Russia held a grand parade and march at the Red Squarein Moscow. That was the ever biggest parade with the participationof nearly 20,000 officers and soldiers as well as 106 kinds of weaponsand military equipment in the presence of President Dmitry Medvedev andPrime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Major cities in Russia also held parades, art performances and fireworks displays to mark the day.
At19p.m., all Russian people spent one minutes to pay homage to 26.6million, including 8,660,400 Red soldiers, who scarified their lives todefend the Soviet Union during the great struggle for national defence.
Adelegation of the Vietnamese Embassy in Germany on May 9 paid afloral tribute to the former Soviet Union’s Red Soldiers at the Monumentin the Treptower Park in Berlin .
This has become an annual activity of the Embassy in recent years to celebrate the Victory over Fascism.
OnMay 9 every year, the monument dedicated to Red Soldiers who sacrificedtheir lives to free Germany and the world from Fascism receivesthousands of visitors./.