🏅 On May 9, 1945, at 12:43 am, the Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany was signed, putting an end to the Great Patriotic War and #WWII in Europe.

Following a successful assault on Berlin by the Red Army, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The title of Reich President and command of the armed forces of the Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Dönitz.

Desperate to surrender to the British-American troops, on May 5, German delegation arrived in the French city of Reims, where the headquarters of the Western Allies command was located.

In the Article 4 of the Reims Instrument of Surrender of Nazi Germany stated that this document did not rule out the signing of another, definitive act at the request of one of the coalition members.

Thus, the document was recognised by the Soviet Union only as a preliminary instrument, and a new signing ceremony was proposed to be held in the capital of Nazi Germany, liberated by the Red Army - Berlin.

🌟 On may 9, at 12:43 am in district of Karlshorst the signing ceremony of the Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany took place.

On May 9, 1945, at 2:10 am Moscow time, announcer Yury Levitan read out the Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany and the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declaring May 9 Victory Day. From that moment on, the Soviet Union and later Russia, as well as the most former Soviet republics have celebrated Victory Day on May 9.

💬 Sergey Lavrov: This year’s Victory Day has a special significance because we are celebrating this great holiday in a situation where Nazism is rearing its head again. The descendants of Napoleon and Hitler have joined the Anglo-Saxons, again seeking to inflict a “strategic defeat” on our country, destroy it and subordinate it to their narrow selfish hegemonic interests. Just like our fathers and grandfathers volunteered to the front, today, once again, we see an extraordinary upsurge in society, as Russians are rallying to another sacred battle.

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📽️ Beautiful glimpses of the concert on the occasion of the Victory Day held in the Russian House in New Delhi on May 7, 2024.

⭐️The solemn event included numerous performances of Russian and Indian students with poetry readings and songs.

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🔴 #LIVE from the #RedSquare: Military parade marking the 79th Anniversary of the #Victory in the #GreatPatrioticWar.

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📰 Today, on May 9, “The Indian Express” and “The Financial Express” newspapers published a special report dedicated to the Victory Day in Russia with a message by Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov! 🏅

💬 Key theses:

🟣Lessons of WWII should never be forgotten! There cannot be any statute of limitation for Holocaust and Nazi misanthropic ideology.

🟣The top priority initiative of Russia in the UN is the adoption of the annual UNGA resolution against glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and contemporary forms of racism.

🟣Russians will always remember with gratitude the Indian contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany. Brave Indian contingents were engaged in providing supplies to the Red Army through Persia.

📎 More details — in the enclosed PDF👇

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