Yes, Russia had to fight a lot. And the vast majority of these wars have been defensive. In the eighteenth century the Russian had to repel the invasion of the Swedish King Karl XII. Swedes defeated at Poltava - in the depths of Russia. After that, all rolled glory of Sweden as a great military power. In
the eighteenth century to the Great Army of Napoleon Bonaparte, which
included troops almost all over Europe, Russian fought under the walls
of Moscow. Only after that the Russian army came to Paris, freeing the path of Napoleon conquered all European countries. In
the twentieth century, who knew no defeat of Nazi Germany army defeated
the first near Moscow, then in the grand scale, the largest and most
violent in the military history of the Battle of Stalingrad, on the
banks of the Volga River Russian. Then came the Soviet army to Berlin, relieving European countries conquered by the Third Reich.Not once had to reflect the Russian invasion not only from the West but from the East.
To better understand why Russia had to fight so often, the American reader should see a documentary filmed in the United States during the Second World War, "Why are we fighting. The Battle of Russia ". During our common fight against Nazism Americans well understand why Russia throughout its history has repeatedly had to fend off foreign invaders.US reliably protected from invasion by two oceans, on land bordering your country only with friendly Canada and Mexico. Therefore, US citizens, on whose land has never gone before an enemy soldier, and hometowns nobody ever bombed, it is very difficult to understand Russian. You can offer to readers to remember the feelings experienced by the American people after the treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor, or the tragedy of September 11 in order to at least partially present what had to experience the Russian people for centuries.
In World War II, we have lost 27 million, of which a large part - civilians, destroyed thousands of towns and villages, much of the country lay in ruins. With all due respect to the readers of your newspaper, the Americans can not be fully present, that had to go through to our people during the Second World War.The length of the borders of Russia for more than 60 000 miles. Throughout Russian history not just have to reflect the invasion of enemies from the west, east and south. It is not surprising that the military profession - the defense of the motherland has always been in our country a special respect.
But this does not mean any particular militarization of the modern Russian society.Returning to the subject of the cadet movement in Russia, which so excites the illiterate people in the US and other countries liberated from fascism Russia, I would like to emphasize that in the cadet corps educate not only the future of war, but above all patriots of their country, for which the most important are traditional values such as faith in God, strong family, loyalty to the motherland, sense of duty and honor. The task of education to educate Cadet on the foundation of the classical national and world culture and glorious traditions of Russian army worthy citizens, real men, and ready to defend his family and his homeland.
To better understand why Russia had to fight so often, the American reader should see a documentary filmed in the United States during the Second World War, "Why are we fighting. The Battle of Russia ". During our common fight against Nazism Americans well understand why Russia throughout its history has repeatedly had to fend off foreign invaders.US reliably protected from invasion by two oceans, on land bordering your country only with friendly Canada and Mexico. Therefore, US citizens, on whose land has never gone before an enemy soldier, and hometowns nobody ever bombed, it is very difficult to understand Russian. You can offer to readers to remember the feelings experienced by the American people after the treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor, or the tragedy of September 11 in order to at least partially present what had to experience the Russian people for centuries.
In World War II, we have lost 27 million, of which a large part - civilians, destroyed thousands of towns and villages, much of the country lay in ruins. With all due respect to the readers of your newspaper, the Americans can not be fully present, that had to go through to our people during the Second World War.The length of the borders of Russia for more than 60 000 miles. Throughout Russian history not just have to reflect the invasion of enemies from the west, east and south. It is not surprising that the military profession - the defense of the motherland has always been in our country a special respect.
But this does not mean any particular militarization of the modern Russian society.Returning to the subject of the cadet movement in Russia, which so excites the illiterate people in the US and other countries liberated from fascism Russia, I would like to emphasize that in the cadet corps educate not only the future of war, but above all patriots of their country, for which the most important are traditional values such as faith in God, strong family, loyalty to the motherland, sense of duty and honor. The task of education to educate Cadet on the foundation of the classical national and world culture and glorious traditions of Russian army worthy citizens, real men, and ready to defend his family and his homeland.
