13:10, 09 мая 2017, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Azamat AITBAEV
A meeting-requiem, dedicated to the 72nd anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War was held on in the capital of .
«We bow our heads before the immortal memory of those who died on the battlefields, those who gave their lives for our sake, for the sake of a peaceful sky for all of humanity," President Almazbek Atambayev said in his speech on the occasion of the national holiday.
The head of state recalled that «during the war hundreds of thousands of evacuees from , and , as well as deported citizens, found shelter and care in the homes of Kyrgyzstanis.»
Kyrgyz families shared with them the last piece of bread and clothing. Many refugees have found their second homeland in the province of Ala-Too, orphans — new parents. Kyrgyzstan accepted everyone who had difficulties.
Almazbek Atambayev