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The cost of V-Day for Soviet Russia
Published: 08 May, 2009, 22:00
Edited: 13 November, 2009, 10:08
Most of the world marks the end of the Second World War on the 8th of May. But for Soviet Russia it ended the day after. In modern Russia, May 9th is still celebrated as a major national holiday.
Congratulations to all Russia people for this great victory! Here, in Brasil, i will make my comemoration too, watching the parade and everyelse!!! CONGRAT'S RUSSIANS!!!!!
Please correct this story. You need to follow your President's words about not rewriting history. Russian Federation and most of CSI celibrate the V-Day on May 9. Most of the other United Nations countrys remember VE Day (victory in Europe day) on May 8. (Date difference because the Nazi surrender came late in the day and Soviet time was already past midnight.) You write they remember the end of World War II on that day. That is not correct. Most of the United Nations were still at war with Japan. They remember the end of World War II on VJ Day (victory in Japan day). For most of the United Nations, the war continued until August 1945. At the hour of the victory in 1945, I raised a glass of vodka to the Armys of the United Nations who served in that war: "Eternal memory!" To any United Nations military service men and women of that war who may read this, I offer you my thanks. To those who lost a loved one in this war, I offer my condolences and hope you find comfort in knowing the world is a better place because of your loved ones actions to defeat the Axis powers.
The date most of the world uses for the end of WWII is August 15, 1945. Again to the allied troops, I say thank you!!!!!
Dale - there was NO UNITED NATIONS during WW2 - This useless organization doesn't deserve any recognition. We all fight and serve as members of our countries, not the UN. The UN has no army! As for Russia - it was May 9 as the end of WW2 not Aug 15. They were not involved with Japan as the US was, just because the US writes most of the WW2 history doesn't make Aug 15 the end of WW2 for other nations involved. I'm a Canadian living and working in Russia, and it is a great honor to see such recognition as our Nov 11 honors our veterans. My father served in WW2 - was one of the first to hit Juno beach on D-Day, was captured 2 days later and spent the war in various labour and concentration camps through out Germany - his camp was liberated by both the American and Russian armies. Both to which he is grateful. I have learned a lot from speaking with those who lived through the Leningrad blockade and WW2, this has made my stay in Russia a great learning experience
Krazy, yes you are write, but to be really pedantic, we all fought for our countries joined as Allies, but hey this is spliting hairs. Also you you wrote "They were not involved with Japan as the US was" Again reading this literally, you are spot on, but it may be interesting for others to note that following the decisons in the Yalta conference, we got a bit involved in Manchuria. P.S thanks for giving us a great game of hockey tonight!
I am grateful to the Soviet people for defeating Hitler, and also for the Popular Front, which gave my family unions, unemployment insurance, sick days, vacations with pay, and health insruance. My family's life before that was very, very hard. They had to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. My father had to quit school at age 13 and to to work. My mom was picking cotton at age 6 and although she made straight As, she got left back one year because she was in the fields helping her family survive. She got a full scholarship to TCU but she could not go, she had to work to help her family. My life has not been easy, but its been better than that. I am also grateful to the Popular Front for all those great Hollywood movies by "pinko" actors like John Garfield. My favorite move is Casablanca, a Popular Front movie. Thanks for George Gershwin, Oscar and Hammerstein (South Pacific is my favorite), the guy who wrote "The Wizard of Oz" and all kinds of trualy great art and artists inspired by the Soviet Union, like Paul Robeson and Woody Guthrie who I love with all my heart to this day...and Woody Guthrie inspired Pete Seeger and they both inspired Bob Dylan, who inspired Bruce Springsteen. AND YES, Mr. Frank Sinatra too (no one will believe that, but its as true as can be). I don't know what happened to all this. I don't understand the world at all anymore, and its just as well as I will not be here that much longer, but whatever happened, the things that you all did cannot be undone, the past has shaped this present we live in and I am grateful to you forever. Even though a lot of people don't seem to realize it, the Soviet people did so much to help everyone.
Having studied a great amount of world history, I have been made aware that the victory of the allied nations against Nazi Germany was largely the work of the great Russian nation, a people that fought to the death against the invading German armies, and later drove them out of eastern Europe, conquered Berlin and caused Hitler to commit suicide in his underground bunker. This months marks the 68th anniversary of the Soviet Army parade through the streets of Moscow. The outcome of the great battle there determined that the Nazis would not conquer Russia. Then, one year later, came the equally epic Battle of Stalingrad, including the Soviet attack on November 19, 1942 that crashed through the Romanian, Hungarian and Italian forces on the flanks of the main German armies in Stalingrad, encircling them and two months later destroying them. The greatest thing the present-day government of Russia could do would be to rename Volgograd to its true name -- the one that comes to the minds and hearts of the whole world when that great battle is remembered: STALINGRAD it was, and STALINGRAD it should be forever. Yes, he indeed was a terrible dictator. But the rule of the Man of Steel industrialized your country and re-armed it, turning it into a truly great power, and giving Russia the armed might to utterly destroy the Nazi menace that threatened the whole world. So, Russia, honor his memory for the achievements that above all else kept Russia alive during and after the terrible years starting June 22, 1941. Regardless of what else communism represented, and the hardships it brought your peoples during that era. The one thing your fore-fathers needed above all was the greatest Tsar of Russian history. And that he was. If for nothing else, keep his name alive for the millions of Russian soldiers who fought for him, and who fought for all of you. Arnold Harris Mount Horeb WI
ler leio mal ,mas escrever não escrevo,em inglês.Vou escrever em português .As lágrimas vieram-me aos olhos.Não deixem esquecer a HISTÓRIA. Saudações de um camarada comunista que nasceu em 1949