On Dozhd they read out texts from Soviet front-line correspondents

Before Victory Day, modern Russian military journalists recall the texts of their predecessors - Soviet front-line correspondents of the Great Patriotic War.

The project of the TV channel "Dozhd" called "The Great Patriotic Truth" consists of voicing the texts of Soviet military journalists by their current colleagues. “70 years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, the profession of a front-line correspondent has returned to Russia,” the publication announces.

Three videos have already appeared on the site, with five more expected.

Ilya Vasyunin reads a text by Alexei Tolstoy

“The enemy is insidious and he still has a lot of strength. We must unite in one will, in one feeling, in one thought - to defeat and destroy Hitler and his armies, which bring death and slavery, slavery and death and nothing more. For this great goal "We need hatred. In response to Hitler's invasion of our country - hatred, in response to the bombing of Moscow - hatred."

Timur Olevsky voiced the text of Ilya Ehrenburg

“Sexual perversions and, above all, sadism became the stronghold of fascism. The morphine addict Goering, the fornicator Goebbels, the sadist Himmler, the specialist in child molestation “Doctor” Ley, degenerates whose whereabouts should have been debated by prison governors and hospital directors, found themselves in ministerial positions.” .

Anna Nemtsova - with text by Mikhail Sholokhov

“We soon went on the offensive and really saw enough... Villages burned to the ground, hundreds of executed women, children, old people, mutilated corpses of captured Red Army soldiers, raped and brutally murdered women, girls and teenage girls.”

Unabbreviated texts are available via links.

Ilya Barabanov, Elena Kostyuchenko, Orkhan Dzhemal, Yuri Matsarsky and Pavel Kanygin will also take part in the project.