The sorrowful date for the Republic of Belarus - the Day of National Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War - was celebrated on June 22. On this day, within the framework of the project "Radzima Belarus" in BSAA dormitory No. 1, the cadet dormitory council organized a screening of the film by Alexander Kott "Brest Fortress".

At the dawn on June 22, 1941 fascist Germany, treacherously violating the non-aggression pact, began the war against the Soviet Union. From the first day of the war, the territory of modern Belarus became the arena of the largest and most vicious battles.

Border guards and forward units of the covering forces were the first who take the enemy's blow. Enemy’s aviation bombed railway junctions, airfields, as well as Brest, Grodno, Volkovysk, Baranovichi and other Belarusian cities. The border guards of the 17th Brest, 86th August, 87th Lomzhinsky, 88th Shepetovsky border detachments and Soviet pilots fought heroically.

In the first hours of the war Brest and the fortress were subjected to massive shelling and aerial bombardment. The heroic garrison of the Brest Fortress fought stubbornly against the enemy for over a month.

The Great Patriotic War is a battle of the Soviet people against the German fascist invaders, unprecedented in the history in its scale and fierceness. In this war Belarus lost every third inhabitant - the memory of them will live forever.