This day, 22 of June 1941 was the beginning of Great Patriotic War for the Soviet Union. The largest, hardest and memorable war in our history. Still sometimes it seems that whole Russian history is history of wars!...
And now we have got one more new, but already important and sincere tradition - the Memory Watch - Вахта памяти.
The idea of this activity is that the participants (usually the youth) meet at night and from different parts of Moscow (or other cities. Me myself, I participated once, it was in Moscow) different groups walk (on foot, at night) towards the center of Moscow, to Alexander's garden near the Kremlin, where is the Tomb of the Unknown soldier and the Eternal Flame.
Usually by 3 o'clock you are there. You get a flower (usually carnation) and a candle. Then at 4 o'clock - exactly when the War started - you silently walk to the Tomb to put the flowers there. Such a sincere and strong ceremony
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