Russian Military Parade 1945 Remastered: The First Victory Parade on Red Square

Thank you for posting this inspiring footage. Too bad that most Westerners, especially Americans (even worse among the younger generation) lack the historical knowledge and therefore the empathetic imagination to really UNDERSTAND what this glorious parade represents. They have NO IDEA of how powerful the Nazi armies were, nor how brutal. The Russians—Soviets, to be precise—lost HALF of their armed forces in this conflict, and 27 million people in total, not to mention thousands of towns and cities destroyed, and an infrastructure in ruins. The siege of Leningrad alone, with the Germans using a strategy of intentional starvation and attrition,… Read more »