A Photo-Essay: с Дёмь Победы! It’s Victory Day!

Here’s a photo montage of today’s events. They were marching…

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in Krasnoyarsk…

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in Minsk…

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in Kiev…

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in Moscow…

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in Jerusalem…

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in Sevastopol…

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and in St Petersburg.

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Troops from the allies of the Anti-Hitler Coalition marched in Moscow on Red Square. Here is the head of the Polish contingent…

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followed by the rest of the Polish troops…

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followed by the French…

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and the Americans.

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President Medvedev reached out to the representatives of the former enemy… here he is with ex-King Mihai of Romania. Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel of Germany was also present in Moscow.

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Let’s have a Little Russian Triptych… here are “Ukrainian” soldiers in historical Soviet World War II uniforms marching in Kiev. Do note the honoured veterans of the Great Patriotic War sitting in the front row…

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An extremist Galician nationalist protesting the Great Victory in Lvov… do note  how, even in this hotbed of extremism, only a few people showed up to mock the victory…

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Let’s go from the ridiculous to the sublime… a boy offers a bouquet to veterans of the Great Patriotic War in Sevastopol.

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Here’s what it’s all about… here are the heroes who faced down the Nazis and liberated the concentration camps!

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THANK YOU!

We owe you so much…

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