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75th Anniversary of the Victory
This year the world celebrated 75th Anniversary of the Victory in The Great Patriotic War. It was intended to be a big event with a huge number of  parades, ceremonies and concerts. But because of the covid pandemic a lot great celebrations were canceled or postponed. Nevertheless, a lot was done to commemorate this date.

Events in honor of the Great Victory
In Russia there were a lot of events dedicated to the Great Victory. Due to pandemic most of the competitions, contests and concerts were held online, for example, virtual exhibition the victory parade the action Windows of the Victory (children painted the pictures) dedicated to the Victory on their windows and took photos of them. The main event is Immortal Regiment was also held online - people uploaded to the social networking sites the photos of their ancestors who participated in the war.

The parade on the Red Square took place on 24 of June in Moscow. The date was chosen because the first parade in 1945 was held on that day. Officers and soldiers of the army, law enforcement agencies and cadets of military academies, military schools and Young Army members marched in over 40 parade formations.

New memorials
One of the biggest and most impressive is The Rzhev Memorial. It is dedicated to the fallen Soviet soldiers during the battle of Rzhev, which lasted with varying degrees of intensity from January 1942 to March 1943. Russian soldiers stopped the Nazi Army there though the Soviet union lost about a million people there. The architects created a large majestic figure of the Soviet soldier, who mourns for the fallen, ascending into heaven. The monument is still not opened officially because of pandemic. In Petrozavodsk they installed the monument dedicated to mothers who lost their husbands in The Great Patriotic War. The memorial looks like a woman hugging two children who are holding the portraits of their father. A new monument for the Victorious warriors was built in Kazan. It copies Gazi Zagitov who took part in the storm German Parliament in 1945.

Links

 * pestrecy-rt.ru
 * tv-karelia.ru
 * en.kremlin.ru