“On this day, we remember the 27 million lives of Soviet citizens paid for the defeat of Nazism and the liberation from it, including the countries of Europe,” the agency quotes the statement of Russian Ambassador to the Czech Republic Alexander Zmeevsky.
He also stressed that "it is unacceptable to rewrite the history of those events, to whitewash the Nazis and their accomplices."
On May 9, according to tradition, Putin declared a minute of silence in memory of those who fell in the Great Patriotic War.