{"id":4440,"date":"2022-08-08T14:15:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.stalin-line.by\/ikk-liniya-stalina-v-ndts-zubrjonok\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T14:15:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:15:55","slug":"ikk-liniya-stalina-v-ndts-zubrjonok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalin-line.by\/en\/ikk-liniya-stalina-v-ndts-zubrjonok\/","title":{"rendered":"Stalin Line Historical and Cultural Complex at the Zubryonok National Children\u2019s Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tDuring the Year of Historical Memory, staff from the Stalin Line Historical and Cultural Complex visited the Zubryonok National Children\u2019s Centre for the second time. On the first day, they gave lectures on the Great Patriotic War, the First World War and the war in Afghanistan.<\/div>\n
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\n\t\tTimur and Yegor Grishkevich described the combat history of the Dnieper Military Flotilla, from its role in the liberation of Belarus to the storming of Berlin. They then held a history quiz, with special certificates awarded to the winners. Sergei Opeikin discussed the origins and development of historical reenactment. Boris Prokazov spoke about the role of the complex in preserving historical memory and the actual contribution made by the defensive Stalin Line in disrupting Hitler\u2019s plan for a lightning war, which led to the Soviet Union\u2019s victory over Nazi Germany. At the end of the lecture, those who wished could have their photograph taken with the reenactors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tAndrei Oralin and Pavel Petrukhin discussed the First World War through the examples of the Russian Imperial Army of Nicholas II and the German Army of Kaiser Wilhelm II.<\/div>\n
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\n\tDmitry Kovalevsky spoke about the Limited Contingent of Soviet Forces, which conducted combat operations in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989.<\/div>\n
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\n\tSergei Zakharov gave a lecture on the development of small arms, displaying examples ranging from a replica of an 1798 rifled J\u00e4ger rifle to a Kalashnikov light machine gun.<\/div>\n
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\n\tThe following day, the children took part in practical firing sessions using blank-firing weapons. As was customary, their camp counsellors tried on a body armour vest and a covered steel helmet, and posed for photographs with their groups while holding a Kalashnikov machine gun.<\/div>\n
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\n\tThe history quiz winners, who had received certificates, were given a safety briefing and used a gas-powered shooting system to simulate explosions.<\/div>\n
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\n\tThey then moved on to the photo area, where they dressed in Red Army uniforms and took souvenir photographs holding weapons, either with one another  or with reenactors portraying sailors of the Dnieper Flotilla.<\/div>\n
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\n\tEveryone who attended, including the quiz winners,  had the opportunity to fire  blank-firing weapons.<\/div>\n
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