Victory Day
'Our moral duty to keep sacred the traditions of friendship and mutual assistance bequeathed by our fathers and grandfathers.'
‘Vladimir Putin sent congratulatory messages to the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, as well as to the peoples of Georgia and Moldova on the occasion of the 78th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.’
'Today it is our moral duty to keep sacred the traditions of friendship and mutual assistance bequeathed by our fathers and grandfathers, and to prevent distortion of the historical truth about the Great Patriotic War, as well as the justification of the Nazis, their accomplices, and current ideological heirs.' [LINK]
‘Since the Soviet Union was to the east of Germany, it was 9 May Moscow time when the German military surrender became effective.’ [LINK]
‘The battles on the Eastern Front constituted the largest military confrontation in history. They were characterised by unprecedented ferocity, wholesale destruction, mass deportations, and immense loss of life due to combat, starvation, exposure, disease, and massacres. The Eastern Front, as the site of nearly all extermination camps, death marches, ghettos, and the majority of pogroms, was central to the Holocaust. Of the estimated 70 million deaths attributed to World War II, over 30 million, many of them civilian, occurred on the Eastern Front. The Eastern Front was decisive in determining the outcome of the European portion of World War II, eventually serving as the main reason for the defeat of Nazi Germany.’