Art Book... Aha, it is.

9 of May

(I don't really know what music I should leave herrre... To be completely honest, I wanted to put  every Song which I associate with this, huh, holiday. But I think this is not right thing to do. Afterall, I will just leave links for those songs at the end of the chapter. If you really want to check them, you will do so...

  First is one of my favorite songs from Sabaton's repertoire, Russian cover by Radio Tapok, to be exact. And the second one is music, which I had on repeat while was drawing. English Lyrics is in the comment below.)

.......Greetings, friends... I am glad to see you in this chapter. Hmm. From where I should start?.. I really don't know. Its extremely hard to express my feelings, my thoughts, my worries even in my native language, what does that say about English? My heart  is in complete mess right now...

Today is a day of an enormous sorrow, angst, dignity and happiness for all countries of former USSR. Especially for Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia... Today is a day when WW2 or Great Patriotic War is officially had become to its end. Today is the 9 of May, the day of Victory.

Millions of solders could finally return to their mothers, but even more of regular, simple guys couldn't even ever see their motherland again. They all fall asleep a way too far from their homes... In every house, in every village was at least one, who would never come home again. All of those mans, women, teenagers and children will forever remain in our hearts as nameless heroes of their motherland. Thank you for my future, thank you for my life.

Hah... Sorry... It sounded a way too worse, than I imagine... Sorry, its just.. huuuuh...
It was a great sacrifice of my nation. When I saw or hear anything had something to do with this sorrrrow, my heart is stars bleeding. Im 16, many who died was the same age as me, some of them even younger.. They forged their passports in order to help at the front-line. All of them had dreams, wishes. All of them had future. But war didn't bother to ask what they wanted.
And I want to cry now.

I want to recommend you a story "Судьба человека (One man's destiny)" by Mikhail Sholokhov. Just... Just read it. It will show you a face of That thing, which name is "war". Also you can read other stories by him like "Они сражались за родину (They fought for their Country)". They are all good...

Just a sketch. I still don't have any stile to draw countryhumans, yet... And I don't have enough time to draw. Project. Soooo, yeah.
As you can see, it is USSR, who just happy to come back to his children. And little Russia, who Just happy to see his father came back home alive...

Songs :

Victory day (День Победы) - https://lyricstranslate.com/en/%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%8B-victory-day.html-0
(I prefer version of this song by Lev Leshchenko)

The Eaglet (Орленок) - https://lyricstranslate.com/en/%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BA-eaglet.html-2

Lets grab our trench coats and go home (Бери шенель, пошли домой)- https://lyricstranslate.com/en/beri-shinell-poshli-domoy%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8-%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BB%D0%B8-%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B9.html

The sacred war (Священная война)-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C2N366xn6V4 (Just Turn on subtitles)

Smuglianka (Смуглянка) - https://youtu.be/n7hHlh2IusY
(There is comment with Russian lyrics, it has nearly 20 comments and ≈645 likes. There in the answers English lyrics too.)

Farewell of slavianka (Прощание славянки) - https://lyricstranslate.com/en/Red-Army-Choir-Proschanie-slavyanki-PROSHCHANIE-SLAVYANKI-lyrics.html

In the frontline woods (в лесу прифронтовом) - https://lyricstranslate.com/en/%D0%B2-%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%84%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BC-v-lesu-prifrontovom-frontline-woods.html