In the framework of the project #Post-Victory, a letter came from Germany to the name of veteran Ekaterina Demina

“Thank you very much for your video. It is impossible to fully express all the gratitude that the peoples of Europe and the whole world feel to your people for their heroic and bloody struggle against fascism. A similar opinion was shared by writer Thomas Mann. In these traditions, I was raised. I was born in 1948 in the GDR, and sympathy for your people does not leave me to this day, ”writes Störkel.

He said that during his school years he "was friends by correspondence with some Soviet schoolchildren."

“I watched many films and read many books on the Great Patriotic War of your people. The fate of the Soviet people who lived at that terrible time in the besieged Leningrad, at the Battle of Stalingrad, as well as in more than 600 Russian villages that were destroyed, made an indelible impression on me. Unfortunately, at the moment, only a few Soviet and Russian films devoted to this topic have been translated into German, so I have to watch them in the Russian original. My school knowledge of Russian remained far in the past, but this is my problem, ”he said.

Störkel emphasized that he is closely following current events in the political arena and is very pleased to see how Russia, "despite its ill-wishers and attempts to discredit it, is moving forward."

“Together with the remaining more than 90 percent of all Germans, I want to wish a more supportive and trusting attitude towards your country. To you, dear Catherine, I, in turn, wish you good luck and good health, ”he concluded.

In the framework of the project #Post-Victory, the story of Ekaterina Grigoryevna Demina was previously published.

In the war years, she was engaged in the production of shells. After her brother died at the front, she came to the draft board and asked for the front line.

So she began to serve in an observation post. By the sound of the motor, Ekaterina Grigoryevna learned to identify enemy bombers.

The project #Post-Victory contains the stories of those who survived the siege of Leningrad, signed on the walls of the Reichstag, who hid Soviet soldiers escaping from concentration camps.

With the help of the project #Post-Victory, anyone can write letters to veterans whose stories of wars and victories will be told over the next months.

Letters sent to the editorial office of the channel will be transmitted to all veterans.