“Galushka” instead of gata
Knyaz Ghazaryan, 86, participated in the Great Patriotic War and fought in the Battle of Berlin.
"For two weeks, Berlin was in my field of vision. The city turned a mixture of smoke, dust and mud. We all grew deaf from periodic gunshots and moved ahead instinctively," he said.
Ghazaryan did not have time to dance Kochari (an Armenian folk dance) in Berlin as he was sent to Czechoslovakia.
Every year he goes to Victory Park to pay tribute to his perished friends.
Today the veterans gathered in the park got acquainted with each other and told their stories.
Mkrtich Martirosyan, 87, and Gevorg MInasyan, 88, turned out to have left for the front at the same period.
"Our mothers put gata (a pastry of Eastern origin made of flour, butter and sugar) with us but on the way they took it away and made us eat Galushka (soup dumpling) which was tasteless and inedible," they recalled.
Serioja Yerzinkyan, 86, was a machinist during the war and transported food and ammunition to the front.
"We have overcome many hardships and survived famine and starvation," he said.
