Evgeny Grigoriev (R), Chairman of the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg, and Anatoly Budko, director of the Russian Museum of Military Medicine, sign a decision to hold the exhibition next April (Photo: nhandan.com.vn)Moscow (VNA) – An exhibition on the war inVietnam, titled “Vietnam, your pain is in my heart”, is scheduled for April inRussia’s second-largest city Saint Petersburg.
The event is part of activities opening the programme on VietnamYear in Russia and Russia Year in Vietnam in 2019, which was approved byPresident Vladimir Putin on October 3, 2018.
The exhibition consists of two parts – Vietnam in war andVietnam in peace, with the first part reflected through the eyes of ahistorical witness – military doctor Matvey Voitenko, who headed a Russianexpert group sent to Vietnam in 1969.
On the sidelines, there will be a series of activities,including meetings with Vietnamese war veterans and scientists, historicalclasses, as well as book and film debuts.
Evgeny Grigoriev, Chairman of the Committee for ExternalRelations of St. Petersburg, said both Vietnam and Russia had fought fiercewars for independence with great losses, and shared the wish to preserve theircommon experience. Many Russian doctors and servicemen came to Vietnam to helpthe country during the war, he said, considering the assistance as a reflectionof true friendship between the two nations.
Understanding the loss and pain Vietnam had been through,the St. Petersburg authorities decided to mount the exhibition, the officialstressed.
Anatoly Budko, director of the Russian Museum of MilitaryMedicine, said the event will introduce the destruction of the war, the impactsof which still linger even after five decades.
Many documents will be exhibited for the first time,portraying the use of illegal chemicals and napalm bombs, the vast land thathas not been revived many years after the war, and injuries left on humanbodies, he unveiled, adding that the name of the exhibition was the feeling ofyoung staffers at the museum when they prepared for the event.-VNA
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