⭐️️️️Within the framework of our #MGIMOAboutVictory series, we share with you books based on real events about frontline brotherhood that knows no nationalities. 👩👩👧👦“Son of the Regiment”, Valentin Kataev (USSR, 1945) Artillery soldiers find an orphaned boy, Vanya Solntsev, in the forest. Russians, a Georgian, an Uzbek, a Tatar — each tries to shelter the child in their own way. From different voices and destinies, one family is formed. 📓 “The Book Thief”, Markus Zusak (Australia — Germany, 2005) A small German village. A girl, Liesel Meminger, hides a Jewish fugitive, Max, in her basement. She knows no Hebrew; he speaks poor German. The only thing that unites them is stolen books, which help them escape from the terrifying reality. 🌄"Volokolamsk Highway”, Alexander Bek (USSR, 1944) Bauyrzhan Momyshuly, a Kazakh from Almaty, was a battalion commander in the legendary Panfilov division that defended Moscow in 1941. His battalion receives a mission: to wear down the enemy’s superior forces and slow down their advance on Moscow near Volokolamsk. A story about how people of different nationalities in the same trench, behind the same machine gun, learn to trust each other and cover each other’s backs. 🇷🇺“The Monuments Men”, Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter (USA — United Kingdom, 2009) Americans, Britons, French, Canadians — a team of art historians and museum curators. No one ordered them to take up arms. Yet they go behind the front line to save Europe’s cultural heritage. 🗺“Following Partisan Trails”, Stevan Vrgović (USSR — Yugoslavia, 1977) The author is a Yugoslav patriot who fought in a partisan detachment on Soviet territory and later, as part of the Soviet army, took part in the defence of Stalingrad. A documentary story about how Serbs, Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians became brothers in arms in the very thick of the war. 🌟“The English Patient”, Michael Ondaatje (Canada — United Kingdom, 1992) North Africa. A Sikh sapper, a Canadian nurse, an English thief, and a man burned to the bone lying on a bed — Hungarian by passport, Italian by upbringing, British by habit. All of them former enemies who find shelter in a Tuscan monastery. A book about how nationality ceases to matter when only one thing remains: you are alive, and next to you is someone with whom you can share hope. These stories are living proof that even in the most inhuman conditions of war, basic human values prove stronger than differences in language, customs, or faith. #MGIMOAboutVictory #Victory81 🌐MGIMO International (ENG) / МГИМО для иностранцев (RUS)