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Webinar commemorating to the 75th Anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in Great Patriotic War
08.05.2020
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Indian Association of teachers of Russian languages and literature (INDAPRYAL) in collaboration with Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University (KKHSOU Guwahati) organized a Webinar commemorating to the 75th Anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in Great Patriotic War.
About 110 participants from India and Russia joint this event.
RSUH Hindi group students – Alina Fasakhova, Maria Skorobogatova, Amina Muhametkhanova, Sofia Kiseleva, Viktor Toropov, Alena Plotnikova, Ekaterina Moskalenko and teachers – prof Alexander Stolyarov and Indira Gazieva also took part in this webinar.
Welcoming speeches were presented by Dr Meenu Bhatnagar, President of the INDAPRYAL and prof. Kandarpa Das, Vice Chancellor of KKHSOU Guwahati.
Keynote speakers were:
HE Nikolay Rishatovish Kudashev, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India spoke about the significance of victory for the Soviet people, for the whole world and for future generations. He also noted the inadmissibility of various attempts to distort facts and falsify the history of the Second World War because it was not just a bloody and terrible war against the Soviet Union, but also the destruction of the Russian and all other peoples of the USSR. These were the true goals of German Nazism.
HE D. Bala Venkatesh Varma, Ambassador of India to the Russian Federation noted that the 75th anniversary of the victory over fascism is celebrated all over the world and it is a victory of the Soviet people and humanity. He also spoke about the friendship of the Soviet Union and India, about cooperation and projects in various fields. The ambassador wished all participants good health.
Prof Ravinder Nath Menon (retd) told how Soviet people perceived the news of the Nazi army attack on the Soviet Union. He also commended the resistance and heroic struggle of Soviet people in the liberation of their homeland.
Prof. Tatyana Shaumyan, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow Russia talked about the fact that the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences published a book "War and Memory" with collections of scholars’ interviews who took part in the Great Patriotic war:
Prof. Anatoly Egorin, who recently died, he was the son of a regiment - he was a teenager and he joined the partisans in the Bryansk forests. Then he was students of the Suvorov School and he participated in the victory parade in 1945 on Red Square.
Prof. Nina Dmitrievna Gavryushina - a resident of the besieged Leningrad,
Academician Evgeny Chelyshev, a famous Indologist, a war veteran.
Prof. Victor Rastyannikov, war veteran
Prof. Eric Komarov, war veteran
Prof. Abhay Maurya, Former Vice Chancellor EFFLU, Hyderabad, India
noted that many historical facts about the war and the struggle of the Soviet people the Indian people learned from literature and translations from Russian into Indian languages. These books show the real stories of the humanity of the Russian people, about helping each other.
Prof. Abhay Maurya gave an example of the film “Man’s Fate” based on the story of Mikhail Sholokhov about a soldier who lost his whole family but met a boy on his way and became his father.
He also noted that people understand all the pain experienced by ancestors who gave their lives for their homeland.
Prof. Varyam Singh (Ret) Centre of Russian Studies JNU, a famous translator from Russian to Hindi mentioned about Russian literature that reflects the war days and the struggle of the Soviet people against the Nazis.
He recited Twardowski's poem about the war, which he translated into Hindi
Prof. Kiran Singh Verma thanked everyone for their participation and congratulated the participants with Victory Day.
Student and teachers of the Russian State University for the Humanities express their sincerely thank to organizers and participants and for the organization of this excellent event. Congratulation all people with Victory Day.
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