Vladimir Putin used his speech at the Victory Day parade to denounce that a "real war" is being waged against Russia. The Russian leader returns every year to review the lessons that he says the world has forgotten about the tragedy of World War II.

But the reality is that Russia will long be associated with the war of aggression unleashed by Moscow in Europe. Putin denounced the "revanchism" of those who openly prepared a new campaign against Russia, who gathered neo-Nazi scum from all over the world.