This year’s Victory Day demonstration in St. Petersburg was a far cry from what I remember from my childhood, when we were obliged to march twice a year, portraits of the Politburo members in hand, in ostensible support for the regime. This time it was different. Hundreds of thousands of people, young and old, marched along majestic Nevsky Avenue, each holding a picture of a family member who had fought in the Great Patriotic War, as the Second World War is known there.
Among them, seated in open vintage jeeps were dozens of elderly veterans, waving to the crowds filling the …read more
Source: Montreal Gazette
