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The memory of Soviet and American pilots, who drove military aircraft from the United States to the USSR along the Alsib air route (Alaska-Siberia) during World War II, honored in Fairbanks. Russian diplomats and city mayor Jim Matherly laid wreaths and flowers to the memorial located in Alaska, TASS reports.
Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov assured that Russia will never forget that the residents of the United States were brothers in arms to the citizens of the USSR. He noted that our country never split the Great Victory into parts, did not divide the participation of Britain, the United States and Russia.
Russian diplomats lit candles at the monument, thus joining the memorial event called Candle of Memory.
Head of the Russian diplomatic mission and the mayor of Fairbanks discussed the issue of expanding cooperation between the twin cities. They also noted the importance of preserving the historical memory of joint struggle of the two countries against fascism.
According to Jim Matherly, the complicated relations between Moscow and Washington in the international arena are not an obstacle to contacts between separate regions of the two countries.
The monument in Fairbanks depicts figures of Soviet and American pilots. They are looking in the direction from which the planes made at US factories were driven into the city. In Fairbanks, pilots from the USSR, who had previously been trained in Alaska to drive these machines, were transferred to them.
Russkiy Mir
