On February 21, 1943, a solemn concert was held in honour of the Red Army – and to give thanks to the Soviet people for
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On February 21, 1943, a solemn concert was held in honour of the Red Army – and to give thanks to the Soviet people for
In 1985, there were still tens of thousands of Soviet Red Army Veterans alive who took part in the Fortieth Commemoration of the Soviet Victory
The Hammer denotes the ‘Proletariat’ or the Industrialised Workers who work in factories – whilst the Sickle represents the ‘Agricultural’ Workers who work the land and participate in farming! Prior to this ‘1918’ design, older versions of this flag (sometimes seen in Eire), are comprised of a ‘Hammer’ (Proletariat) and a ‘Plough’ (Farmers)!
Whilst the West remembers May 8th as the day Nazi Germany Unconditionally Surrendered to the Western Allies – in Russia it is May 9th this
The Red Flag – or ‘Red Banner’ – was carried to the top of the Reichstag around the 30th of April (although exact dates vary
On April 30, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the prisoners of the SS Ravensbrück concentration camp. Ravensbrück was built in May 1939 by the prisoners from