It is hard to please everybody and I understand why RT needs experts explain this event but for me I am deeply unsatisfied this format.. Too much punditry talk has spoiled for me the deeper emotional feeling of the parade, the aesthetics of soldiers marching in unison, the music, event itself has been undercut but too much talk. It would have been better to talk now and then but let people just feel the event, hear the music, etc. Everything has been spoiled for me by the ‘expert talks’ voice over the Parade. I am going to wait if RT will be posed in its website a cleaned up version of the parade. Alas. I am not expert in military but even i know what T-34 looks like, so one did not need to talk over the appearance of historical weapons such as T-34, the tank that won WWII!

Please upload on You Tube this second version(on Russian) in one piece ! I wanna post it on Face Book (without commentators)

I agree that the commentary is redundant. It is much better presented by the original voice of the parade. I think English subtitles would work better than placing too many voices of commentary. But what really bothers me is the lack of HIGH quality stream to download. This whole video should be HD optional for people abroad to share the beauty in the prepared fine details of this parade and it's participators. Im Sure its in RT's interest.

I would like to express my cautious welcome to this change -- allow allies to join the celebration. Firstly, because, obviously Pols, French, and some other nations who fought Fascism together with the Soviet people deserve it. This is common victory, and not just USSR alone, even though Russians lead this coalition of nations to the victory. Secondly, this event should become more international and move Russia further away from its mental isolation and confrontation with other nations. It is good for Russians first of all.

Well done Russia! Parade was spectacle for life time! Thank you! Rodoljub, Република Српска

Please anybody, is it me or is it true that when the American troops follow the British marching into Red Square they are shown for about three seconds? I have seen three broadcasts of this parade and the other NATO countries get significantly much more time by the cameras as they march by. Unbelievable. Whats up with that?

I can't express how pleased I was to watch this great ! parade....yes, well done Russia. Please invite us to join this parade again....this could be the start of something great....we need to work together on many things.

It was a good parade, but please allow me to make a few observations: - the use of "Tovarisky" steel puzzeld me! - riding in limousine insted of "jeep" not to army like (were lincons ?) - King Michael of Romania, one of the last heads of state alive from WWII, was invited by Russian president Medvedev to attend the ceremony. He was also decorated with the Soviet "Order of Victory" by Joseph Stalin "for the courageous act of the radical change in Romania's politics towards a break-up from Hitler's Germany and an alliance with the United Nations, at the moment when there was no clear sign yet of Germany's defeat," according to the official description of the decoration. He is the only surviving recipient as of 2009. No tv coverege whatsoever! - Romanian, Bulgarian, Yugoslavian and Finnis Armies fought side by side with Red Army, so maybe they had a place in the parade.

Bogdanov I think you are misreading what is wrong with this format. If RT left the voice of George Watts trans from Russian to English than this would have fine. RT could have set aside other things to fill other RT time filler programs and focused on the event itself with least commentary, than this would have worked for me. My Russian is very limited but I wanted to hear the music, those famous tunes that I have learned from watching Russian/Soviet films about WWII. I wanted to see and feel the march and I did feel it because of of many overvoices and spins.

I am so pleased to find out about your site! Thank you! I looked through all local newspapers, TV channels (CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC) there was nothing, not a word about this event! What a shame! And we call our mass-media free? I asked many friends here in America about the 8/9 May Victory Day Not a single one knew about it... As for the parade I wish the RT would remove the lines on the bottom of the screen, it hid the legs of the soldiers during the parade. To Camir: You wrote: "Romanian, Bulgarian, Yugoslavian and Finnis Armies fought side by side with Red Army, so maybe they had a place in the parade". These countries (except Tito's partisans) were forced to join the Red Army at the end of the WWII. Their soldiers were among the German troops that attacked the Soviet Union and some of them were even worse than fascists!...

In AUSTRALIA not a word in the mainstream media on the V-Day the victotry day over Hitler's Nazi. Very sad fact indeed.

What alarms me most is the obvious implication of NATO troops marching in RED SQUARE:- Russia is actively caving in to the authors of the re-writing of the history Of WW2 ! It has ruined the anniversary parade!

Ibarruri I must disagree with your assertion that Russia is caving in to NATO’s pressure. I do not think that this is what is happening. Russia was giving respect to the historical event when it allowed NATO troops to march at the Red Square. For example, on 8th of May a leading UK based newspaper which has most rapid Russophobe in Moscow, reported that Russia rejected Prince Charles and Vic Biden to come to Moscow to represent UK/US. The paper claimed that Russia rejected a lower level delegation from the U.S and the UK when invited heads of state from the U.S/UK decline the invitation to come to Moscow for the 65th anniversary of the Victory of Fascist Germany in 1945. On the 9th of May thee same paper put on its front page UK troops marching on the red Square! I am sure you can read between the lines on these two events. I think Russia staging this monumental event brilliantly. Besides, one can achieve as much by using velvet gloves and carrots than with sticks. Russia can use hard and heavy sticks when it has to but there was no need to exclude troops from Poland, for example, who showed their proud flag and uniform in the Red Square. I cry for them and felt good for Poland and Russia’s future relationship of peace and cooperation. I felt the same way when I saw the Ukrainian troops but also with office from Kazakhstan officer riding a white horse in symbolic reference to Zhukov’s famously riding white horse in 1945 Victory Parade in the Red Square. Russia wanted to be inclusive and was a good thing. This event is a must have item for historians, educators, etc!

Finally, I found good You Tube version of this grand parade. This You Tube version of the parade also has sharper camera angles. All the soldiers in this parade were selected for their skills and training but I gave my first preference to the style of the Russian soldiers. The way the Russian soldiers march gives the visual illusion of a wave-like motion. I felt only the Ukraine soldiers had this fast paced, wave-like unison motion as the Russian soldiers. Since RT is such an important source, it really has to post much sharper version of the parade with English trans but no other comments.

Excellent there was a parade!!! Very much it was pleasant to me! My grandfather was at war since 1943 on Belarusky front. It Has reached Berlin and has undersigned on Rejhstage. I very much am proud of it! And many relatives I even did not see, very many were lost in the war.

Excellent!! Congratulations to the people of Russia! Where could can a full copy of the 1945 Victory Day Parade be found?

Good to see the T-34 and su 100 taking part in the parade hard to believe these vehicles are nearly 65 years old and to the untrained eye wouldnt look out of place on a modern battlefield.Respect to the soviet veterans.

I just returned from Tbilisi, Georgia, where I attended the May 9th, “День Победа”, “Day of Victory” celebration at Vake Park. I spent most of my day interviewing the old veterans who fought so gallantly in the Red Army to defeat the invading Germans. Each veteran was in his or her late 80s and early 90s, and their stories told of deeds during WW II when they were young and heroic. I noticed an Order of Lenin, and several other orders, on the suit coat of one old veteran and went to talk to him. He had fought valiantly in the battle of Stalingrad, where as an infantry officer he refused to leave his firing position in a building and was buried under the falling rubble. He lay buried for five days until his comrades dug him out. The collection of awards pinned to his coat included several medals for bravery. This old veteran expressed disappointment that he would not see the Georgian flag being carried in the Red Square parade. Seven hundred thousand Georgians fought in the Armed forces of the USSR during WW II, and 300,000 lost their lives. Anyone interested in seeing the Vake Park “День Победа” celebration can visit my website at http://www.tasuja.com.