Every one of us middle aged Russians, knows the crying eyes of those that came through the suffering. We felt the memories of that horrific war, the immense suffering that was unleashed. Al be it secondhand experience. We realise the depths of resolve, it took from our citizens, to fight the good fight, to win through against all odds, through the pure sheer national human strength of our Russian people. This is us, this raw earthy humanity. Our ability to reach within ourselves as a people, to defeat any enemy, it is what it means to be Russian on this day. We achieved a fantastic victory in defeating Nazi Germany. We freed Europe from the Nazi grip. We must make sure our future generations remember what our nation achieved as a people, and I am sure we are all doing that, our children do know, and their children too. Because we will never forget this period in our history, and the bravery and suffering within it. As far as History is concerned, we know the truth, we lived it each day with our relatives, through stories in our families. This is the truth to preserve, from generation to generation, there is no fight to be had now, the fight was done. and won. For those too ignorant to know the facts, leave them howl amongst the wind. For our breath, will always blow a fair, clear, strong gale assisted by the peoples of other nations, who fought alongside us, to achieve this great victory. It is a day they can share in, all the allied powers.

I want to use this instrument on this particular day (here the 8th of May) to declare my undying gratitude to the people of the Soviet Union and especially the soldiers of the Red Army, my and my deluded country's chief liberators from the murderous fascists. And for 67 years I have remembered - on every 22nd of June - the shrieking fanfares that heralded the message of war against the Soviet Union. Let us never forget and let none of us let it happen again. Lilo Lottermoser

The Russian people should be very proud of this day.

Let’s speak plainly. The views of Eastern Europe in general, the Baltics more particularly, and of Estonia specifically are what Medvedev refers to when he tells of “having to defend historical truth” in regard to WW2. Country after country after country that directly experienced what Stalin and the Soviet/Russian establishment after him called the liberation of Eastern Europe are the ones against which Medvedev says that Russia “has to defend historical truth.” This is already puzzling, since truth doesn’t really need defending – being truth, it is reality, and trying to counter reality always ends up similar to trying to stop a speeding express train by standing in front of it. The train doesn’t stop, but you get flattened. We clearly recall how the entire Soviet Union, which was not exactly built on the bedrock of truth, suffered just such a fate. But that aside, I would like to offer a challenge to RT, to its readers, and to anyone at all who is interested: please specify and detail one historical fact relating to WW2 that Estonia falsifies, or has ever falsified. Just one. Given the amount of ceaseless criticism along the lines of Medvedev’s reported comments, no one should have the least difficulty in finding at least 20 such falsifications of history. Please present and detail just one for us. Eastern Europe’s view of its Soviet Liberation is what remains on the tracks after the Soviet entity, which tried to stand in front of the express train, crumbled. It is not a re-writing of history. It is what happened. And even though it is now in the past, the differing attitudes that people take towards it greatly affects the present, and will affect the future.

It is a great honour and joy for me to know that such an important day as Victory Day is on May 9th, it is also my birthday. How could one obtain the Ribbon of St. George in the USA? Thank you for your time and for your sacrifices made as a nation in the dark times of World War II. Rest assured of my prayers! Sincerely Yours in Xto, fr adam portugal

Every serious historian of World War II must conclude that the USSR, primarily the Russians, won the war in Europe against the NAZI's. Certainly the US helped, especially with material and opening another front, but the idea that Fortress Europa might have been cracked without the brunt of the work being done by Russia and the USSR is absurd, and the worst kind of anti-Russian jingo, anti-Soviet jingo. Did Stalin make mistakes? Indeed. But nothing compared to the disasters Churchill and Britain, just for one example, engineered, with US connivance. For those benighted anti-Russian ideologues and nationalistic flag-wavers who have any doubt of the matter, instead of a detailed review, consider here only this hypothetical: what would the course of the war have been if either Leningrad or Stalingrad or both had fallen to the Germans?

CountCash, I respect and sympathise with the suffering of the Russian people at the hands of their German invaders, and with the sacrifice of the Red Army to defeat those invaders. My people have also suffered German invasion and occupation. And Soviet Russian occupation and invasion as well, brought about by the same Red Army that helped defeat the Germans, and lasting all the way to 1991. Stating as you do, that “we freed Europe from the Nazi grip” is very misleading, because at no point was any freedom involved anywhere that the Red Army trod. Instead, one heartless totalitarian tyranny was seamlessly replaced by another.

To E A Costa: Estonia has never denied the pivotal role of the Red Army in defeating Nazi Germany. But where is an example of Estonian "rewriting" of history?

I'm half-russian and half-english, and I was disappointed when I had a question in my exam to one english university sounded like: Who has won the Second World War: americans or english people? Do you know... It is impossible to win a war? Or what do you mean "to win"? 20 billion dead people in USSR and 15 billlion in German? Doesn't it sound too doleful?

To Helena A Excuse me, not billions, but millions