Japanese crossword «Victory Day (9 May)»
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har to see that it's a sputnik it you didn't knew. :(
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It's not MAA, it's MAЯ, which is Russian for May (genitive case). The last letter is the Cyrillic letter Ya.
I think the people thinking this is Sputnik are confused by the Ya too, because Sputnik was launched on March 9 - not May 9.
I'm assuming the structure with the spire that looks vaguely rocket-like is Spasskaya Tower in Moscow. If you look at the Wikipedia page for Victory Day you'll see an image of the tower during a May 9th celebration.
replyI think the people thinking this is Sputnik are confused by the Ya too, because Sputnik was launched on March 9 - not May 9.
I'm assuming the structure with the spire that looks vaguely rocket-like is Spasskaya Tower in Moscow. If you look at the Wikipedia page for Victory Day you'll see an image of the tower during a May 9th celebration.
A lot packed into a small picture. Good on an international site.
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"The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; on the Channel Island of Sark—the German surrender was realized in a final cease-fire. More surrender documents were signed in Berlin and in eastern Germany."
"Pockets of German-Soviet confrontation would continue into the next day. On May 9, the Soviets would lose 600 more soldiers in Silesia before the Germans finally surrendered. Consequently, V-E Day was not celebrated until the ninth in Moscow, with a radio broadcast salute from Stalin himself: “The age-long struggle of the Slav nations… has ended in victory. Your courage has defeated the Nazis. The war is over.”"
reply"The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; on the Channel Island of Sark—the German surrender was realized in a final cease-fire. More surrender documents were signed in Berlin and in eastern Germany."
"Pockets of German-Soviet confrontation would continue into the next day. On May 9, the Soviets would lose 600 more soldiers in Silesia before the Germans finally surrendered. Consequently, V-E Day was not celebrated until the ninth in Moscow, with a radio broadcast salute from Stalin himself: “The age-long struggle of the Slav nations… has ended in victory. Your courage has defeated the Nazis. The war is over.”"
soviet propoganda. Same stuff Putin is serving up now. Reality is, stalin killed more people than Hitler.
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