“It speaks to Russia’s purpose in world politics.”įor Putin, he said, it was a way of communicating to the Russian people that “he is the person to lead this country through adversity, as was the case in 1945 when Russia overcame Nazism.” What will Putin do? Putin now uses his annual speech at the parade to “talk about contemporary security issues,” said Ben Soodavar, a political scientist in the war studies department at King’s College London. Mikhail Metzel / Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images
President Vladimir Putin attends a flower-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier after the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2021. Writing in 2015 about his personal experiences of the war, Putin said his infant brother Viktor was killed and his parents were seriously injured during the siege of Leningrad, which lasted from 1941 to 1944 in the city now known as St. Other former Soviet nations and some Eastern European nations do likewise.įor the former Soviet Union, the victory parade that followed was “very important because it gave it the status of world power, so they were celebrating that glory,” said Thornike Gordadze, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think tank based in London.Īfter the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent economic hardship in Russia, Putin took office and tried to make the defeat of Nazism the country’s “founding myth to cement the population together and create a Russian identity,” Gordadze said. ET) on May 8, 1945, Russia celebrated victory on May 9 because the change in time zone meant it came early that morning for them. Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP file Why is it so important?Īlthough Nazi Germany ended all its military operations at 23:01 Central European Time (5:01 p.m. The parade was postponed until June 24 because of the pandemic. Russian RS-24 Yars ballistic missiles roll in Red Square on Victory Day in Moscow in 2020. It is the largest of all the parades held on this day in Russia and in many former republics of the Soviet Union, and. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima on. The 2021 Moscow Victory Day Parade was a military parade that took place in Red Square in Moscow on to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany on this day in 1945 (Moscow Time). But as this year’s parade approaches, the military pomp and pageantry will contrast starkly with the hard-fought battles and setbacks the Russian military is reportedly experiencing in Ukraine - leaving some experts wondering how Putin will be able to present Russia’s stalled invasion as a success on Victory Day. Victory Day has commemorated the anniversary of Japans surrender to the Allies in 1945 which ended World War II.
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