We congratulate everyone on the eightieth anniversary of the Great Victory!

  Immortal Regiment 2022, Moscow. 

Let the memory live…

May 9th. Victory Day. And Remembrance Day.  

There is no Immortal Regiment in Moscow this year, so I will leave a memorial post here.

 My grandfather, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Nikolaevich Borsch, was born in the village of Borshchevka, Zmievsky district, Kharkov province. 1905–1989. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner in 1929 for participating in military operations as part of the 81st Cavalry Regiment in the fight against the Basmachi. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star for the Great Patriotic War and numerous medals.

My grandfather and grandmother Ira got married at 18 and lived together for 75 years, raising three children, including my mother. All the children received higher education.

For me, my grandparents are the epitome of family relationships; they always treated each other warmly and respectfully. My grandfather lovingly called her Sergeevna. My mother was born in 1933. When the war began, she was 7 years old. She remembers the war and the post-war years. My grandfather had a reservation as an NKVD employee. My mother told me how trains with evacuees and wounded would arrive in the Urals, where they lived at the time.

My relatives who were under occupation in Crimea and Ukraine told me about the atrocities of the fascists, Romanians, Banderites. It was scary, very scary. Grandfather never told me anything. There were only old photographs that grandfather laid out on the table and silently looked at. I learned everything from my mother later, when my grandfather was gone.

Eternal memory. We remember, we are proud!