This year we celebrate the 75th anniversary of this glorious date by paying tribute to our fallen heroes, and to the many millions of victims tortured and exterminated by the Nazi death machine.įor the Soviet people it was the Great Patriotic War and the epic battle for survival.
Ambassador Alexander Darchiev - Embassy of the Russian Federation in CanadaĪs Hitler’s lair in Berlin fell to the Red Army, and Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered to the USSR and the Allied powers on the night of May 9th, 1945, the cruelest and deadliest war in the world’s history came to an end.