23. Read and say what verb forms we use in the sentences (the Past Indefinite or the Past Perfect):
1. The children had gone to bed before the parents came
home from the theatre. 2. They had a talk with the
director of the school. 3. The old friends remembered
how they had fought during the Great Patriotic War. 4.
The museum had a picture by Repin. 5. When we were
in Pskov we visited the places where we had lived a year
before. 6. By the 9th of May the people had decorated
the buildings with flags and slogans.​

Pioneers heroes - the Soviet pioneers who have made feats in days of formation of the Soviet power, the Great Patriotic War.
Images of pioneers heroes were actively used in the Soviet promotion as examples of high morals and moral. The official list of "pioneers heroes" was issued in 1954 with drawing up the Book of honor of the All-Union pioneer organization of V. I. Lenin; Books of honor of the local pioneer organizations joined it. However some historians challenge a number of the key facts of official biographies of pioneers heroes, and even the fact of existence of some of them.

Большие и маленькие города празднуют свои Дни рождения, как люди. В России они называются "День города". Люди хотят, чтобы их родной город в этот день выглядел особенно красивым. Повсюду множество цветов,шариков, флажков и других украшений. Вы можете также купить специальную городскую карточку. Это семейный праздник. Каждый полон веселья. Люди смотрят и принимают участие в парадах и карнавалах.Улицы превращаются в концерты. Много спортивных, танцевальных и песенных конкурсов. Многим людям это нравится.В вечернее время салют.