Today, on the eve of the approaching day of the Great Victory, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Slovakia Roman Vassilenko met with the chairman of the Slovak Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters (SZPB) Pavol Sečkár and other members of SZPB leadership, Delovoy Kazakhstan reports.
The Slovak Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters is a civic association established in 1946 and financed by the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic and at the expense of its members. The main goal of the organization is to promote the historically important democratic legacy of the 1944 Slovak National Uprising and the victory in World War II in 1945. SZPB, in cooperation with local authorities, organizes commemorative events related to the liberation of Slovakia from the Nazis. A major area of work is the systematic care of memorial sites and monuments to those who fell in the First and Second World Wars.
Pavol Sečkár informed about the ongoing work on the preservation of military graves on the territory of Slovakia, perpetuating the memory of Soviet, Czechoslovak and Romanian soldiers who died in World War II and participants in the Slovak National Uprising, social support for war veterans, patriotic education of youth.
SZPB representatives noted that on the eve of the day of victory over fascism, the union plans to hold about 500 different events throughout of Slovakia, both at the regional and national levels.
In turn, Ambassador Vassilenko noted Kazakhstan is sincerely grateful to Slovak friends for preserving the memory of the heroic deeds of Soviet soldiers who gave their lives for the liberation of Slovakia and the victory over fascism.
The topic of restoring the names of the citizens of Kazakhstan who fought and died on the territory of then Czechoslovakia was separately touched upon. As part of this, SZPB expressed readiness to assist in the search and identification of the remains of Kazakh soldiers buried in Slovakia. In total, more than 63,000 Red Army soldiers died in the battles for the liberation of Slovakia in 1944-1945, mostly buried at nine large military cemeteries in cities such as Michalovce, Zvolen, Bratislava and others.
Following the meeting, the Ambassador also got acquainted with the exposition of the museum located in the building of the SZPB branch in Bratislava, where archival photos and documents of those times are collected.
