June 22

... was to have been born in the Soviet Union—in our strong and proud country that had the will and the power to crush the greatest evil that could ever exist. These fragments of childhood memories are all connected with Victory Day on May 9, though. June 22 is something completely different. Like individual people, nations tend to remember their victories and forget their defeats. This is why you see Gare d’Austerlitz in Paris, while Waterloo Station is to be found in London. It would have been ...