Cultivating memory: V.F. Aleshin as a defender of the Fatherland and People's Teacher of the USSR

Abstract

The article discusses the need to educate the younger generation on traditional spiritual and moral values, to preserve the historical memory of the military and labor exploits of our people. Memory education will not allow modern children and adolescents to become mankurts, i.e. people who have forgotten about their kinship, who have lost touch with national roots, culture, and history. The authors propose to solve this problem by referring to examples from the life and professional activities of their countrymen, in particular, V.F.Alyoshin, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, one of the first national teachers of the USSR. The facts about his partisan and intelligence activities, military service in the Soviet Army, and his organization of educational work (including labor education of students at the Shumyach secondary school in the Smolensk region) in the 1960s 90s are presented. The materials of the article can be used during classroom hours, during "Conversations about important things".