Putin’s Victory Day Message: “We Stand Where We Always Have—Against Hate and Historical Amnesia”
On Red Square, with soldiers standing at attention and tanks rumbling past St. Basil’s Cathedral, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a message as old as the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany—and as pointed as today’s headlines. Marking the 80th anniversary of that fateful WWII triumph, Putin took the podium at Moscow’s annual Victory Day parade…