Alexander Werth, ‘Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History’, 1964:
“…May 9 was an unforgettable day in Moscow. The spontaneous joy of the two or three million people who thronged the Red Square that evening—and the Moscow River embankments, and Gorki Street, all the way up to the Belorussian Station—was of a quality and a depth I had never yet seen in Moscow before. They danced and sang in the streets; every soldier and officer was hugged and kissed; outside the US Embassy the crowds shouted “Hurray for Roosevelt!” (even though he had died a month before); they were so happy they did not even have to get drunk, and under the tolerant gaze of the militia, young men even urinated against the walls of the Moskva Hotel, flooding the wide pavement. Nothing like this had ever happened in Moscow before. For once, Moscow had thrown all reserve and restraint to the winds. The fireworks display that evening was the most spectacular I have ever seen.
Yet the one-day difference between VE-Day in the West and VE-Day in the East made an unpleasant impression; and at first minor, and then more serious squabbles began between the Allies almost before the ink of Keitel’s signature had dried….”
A woman celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany with members of the victorious Soviet Red Army in 1945
सोबतचे वाङ्मय शोभा या मासिकाचे जुलै १९४५ चे मुखपृष्ठ पहा , दुसऱ्या महायुद्धाचा उल्लेख तिथे अथवा आत सुद्धा नाहीये...
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