Description of the attraction
The sculpture, which tells about the feat of Raymonda Dien, is not the only one in the city of Zelenogorsk. The first of them appeared in 1953 in the Moscow Victory Park. The sculptor Cecilia Iosifovna Diveeva and the architect Valerian Dmitrievich Kirkhoglani dedicated her to the 20-year-old heroine, whose name was widely known in the early 1950s. In 1957, a copy of the monument was erected in the resort town of Zelenogorsk, which by those years was gaining popularity as the All-Union health resort.
Raymonda Dien is known as a public figure in France, an active participant in the anti-war movement in the 50s of the XX century. She was born on May 13, 1929 in the family of a mechanic and a peasant woman. At the age of 17, she worked as a typist secretary in one of the local branches of the French Communist Party. To this day, she remains loyal to the ideals of the struggle against colonialism, an active supporter of the movement for peace, solidarity and friendship between peoples.
On February 23, 1950, at the small station of Saint-Pierre-de-Cor, not far from the French town of Tours, an event occurred that shook the whole world afterwards. A train with tanks arrived here - and at that very moment it became known to the entire local population. At the station, at the call of the communists, railway workers, workers and schoolchildren began to gather. This is how the people of Saint-Pierre-de-Cora expressed their solidarity with the people of Vietnam. Railway stations, major ports and factories became the core of the protest. After the whistle of the locomotive, the train moved towards the sea. The calls of the shouting demonstrators - "We do not want to be executioners!" - did not stop the train. And so, rushing through the line of armed soldiers, placed along the railway by the military commander, a young girl rushed to the rails. Looking at Raymonda, other women lay down on the rails. And the approaching train froze in place.
Raymonda was sent to a cell in the Tours prison. Soon they learned about her feat not only in France, but also abroad. The authorities realized that they would not be able to punish Raymonda the way they would like - progressive people from Tokyo to Melbourne, from Moscow to New York joined the struggle for her liberation. On the first day of June, a military tribunal sentenced Dien to 1 year in prison. But Raymonda continued to fight, and on her birthday, celebrated in a prison cell, she received gifts and congratulations from strangers from all over France. Finally, the day came when Raymonda was unexpectedly released. And then came the happy time when young people from all over the world greeted her as their heroine, but in their homeland she was deprived of her civil rights for 15 years.
Now Raymonda Dien keeps old letters as the most precious relic. They were received from all over the world after the festivals of students and youth in Berlin, Bucharest, Warsaw, in which she was a participant. For nearly three decades, Raymonda Dienne has worked for ASP, an advertising campaign for French communists who value her fortitude and wisdom.
