Soviet Brest Fortress

[Spasm]

Gents

For those fortunate amongst us that can read Cyrillic, can you tell me what this actually says. I have the translation from the Brest Fortress website but I don't think it is the literal translation as it seems much shorter

[paja]

Greetings,

Even though I do not speak Russian (unfortunately) - I can read it: Я умираю, но не сдаюсь! Прощай, Родина

"I shall die before I surrender! Farewell Homeland" is perhaps better translation.

[Spasm]

Paja

Thanks very much. Makes much more sense.

[paja]

Don't mention it.

Best regards,

P.

[Paul R]

Another great piece of work!

I have seen images of that engraving. It is very powerful...

[Spasm]

A great piece of history, nearly forgotten due to the lack of survivors and lost in the mountain of heroic deeds during 1941, but now rightly honoured by being a Hero Fortress City, awarded on the 20th anniversary of the German surrender 8th May 1965

Here's the inscription from the museum

Edited May 4, 2014 by Spasm

[Spasm]

Here's the film based on the book by Sergei Smirnov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CefR_OEgeY

[JapanX]

Here you will find better photos and some additional info

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/59517-awards-for-the-defense-of-brest-fortress/?hl=%2Bbrest+%2Bfortress

[Spasm]

See, always worth doing a search before you go blundering in, cheers JapanX

Could've done with all that before I painted it.