In Poland, many people know Russian language. Schools choose it as foreign. Humanitarian club bilinguals of Russian language teaching for those children who in the future I plan to become journalists, philologists, translators and work in Eastern Europe.
“the lessons of Russian to speak with students about the war is necessary, but not in the key of accusations and excuses, but in the technique in which paints on canvas artist: with dignity, self-confidence, even harshly, but honestly, sharp strokes, without sugary flair, defining its position on the false representations of others, who imagine themselves the victims of “aggressors” who, by the way, and liberated Poland,” – says the author of the essay.
He always reminds his students, at what cost to the Soviet Union got the Victory over the Nazis. During the liberation of Poland were killed over six hundred thousand Soviet soldiers and officers and more than half a million were injured.
Ivan Smirnov tells his charges the story of the war, based on archival documents: “In 1939, Lodz was occupied by Nazi Germany and renamed Litzmannstadt, after the German General Karl Litzmann. In 1940 was officially opened by the Lodz ghetto, and in Poland it was the second largest after Warsaw. Here, every house is a world of misery and pain. These walls were dying of hunger and disease, anguish and despair. From these entrances the death squads took people away in the last journey. In the ovens of the crematoria and the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau and forcibly ended the life of the Jews, Gypsies, POWs, the elderly and children. The Lodz ghetto lasted longer than any, for its demise, the Third Reich began only in the spring of 1944. Eventually the city was liberated by the Soviet army in January 1945”.
Lodz are not destroyed, and now she’s with their architectural and landscape qualities – a city of unique history and memory of victims of the Nazi regime. “We are not looking for gingerbread casalnoceto, the buildings themselves play the role of silent witnesses to the focal point of violence that we’re not ready to forget,” writes the teacher.
to accurately convey the real facts to their students, Ivan mentally seeking support from their grandparents Basile and Anna Halecki – poles, soldiers of the great Patriotic war. In July 1941, twenty years Basil, having donned a brand new shirt, a volunteer went to the front. Follow him on war went young wife, eighteen year old Anna. Grandfather served in the infantry at Kursk was severely wounded. Anna Kolecka was a locomotive fireman of a hospital train carrying the wounded from the front line to the rear. “The evidence of the Second World war is a last will and Testament of the millions of nameless soldiers, whose great-grandchildren are ableand would stand beside me, shoulder to shoulder. Now it is easier to rewrite history and desecrate the memory than to find the courage truly to perceive it,” – said the teacher.
