DUSHANBE, April 28, 2014, Asia-Plus — Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has signed a decree saying, that in connection with celebrations for the 69th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 – due to be marked in the country on May 9 – veterans of World War II and families of WW II veterans left without guardians will receive 1,000 somoni (equivalent to 200.00 U.S. dollars) as one-off financial support each.
“1,134 veterans of World War II and 23 families of WW II veterans left without guardians are currently living in Tajikistan,” Rahmat Qudratov, the head of the Council of Veterans of Tajikistan, told Asia-Plus in an interview.
We will recall that by Dushanbe mayor’s order 714,000 somoni have been allocated from the city budget for providing on-off financial support to veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the persons equated to them on the occasion of the 69th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
Veterans and invalids of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 living in Dushanbe will receive 900 somoni each, while home front workers, the Leningrad siege survivors, spouses of the servicemen who died in the Grate Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the Chernobyl cleanup operation invalids, spouses of those who died while defending the constitutional order in Tajikistan, as well as participants of military conflicts in territories of other countries living in Dushanbe will receive 650 somoni each.
More than 280,000 residents of Tajikistan took part in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and some 70,000 of them died in battle. 55 of residents of Tajikistan were given the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Besides, 15 other Tajikistan’s residents were Full Holders of the Order of Glory.
The Soviet Victory Day or May 9 marks the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union in the Second World War (also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and some post-Soviet states). It was first inaugurated in the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the surrender document late in the evening on May 8, 1945 (May 9 by Moscow Time). It happened after the original capitulation that Germany earlier agreed to the joint Allied forces of the Western Front. The Soviet government announced the victory early on May 9 after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
