Lev Shlosberg: "About personal history"

“But when a state’s soul is empty, when the blood and tears of war have value for this state only to the extent that they can be used in modern propaganda against new “enemies of the state,” then such a state destroys the true memory of the War and Victory. It is afraid of the real , because the genuine, living thing is always stronger than the dead, false one.

On May 9, 1945, tens of millions of people - men, women, children - cried not only from the joy of the coming of Victory, but from inescapable grief - because everyone had lost loved ones, everyone had lifelong scars on their hearts. And the state, even if it wanted, could not confuse or deceive the ordinary person - he himself knew the truth. She lived next to him."