"May the 9th"

It is V-Day (Victory Day) coming soon and this year this event is significant for many people because of 70th anniversary since the capitulation of Nazi Germany from the Soviet Union in Great Patriotic War. To celebrate this occasion social movement  "Суть Времени"  created a website where you can find last letters of fighters against fascism. There was one letter which infinitely touched me, so I've decided to translate it for you. 

Part of the letter from Major Petrakov to his daughter:

"My black-eyed Mila!

I'm sending a cornflower to you...Just imagine: there was a battle, enemy's shells were bursting, craters all-around and there was growing the flower too...sudden explosion pulled the cornflower... I picked up it and put it in my soldier's blouse's pocket. The flower had been growing there until a blast have pulled it and if I did not picked up it, it would be trampled down. Fascists do the same with the children from occupied territories, where they kill and trample down kids... Mila, your father Dima will fight against fascists to the bitter end in order to prevent them doing with you the same they had done with this flower..."

After reading this letter I suddenly understood what the Soviet Union soldiers had been fighting for... they had been fighting for us, for our independence, for our freedom, for peaceful future - for life.