DUSHANBE, May 9, Asia-Plus
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Some 2,000 servicemen from the Dushanbe Garrison of the Armed Forces of Tajikistan, as well as the Committee for Emergency Situations (CES), Interior Ministry, as well as members of the National Guard and Border Troops will be on a parade to mark the 62nd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in Dushanbe today.
Tajik Defense Minister Colonel-General Sherali Khairulloyev and Commander of the Dushanbe Garrison Major-General Latif Fayziyev, will command the parade.
More than 290,000 residents of Tajikistan took part in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. More than 90,000 servicemen from Tajikistan died in that war. 54 servicemen from Tajikistan were given the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Victory Day marks the end of World War II in Europe, specifically the capitulation of Nazi forces to the Allies (the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and other principal Allied nations) on May 8, 1945. It is celebrated in the successor states to the Soviet Union on May 9, because when the German Instrument of Surrender actually entered into force (May 8, 1945 at 23:01 Central European Time (CET), it was already May 9 in the SSR and Eastern Europe.
Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day or VE Day) was May 7/8 1945, the date when Allies during World War II formally celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich.
