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Is it possible to revive a country without the values ​​of brotherhood and friendship of peoples?
The Bulletin of the Bashkir State Pedagogical University published an article dedicated to the activities of an active participant in the international movement "Teachers for Peace and Mutual Understanding" Alfiya Fatkullina

SERVING THE IDEALS OF PATRIOTISM AND INTERNATIONALISM

At the end of last year, the Bashkir State Pedagogical University celebrated its 40th anniversary and literally on the same days honored the veteran of the university Fatkullina Alfiya Fazylzhanovna, who turned 80 years old.

80 years is such an age height from which the path traveled is seen in the most significant events, deeds, people. All insignificant memory erases. And it is very important when meeting with such people to penetrate into the experience they have accumulated, to try on today, to preserve and pass on to the future. And Alfiya Fazylzhanovna's experience in patriotic and international education is truly invaluable. For almost half a century, she studied, generalized the experience of the schools of Bashkiria and all Soviet Union, being the chairman of the republican section of patriotic and international education at the Bashkir branch of the Pedagogical Society of the RSFSR, a member scientific council on problems of patriotic and international education of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR, a member of the scientific and methodological section of the patriotic and international education of youth under the Central Committee of the Komsomol.

She has participated in more than 50 conferences and seminars. It seems that such a vital need to serve people and the practice of patriotism and internationalism is largely due to the spirit of the times, which shaped the mind and heart of a girl, a girl and a specialist - a teacher, a scientist. When she was 14 years old, the Great Patriotic War began. She knows well what "everything for the front, everything for victory" means. Her prom was covered with joy and happiness of Victory.

In 1945 she became a student of the Chelyabinsk Pedagogical Institute. I was in Chelyabinsk in 1968 and I know how proud the Urals are of their contribution to the victory, especially their tanks and Magnitogorsk. I can imagine what a patriotic spirit reigned here in the 40s and 50s!

The pathos of victory and the pathos of the restoration of the country gave rise to beautiful poems and songs, art films and performances. The very air of the country was filled with patriotism, feelings of brotherhood and friendship of peoples, and it was not difficult for the school, the teacher to participate in the education of these holy feelings. Moreover, there were pioneer and Komsomol organizations operating at the school, the ideology of which was the formation of collectivism, patriotism and internationalism.

Scientists and teachers, party and Komsomol workers thought out and implemented a system of patriotic and international education. The merit of Alfiya Fazylzhanovna is the development of the concept, methodology, methodology and system of patriotic and international education in a multinational school, taking into account age features children. The educational and methodological manuals published by her, books were highly appreciated in the country, and speeches at pedagogical seminars, work at the faculty for advanced training of school leaders of the republic contributed to practical application her recommendations in the schools of the republic.

The clubs of international friendship (KIDs) and museums of military and labor glory became a special pride of our heroine. Only in Ufa, 89 clubs and 43 museums were created. The experience of the international friendship club of school No. 86, led by a teacher German language Lind E.I., was summarized and recommended educational institutions. The CID worked remarkably well at Serafimovskaya high school(headed by Zhemaletdinov G.K.), who had close ties with the KIDs of the Baltic states, especially Lithuania and Latvia.

It is no coincidence that it was in Ufa, on the basis of the Pedagogical Institute in the spring of 1977, that the All-Russian scientific and practical conference"Issues of patriotic and international education in the light of the decisions of the XXV Congress of the CPSU". More than 200 people took part in it: philosophers, sociologists, historians, teachers, subject teachers, heads of kindergartens, clubs and museums.

The changes that took place in the 1990s, including the slogan of “de-ideologization,” turned out to be serious costs in the public and individual consciousness. The collapse of the USSR economic crisis hit primarily on such feelings as pride in the country, friendship and brotherhood of peoples.

The cult of national isolation, individualism has become one of the reasons for the growth of aggression and intolerance in all social relations, from national to family and interpersonal. The ideas of patriotism and internationalism were, at best, consigned to oblivion, at worst, anathema.

All this became the heartache of Alfiya Fazylzhanovna, because she understands that patriotism, friendship and brotherhood of peoples are the psychological foundation of both the present and the future of Russia. Without these values ​​it is impossible to revive and raise the country not so much economically as spiritually. AT last years both the authorities and part of the intelligentsia began to understand this. Words are heard more and more often about the need to educate a patriot and a citizen. New holidays - the Day of Russia, the Day of the Republic, the Day of Concord, the Day of the Flag, are gradually gaining ideological and emotional saturation. But in order for the holidays to have the effect of civic education, a huge work of the intelligentsia, especially creative and pedagogical, is required. The school, the entire pedagogical community can, through the state, become a social customer for the creation of poems and songs, rituals and attributes, scripts and compositions, television programs and films, textbooks and manuals that help with early childhood have a great feeling of love for the Motherland. Unfortunately, the government has not yet organized this work. Even government concerts dedicated to civil holidays often cause embarrassment with half-naked girls and pop content. And involuntarily recall May 19 - Pioneer Day, October 29 - Komsomol Day. What wonderful songs, poems, traditions, scripts, films. The best poets, writers, composers, directors, athletes considered it an honor to fulfill the orders of the Komsomol Central Committee. It is a pity that modern youth organizations have not yet revealed their purpose - the organization and education of children and youth.

The best people of the BSPI were engaged in the education of young people at that time. Since 1992, she has been a member of the coordinating council of the international movement "Educators for Peace and Mutual Understanding". She took Active participation in work international congresses(Norway - 1998, Austria - 1998, France - 2000, Germany - 2003, India - 2004). Now she is actively involved in the movement "For a Culture of Peace". On her initiative, an information and methodological center for the culture of peace was created at the Belarusian State Pedagogical University. For her personal contribution to science in 2002, Alfiya Fazylzhanovna was elected in 2002 a full member of the Academy of Pedagogical and Social Sciences.

Optimism, vitality, creative activity cause surprise and deep respect for this woman. And you believe that the work of her life will be continued by new generations of students, teachers, and scientists.

V.V. Goneeva,
Veteran of Pedagogical University

Marat Egorov: a word about the world
The newspaper "Bulletin of the World" dated December 25, 2008 published an article by the Chairman of the Belarusian Peace Foundation and Vice-President International Association funds of the world Marat Egorov "You can't stop the wind with your palm!", in which the veteran of the Great Patriotic War expresses his thoughts on peacekeeping and peacekeepers

YOU CAN'T STOP THE WIND WITH YOUR PALM!
(printed in abbreviated form)

If humanity wants to survive, and not burn out in the flames of a new world war, it must find the strength in itself to overcome the accumulated grievances, grief, death of loved ones, fires and explosions. And all together to go along the single road of the world.

A real peacekeeping organization is essentially a kind of metronome. He is able to make people's hearts beat in a single rhythm - the rhythm of calm creation and confidence in the future.

In the entire history of mankind, more than 15,000 wars have taken place, which have claimed over 3.5 billion lives. New types of weapons are capable of destroying all life on our planet.

In any case, the guiding principle of the fighters for peace must be humanism. It includes universal responsiveness, mercy, readiness to help in grief, need, to protect from violence. Peacekeeping implies activity in upholding peace on Earth, as the most important condition for further human progress, moral responsibility for the fate of peoples, and the preservation of life on earth.

Peace can only be achieved when the ice of alienation between peoples is melted. This can only be done through friendship at all levels: from children to presidents.

For the happiness of living in peace and tranquility, a lot of blood and tears of previous generations of people have been shed. We live only because millions of earthlings gave their lives for it.

Monuments testify to this. They are not only a tribute to the past, to those whose time has run out. According to the monuments, new conscientious and gifted people verify their future. Obelisks and memorials can be torn down and forgotten. But time is an impartial judge. It calls people People, and all the rest - little people. It'll be this way forever!

Everyone must find their peak and overcome it. By the height of the peak, they judge what kind of opportunities and abilities a person had. Everest is not for everyone.

VETERANS OF A KIND ARE LIVING MONUMENTS.

Their life is not for everyone
Would come on the shoulder.
Their courage has been tested by the war.
I don't want their glory for myself.
Their payment for it was double.
They will not be among us very soon.
Doctors are powerless to prolong their age.
Their wisdom is our strength.
Their memory is our sister's conscience.

These words are written not by hand, but by the heart of a front-line soldier - Yuri Mikhailovich Beledin from Volgograd.

Do universities now teach a concrete - historical approach to the analysis of the past? It is impossible to ignore the real background against which this or that event took place. Modern standards to it, in my opinion, are not applicable, and their consequences are fraught with errors in the future. It is necessary to perceive the facts of the past without a shadow of irony and speculation.

Peacekeeping activity is not a one-time assignment, not an annoying burden, but a vocation and high trust people. It must be justified, it must be proud and cherish. It’s not enough just to “do your duty”. It is important not to smolder, but to burn - to warm people with the warmth of their hearts. Light up their path to a peaceful future, like the legendary Danko.

PEACEKEEPER. This is not a job or a hobby. This is the meaning of human life, its highest destiny. The creation of the world means the absolute harmony of the life around us. That is why the peacekeepers were named in Holy Scripture"sons of God". They always followed God's providence, the most secret aspirations of the Almighty. That is why our peacemaking activity correlates with Divine peacemaking. That is why, honoring the fighters for peace, occasionally honoring them with our modest awards, we pay tribute to their deeds, their selfless work.

I was lucky to take part in the international action "Peace in the Middle East", which brought together representatives of 120 countries. We walked the streets of the cities of Palestine and Israel, making an impassioned appeal to people who had been at war with each other for centuries to rise above their prejudices. We chanted: Peace, Pis, Sholom, Salam Aleichem. And we felt that our calls reach the hearts of not only ordinary people, but also the rulers of these countries.

On the picture: Marat Yegorov with the flag of the Republic of Belarus - a participant in the international action "Peace in the Middle East".

On this day, each of us imagined ourselves as a sower of good and believed that our words are a kind of seeds that will surely bring wonderful shoots of good not only to the inhabitants of this long-suffering territory, but to all of humanity. It seemed to us that the Palestinians and Israelis realized the need to preserve the most valuable, the most important thing - the right to life ...

Marat Egorov

History of 554 opb of the UN Peacekeeping Forces in the letters of a veteran
In connection with the preparation for publication on the Internet of the electronic version of the Book of Memory "In the Service of Peace. 1973-2008", the bulletin publishes correspondence with a veteran of the 554th battalion, reserve major Andrei Goncharov

AT eBook In memory of Russian peacekeepers there is a section dedicated to contingents peacekeeping forces UN. It will publish the names of participants in UN peacekeeping operations conducted on the territory of former Yugoslavia.

As you know, the list of the Russian contingent of the UN peacekeeping forces, currently published on the website of the Museum of Peacekeeping Operations in the section "", was compiled on the basis of data provided to the Museum of Peacekeeping Operations by the Personnel Department of the Airborne Forces in the late 90s.

In the years that passed before the end of the UN operations in the former Yugoslavia, several hundred more Russian servicemen became participants in the peacekeeping process, who, having adequately fulfilled their peacekeeping duty in the Balkans, were awarded the UN medal "In the Service of Peace."

Andrey GONCHAROV's letters not only name the new names of the participants in peacekeeping operations, but also describe the history of 554 opb - the first peacekeeping battalion Russian armed forces.

From: V.V. Gergel
To whom: A. Goncharov
the date: 04.01.2009 16:55
Topic: Book of Memory

Dear Andrey!

Good afternoon!

Valery Vladimirovich Gergel is writing to you - a participant in the first UN peacekeeping operation (UNTSO 1973-1976).

In 1992, the first Book of Memory of Soviet and Russian peacekeepers was published under the title "In the Service of Peace. 1973-1993". It published full list 554 battalion, which was once provided to us by the Commander of the Airborne Forces, General Podkolzin and the personnel department of the Airborne Forces.

On the picture: Damascus (Syria), 1976. United Nations Truce Supervision Authority in Palestine (UNTSO). The building of the Israeli-Syrian Mixed Armistice Commission (ISMAC).

At a party dedicated to national day one of the UN military observer groups.

From right to left: Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Marenko, senior UN military observer group in Syria, Major Anatoly Isaenko, UN military observer, representative of the German armed forces, military attaché of the Soviet embassy in Syria.

Other photos can be found in the publications.

Farewell, Eastern Slavonia!

The paratroopers of the 554th separate battalion of "blue helmets" successfully completed a peacekeeping mission as part of the UN forces in the Balkans.

The peacekeeping operation of UNTAES - the UN Interim Administration in Western Srem, Baranya and Eastern Slavonia has entered its final phase. Since October 1997, by air, railroad and the Danube River, the phased withdrawal of the main forces of the mission - Russians, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Czechs, Belgians - continues ...
On October 26, in a solemn ceremony, the flags of Russia and the UN were lowered at the airfield near Klisa, where five years was the headquarters of the 554th Russian separate battalion"blue helmets". Now the leadership of Croatia, which "integrated" the ancestral Serbian lands of Western and Eastern Slavonia with the help of the United Nations, is urging the military to leave. And only the Serbian population doomedly looks at the backs of the "blue helmets" that deceived their aspirations and hopes.

To the sound of the anthem, the flags of Russia and the UN are slowly lowered down the flagpoles. This not an ordinary event took place at 16.30 on October 26, 1997 at the Klis airfield, where the headquarters of the 554th Russian battalion of the United Nations is located. The honorable mission - to deliver these banners to their homeland is entrusted to the paratrooper officers of Captain Vitaly Starikov, deputy company commander for educational work, and Lieutenant Sergei Sergeev, commander of the best platoon.
No matter how laconic and strict this ceremonial was, I noticed: by the faces of officers and soldiers standing in last time in general, the battalion formation before leaving for their homeland, as if a chill ran through. I looked at the battalion commander - Colonel Vladimir Osipenko, his deputies - Colonel Yuri Yakush. Hero of Russia, Lieutenant Colonel Svyatoslav Golubyatnikov, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Rybalko, Alexei Badeev, company commanders - Majors Sergei Selivanov and Alexei Ragozin, contract sergeants - Yuri Klimenko, Vladislav Baev, Andrey Aktaev ... And other, painfully familiar faces of those who for five and a half years with dignity and honor carried out difficult peacekeeping tasks as part of a battalion in Eastern Slavonia, increased the glory of "RUSBAT-1".

There will not be enough space to name all the names, because over the years there were 11 rotations in the battalion, 15 thousand soldiers passed through it and airborne officers. I will only mention the names of the battalion commanders, colonels:
- Viktor Loginov,
- Leonida Arshinova,
- Sergei Voznesensky,
- Alexandra Kobyleva,
- Alexandra Nizhegorodova,
- Mikhail Zhdanenya,
- Vladimir Osipenko.
Each of them, to the best of their abilities and abilities, together with the headquarters, all the personnel, contributed to the peacekeeping activities of the Russian UN battalion, sought to ensure that Russian peacekeepers adequately represent our Armed Forces in the largest Blue Helmets operation, which received in 1992 UNPROFOR's official name is "UN Peace Defense Force".
And although the Russians had absolutely no experience in such international missions, our "RUSBAT" eventually became known in all four sectors into which the territory of the former Yugoslavia was divided. I had the opportunity to visit our UN battalion more than once and I can say with full responsibility: the 554th battalion was the first to enter its zone of responsibility in the East sector, where until recently there were fierce battles and more than 50 percent of the cities and villages of Eastern Slavonia, including the infamous Vukovar, stood in ruins: he was the first to deploy his "checkpoints" here - control posts between Serbs and Croats on a 110-kilometer front line: he was the first in the sector to ensure that former opponents began to store heavy weapons, went to the first negotiations " .

Not once during the numerous armed conflicts flaring up between Serbs and Croats, our battalion did not withdraw, did not surrender the lines they occupied, did not leave the local population to the mercy of fate, as the vaunted French and British did repeatedly, not to mention the Kenyans, Jordanians, Argentines ... Moreover, when the situation in Sarajevo sharply escalated in February 1994, two companies of the battalion made a swift march through the mountains of Bosnia and decisive action actually prevented the bombing of Serbian positions by NATO aircraft, for which they received gratitude from the then Secretary General UN Boutros Tali. Our peacekeeping paratroopers did not flinch even at the most dramatic moment of the UNPROFOR operation - in the summer of 1995, when the Croatian army, violating all international agreements, seized Krajina and Western Slavonia by force. In a matter of days, three sectors where the UN forces were located then fell. Only the "East" sector survived. He survived mainly because there were positions of the Russian battalion, and the headquarters of the Airborne Forces planned a parachute landing operation to support him from the air in case of an attack by Croatian troops.
During the peacekeeping mission on Serbian soil, our paratroopers paid a heavy price - 21 officers and contract soldiers were killed and 48 wounded. The first on this woeful list is Sergeant Alexander Butorin, who was blown up by an anti-tank mine on January 20, 1993. The last one is senior lieutenant Dmitry Moiseev, who died on October 7 this year as a result of multiple hemorrhages in the lungs.
I repeat: the Russian military contingent of the UN has successfully passed the first test of peacekeeping activities in the Balkans. Belgian lieutenant-general Hanset, commander of the UN forces in Eastern Slavonia, confirmed this in an interview with a Krasnaya Zvezda correspondent. Which, unfortunately, cannot be said about our politicians and their foreign policy line in the Balkans in general and in the Serbian Krajina in particular. Alas, for many years, especially when Andrei Kozyrev was the head of the Foreign Ministry, it was carried out inconsistently, with an eye to the West. More than once I was a witness when, at the talks in Belgrade and Sarajevo, our high representatives curry favor with US envoys and Western Europe, thought more about their career than cared about Russian interests in the Balkans.

I will refer only to one, in my opinion, a very eloquent example. Now, on Smolenskaya Square, they apparently prefer not to remember how in the spring of 1995, at the initiative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, a non-aggression peace treaty was concluded between Croatia and the Serbian Extreme. Fulfilling it, Russian peacekeepers were forced to move control posts for several kilometers, while several people were blown up by mines. But less than a year later, Croatian troops, in collusion with the United States and the countries of Western Europe, seized Serbian Krajina by force along with its capital, Knin. More than 10 thousand Serbs died, and about 200 thousand became refugees. And what about Russia, a member of the UN Security Council? Our Foreign Ministry did not even dare to make an official protest against the barbarism of the Croats. What else can be said?
And there were many such examples. If behind the Russian contingent in Eastern Slavonia, as, for example, behind the Belgian one, there is no state that knows what it wants, a logical question arises: was it worth it to get involved here in this way at all?
Summing up the UN peacekeeping operation in the Balkans, about the role played by the Russians in it, the Yugoslav funds mass media and ordinary people always divide it into its constituent parts: official politicians and "laborers" of this peacekeeping mission - soldiers and officers of the military contingent", our UN military observers, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs ... and in whose words of sincere gratitude.
Here is what Dragoljub Jvkovic, secretary of the Ten community for relations with UNTAES, said at the farewell rally of the Russian "blue helmets":
- In this difficult hour of parting, on behalf of the entire Serbian people, I express gratitude to the officers and soldiers of Russia for your humane mission, for reliable protection and Slavic kindness. I will not hide the fact that we see off the "blue helmets" with bitterness, especially the Russians. The decision of the UN Security Council to withdraw the military contingent of the mission is difficult for our people. But a bad peace is better than any war."

I will not prevaricate, the Croats speak differently:
“Our people have always perceived Russian soldiers as defenders of Serbian aggressors,” an elderly railway worker Jovan Petrakovich told me angrily at the loading station in the Croatian town of Vinkovci. - You only prevented us from defending our lands, dwellings ...
Of course, every resident of the local communities, Croatian and Serbian, has his own view on the stay of the Blue Helmets, including Russian ones.
... By November 1, the 554th UN battalion had already removed all control posts in the 120-kilometer area of ​​responsibility and was engaged in the planned transfer of people and military equipment from Eastern Slavonia to Russia.
- The main forces of our battalion are already 50 percent in way home- told me at the headquarters of the battalion battalion commander Colonel Vladimir Osipenko. - Others are completing the preparation of goods and equipment for shipment. Since October 20, the remaining Russian military contingent has been assigned the following tasks: guarding the residence of the Head of the Interim Administration in the town of Bobota, ensuring the safety of UN civilian personnel and protecting property at the Klis airfield, as well as monitoring the general situation in the area of ​​​​responsibility ...
I will add to the above that in the zone of responsibility of the Russian battalion, the transfer of powers for the implementation of the Erdut Agreement to the police of the transitional period under the leadership of the UN civilian police has successfully taken place. Now Slovak sappers, under the cover of Russians, are demining the front-line territories of Eastern Slavonia. Our doctors continue to treat the local population. Every day 30-40 people come to the medical center of the battalion. local residents for inspection and consultation. And, perhaps, the dentist captain of the medical service Valery Germanov is especially popular among our military doctors. He has a kind soul and golden hands, no one knows no refusal - neither Serbs nor Croats.

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