The Great Victory Day is a national holiday, a tribute of respect before the feat of our people. Victory Day is held annually on May 9. In 1941 the most terrible war came to the Soviet Union, which lasted four years and claimed tens of millions of lives. Victory in the bloody war over Nazi Germany our people won May 9, 1945, paying for it a high price. Now May 9 is one of the most glorious and exciting holidays.
The memory of the war is the duty of all living
The first Victory Day in the history of the country was celebrated after the capitulation of Hitler in 1945. On this joyful spring day, all the loudspeakers of the USSR read out a decree on the appointment on May 9 of Victory Day, about the act of surrendering fascist Germany. The first victorious Parade in 1945 took place on June 24 in Moscow. The weekend of May 9 was three years, then to restore the ruined economy the holiday temporarily ceased to be considered a red day.
But in the twenty-year anniversary of the Victory in 1965 in the USSR calendar the victorious date again became a state official holiday. From that time on this day in the whole country festive laying of wreaths, flowers to monuments to war heroes, festive salutes, a solemn military parade with a demonstration of technology on Red Square in Moscow and in hero cities of Russia. Citizens of all ages stream to the memorials and monuments, and bring flowers. In the Soviet Union, every family touched the grief of that terrible bloody war. Meetings and congratulations of veterans became traditional.
May spring holiday The Victory Day is beloved and revered in Russia and other countries affected during the Second World War.
The war was a tragedy, but it was unity and courage, steadfastness and selflessness, military heroism and love for the Motherland that helped the Soviet people to defeat Hitler's fascism.
This victory is the glory and pride of the Soviet Union and modern Russia . Victory Day is an opportunity to pay tribute to all those who died, fought or worked in the rear at that time. The generation of veterans is leaving, and it remains for us to preserve a bright memory of the heroes of war, to love our Motherland and be worthy of their great deed.
The honorable duty of all living people to remember what event is celebrated the Victory Day, not to forget about the greatest feat of our people and not to allow new tragedies in the history of mankind.