May 9th observes as "Victory Day" in Russia and many other former Soviet republics and countries of anti-Hitler coalition. Commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany 65 years ago, in 1945, Victory Day is both a day of remembrance. Victory Day marks Germany’s surrender to the Soviet Union in 1945. It became the end of the Great Patriotic War for the USSR, which lost about 25 million citizens in the four years of fighting. Let it not be forgotten!