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Putin: Russia will not allow to rewrite WW2 history


10.05.2018

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A military parade marking the 73rd anniversary of WW2 Victory  took place on the Red Square in Moscow, reports ТАSS. Over 13,000 of military personnel, thirty-three parade units marched through the Red Square.

Watching the parade together with the Russian President were Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic, war veterans and foreign guests. 

In his speech the President reminded that the victory in the World War 2 is a credit of the USSR and its people. "However, attempts are made today to cross out this deed of the people who saved Europe and the world from slavery, from the horrors of the Holocaust, to distort the events of the war, to bury the true heroes in oblivion, to forge, rewrite and corrupt history itself," claimed Putin.  

He also stressed that Russia would always take pride in the fact that the Soviet people stood its ground and did not yield to the cruel enemy. 

"Our people fought to the death. No other country repelled such an invasion, evacuated under enemy fire millions of people and thousands of factories, which practically off the wheels started manufacturing equipment and munitions for the front," said the President. 

He also reminded us about  the soldiers' heroism by saying "Our troops won great victories in the decisive Battles of Moscow and Stalingrad, in the battles near Kursk and on the Dnieper River, broke the siege of Leningrad and liberated the European capitals. They took Berlin in the conclusive assault."

New cutting-edge equipment was on display on the Red Square: Armata tanks, Kurganets infantry vehicles, Boomerang armoured personnel carriers, and Koalitsia-SV howitzers. The Terminator tank fire support vehicles, Uran robots, Katran and Korsar drones took part in the parade for the first time. Overall, 150 samples of military equipment drove through the Red Square. Aircraft wrapped up the parade as seventy-five airplanes and helicopters flew over Moscow, including two fifth-generation Su-57 Russian fighter jets, MiG 29 SMT fighter jets and the Kinzhal-MiG31K newest aviation systems with hypersonic missiles.

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