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Post by Admin on May 10, 2021 5:43:35 GMT
Russia celebrated the 76th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany with a display of military might and pomp in Moscow. 12,000 troops and 80 aircraft took part in the Victory Day parade, which was overseen by President Putin as relations with the West grow even tenser. Russian President Vladimir Putin marked the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe with a speech warning that Nazi beliefs remain strong. Speaking to the annual military parade on Moscow’s Red Square, Putin on Sunday decried “attempts to rewrite history, to justify traitors and criminals, on whose hands lies the blood of hundreds of thousands of peaceful people.” “Unfortunately, many of the ideologies of the Nazis, those who were obsessed with the delusional theory of their exclusiveness, are again trying to be put into service,” he said, without citing specifics. The parade, whose format varies little from year to year, included more than 190 military vehicles traversing the square, ranging from the renowned WWII-era T-34 tank to the hulking eight-axle Yars mobile ICBM launchers. The anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat, which Russia calls Victory Day, is the country’s most significant secular holiday. commemorating the Red Army’s military feats and the vast suffering of civilians. About 27 million Soviet soldiers and civilians are estimated to have died in the war.
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2021 20:54:06 GMT
RUSSIA shows off military might during lavish WW2 anniversary parade in Red Square. The annual parades mark the Russian victory over Nazi Germany at the end of World War 2 And rising tensions stoked by his sabre-rattling bullying in Ukraine have forced Boris Johnson to U-turn on long-standing disarmament pledges for the first time in more than 30 years. Britain’s limit on stocks of our ageing Trident nuclear warheads are to be ramped up from 180 to 260. But experts say the planned £10billion rearmament – ordered as 10,000 UK troops are set to be axed to the lowest manpower levels in 300 years – will do nothing to deter Putin. And his weaponry appears to be light years ahead of his rivals’ amid soaring tension and uncertainty in the face of the Covid crisis and vicious trade wars.
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