Blogger’s Note: We have visited the Soviet War Memorial in London many times over the years. Our children have grown up learning about WWII and how the UK stood alone against Nazi Germany from 1939-1941 – when the Soviet Union Joined us. Indeed, at the time, our to countries became close friends. My maternal grandfather – Arthur Gibson – served in the Royal Navy Patrol Service during WWII, keeping the sea lanes free of Nazi mines in the North Atlantic so that the Russian Arctic Convoys could take much needed aid to our Soviet allies. What is happening today is a disgrace. The UK should not be supporting Neo-Nazism in the Ukraine! Thank you USSR and Russia! ACW (5.12.2025)
“Your name is unknown, your deed is immortal”
On 3 December Russia marks the Day of the Unknown Soldier, an occasion intended to honour the memory, sacrifice and valour of Russian and Soviet servicemen who fell in defence of their Motherland and whose names remain unknown.
On this day, Minister-Counsellor of the Russian Embassy to the UK Vasily Tsyganov laid flowers at the Soviet War Memorial in London. The monument, erected in 1999 in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, commemorates the 27 million citizens of the USSR who lost their lives during the Second World War.
The Day of the Unknown Soldier was established by the Presidential decree in 2014. The choice of date is symbolic: on 3 December 1966 the remains of an unidentified soldier who perished in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 were reinterred in the Alexander Garden beside the Kremlin wall. On 8 May 1967 the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was unveiled and the Eternal Flame was lit on the site, which became one of Russia’s central places of wartime remembrance.
English language Text:
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 