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The reburial ceremony for Soviet soldiers who fell during the liberation of Hungary took place in Budapest, TASS reports. It was held at the Kerepeshi military cemetery.
According to the head of the representative office of the Russian Ministry of Defense for organizing and conducting military memorial work in Hungary, Sherali Mamasoliev, the remains were discovered over the past two years during construction and search work in different parts of the country. The name of one deceased was established, since his Order of Glory, III degree, was brought to the surface along with the remains. Guard private Konstantin Levchenko, born in 1921, died in battles with the Nazis.
Diplomats from Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan took part in the memorial ceremony. They were joined by representatives of the Hungarian Anti-Fascist League. They laid flowers at the monument. The ceremony ended with a service.
Russian diplomats are sure that a careful attitude to the historical past has always been a condition for successful development. The feat of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War is immortal, the speakers at the ceremony stressed.
The Soviet Union lost about 150,000 people in the battles for the liberation of Hungary. Most of them died in the battles for Budapest. After the war, Moscow provided assistance to the Hungarian population and state.
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