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Russia will mark the 65th anniversary of...
to mark victory in WWII, referred to as the Great Patriotic War in ex-Soviet states, are accompanied by a large military orchestra and comprise a personnel march pass, followed by sophisticated hardware, and a fly over by combat aircraft.The revived tradition of massive military Victory Day parades with tanks and other hardware rolling through the center of Moscow has been seen by some in the West as a sign of Russia"s growing militarism.
Moscow has resisted attempts to challenge the Soviet Union"s role in World War II, which claimed the lives of 27 million Soviet nationals, according to official figures. Ex-Soviet republics and satellite states, including Ukraine, the Baltic countries and Poland, have seen Stalin"s Russia as an aggressor.
MOSCOW, February 4 (RIA Novosti)
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