20,000 participants in those events live in our country today in studios, good difference, belarus vladimir shokovman of the board of the minsk city organization of veterans of the war in afghanistan, in memory of the public association belarusian union of veterans of the war in afghanistan. we welcome you. good morning. hello please tell me. it would seem that so many years have passed more than 30 years. yes, to be exact, 34 years, yes, well, uh, after those events, but we have no right, after all, to forget those events that happened and what is for you personally. and in general, what does this day mean to us in history, firstly, not a single day in history should we forget about it, even know it, otherwise grandchildren and great-grandchildren cannot rewrite it for the sake of that person or leader or for me what it is. this is war. i never could understand my fathers and grandfathers when i asked what are your most wonderful events. that's what they called the war to you. i did not understand then why it was an event for them that something was youth. and they did everything in order to surv