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The 75th Anniversary of The Great Victory is a holiday dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Victory Day, the day when The Soviet Union claimed an absolute and crushing victory over Nazism. For the first time celebration of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War in 1945 took place in 1945 on the 9th of May, and 2020 is a year when this date has its round anniversary. In 2020 the President signed Executive Order On Holding the Year of Memory and Glory in Russia.

Schedule changes
The 2020 Moscow Victory Day Parade was postponed due to the pandemic of COVID-19, which made it hardly possible to organize mass public events. That also made several changes in shedulding of some other Victory Day events.

Military parade
The 2020 Moscow Victory Day Parade took place in Moscow's Red Square on 24 June 2020 instead of 9 May, as it was expected. The parade was held in a special form, without a usually large number of people watching the parade in live. Almost 3.6 million Muscovites watched the live broadcast of the Parade.

The Immortal Regiment
The Immortal Regiment, which has been a common practice in CIS countries for several years by now, was initially planned for 9 May, but ended up with being dalayed till june and consequently postponed for an indefinite period.

Victory Day preparations
Preparations for the parade had been ongoing ince November 2019. Some individual unit practices took place in different places. In March 2020 full parade rehearsals and practices were held in front of the national and international press representatives. Last run-throughs began in early June just weeks before the main parade itself.