{"id":4606,"date":"2024-10-04T06:21:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T06:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.stalin-line.by\/mezhdunarodnyj-patrioticheskogo-proekt-proryv-na-linii-stalina\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T06:21:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T06:21:43","slug":"mezhdunarodnyj-patrioticheskogo-proekt-proryv-na-linii-stalina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalin-line.by\/en\/mezhdunarodnyj-patrioticheskogo-proekt-proryv-na-linii-stalina\/","title":{"rendered":"International Patriotic Project \u201cBreakthrough\u201d at Stalin Line"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tAhead of the Tankers\u2019 Day celebrations, the Stalin Line Historical and Cultural Complex welcomed participants in the international patriotic project \u201cBreakthrough\u201d from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.<\/div>\n
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\n\tAlexander Metla, Executive Director of the complex, shared his experience of organising and staging historical reenactments with them. The visitors learnt about the operation of the tracked and wheeled vehicle fleet, the restoration workshops, the gas-operated shooting simulation system and the armoured train. <\/div>\n
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\n\tTogether with representatives of the \u201cMemory of Afghanistan\u201d Charitable Foundation, Stalin Line, the \u201cSoldiers of Victory\u201d club and the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus, as well as Radek Gara\u0161ta, the visitors from Yamal took part in a commemorative event at the grave of Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Mirenkov and gave a presentation at the Minsk gymnasium named after him. On Tankers\u2019 Day, they took part in a historical reenactment of a battle from Operation Bagration.<\/div>\n
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\n\tGennady Vladimirovich Yushkevich, a 96-year-old war veteran, scout and saboteur, and the last surviving member of the \u201cJack\u201d group, came to meet the visitors from Yamal. Gennady was only 12 when the Great Patriotic War began. His father left for the front, and his mother was executed by the Germans in the autumn of 1941. After a year of hardship under occupation, Yushkevich joined the partisans. Following the liberation of Belarus, he was dropped into East Prussia as part of a ten-man sabotage group to gather intelligence on the enemy. He turned 16 there. Instead of two months, he spent six months behind enemy lines.<\/div>\n
\n\tIn May 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd Class, and several medals.<\/div>\n
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\n\tAfter Gennady Vladimirovich\u2019s talk, the visitors from Yamal asked the veteran to sign copies they had purchased of \u201cThe Last of the Jack Group\u201d, his autobiographical novella.<\/div>\n
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\n\tYou can watch his talk here:<\/div>\n

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