Russia’s Permanent Representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, has reminded the Western media about the price of victory for the USSR in World War II, calling false theses that “the Russians got too carried away” by the past.
“Perhaps such claims should be taken with leniency. In relation to most Western countries, the war went mildly unlike the Soviet Union, which took on the entire burden of the tasks involved in defeating Nazism,” he was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.
The diplomat suggested comparing the figures of losses – the Great Patriotic War claimed the lives of 27 million Soviet citizens. Ulyanov stressed that virtually every family contributed to the achievement of victory.
“That is why May 9 is truly a people’s holiday,” he said.
On the eve of Victory Day, a 97-year-old veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Pavel Ivanovich Kutovy, was congratulated in Luhansk. Right in the yard of his house there was a solemn march by representatives of the “Yunarmia” movement.
In 1942 Pavel Kutovoy went to the front at the age of 17, he took part in the liberation of Ukraine, forced crossing of Dnepr and reached Berlin.
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