Quote Originally Posted by CoffeeCup
But there should be some movement in this field for keeping the celebration of this day for younger generation and inserting the sense of this day in their hearts.
I agree, but I don't think it's possible to tell what war is to a man who never saw it. They will theoretically agree that this is terrible but this will come from their brains, not their hearts. My grandmother always said 'let it be anything but war' and my other grandmother who was lucky enough to be evacuated from Leningrad in 1942 told me that I can't even imagine what real hunger is and was furious when I left unfinished bread or some other food. My grandfather was half-deaf since the war and I saw a photograph dated 1949 (he was 32 then) and his head had gray hairs already. My other grandfather was younger (he was only 15 in 1945) his father (my great-grandfather) was killed in 1943 and he was the older one in the family with 2 younger brothers.

This day was VERY important to them because this war divided their lives in two parts (before and after).

As for the younger people - some don't even know when this war started and whom we were fighting with.
(Seriously, I know a 20 years old girl who didn't know this).