Putin lays flowers at Tomb of Unknown Soldier as Russia marks Victory Day

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Vladimir Putin left flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow on Thursday 9 May, as Russia marked Victory Day.

The Soviet Union lost 27 million people in the Second World War, but eventually pushed Nazi forces back to Berlin, where Hitler committed suicide and the red Soviet Victory Banner was raised over the Reichstag in 1945.

Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender came into force at 11:01 pm on 8 May 1945, marked as “Victory in Europe Day” by France, Britain and the United States.

In Moscow, it was already 9 May, which became the Soviet Union’s “Victory Day” in what Russians call the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.

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What a joke, that man couldn’t care less,

brianholmes
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Mir u cijelom svijetu sada odmah mir mir mir 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

ankicanedeljkovic
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The Independent’s photographer Sean Zanni owes Stray Kids an apology for being racist and disrespectful to them

ROXELL
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Instead of laying flowers, he should go to the front himself.

kewune
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He has some nerve considering how many Russian soldiers he has put into the ground.

thegoat
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What victory? Being less interesting and threatening than Palestine ?

johnchapman
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Извените. Зачем. Асср. Ра. Призидента. Нету. ❤

patimalepesova
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He’s such a great leader. I wish we had similar here in the west.

backofbeyond
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I thought the lesson from this was to never let it happen again. Not repeat it. Clearly Putin has learned nothing after all these years

keirangray
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Unknown soldier??😮😅😅
Funny but dumb article 🤣

gimmy
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URAAAA 🇷🇺 🌹 🇿🇦 🌹 🇷🇺 congratulations to Great Russia 🇷🇺 love from South Africa 💐

geesoutlaw