Memory of the world: The photo exhibition, dedicated to Russian participants of the Resistance movement “To the 70th anniversary of the liberation of France”, in Moscow

The Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of the Russian Abroad (Moscow) in collaboration with the Inter-regional public organization of veterans of the French Resistance "Combatants Volonter" presented a photo exhibition "To the 70th anniversary of the liberation of France" dedicated to the Russian participants of the Resistance movement during the Second World War.

The photo exhibition first hosted photographs and documents, testifying the participation and the outstanding role of Russian emigrants and Soviet citizens in the liberation movement in France since the early days of the occupation and to its full liberation in 1944.  

In the underground groups, guerrilla groups and domestic armed forces of the Resistance were involved by over thirty thousand Russian people. They were immigrants, who, together with the French patriots at the call of General de Gaulle came to the fight against the invaders, the Soviet soldiers who escaped from a POW camp, and Soviet civilians, Resistance forces liberated from the concentration camps of ostarbeiters.

The names of Soviet soldiers, who accomplished the feat on French land, name the streets and squares of the liberated towns.

The exposition opens with the section devoted to Russian emigrants who selflessly joined the fight against fascism.

The following section describes the participation of the photo exhibition of the Soviet people in the fighting during the liberation of France.

The last section presents the materials of the postwar period – meetings, memoirs of former Soviet partisans.

Documentaries, presented at the exhibition, create the atmosphere of wartime and demonstrate a show of friendship of the Soviet people and the French in the joint struggle against the common enemy.