There are several main events which citizens of Uzbekistan celebrate every year. These holiday days are marked on the calendars with the red type and are the rest days. Of course, the New Year’s Day is the most important holiday. Formerly multinational Soviet people celebrated this holiday. Now this event is celebrated in all republics of the ex-Soviet Union. Not long ago the New Year’s Day in the Asian calendar was remembered in the republics of Middle Asia and Kazakhstan. This holiday falls on the 21 March called “Navruz” that is translated as “spring holiday” in English. But there is one special holiday yet which the people of republics of the ex-Soviet Union celebrate. It is Victory Day of the Soviet people over fascist Germany. The Day of Victory is a day of memory and thanks to the people who fought against fascism. I believe that the Victory Day is one of th
Less and less people who took part in the Great Patriotic War remain today. I remember how the factories or educational institutions invited them to talk to the youth about the Great Patriotic War and how difficult this victory was achieved by Soviet people. Twenty million Soviet people perished in the Great Patriotic War. Young people must know that their grandfathers and grandmothers stood in the struggle for peace and against fascism. My father was a military flyer and was constantly invited to the Victory parades. Sometimes he took me in the military parade. I can say these events will be saved in my memory forever as the important ones.
Although Soviet people fought against fascist Germany under the guidance of the communist party of the U.S.S.R., this holiday is not communistic unlike November 7-8, the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Russian, o