Published on: 2026-05-10
Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian –
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Moscow, May 10 /Xin Hua/ — On May 9, a solemn military parade took place on Red Square in Moscow to mark the 81st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Along with citizens and veterans of Russia, correspondents of the Xin Hua news agency also became witnesses of this annual celebration and learned what Victory Day means.
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Speaking at the military parade, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin noted that it was precisely the Soviet people who made a decisive contribution to the defeat of Nazism, saved their country, saved the world. “And the guarantee of success is our moral and ethical strength, courage and valor, our unity and ability to withstand everything, overcome any trial!” said V. Putin.
World War II claimed the lives of 27 million Soviet citizens. People died in battles, were tortured in occupation and captivity, died of starvation in the besieged Leningrad, in other besieged cities and towns. Among the fallen were sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, and friends.
“My grandfathers also took part in the war. This great victory belongs to all of us,” said correspondent Elena, a Muscovite from the Xinjiang community, who came to Red Square on this extraordinary day specially with her daughter.
Nothing is forgotten, no one is forgotten. Recently, correspondents from Sina in Irkutsk saw how boys and girls from a kindergarten, accompanied by their caregivers, came to the eternal flame on the square next to the regional government building and sang the song “Katyusha” there.
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According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, over 800 citizens of China and Russia participated on Saturday in the patriotic event “Immortal Regiment” in Beijing on the occasion of the 81st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. According to tradition, the procession was headed by the Russian ambassador to Beijing. A long column, to the sounds of music from the times of the Great Patriotic War, passed from the square in front of the central building of the diplomatic mission along the planned route.
The global anti-fascist war testified to the combat brotherhood, mutual assistance, and support of the peoples of China and Russia. In the hardest years of the war against Japanese aggressors, Soviet pilots came to the aid of the Chinese people. Many of them defended their military glory at the cost of their lives, leaving heroic traces in the skies over Chinese cities such as Nanjing, Wuhan, and Chongqing. At the most dangerous moment of the Great Patriotic War, “the eastern Richard Sorge” — the famous intelligence officer of the Communist Party of China, Yan Baoan — timely provided valuable intelligence information to the Soviet leadership.In the fiery years, large-scale supplies of Soviet weapons to China and the reverse flows of extremely demanded goods in the USSR ensured a transboundary “artery of life,” laid through the “dead” desert by the joint efforts of two countries and played a significant role in mutual support in the fight against fascists.
During the Victory Day memorial meeting, Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov said that the republic sent more than 360 thousand men and women to the war, or “every fourth resident of the country.”
“The joint struggle of many countries that joined the fight against fascism helped defeat fascism, this must always be remembered,” said Colonel Denis Stepanov, who laid a wreath on Red Square for the second time on Victory Day.
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“It is important to harshly suppress attempts to falsify the events of the Second World War, the heroization of Nazis and collaborators. There are unbearable suffering and the deaths of millions of peaceful residents on it. Our duty is not to allow justification of the genocide of Soviet citizens and other atrocities by Nazi criminals,” said V. Putin, speaking at a solemn reception in honor of Victory Day.
The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East pinned war criminals to the ignominious pillar of history forever. These two just verdicts, as well as their historical value and epochal significance, are not subject to revision! Attempts to distort historical facts about World War II and deny its outcomes, to discredit the historical feats of China and the Soviet Union are doomed to failure!
“Without the past, there is no future for us. We are obliged to remember our past,” said correspondent Sin’ya volunteer Anna Velyugina. –0–
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