World War II veterans will celebrate May 9, the Russian Victory day, in a parade in Vilnius.
The Vilnius municipal government gave permission for the World War II veterans’ parade on May 9, while Klaipeda did not give permission for a similar event, Baltic News Service has reported.
The participants of the parade, commemorating the 65th anniversary of the end of the WWII and the memory of veterans, will hold their rally in the morning of May 9 in T. Vrublevskio street in central Vilnius.
“The Events’ Regulation Commission has made a decision, which has been coordinated with the Interior Ministry, and I have no other choice but to sign it,” the director of the administration of the municipality Vytautas Milenas told BNS.
Vilnius’ mayor Vilius Navickas previously suggested that organisers hold a traditional commemoration in the cemetery instead of the parade.
Lithuanian Russians’ chairman Sergej Dmitrijev told BNS that there will be 200-300 participants in the rally.
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“World War II veterans will celebrate May 9, the Russian Victory day, in a parade in Vilnius.”
Excuse me? Please get your facts straight, it is not the “Russian” Victory Day, it is the Soviet Victory Day. Russia does not own the Soviet Union or its legacy. Despite Putin’s attempts to act otherwise, Russia was merely a member nation of the Soviet Union and like Lithuania was owned by the Soviet Union and was equally a victim of Stalinism. The Soviet Victory Day includes ALL SOVIET veterans who secured victory against the Nazis for us, in spite of Stalinist tyranny. These Soviet veterans include ethnic Lithuanians, Russians, Estonians, Latvians, Moldovans, Armenians, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, Turkmen, Belarussians, Ukrainians, and many many other ethnicities from the USSR’s many autonomous republics, some of which include Chechens, Jewish, Ingush, Karakalpak, Tatar, Bashkir, etc.
Stop validating modern Russian chauvinism by attributing Soviet achievements to modern Russia.