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180785
Mon, 05/09/2011 - 08:21
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Russia to celebrate Victory Day
MOSCOW, May 9 (Itar-Tass) -- The last gunshots of the Great Patriotic
War (1941-1945) were fired 66 years ago. May 9, 1945, became the day of a
great triumph of people, who stopped a powerful Wehrmacht machine and
dealt a crushing blow to the Nazism.
This day was won with blood and swear, valour and pain. The war left
millions of ruined fates and claimed a great number of lives. The Soviet
Union sustained the largest losses of about 27 million people. Only the
irrecoverable losses of the Red Army exceeded 8,860,000 people. Therefore,
May 9 is called as "a holiday with tears," in which the greatness and
sorrow, bright orders and the tears of veterans combined.
The decades passed after the war did not shake the May 9 status as a
national and uniting holiday. Neither the change of epochs, nor "the
parade of sovereignties," nor the appeals to the revision of the Second
World War results overshadowed the magnificence of the feat of the Soviet
people for 66 years. Russia remembers about this feat and still believes
that the state is in an irreparable debt to the memory of those, who were
perished in this war protecting the Motherland and who survived.
About four million war veterans remain alive in their thin ranks, the
Ministry of Health and Social Development said. More than a half of them
are workers of the home front, the widows of war veterans, members of the
Siege of Leningrad and the prisoners of concentration camps. About 213,000
war veterans live in the Moscow Hero City. The Russian capital will turn
in the center of national celebrations. The Red Square will recall all who
were affected in the war about the roots of national feat. The military
hardware and helicopter gunships will participate in a military parade of
the Moscow garrison on the Red Square. About 20,000 people will
participate in the most large-scale parade in modern Russian history.
The Muscovites and Moscow guests will remember May 9, which is the day
of national proud and gratitude to the war veterans, with massive
gatherings and festive concerts. The war veterans and the veterans of the
Russian Armed Forces will meet on the Poklonnaya Hill.
About ten special airplanes will be dispersing the clouds over Moscow.
Each airplane is provided with the required stock of ecologically-friendly
reagents.
Under the orders from the defence minister festive gun fireworks will
be fired in the Moscow Hero City, the Hero Cities of St. Petersburg,
Volgograd, Novorossiisk, Tula, Smolensk and Murmansk and in the cities,
where the headquarters of the military districts, fleets, armies and the
Caspian Flotilla on occasion of the 66th anniversary of the Great Victory
in the Great Patriotic War.
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War (1941-1945) were fired 66 years ago. May 9, 1945, became the day of a
great triumph of people, who stopped a powerful Wehrmacht machine and
dealt a crushing blow to the Nazism.
This day was won with blood and swear, valour and pain. The war left
millions of ruined fates and claimed a great number of lives. The Soviet
Union sustained the largest losses of about 27 million people. Only the
irrecoverable losses of the Red Army exceeded 8,860,000 people. Therefore,
May 9 is called as "a holiday with tears," in which the greatness and
sorrow, bright orders and the tears of veterans combined.
The decades passed after the war did not shake the May 9 status as a
national and uniting holiday. Neither the change of epochs, nor "the
parade of sovereignties," nor the appeals to the revision of the Second
World War results overshadowed the magnificence of the feat of the Soviet
people for 66 years. Russia remembers about this feat and still believes
that the state is in an irreparable debt to the memory of those, who were
perished in this war protecting the Motherland and who survived.
About four million war veterans remain alive in their thin ranks, the
Ministry of Health and Social Development said. More than a half of them
are workers of the home front, the widows of war veterans, members of the
Siege of Leningrad and the prisoners of concentration camps. About 213,000
war veterans live in the Moscow Hero City. The Russian capital will turn
in the center of national celebrations. The Red Square will recall all who
were affected in the war about the roots of national feat. The military
hardware and helicopter gunships will participate in a military parade of
the Moscow garrison on the Red Square. About 20,000 people will
participate in the most large-scale parade in modern Russian history.
The Muscovites and Moscow guests will remember May 9, which is the day
of national proud and gratitude to the war veterans, with massive
gatherings and festive concerts. The war veterans and the veterans of the
Russian Armed Forces will meet on the Poklonnaya Hill.
About ten special airplanes will be dispersing the clouds over Moscow.
Each airplane is provided with the required stock of ecologically-friendly
reagents.
Under the orders from the defence minister festive gun fireworks will
be fired in the Moscow Hero City, the Hero Cities of St. Petersburg,
Volgograd, Novorossiisk, Tula, Smolensk and Murmansk and in the cities,
where the headquarters of the military districts, fleets, armies and the
Caspian Flotilla on occasion of the 66th anniversary of the Great Victory
in the Great Patriotic War.
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