The remains of the dead Soviet soldiers reburied in the land of Styria
Andrei Zolotov. The remains of twenty-three soldiers of the 155th infantry division, who died 70 years ago in the battle for Austria, solemnly reburied on Wednesday afternoon on a Soviet military cemetery close to the Styrian town of Hartberg in 2 hours ' drive South of Vienna.
at the climax of the event, the local commander of the veterans of the squad commanded " on guard ", and the bearers lowered the standards above the building members of the public organization "Black cross" involved in the care of military graves. Austrian officers, military attaches from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan seemed to peaks, and the Russian Ambassador to Austria Sergey Nechayev began to read the names of soldiers whose bodies were exhumed in September of last year in the woods near here and found on Wednesday last rest quite close with more than a thousand of their comrades-in-arms, before buried under the Hartberg.
"Vasily Sazonov E., Valiullin Comartin hayrullovich, Dermoscopic Nikolai, Kalinin porphyry Pavlovich", is echoed in a Sunny day, the names on the side of the road.
in this list soldiers, called up from the Voronezh region and Baku, Odessa and Moscow region, Kurgan, and Kamenetz-Podolsk areas of the Altai region and Dnipropetrovsk region. Nine of the twenty-three were born in Ukraine, one from Kazakhstan.
"in the red Army fought the soldiers of many nationalities. It was a common victory. We do not divide it on their own and others ", - said the Russian Ambassador.
after Russian Orthodox priest read the funeral prayer, the members of the "Black cross" dropped small wooden boxes-coffins in a mass grave. Played the national anthems of Austria and Russia, and the delegation of the land Parliament of Styria, the head of the district Hartberg Max Widenhofer, Ambassador and military attache of Russia, the military attache of Ukraine and Kazakhstan laid wreaths at the Central monument of the memorial.
"If They're watching us now, They would have been satisfied, - said in the conclusion of the event the head of the Styrian branch of the "Black cross" retired Colonel Dieter Alles.
in 2011, Austrian ascetic work to perpetuate the memory of Soviet soldiers within Austria Peter Sixl found in the merged database "memorial" schematic plan of the burial of soldiers of the 155th infantry division, told Last news his poddebice, chief editor of the Austrian Russian-language newspaper "Come on" Julia EGGER. The grave was on private land, in a forest in a mountainous area. The owner of land not only gave consent for the exhumation, but also helped to identify the burial place He was a boy during the war. However, an exhumation order from the Ministry of internal Affairs of Austria had to wait a long time. Finally, in September of last year, the company search engines from Germany and Austria "Union to clarify the fate of the missing and the dead" together with the engineers conducted an excavation. Except for the remains of soldiers during survey works was found 43 explosive device.
"on the location of the remains using the plan scheme was pretty easy to determine who is who," said EGGER, who participated in the excavations.
The reburial took the decision to coincide with celebrating these days the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Vienna in the beginning of the 70th anniversary of the end of world war II and the 60th anniversary of the signing of the State Treaty on the restoration of independent and democratic Austria.
"in Austria there are about 80 thousand Soviet citizens - soldiers of the red Army, concentration camp prisoners and people deported for forced labor. They fought the same way and for the revival of a free, independent and neutral Austria, " he told reporters After the event, the Russian Ambassador Nechaev. He expressed his gratitude to the authorities of Styria, search engines and "Black cross" for the organization of reburial, and commissioners of the embassies of Ukraine and Kazakhstan for participation." This ceremony is important For future generations that lived the memory of the heroism of the ancestors, so that We can together to oppose attempts to rewrite history, to use it for political purposes, so We can spare future generations from further tragedies, " said the Russian Ambassador.
"It is essential for us to be here," said Fins news After the event, Ukraine military attache Colonel Alexander Babaw. According to his statement, locate the two family reburied on Wednesday soldiers, but the families for health reasons are unable to attend the ceremony." They now have the ability to sleep because of their heroic ancestors found their refuge and peace, " said Babaw.
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