew in almost every yard. sejo!

the river, like the village, was called ala, the sun was shining brightly and a strong wind was blowing, all the housewives tried to do the laundry on such days.

last summer there was a drought, and there was not enough grain for the year, there was nothing to bake bread from, father got some. he sent the girls to the neighbors to grind it on millstones with some unripe grain. it was winter, the village was heavily

snowed in overnight, a family was moving along the road! schnell schnell. and lie down, sled, don't move.

your government told you that these people were partisans, and you automatically carried out this order to kill and burn, because of this innocent old people and children suffered. who got this, where did he come from, all by the roof frozen, the inhabitants did not yet know the genocide,

people, including 200 old people, 100 men, 508 women, 950 children from 12 villages, who sought refuge there from the german invaders. this boulder, my son, saved my life on that terrible day.

gintovt vitold mikhailovich, soviet tanker. ace, participant in the great patriotic war. as part of the crew of the t-34 tank

, 21 enemy tanks were destroyed, including four heavy tiger tanks, as well as four enemy self-propelled guns, two tanks, one of them a panther, were captured in good condition during the fighting, and also destroyed 27 guns, 80 vehicles and more than a hundred. enemy soldiers officers, it is noteworthy that six tanks were destroyed in one battle. in total, during the war , tanker az vitold gintaft participated in more than 100 tank attacks, burned in a tank twice, changed combat vehicles three times, while remaining in service himself. in april 1944, for exemplary performance of combat missions of the command at the front. hero of the soviet

union with the award of the order of lenin and the gold star medal. what meaning do modern icon painters put into their works? and in order to it was all not in vain, so that it would help people to pray, so that it would help them to repent, to become church members. how is the education in sunday schools today, one spiritual lesson, the law of god, one creativity lesson, one music lesson, and for the older ones, that is, adults, there are already lectures on subjects, well, there is already, so to speak, more serious preparation. what is mercy? this is probably the food that we ourselves will always need, and

this is the food of god, which is born in the heart of a compassionate soul. what unique shrines are kept in belarusian churches. here we have the holy relics of the martyr vanefaty of rome, and vanefaty is a patron helper of such a sin, which many, many people encounter, it is the sin of drinking wine, this particle of relics, which arrived to us from greece, the answers to these and other questions are in...