9 May is The Victory Day in Russia 
somewhere in subway...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlZBxhZ2kH8
Evgenia:
... We remember my grandma's father, who had returned from the war healthy, though he was contused, he walked with a cane. And my grandma's own brother, who had died, when he participated in reconnaissance (on foot). And our relative Mikhail, who was storming Berlin and had got two Orders of the Red Banner...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCjSTHjDUeI (with subs)
Only few veterans are still alive. So now the Russians take portraits of the dead and carry them. It wasn't Putin's idea, the first march of the Immortal Regiment took place not in Moscow. As for me, I don't even think, that a war can be a reason to be proud, but I really like, that my country tries to remember the real war - as it is. The real war isn't a beautiful game. I am worried, when I see, that even Russians start to make movies, in which a war looks too beautiful and cool.
Yet I like, of course, that people on this video are smiling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjQsfc3XENQ the Immortal Regiment
Now the Immortal Regiment marches in many countries.
"The Day of Victory" song is translated, but it is a pity, that the most important words are not saved in the translation. "Sadness" is not the right word. In Russian we have:
This is a celebration with gray hair on our heads,
This is a gladness with tears in our eyes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIzwem1SOC0
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singing "The Day of Victory" on a street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vUK6EZFfj4&t=1m30s