today my guest is the chairman of the dsaf central council, ivan dyrman. ivan vasilievich, hello.hey talk a lot about patriotic education, the work of the dssaf is directly related to this, but when something is talked about a lot and often, the meaning of it is lost. what do you personally mean by the word patriotism? first of all, of course, we mean the word patriotism in the love of homeland. loving your homeland, of course, is wonderful. i have to visit various regions of belarus practically. look, how does patriotism differ from love for the motherland? everyone loves their homeland, patriots do everything necessary to ensure that their homeland flourishes, strengthens and looks decent . that is, a patriot is distinguished by the fact that his feelings, experiences, thoughts are expressed precisely in specific actions. i would think, i would say this: a patriot is a lover of a country, a creator. and if you look at your childhood, who or what raised you patriotism? my father had three brothers, three brothers died in the war, the youngest, the germans dragged him out of the h

internal troops, with the ministry of emergency situations, with the state border committee, with the dsaf and... but all these categories that i named, they require a certain sacrifice in their service, here, of course , the church helps, so that a person realizes, understands what it means to lay down his soul for his friends, the church has always blessed the defender of his fatherland for a feat of arms, well, then everyone a defender of the fatherland, he must know: what he is protecting, not only a building, not only a house, but now it is very important, and you and i live in a time when it is very important to protect our spiritual state. people, our traditions , the spiritual component on which the people are based, if we lose our traditions, first of all, spiritually, then we can lose ourselves, and as a people, traditions help to unite them, just like cement holds bricks together and a building stands, so too spiritual tradition, national traditions, they are very important to know. sometimes he falls away from god, and having fallen away from god, he loses connection and loses