Disabled person of the Great Patriotic War Vladimir Etosha was forgotten to invite Victory

The front -line soldier Vladimir Etush, heavily wounded in battles near Zaporozhye in 1943, was not invited, as in the last years, to the Kremlin, but to Red Square, where the Victory Parade took place, thanks to the efforts of his wife and publicity.

"Every year, Vladimir Abramovich, a veteran and a war disabled person, was invited to the Victory Parade and to an appointment in the Kremlin on May 9, where the president personally personally congratulated him on a great holiday, not hiding his good location. And for some reason they didn’t even invite him. I would not even tell what forces to use the veteran and disabled artist of the USSR, there was a place for a lot of thousand The tribune of Red Square, ”said the artist Elena Etush, on Facebook .

According to her, regarding the festive Kremlin reception, the responsible persons said that "the invitation of Etosha was not provided."

Later, the wife of the front -line soldier said that, having learned about the current situation, Vladimir Kibovsky, Minister of Culture of Moscow, was given his tickets to the Victory Parade. And the festive reception of the artist's relatives arranged independently.

The message that Etush did not receive invitations and the parade gained almost 2.5 thousand reposts on social networks and dozens of comments. Fans of the work of the artist, who brilliantly performed Comrade Saakhov in the "Caucasian captive" and Jourdin in the "Meshchane in the nobility", congratulated Etosha, thanked for his contribution to victory, heroism and vitality.

Vladimir Etush was born in 1922 in the Mogilev region. I signed up for the front as a volunteer in September 1941. He fought in the Caucasus, liberated the southern cities and Ukraine, was awarded the Order of the Red Star and numerous medals, including "For the Defense of Moscow." In 1943 he was seriously wounded in the battles for Zaporozhye, after the hospital he received a second disability group and was commissed.

On the eve of the 65th anniversary of Victory, the artist told reporters about his participation in the Great Patriotic War.

“I went to the front as a volunteer, despite the reservation that I had as a student of the Schukinsky school. I even remembered the date when I went to the military registration and enlistment office to write a statement - October 16, 1941. Moscow already had different eyes ... this changed atmosphere, a feeling of inevitable trouble that opened over all of us - all this was deposited somewhere deeper, and necessary. I studied the German language at the insistence of my mother’s insistence, so I was sent to the rates of military translators. Patriotic War.

“I was a senior lieutenant, the first assistant chief of staff of the regiment. I was an operational assistant, it means that during the battle I had to be with the regiment commander at the observation post. I remember that one day the German was advancing, and our trench jumps out and runs. And the commander orders:“ Stop! ”I-abundance:“ Stoo-oh-oh! ”My maneuver! However, I physically influenced ... under the ass of Pink - and I shoot in the air.

Etush admitted that after the war he was offered to continue his military career and become a military personnel. "But I did not want me to be produced further - to the captains, to other ranks. I was afraid that the army would" hug "me completely: I wanted to return to the theater school."

In 1945, Etush graduated from the theater school. Schukina and quickly became the leading actor of the theater. Vakhtangov. He taught at his native school, in 1976 he became a professor, and in 1987 he took the post of rector.