Red Square is the venue for today's celebration to honour the Red Army that stopped Hitler's advance in Russia and then went on to hoist the Red Flag on top of the Reichstag.
Sixty nine years ago the Soviet Union with its allies accepted the unconditional capitulation of Germany.
Russia lost over 20 million people as a result of German aggression.
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