Then they were held annually from 2008 parades started to include again the military hardware.
Until 1995 the parades on the Red Square on Victory Day were held only in jubilee years: 1965, 19. In the year of the 20th anniversary of Victory the Supreme Soviet Presidium of USSR issued a decree declaring the day of May 9 a holiday for the first time since the end of war on the Red Square took place a parade of troops and military hardware of Moscow garrison. At the end of the parade 200 soldiers carried the Nazi banners turned toward the ground and threw them on the special platform at Lenin Mausoleum pedestal.įrom 1948 to 1964 the day of May 9 was an ordinary working day. The Heroes of the Soviet Union carried flags and banners of the units which had distinguished themselves during the war. The columns were headed by the regiments’ commanders. The regiments of Belorussian, Leningrad, Karelia and Ukrainian fronts, as well as combined regiment of the Navy marched through the parade ground on the Red Square. Marshal Zhukov accepted the parade commanded by Marshal Rokossovsky. On Jon the Red Square in Moscow was held the first Parade of Victory. But today there is one word containing them all: Victory!.’. We had witnessed the events which would take volumes of texts to describe. And the night sky over Moscow seems to be reflecting the same joy which fills the Soviet land. And we struck this blow… What a joy we feel today. But we craved for the day when the last blow would overthrown the black monster offensive for the life itself. He had grown the way that a Red Army man standing near a flying banner in Berlin is seen by the whole world. And the way it happens in the national epic, a Soviet person had grown incredibly during the period. Seems like a century between these two dates. On that day ‘Pravda’ wrote: ‘The Ninth of May! Never would a Soviet person forget this day. In the evening a salute was fired: thirty salvoes from thousands of guns in honor of the Great Victory’, – Alexander Ustinov, a military correspondent, recalled. Joyful faces, songs, dances to the accompaniment of accordion. More and more people were gathering, they moved towards the Red Square. People ran out of their houses on the streets… congratulated each other with a long-awaited victory. Yuri Levitan read the German Instrument of Surrender and the Decree of USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium on declaring May 9 the Day of national holiday – Holiday of Victory. the radio announced that an important announcement will be made.
‘On the night of the citizens of Moscow did not sleep. On before the signing of Instrument of Surrender I. V. Stalin signed the decree of Supreme Soviet Presidium of USSR declaring the 9th of May the Victory Day. As witness were present General Carl Spaatz, Commanding United States Strategic Air Forces and General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Commanding First French Army. Tedder as Deputy Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force. Zhukov on behalf of the Supreme High Coimmand and the Allies were represented by Air Chief Marshal A. The Soviet Union was represented by Marshal G. Stumpff as the representative of the air force.
Keitel as the Chief of Staff of the German Armed Forces and as representative of the army (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht) Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the navy and Colonel-General H.-J. On behalf of Germany it was signed by Field Marshal W. On at 22:43 Central European time (May 9, 00:43 Moscow time) in the town of Karlskhorte near Berlin was signed the German Instrument of Surrender.
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