3 years 10 months and 18 days was how long that gory war lasted, the war that claimed some 26,452,000 of lives in the Soviet Union alone, the war that took at least one life in every family in Russia/Newly Independent States, mine included… And today the world is already celebrating the 65th anniversary of [...]
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Not all countries celebrate it (which is really surprising to me), and some have celebrated it yesterday*, but being Russian, I commemorate the Day of Victory over the Nazi Germany on May 9. My grandfather fought that terrible war for all 4 year, while my wife’s grandmothers lived through the horrific 900-day siege of Leningrad… [...]
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