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 75th Anniversary of the Great Victory 

This year we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Great Victory. Most countries planned large-scale events. Russia was preparing the biggest event in history. There should have been a military parade, a march of an immortal regiment and fireworks on May 9 2020.

Unfortunately, this great celebration ,which everybody was looking forward to, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 /preparation for celebration/ 

* President Putin decided to congratulate veterans and thank them for their heroism. That is why he ordered payments of 75 thousand rubles to each veteran. Moreover, On June 13, 2019 the jubilee medal "75 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" was established.

* A large-scale event of the Year of Memory and Glory was supposed to take place on May 9, 2020. During the event, the Rzhev Memorial Complex in memory of all the Red Army soldiers should have been opened. It was created by the initiative of the Great Patriotic War veterans in the place where bloody battles near Rzhev in 1942-1943 took place.The monument was ready to open on May 9, but due to the spread of COVID-19, the ceremony was postponed several times.

* The most spectacular part of the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory celebration was the parade on Red Square in Moscow. According to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu more than 14 thousand servicemen took part in the parade on May 9, 2020. Representatives of the services and branches of the armed forces, as well as military districts and military establishments, go through the main square of Russia.

In order to fight the new coronavirus infection, only military personnel with immunity to COVID-19 and no signs of infectious diseases were allowed to participate in the parade.

* There was also an all-Russian project called "No Expiration Date" designed to preserve the memory of the tragedy of the civilian population of the USSR who were victims of war crimes committed by the German invaders and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War.