We, adults, are deafened by the noise of everyday life and often do not hear the music and the real meaning of Russian words, missing the joys of many small victories that we ourselves imperceptibly achieve every day. We do not understand how much our each, even the smallest, victory really means.
Just listen
The meaning of the word has become so firmly entrenched in our minds that we no longer think about the depth of its semantics, and our life because of this becomes completely mundane, no matter what we do. For the answer to the question "What is victory?" no need to go too far. You can’t even look for it on the Internet, it’s so obvious. Just listen to the word to understand its meaning. Based on the very composition of the lexeme, victory (the meaning of the word) is life after the trouble. Children from two to five years old feel this especially well. A little girl speaks of family drama: "Mom and I had trouble for a long time, and now Dad is back, and we have a victory." Or a boy of the same age about his conflict in the yard with a friend: “He took it, took my gun and took it home. And today his grandmother returned me. And now I have victory, and he has trouble. ”
The emotional component of victory
The written word carries factual information, but in order for it to reflect real human emotion, it must sound. There are a huge number of examples, and many of them are in the literature. In the drama by A. S. Pushkin, “Boris Godunov,” the main character before his death tells his son Fedor that the royal word should not sound in vain. It should either solemnly announce victory, or sound the alarm during times of great national misfortune. And the poet ends his work with a scene when, after the murder of Fedor and his mother, the boyars came out and told a lie to the people. An eloquent answer followed - the people are silent in anticipation of trouble. True, the poet deleted the last three words from the original manuscript, leaving only the first two, thereby emotionally reinforcing what the crowd was silent about on the summer porch of 1603 near the Red Porch. In the next decade, the Russian people well understood what the word victory means. The time of the great unrest, which followed one after another, when the Tsar of Moscow swore allegiance to the Polish king in vassal fidelity with a kiss on the hand that gave and selected. “I will grant reign,” Stanislav said to Vasily Shuisky, “so that you will pacify your people.” But he did not understand what victory was, and the false Dmitriy bred like mushrooms after the rain. And then the people said their weighty word: "Do not look for trouble, then victory will not be required."
No trouble
Probably, people are so arranged that life without trouble seems fresh to them. Always after a “quiet” period there are violent times when people want and even actively strive to feel in their own skin what victory is. They cease to appreciate the benefit of gradual, but passive development, when creator people, and not thieves or revolutionaries, become the core of society, when the appeals of the “Pugachevs” find no response in the masses of the people. Representatives of the governing elite begin to get bored and get fat, believing that their fatness is their personal merit, and not a consequence of the lack of popular ills. But even these people sooner or later also begin to search for "after-disasters." Yes, in fact, this is how each person lives personally. For some reason, people are quickly fed up with constant food on the table and warmth in the house, and rushing for a rampage. Few people are interested in a quiet, measured life, and young people live completely continuous adventures, risking withering away without constant bursts of stormy emotions. Perhaps this is why dudes are looking for the attention of women who have not yet been conquered, and busy beauties shoot their eyes even in company with their young people - they lack new victories.
Greatest war
At the end of the 30s of the last century, all Soviet people lived with a foreboding of great misfortune, but not only doomedly waiting for misfortunes, but feeling a secret emotional rise. People managed to forget what victory is, and therefore almost unconsciously sought to change the situation. The military was particularly affected by the wait. Of course, to win it was necessary to look for trouble. But the trouble is unpretentious creation, and it always comes if they are looking for it. And so, on June 22, 1941, the war began and lasted a long four years.
This war was imposed by fascist Germany on the Soviet Union. Frenzied invaders were supported by many European countries - Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Bulgaria, Italy, Finland, Croatia. They began to call the "Great Patriotic War" at the moment when Stalin turned to the people on the air on July 3, 1941, and these two words were used separately. Previously, this phrase was used in the newspaper "Pravda", simply as a beautiful name, along with such words as "sacred" and "folk." After the
Order of the Patriotic War was introduced (May 20, 1942), approved by Decree of the Presidium, the name became official, but only in the USSR. In other countries, the name has not been used and is not used. For example, in England, the war is called: "The Eastern Front of World War II." And in Germany - “Russian campaign”, “German-Soviet war”, “Eastern campaign”. Now, the incorrect term has often been used: the Great Patriotic War is simply called the "Great", the so-called war in 1910, the First World War.
Very few reliable sources remain, as are eyewitnesses of that war, and it is not worth distorting the names in our history. We, the descendants, can only reverently honor the memory of the holy war, not forgetting the price the Soviet people won the long-awaited victory.