May 9, 2015 in Treptower Park. Photo credit: Kleiner Eisbär 2015 / wikipedia.org (CC BY-SA 4.0)
German residents are putting in order the monuments perpetuating the memory of Soviet soldiers on the eve of Victory Day. The campaign is held throughout the country, TASS reports. Volunteer Nikolai Fast said that he created a map of Germany, which shows the monuments, and posted it on the Internet. Everyone can find monuments, clean up the territory, plant flowers.
Nikolai Fast added that among the participants there are more residents of eastern Germany. In Berlin, Cologne, Leipzig, both local residents and immigrants from the Soviet Union join the campaign.
The activist created a Telegram chat that allows people to coordinate their actions. They publish pictures and videos about the restoration of memorials. About 10,000 people are registered in the chat. Only in the last few days, the memorial to the dead Soviet prisoners in Hildesheim, the memorials in Holzminden and Lingen have been put in order. Volunteers cleaned up the territory of the cemetery in Koblenz, where more than 600 Soviet soldiers are buried.
In total, there are about 200 messages in the chat with reports on the work done.
Nikolay Fast heads the Brotherly Motor Aid humanitarian movement. When truckers from Russia and Belarus started having problems in Europe after the start of the military special operation, he and his colleagues organized help for them. They brought essential parts, equipped parking lots, helped with security. When this problem was solved, Brotherly Motor Aid began to carry humanitarian cargo to the Donbass.
Fast was born in the USSR, but has been living in Germany for more than 30 years.
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