TASS/. The moral example of veterans of the Great Patriotic War serves as a firm support in the era of trials that Russia is currently struggling through, President Vladimir Putin said in a ...
The centrepiece - a massive square with an obelisk 141.8m (465ft) high - 10cm for each day of the Great Patriotic War, as the Soviets called their part in World War Two after the Nazi invasion.
TASS/. Celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s Victory in the Great Patriotic War will take place in all countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO ...
Putin was born after the war, in 1952, but his family story in what Russia calls the Great Patriotic War echoes that of many Russian families, says Gregory Carleton, a professor of Russian studies ...