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The Eternal flame will be lit in the Slovenian city of Murska Sobota at the monument to Soviet soldiers and officers who died during the liberation of Pomurie, TASS reports. The ceremony will take place in two days, it is scheduled for September 20.
A particle of the Eternal Flame will be delivered from the memorial dedicated to the soldiers of Russia and the USSR, who gave their lives in two world wars on Slovenian soil. The monument is located in the suburbs of Ljubljana. The eternal flame was lit there on the first day of autumn. The ceremony was timed to the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.
Russkiy Mir reported that a particle of the Eternal Flame was sent from Moscow to Ljubljana on August 31. The fire was lit in a lamp, which was then delivered to Ljubljana by plane of the defense department. The Russian Historical Society is sure that this event is of great importance. For the first time in several decades, the Eternal Flame was lit in a country that is part of the European Union and NATO.
In the battles for the liberation of Pomurje, the only region of Slovenia liberated by Soviet troops in the spring of the 1945, more than one and a half thousand soldiers died. Immediately after the war, a monument to the Liberators, a Soviet soldier and a Yugoslav partisan, was erected on the main city square of Murska Sobota.
Russkiy Mir
