Last rumbles of the Great Patriotic War died down 63 years ago.
May 9, 1945, was a day of a hard-won great triumph of the people that stopped the overwhelming machine of Wehrmacht and delivered an excruciating blow to Nazism.
That day was won by blood and sweat, courage and pain. The war has left behind it enormous loss of life.
The Soviet Union suffered the greatest losses, 27 million people. The Red Army lost 8 million 860 thousand. The past decades have not shaken the status of May 9 as a uniting festivity with tears in eyes of people who lived through that.
Change of epochs, a parade of sovereignties and calls for a revision of results of the Second World War have not eclipsed the deed of the Soviet people.
Russia remembers it and believes that state in debt to memory of those who fell defending the Motherland and those who survived. This concern is increasing every year.
According to the decision of the Russian president, titles of a City of Military Glory have been conferred over the past two years to13 cities of Russia.
It was decided this year to publish the fundamental many-volume work “The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”. An editorial commission has been set up. It was also decided to provide cars to Second World War veterans, and to improve housing conditions of war veterans and members of families of dead invalids.
War veterans have in their ranks about 3 million. About 200,000 of them live in Moscow.
A military parade of Moscow garrison troops will be held on Red Square, with the resumed show of the military equipment and the participation of Air Forces planes and helicopters.
Special planes dispersed clouds in the morning by spraying reagents that are ecologically clean.
Artillery salutes will be fired in the evening in the hero cities of Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd, Novorossiisk, Tula, Smolensk and Murmansk, as well as in Kaliningrad, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg, Chita, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Severomorsk and Sevastopol.
Last rumbles of the Great Patriotic War died down 63 years ago.
