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The photographs are courtesy of www.kremlin.ru
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The 2010 Victory Day Parade in Moscow marked the first time that foreign soldiers
joined Russian forces on Red Square for the parade. The United States was represented by the
2nd Battalion of the 18th Infantry Regiment and the Naval Forces Europe Band. The United
Kingdom was represented by a detachment of 76 soldiers from the 2nd Company, 1st
Battalion, The Welsh Guards, the Central Band of the Royal Air Force and the Band of the
Royal Air Force Regiment. Read more...
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Victory Day (May 9) marks the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union in the
Second World War.
World War II, or the Second World War (often abbreviated WWII or WW2), was a
global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945 which involved most of the world's
nations, including all of the great powers, organized into two opposing military
alliances: the Allies (Soviet Union, British Empire, United States of America) and the
Axis (Germany, Japan, Italy). It was the most widespread war in history, with more
than 100 million military personnel mobilized in a state of "total war," the major
participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the
service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources.
Marked by significant action against civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use
of nuclear weapons in warfare, it was the deadliest conflict in human history, with over
seventy million casualties. Read more…
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To learn more about WW2 please visit:
www.pbs.org - American View
www.bbc.co.uk- British View
www6.dw-world.de - German View
www.borodulincollection.com - Russian View (Photographs)
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