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Kaliningrad Honours its Veterans<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published: 14 May 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 May Victory Day 2021, and in Kaliningrad, as in the rest of Russia, young and old turned out in thousands to pay their respect to their forebears ~ those who survived and those who died in the awesome and bloody struggle to deliver their country from Nazi tyranny and to honour the inestimable contribution made by the Soviet Union to the defeat of Hitler\u2019s Third Reich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year Victory Day was a rather muted affair owing to coronavirus, but this year Russia\u2019s second most important holiday after Easter was firmly back on track, led by the traditional Victory Day parade in Moscow and marked elsewhere throughout the country with celebrations and remembrance services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9th May Kaliningrad Victory Day 2021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At 12pm, Olga and I rendezvoused with our friends, Arthur and Inara, at the Home for Veterans on Komsomolskaya Street, Kaliningrad, a large complex of buildings which, as the name suggests, provides homes to veterans who no longer have kinfolk to support them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the service is a private affair, held behind closed gates, it was still possible to see something of the formal ceremony and the cadets of various denominations who took part in acknowledging the debt that is owed to one of the most remarkable generations in modern history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n