25.06.2020, Moscow.
The main, honest, unclouded truth about the Great Patriotic War must be protected and defended, we must pass it on to our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, said Russian President Vladimir Putin during the Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24.
08.05.2020, Moscow.
Any attempts to equalize the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany are made for Russia to have to offer excuses, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin said in an Andrey Kondrashov’s film “War for the Memory” that premiered on May 8 on the air of the Russia One TV channel.
07.05.2020, Krivoy Rog.
The Ukrainian police used the greeting cards with the image of a red star and a St. George’s ribbon as a reason for arresting a pensioner from Krivoy Rog, the regional police department informed on its page in Facebook.
07.05.2020, San Diego.
The St. George’s ribbon was unfurled from an airplane in the sky over the American city of San Diego in California in honor of the Victory over fascism. Press service of Embassy of the Russian Federation to the United States posted a video of this event on its social network page on May 7.
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11.05.2019, Munich.
The victory in the Great Patriotic War is irresistible proof of the victorious nature of the Russian spirit and the ideas of communism, as activists of the German unit of the Essence of Time movement said on May 9 at an event that they organized to celebrate Victory Day in Munich, a correspondent of the Rossa Primavera News Agency reports.
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08.05.2018, DPR.
About 20 thousand people gathered for the rally commemorating the Victory Day at the legendary tumulus of Saur Mogila in the Donetsk region on May 8, Donetsk News Agency reported on its website.
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17.05.2017, DPR.
On May 12, we with Texas and the veteran of the Great Patriotic War1, Vsevolod Grigorievich Kozorez, participated in the celebration dedicated to the Victory Day at the Makeevka school No 53.
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15.05.2017, USA.
On May 9, those who push for a Cold War with Russia ought to pay tribute to the memory of Soviet soldiers who fell in the fight against Nazi Germany, wrote American historian and Sovietologist Stephen Cohen in The Nation magazine, reported the RIA Novosti news agency on May 14.
According to him, the leaders of the US Democratic Party are instead conducting a new cold war with Russia, and they are striving to completely nullify the possibility of a constructive dialogue between Moscow and Washington. Cohen believes that the tough anti-Russian position of the American political elite can lead to a full-scale war between Russia and the United States.
“On May 9, while Russia was commemorating the 27 million Soviet citizens who died fighting Nazi Germany, the US political-media class was vilifying the Kremlin and seeking its American ‘puppets’”, Cohen writes.
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We congratulate everyone with Victory Day! This is the greatest Holiday which links our generations, gives us strength and inspires us to the struggle against evil and injustice. The War against the modern fascism is our duty to our great forefathers who saved the planet from slavery and dehumanization.
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10.05.2017, Ukraine.
Andrey Krishchenko, the head of the Kiev police department under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, said that several elderly people were detained today in Kiev for holding a banner in the colors of St. George’s ribbon, TASS News Agency reported on May 9.
Krishchenko said that the police detained two people who were trying to unfold a banner with St. George’s ribbon. They will be delivered to the police department, where their actions will be legally assessed. St. George’s ribbons were also seized from several other elderly people today. Police clarified the matter with them.
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"We won!", Soviet poster
A symbol of the Day of Memory and Sorrow in Ukraine [© Sergey Mishakin]