Russians in Brooklyn celebrate 70th anniversary of WWII victory
‘We saved all the good people from the bad people’
Russians in Brooklyn, joined by U.S. WWII veterans, commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany this past weekend with a memorial in Downtown Brooklyn and a parade in Brighton Beach.
The former Soviet Union lost roughly 27 million citizens during what is, in Russia, called the Great Patriotic War.
While the parade in Brighton Beach, a Russian stronghold, is an annual event, it was even larger this year in honor of the 70th anniversary and with the knowledge that the number of living veterans is dwindling.