Russia marks WWII Victory Day with massive military parade | DW News

Russia marked the 76th anniversary of its victory in the Second World War with a massive display of military strength on Moscow's Red Square. More than 10,000 soldiers took part. Russian president Vladimir Putin was on hand for the event. This year's parade comes amid increased tensions with the West and neighboring Ukraine, which accuses Russia of amassing troops at its border.

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[socialghost]

They do this every has nothing to do with current affairs

[pangeriamicronation]

Stop calling the annual memorial of 27 million casualties a “show of strength”

[lostinchords]

"Who's this show of military strength directed at?", she naively asked, as if Russia hadn't repeated that very same parade on that very same date for the very same reason for the last 75 years. I hate sensationalist and biased press.

[yanasosnovskaya]

"why is it important for Russia?" - Lol if you asked this question, you don't know the history at all. Every russian family suffers thru this war, and have somebody died in the war. Hard to not to be the part of celebration if you have grand-grandparents who died, and your grandparents who were kids during the war.

[Onthestreetsanjib]

I don't know why I feel so funny when I see German media covering Russian Second World War victory parade 🤣🤣🤣

[Multipolar_World]

RUSSIA IS SOVEREIGN. NOT EVERYONE CAN SAY THE SAME. RUSSIA 🇷🇺♥️🇷🇺👍👍

[Trendigthings]

Happy victory day Russia...from india...

[hamidhamidi]

You need power to Protect your country. Russia knows this.

[moyndebs]

Funny world. I’m a Nigerian guy(Africa) watching Russia WW2 annual parade on an iPhone made in China & designed in USA which also fought the war then watching through a German broadcast service DW about a war they lost

[manfromtheunderground]

This is done on same scale every year since 1945
Why is this being portrayed as some sign of military showoff and aggression?

[kgbYouKnow]

This is Victory Day !!! Many of Russian Ukrainian and others nations defeated Germans 76 years ago and brought the peace... well i hope you are on the right side of History..

[madani_Tawfik]

Glory to Russian People
Glory to R U S S I A
Friendship from Jazair

[irinasvetla]

The Victory Day !!! Bravo, Russia 👍👍👍

[johnsoncao]

Most /many Chinese families watched this show. My mon said wow good looking Russian guys.

[svetlanasalavat]

It was just a regular parade. Don’t make far-reaching wrong conclusions, please.
We have loss in EVERY family!!! Eternal memory to those who died in the Second World War....

[kevinwhitaker]

WOW I WISH I WAS IN MOSCOW TO WATCH THE PARADE 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺 MY GRANDFATHER WAS SAVED BY THE RUSSIAN NAVY DURING WW2 WHEN HIS SHIP WAS SUNK DURING THE ARTIC CONVOYS, SO THANK YOU RUSSIA ❤️🇷🇺🇷🇺 WITHOUT RUSSIA I WOULD PROBABLY BE SPEAKING GERMAN ....SO THANK YOU AGAIN RUSSIA AND THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE 🇬🇧🍺😊✌️🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

[theonly]

German media: today we celebrate losing day😂

[cesarrod]

Did she really ask what's so special about celebrating a victory that saved the entire world from pure evil? Give me a f cking break!

[magicman]

its actually pretty cool they're parading with t34/85 tank. Russia should celebrate because they overcame a very difficult situation and emerge victorious.

[America_bombsTSMC]

History must be remembered to prevent repeating human greed