Soviet Victory Parade of 1945 [Part II] - Final

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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[54raynor]

This is one American who is more than willing to give credit where credit is due. The Great Patriotic War was truly the greatest military achievement of the past millennium, an incredible tribute to the will and bravery of the Soviet people. Hopefully, future textbooks in American schools will give Georgy Zhukov his rightful title as the best general of World War II.

[ListeningToThat]

18 dislikers got their ass kicked by Soviet Russia !

[Lordsebastian101]

name of the march at 2:40 please

[jaymorpheus11]

Wonder what would have happened if they caught the man himself... you know Adolf... I guess he'd be cattle prodded through this whole parade to the awaiting firing squad?

[LiveJoyDivision]

@54raynor hes my top generals, but I'd place him in best allied General of ww2 but not overall, since there were (we must admit) a crap load of German generals that were just so brilliant. Tis why they took the allies by surprise and mounted so many defeats. But yes never has such a nation showed so much valor in defending their homeland as the Soviet Peoples. Not only Russian, but Ukranians, Kzakhs, Uzbeks, etc.

[UchihaGamer111]

@az4u100 But if you were to say Barbarossa failing, it is also greatly to blame to the foolish ass Japanese who greedily dug into China instead of tying up the eastern soviets who counter attacked the Germans. I don't understand why Hitler allied with them.

[UchihaGamer111]

@az4u100 Hmm that is a good point, the Luftwaffe was definitely wrecked. But the invasion of the Soviet Union didn't help. It is also known Hitler didn't advance his navy because he also considered the Soviets who he wanted to really conquer. And that was a mistake, he should have at least come to peace with Britain anything was smarter than leaving the worlds largest empire at war with you next door, only to invade the worlds largest army. Then declare war on the worlds largest economy.

[az4u100]

@UchihaGamer111 and even than The great majority of military historians believe Operation Sea Lion ( The invasion of britain ) would not have succeeded. In fact in November 1939 the German Naval staff produced a study (on the possibility of an invasion of Britain) and concluded that it required two preconditions, air and naval superiority, neither of which Germany ever had. after the decisive british victory of the 'Battle of Britain' all hopes for a german invasion where gone.

[UchihaGamer111]

@az4u100 If the Soviets were planning to attack, they would have raised all those conscript armies they raised in the first 6 months way before. None of that makes any sense at all. If they were trying to sneak and slowly build up forces at the border it would have taken more then the month between the German invasion and supposed Russian. But I do understand Hitler's ideology and the German's at the time led to an inevitable conflict. But are you saying Germany had no chance to win or what?

[UchihaGamer111]

@az4u100 So the call for the strike was ignored, and the July 1941 invasion is still largely unbelievable and most historians are opposite that position. I mean i'm sorry you think you're the only one who has read what these men said, but the facts prove a largely unprepared Red army was attacked a month prior to what you say was they're planned attack. That absolutely no sense, because most of the red army wasn't even assembled.