They had long since run out of ammunition. During the Siege of Stalingrad Russian soldiers like these men lured German invaders into the ruins of bombed-out buildings and dropped concrete blocks on them to kill them. Dignitaries flank President Putin along with aging Russian Heroes of the Russian Federation, their faces long and their lapels sagging under an unlikely volume of medals. “This was a tremendous tragedy” says Russian President Vladimir Putin in his remarks from the reviewing stand. The Great War was a cataclysm that claimed a staggering 20 million Russian civilians and soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen. This very same Red Banner, frayed but still vibrant in defiance, flew over the ruins of Hitler’s headquarters when Germany was reduced to ruble in 1945. Meliton Kantaria is marched down Manezhnaya Street in Moscow today. The red banner, raised over the Reichstag in Berlin on this day in 1945 by Sgt. The Victory Day parade in Moscow accompanies large military parades in 26 other large Russian cities to observe the solemn holiday. This is the largest military display and celebration anywhere in the world by a massive margin. It is Victory Day today in Moscow and across all of Russia, a country so vast it spans 11 time zones, nearly half the globe. Seventy-two years have passed since the Russians defeated Germany in WWII, the Great Patriotic War.
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A crack in the Russian grey sky reveals a shard of sunlight. It is the hour of victory, the greatest military victory in the history of all mankind.
Then the great Spasskaya Tower clock bell tolls brightly through the grey. A muted, dignified tribute to the millions lost. The tanks, the missile launchers, the artillery cannons sit motionless. You can hear air moving between the ranks of silent soldiers frozen at attention.
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