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# On the night of 22 June, Victory Volunteers lit 128 fire pictures made of candles
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/dlia-menia-den-nachala-voiny-sviazan-s-domashnim-prosmotrom-traditsionnogo-nabora-filmov-po-tv-i-vospominaniiami-znachimykh-dlia-nashei-semi-istorii-no-vse-zhe-interesno-nabliudat-kak-v/
- Published: 2021-06-22T17:31:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:10:04.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Moscow, Observations, Society

For me, the day the war began means watching the traditional selection of films on television at home and recalling stories that matter to our family, yet it is still interesting to watch new traditions of the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow emerge at the level of an entire country. Across Russia and in a number of other countries, the Volunteers of Victory lit 128 fiery pictures on the night of 21 to 22 June, each made up of a thousand candles. Every city has its own memory of the Great Patriotic War, its own special place of remembrance, its own memorial, its own heroes, and the picture assembled for it was special too. In Samara they prepared the silhouette of the Il-2 ground-attack aircraft, familiar to every native of Samara; in Yakutsk it is also a combat aeroplane; here, on Poklonnaya Hill, they depicted an anti-aircraft post on the roof of the Hotel Moskva, known from a famous wartime newsreel shot. The campaign runs under the slogan “We remember”, and, well, perhaps today Victory really is the chief unifying idea in our country