Why Victory Day Is the Most Important Date on the Russian Calendar

Why Victory Day Is the Most Important Date on the Russian Calendar

Arguably, May 9th is the most important holiday in Russia’s annual calendar. Some people rate it more highly than their own birthday.  But it took the invention of the March of the Immortal Regiment to give a family dimension to the group commemorative activities. During the forty-six years following the end of WWII when Russians lived…