mongoose
09-05-2010, 14:18
In deze editie liepen voor het eerst ook soldaten van Frankrijk, USA & Groot Brittanië mee
" RED SQUARE, May 9 (Itar-Tass) - President Dmitry Medvedev is sure that he Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945, made Russia a strong nation, while the present united international march-past of the Victory Parade in Moscow shows common determination to protect peace and to prevent a review of the results of the Second World War.
Here is the full text of the head of state:
Dear veterans!
Dear citizens of Russia!
Dear foreign guests!
Comrade soldiers, sailors and sergeants!
Comrade officers, generals and admirals! I congratulate you on the anniversary of the Great Victory!
Sixty five years ago Nazism was vanquished. The machine that was eliminating whole nations was stopped. Peace returned to our country and to Europe as a whole. An end was put to the ideology that was destroying the foundations of civilization.
The Soviet Union bore the brunt of the Nazi attack. They threw in three quarters of their troops to the Eastern Front. They wanted to scorch our land. Instead they met with resistance - unexampled in courage and strength.
The defence of Moscow and Leningrad, the battle of Stalingrad, the Kursk Bulge - these are not just the stages of that war. They are blood and tears, the pain of failure and triumph of victories, wounds and death of comrades-in-arms. And there was only one choice - either conquer the enemy or become slaves.
This war has made us a strong nation. Every day, every hour, every minute people made decisions. Both in battlefields and in the rear. And this particular feeling of personal responsibility for the fate of the country our veterans have carried through their entire lives.
They taught us the main lesson. They have achived freedom.
Time has a huge power. But it is not as powerful as human memory - our memory. We shall never forget soldiers who fought on fronts. Women who replaced men in factories. Children who came through trials inconceivable for their age. All of them are heroes of the war.
In 1945 not only military but also a great moral victory has been achieved. A common victory. All peoples of the former USSR have struggled for it. Our allies were advancing it. And today soldiers of Russia, CIS countries and anti-Hitler coalition States will march together triumphantly. A single rank is an evidence of our common readiness to defend peace, not to allow to revise the outcomes of war and new tragedies.
The war has killed tens of millions of people. Citizens of many countries of various ages, nationalities and confessions. In Russia practically every family has its members who died or went missing, who was starving from hunger during the blockade of Leningrad, who was burned down in concentration camps. That cannot be tolerated. That cannot be forgotten. Memory eternal.
Dear friends,
The lessons of World War II call us to solidarity. The world remains fragile. And we should remember that wars do not start in a flash. The evil gains its strength if we shrink back or try to ignore it.
Only together can we counteract modern threats. Only based on the principles of good-neighborliness can we resolve issues of global security so that ideals of justice and of the good can triumph in the whole world and life of future generations can be free and happy.
Dear veterans! Sixty five years ago you won peace for our country and the whole world and granted us an opportunity just to live. I pay homage to you.
I congratulate you on the holiday!
I congratulate you on the Day of Great Victory!
I glorify the winners!
Hurrah!
Watch a summary of it here: http://www.1tv.ru/news/social/153849
Listen to the soldiers and sailors reply to the Urrah of their President - see if that doesn't make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up!!!."
" RED SQUARE, May 9 (Itar-Tass) - President Dmitry Medvedev is sure that he Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945, made Russia a strong nation, while the present united international march-past of the Victory Parade in Moscow shows common determination to protect peace and to prevent a review of the results of the Second World War.
Here is the full text of the head of state:
Dear veterans!
Dear citizens of Russia!
Dear foreign guests!
Comrade soldiers, sailors and sergeants!
Comrade officers, generals and admirals! I congratulate you on the anniversary of the Great Victory!
Sixty five years ago Nazism was vanquished. The machine that was eliminating whole nations was stopped. Peace returned to our country and to Europe as a whole. An end was put to the ideology that was destroying the foundations of civilization.
The Soviet Union bore the brunt of the Nazi attack. They threw in three quarters of their troops to the Eastern Front. They wanted to scorch our land. Instead they met with resistance - unexampled in courage and strength.
The defence of Moscow and Leningrad, the battle of Stalingrad, the Kursk Bulge - these are not just the stages of that war. They are blood and tears, the pain of failure and triumph of victories, wounds and death of comrades-in-arms. And there was only one choice - either conquer the enemy or become slaves.
This war has made us a strong nation. Every day, every hour, every minute people made decisions. Both in battlefields and in the rear. And this particular feeling of personal responsibility for the fate of the country our veterans have carried through their entire lives.
They taught us the main lesson. They have achived freedom.
Time has a huge power. But it is not as powerful as human memory - our memory. We shall never forget soldiers who fought on fronts. Women who replaced men in factories. Children who came through trials inconceivable for their age. All of them are heroes of the war.
In 1945 not only military but also a great moral victory has been achieved. A common victory. All peoples of the former USSR have struggled for it. Our allies were advancing it. And today soldiers of Russia, CIS countries and anti-Hitler coalition States will march together triumphantly. A single rank is an evidence of our common readiness to defend peace, not to allow to revise the outcomes of war and new tragedies.
The war has killed tens of millions of people. Citizens of many countries of various ages, nationalities and confessions. In Russia practically every family has its members who died or went missing, who was starving from hunger during the blockade of Leningrad, who was burned down in concentration camps. That cannot be tolerated. That cannot be forgotten. Memory eternal.
Dear friends,
The lessons of World War II call us to solidarity. The world remains fragile. And we should remember that wars do not start in a flash. The evil gains its strength if we shrink back or try to ignore it.
Only together can we counteract modern threats. Only based on the principles of good-neighborliness can we resolve issues of global security so that ideals of justice and of the good can triumph in the whole world and life of future generations can be free and happy.
Dear veterans! Sixty five years ago you won peace for our country and the whole world and granted us an opportunity just to live. I pay homage to you.
I congratulate you on the holiday!
I congratulate you on the Day of Great Victory!
I glorify the winners!
Hurrah!
Watch a summary of it here: http://www.1tv.ru/news/social/153849
Listen to the soldiers and sailors reply to the Urrah of their President - see if that doesn't make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up!!!."