Museum of History of the Tatar people and RT statehood presents exhibition “Worthy of Memory“

February 13, at 4 pm, the Museum of statehood of the Tatar people and   the Tatarstan Museum-Reserve "Kazan Kremlin" presented an exhibition "Worthy of Memory " timed to the 25th anniversary of the end of fighting  of Soviet troops in Afghanistan. February 15, 1989, the last column of Soviet troops left Afghanistan. This meant the end of the war that engulfed the whole decade and  took the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens.

The exhibition   is another opportunity to recall the courage and heroism of a Soviet, Russian soldier,  who displayed fortitude and perseverance in  performing  international military duty outside of their homeland. Here  the  shots  are presented - episodes of the war years, fights, wounds, military weekdays and joyous , long-awaited returning  home. Among the exhibits, there  are a variety of items, preserving the memory of those years: the sets of uniforms of  Soviet soldiers, clothes  of  Mujahideens , then almost inaccessible in the country, brought from Afghanistan imported sunglasses from Taiwan ...

The exhibition also aims to honor the memory of those who never returned from the war. More than two hundred people of Tatarstan - these are losses  of  our Tatarstan Republic in this military conflict. Their names should not be forgotten so as   new generations  grow up with the knowledge of the tragedy of war, where there were no victors  or losers.

The exhibition has been  created with the help of Afghan Veterans: Tatarstan regional organization of the All-Russian public organization of  the  war  disabled   in Afghanistan and military trauma - “War Invalids” and Tatarstan regional organization of the All-Russian public organization "Russian Union of Afghan Veterans."

Press service RT Ministry of Culture, according to the press service of the museum