Evening bell:
The liberation of the passing day On November 6, 1943, the Red Army liberated Kiev from the Nazis, as remembered in the historical journal Rodina. The enemy attacked us, but we withdrew from the Dnieper. The mortal battle thundered like a thunderstorm. Oh, Dnieper, Dnieper, you flow far away,.
And your wave is like a tear. The enemy drinks from your waterfalls. He will choke on this water! It will be a glorious day, we will march forward.
and see you again The words to this song were written by the poet and war writer Yevgeny Dolmatovsky in the autumn days of 1941, when, after escaping captivity from "Bor Uman", he made his way to the front lines "through the hills of Ukraine and crossed the Dnieper. " A year later, the "Song of the Dnieper" was sung with new folk words: The hour of glory has come, we are marching forward.
and see you again On September 15, 1943, Hitler ordered Army Group South to withdraw across the Dnieper. But our forces were unable to reach the bridges before Hoots' 4th Panzer Army. The Germans managed to retreat across the river and blow up the bridges. And so the Dnieper had to be crossed by improvised means and under devastating fire. In 80 years we will remember how important it is to burn bridges in war... "When you enter a liberated city with your soldiers, you see and experience a lot," war writer Konstantin Bukovsky of the First Ukrainian Front wrote about what happened next. "You see somewhere in Priorka or already in Podil the tears of a Kyivan woman embracing a tired and dirty soldier, who is still full of the tension of a last battle. You see how this soldiers look is filled with hatred as he steps into a dilapidated street and walks over piles of crackling glass. You feel all the happy excitement and at the same time all the sorrow of the soldiers marching through the streets of a liberated city, between buildings erected by the Germans.