Heroes are welcomed in the standing position: young residents of Ashgabat perform spectacle for war veterans
In a few days, we will celebrate the Victory Day, it yet, graduates and students of the Dalchin Educational Center of Ashgabat are in a hurry to congratulate veterans of the Great Patriotic War on anniversary date.
The students decided to present a creative gift within the walls of the State Russian Drama Theater named after Alexander Pushkin, having performed on the stage a potpourri of famous classical plays.
... Internationalist warriors around the world contributed to the common victory over fascism. People who speak different languages were united by the struggle against the Nazi invaders. And today, students of the Dalchin Center studying English, Turkmen, Russian, French and other foreign languages gave the guests of the charity evening an opportunity to experience the dramaturgy of literary works by William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Pushkin – in original language.
Veterans as honorary spectators were welcomed in the standing position under loud applauses. Grateful descendants – grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren of the defenders of the Motherland, present the heroes with flowers expressing their gratitude with words “Thank you for the peaceful sky above our head."
All fragments of theatre performances are unified by the topic of love. It was love, not hate that helped many people to survive in heavy wartime. Fighting for their homeland, people lived and loved in spite of everything. The inexhaustible source of patriotism, love for the Fatherland contributed a lot to believe in Victory and move forward towards a brighter future.
“Among the guests of the charity event, the people who fought, reached Berlin, survived the blockade, and were able to return home,” Olga Sadihyan, teacher and director of studies of the Dalchin Educational Center, says. “We, together with our students, would like to express our gratitude to the veterans, and therefore have prepared a mini-performance with songs of the war years, poems and scenes about love. After all, love is a life-giving and driving force. It has become a good tradition for the students of the Dalchin to honor veterans of the Great Patriotic War. Of course, the guys are not professional actors, and consider the theater art as a hobby that helps to reveal their creative potential and diversify their language practice. However, thanks to the advice of the experienced mentor, stage director of the Pushkin Theater, Ashir Rahmanov, many students of the educational center thought about the theater career in the future.”
“The Victory Day is an important holiday for all of us,” Sakina Gulamalyeva, who performed several roles in the play, says. “My grandmother is a child of war, she was born in the difficult post-war period, and, probably, there are many families whose members were involved in the events of this terrible war. Thanks to our ancestors, today we have the opportunity to play in the theater and say “Thank You” to them from the stage.”
In turn, veterans also made a speech. Nikolai Petrovich Kozyrev shared a story about “his” war, a story of his life, how he wished to go to the front at a 14-age.
When a veteran, a person, who survived hardships of war period, tragic plight and, at the end, the long awaited, blood- and tears-soaked Victory, speaks, tears come to the eyes involuntarily. We, current generation, owe an eternal debt of gratitude and appreciation for war veterans.
When touching performance is ended, neither the artists, nor the veterans, nor the audience wanted to leave the place. Everyone wished to personally thanks the veteran guests, shake their strong hand, take a picture as memory and just to hug, sharing warm-heartedness.
Dear Veterans, we are with you, we always sincerely thank you for your immortal heroic deed!
