The results of Hitler’s beliefs concerning the Jewish populations is widely known because of the Holocaust, but his dark convictions concerning peoples he called Slavs are much less well known in the west. “The war in the east was entirely different. However, the fact remains that the largest sacrifice was paid by a people with a very different vision of democracy. As explained by J.T.
To the United States, our “Greatest Generation” earned their place in history as champions of democracy extinguishing the cancer of fascism. Russia’s government sponsored RT covered the day extensively. #ImmortalRegiment in space! Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy joins #VictoryDay celebrations from aboard #ISS, commemorates his grandparents /BJlSxvo8oF The Russian Interior Ministry reports that this year more than 800,000 joined the Immortal Regiment march in Moscow alone. Today, Immortal Regiment marches take place in 64 countries around the world, and in space. “The Immortal Regiment” march, started a decade ago to commemorate the fallen, has become a worldwide tradition. To put that in perspective, for every American soldier killed fighting Germans, 80 Soviet soldiers died fighting them. Max Hastings, a journalist and historian, estimates that Russian soldiers constituted 95% of military deaths of the major allied powers of United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Hundreds of thousands of Russians took to the streets holding photos of their forbearers who died in the war, to celebrate a victory earned with the blood of an estimated 26 million Soviet citizens.
May 9th 2017 marked the 72nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in what Russians call the ‘Great Patriotic War’.
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