New eternal flame lit as Moscow prepares for Victory Day celebrations
Published: 30 April, 2010, 14:20
Edited: 01 May, 2010, 05:29
Moscow is getting ready to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Soviet victory over the Nazis. Today the second eternal flame has been lit in Victory Park – an open-air military museum not far from the city center.










It is all too much known a fact that SSSR (Russia) alone defeated Nacy Germany. The D day accross the Channel was just a mere cosmetics, because the backbone of the German military had already been smashed before that at Stalingrad and Kursk. Even the UK historians have recently admitted that (they did that only now for the Cold War reasons). Subsequently, Russian (SSSR) forces liberated many other countries, among which was Serbia and its capital Belgrade. It is however a sad fact, and Russian authorities should be aware of that, that the names of some central and prominent streets in Belgrade, that had previously been given names of famous Russian military commanders (general Zdanov, Marshal Biriuzov, Marshal Tolbukhin), have recently been changed into some totally irrelevent names. For example, the street of General-a Zdanov-a is now named Resavska (Resava's) street!!? For those who are not familiar with local Serbian geography I will explain that Resava is a mere geographic area in Serbia that is known by virtually nothing. It is completelly irrelevant area and replacing the street's name from "general Zdanov's street" into "Resavska street" is a nonsence. It miight be that some authorities of the city of Belgrade believe that they will become closer to EU if they remove Russian names of the streets? But the above are not just ordinary Russian names, but the names of famous Russian generals! On top of that, it was these generals who liberated Belgrade! Besides of that, one could get an impression as if some persons in Belgrade want to erode the decissive Russian contribution in defeating Nacy Germany? I am wondering will Medvedev say to Tadic (Serbian President) something on that topic? Russia, do play a bit tougher with Serbs, but at the same time, do forgive us because we have suffered a lot. Sometimes Serbs behave as a puppy dog: after having been bitten it submissively approaches to the one who bit it.