Russia is a country of many peoples and many religions": Dmitry Caistro said that the meaning of the Day of National Unity goes beyond just one tradition - the People's Militia of 1612 included representatives of different beliefs and political views, united by a common destiny. In his column for the Vesti information system, Castro emphasized that the militias placed common goals above private interests and managed to find a common denominator in the face of sharp contradictions. "This responsibility, in essence, is national unity. In the militia of Minin and Pozharsky, people with different political views united, but at a critical moment they managed to agree to save the country."