Another military parade that moved me all my life was the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow on June 24, 1945.

On June 22, 1945, the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, Stalin issued an order: "In celebration of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, a victory parade of combat units, naval units, and the Moscow garrison is scheduled for June 24, 1945 on Red Square in Moscow." At the Victory Parade, my assistant, Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov, was in charge of the parade, and Marshal of the Soviet Union Rokossovsky was in charge. ”

In this military parade, each front army formed a large phalanx of mixed regiments. It consists of 1,000 soldiers, with 36 standard-bearers and 10 alternates. There are 19 commanders in the mixed regiment, including 1 regiment commander, 2 deputy regiment commanders, 1 regimental chief of staff, 5 battalion commanders, and 10 company commanders

The personnel participating in the parade shall be selected from among the officers and men who have performed most prominently in battle and have received medals for meritorious service.

The commanders of various armies and all the commanders of the air force and armored corps were asked to take part in the parade, and the formation was unprecedentedly strong.

The mixed regiment was to bring to Moscow 36 flags of the army group, which had performed the best in combat, as well as all the flags of the enemy's army group captured on the battlefield.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the parade units were completed around Red Square.

At 9:45, the Soviet leadership, headed by the Chairman of the State Defense Committee, Generalissimo Stalin, appeared on Lenin's tomb.

At 10 o'clock sharp, the bell struck 10 times, Marshal Zhukov rode a white war horse, appeared on Red Square with the bell of the Kremlin bell tower, and the military band played Glinka's famous song "Glory, Russian People".

At 10:15, Zhukov delivered a brief military parade speech, "In this fierce and cruel battle, the best sons and daughters of our people died. Today, on this day of great celebration, we would like to pay great and high tribute to them, the glory of which forever belongs to the heroes who gave their lives in the defense of our Soviet Motherland! ”

After Zhukov's speech, 50 gun salutes were fired inside the walls of the Kremlin. All the soldiers raised their hands in salute.

At 10:25, Rokossovsky ordered: "The column begins!" ”

Guided by the Victory Red Banner planted at the Reichstag in Berlin, the 10 Fronts and the Navy marched in a mixed regiment order (according to the position of the theater from north to south at the end of the war).

At the front of the procession fluttered the red flag of victory planted by the once heroic Soviet servicemen at the Reichstag in Berlin after the conquest of Berlin.

Behind the red flag were mixed regiments of all armies marching on foot.

At the end of the war, in order of their position in the theater from north to south, they were: the Kareleli Front (commanded by Marshal Kirill Meretskov), the Leningrad Front (Marshal Leonid Govorov), the 1st Baltic Front (General Ivan Bagramyan), the 3rd Belorussian Front (Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky), the 2nd Belorussian Front (Deputy Commander-in-Chief, General Kuzma Trubnikov, the commander of the Front was the commander-in-chief of the parade - Marshal Rokossovsky), The 1st Belorussian Front (Deputy Commander General Vasily Sokolovsky, the commander of the Front was none other than the commander of the parade - Zhukov).

1st Ukrainian Front (Marshal Ivan Konev), 4th Ukrainian Front (General Andrei Yeremenko), 2nd Ukrainian Front (Marshal Rotion Malinovsky), 3rd Ukrainian Front (Marshal Fyodor Tolbukhin).

Representatives of the naval forces (Rear Admiral Fadeyev), as well as the mixed regiment of the USSR State Defense Committee (led by the commander of the Moscow Military District, Colonel-General Artemyev) and military academies.

All technical weapons entered Red Square (artillery, rocket artillery, armored vehicles, tanks, self-propelled artillery), but the driving speed was relatively fast, and it only took more than 20 minutes for the equipment to be read.

One of the most famous moments came near the end of the army parade.

At that time, 200 veterans walked past the review stand with 200 **army flags** flags captured during the war, and finally threw the flags at the foot of Lenin's tomb.

This is a scene that imitates the Russian army when they threw Napoleon's military flag in front of the Tsar.

During the ceremony, more than 200 **German military flags were thrown by Soviet soldiers in front of Lenin's tomb.

Military parade on November 7, 1957 for the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution. For the first time, the leaders of the socialist camp were invited to Moscow to observe the ceremony. Khrushchev inspected the troops at Lenin's tomb.

Military parade on the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution on November 7, 1967. Brezhnev inspected the troops at Lenin's tomb. After Brezhnev came to power, he expanded the scale of the military parade in honor of the October Revolution and the parade celebrations that followed it.

Military parade on the 65th anniversary of the October Revolution on November 7, 1982. Brezhnev took part in the last military parade to commemorate the October Revolution before his death, and Brezhnev died of illness a few days after he was frozen for several hours at the parade. After that, the Soviet military parade on Red Square and the subsequent mass parade celebrations were shortened.

Military parade on November 7, 1987 on the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution. The last major military parade before the collapse of the Soviet Union commemorating every 10 years of the October Revolution. Gorbachev inspected the troops at Lenin's tomb.

On the October Revolution Day of 1990, the mighty Soviet armed forces once again passed through Red Square – the last military parade in the history of the Soviet Union.

On December 25, 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally dissolved. This was the end of the military parade in Soviet times.

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Russia military parade in honor of the 63rd anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War on May 9, 2008. This is the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union 17 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union that Russia has held a military parade with heavy equipment in Moscow's Red Square, resuming the military weapons and heavy equipment review of the Victory Day military parade on Red Square during the Soviet era.

May 9, 2010 Russian military parade in honor of the 65th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War. The parade was the largest military parade held in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

On May 9, 2015, Russia held a grand ceremony in Moscow to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. Leaders from about 20 countries and regions around the world and international organizations were invited to attend.