Missing from Russia's WWII Remembrance: The Allies
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russia-saved-europe-from-hitler-and-it-wants-you-to-remember/2015/05/09/032c606e-f33c-11e4-bca5-21b51bbdf93e_story.htmlRussia's vast celebrations Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany had nearly everything: 16,000 marching soldiers, medal-bedecked veterans and families carrying photographs of those who died long ago. But conspicuously absent from the memorial of the Soviet Union's joint victory with the West were the leaders of those wartime allied nations. A year into a conflict in Ukraine that the West says is fueled by the Kremlin, the tribunes in Red Square were stocked with officials from nations that had little association with the Soviet Union's painful wartime sacrifices ... The most prominent visitor's seat went to Chinese President Xi Jinping, with whom Putin has tried to build bridges as relations with the West have soured because of the war in Ukraine.
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