Russia’s Victory Day
- May 7, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Russia’s Victory Day
Subject: International relation
Section: Important events
Context: It is believed that President Vladimir Putin will use his May 9 speech to draw parallels between the conflict in Ukraine and the heroism of Soviet soldiers during World War II.
About Russia’s Victory Day
- On May 9, Russia commemorates the defeat of the Nazis during World War II.
- Notably, while the allies observes Victory in Europe Day, on May 7, the day Nazis surrendered in France Soviet leader. Joseph Stalin chose to celebrate the fall of the Nazis in Soviet-controlled Berlin the next day.
- While Russia’s first post-Soviet president Boris Yeltsin made Victory Day celebrations an annual affair.
- It was Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev who declared May 9 a national holiday.
- Victory Day celebrations usually include a massive military parade in Moscow. Russian leaders also traditionally stand on the tomb of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin in Red Square.