Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 was a victory parade held after the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. It took place in the Soviet capital of Moscow, mostly centering around a militar...
Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 was a victory parade held after the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. It took place in the Soviet capital of Moscow, mostly centering around a military parade through Red Square. The parade took place on a rainy June 24, 1945, over a month after May 9th, the day of Germany's surrender to Soviet commanders.
Marshals Georgy Zhukov, who had formally accepted the German surrender to the Soviet Union, and Konstantin Rokossovsky, rode through the parade ground on white and black stallions, respectively. The fact is commemorated by the equestrian statue of Zhukov in front of the State Historical Museum, on Manege Square. The Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin stood atop of Lenin's Mausoleum and watched the parade.
Displays of the Red Army aircraft and vehicles were some of the focal points of the ceremony. One of the most famous moments at the end of the troops parade took place when various Red Army soldiers carried the banners of Nazi Germany and threw them down next to the Mausoleum. One of the standards that were tossed down belonged to the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, Hitler's personal bodyguard raised to divisional size.
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We kicked in ass these bastards in Winter War and summer 1944. And i swear that this bandwagon don't want to remember that they actually were warcriminals with that Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact.
"Brave and boisterous finnish guys"))))!!! We remember whar happened in winter war. We won and put border as fas as possible from Leningrad/St.Petersburg. In summer 1944 you BEGGED Stalin to spare you and traited your german allies. Taking part in Lenengrad siege you are responsible for deathes of 1 million people who died of starvation. And you have to share responsibility with nazis for that.
@HenryWilliam2 So your pretty much implying that my Great Grandfather on my dads side while being a Commander of artillery In the defense of Leningrad! He was running around raping every female he saw in sight? You literally have no proof, I don't even see how someone could assume that! Yea of course I assume the Soviet Union, US, and Britian counted up how much people there soldiers raped and compared them to each others countries??!? Really!? Go do something with your life!
Well, the rapist army marching to the glory, eh? A lot of those "gloriuos" soldiers raped away the east prussians, the german woman, not only elderly german woman but children..sure they won, but compare those rapists to the British and the americans soldiers who treated the conquered with respect
Soldiers are soldiers. If you think that western soldiers dont murder and rape and rob then your very naive. When order fails violence prevails and that is the first rule of war. Anybody with a gun is a master. Thick cunt.
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