They did not fight with the Nazis: Putin accepted the parade on Red Square near the veterans of special services - the media
It is reported that 98-year-old Yuri Dvoykin was sitting to the right of Putin. He enrolled in the army of volunteers in 1942, but did not get to the front. After leaving the snipers, he was sent as part of the NKVD to the Lviv region to fight against the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. "We cleaned the whole region from nationalists, caught in forests, abandoned farms," - quoted journalists of Dioykin.
According to him, the "Bandera" felt in the Lviv region with owners, and he and his comrades had to eliminate them all. On the left of Vladimir Putin, Gennady Zaitsev sat. He was born in 1934 and was still a child during World War II. He was called to the army only in 1953, and in 1959 he began to serve in the KGB. Journalists write that in 1968, Zaitsev participated in the introduction of Soviet troops to Czechoslovakia to suppress anti-Soviet protests and "Prague Spring".
He was the head of the 7th KGB of the USSR in the Danube operation. It was under his leadership in Prague that the Ministry of Internal Affairs building was captured. In addition, as stated in the material, in the 1970s, Zaitsev headed the anti-terrorist group "Alfa", which was created by Yuri Andropov. The publication writes that this year, a minimum number of soldiers - the smallest since 2008, took part at the Red Square parade in Moscow.
Yes, the marches did not produce a few military units at once: we recall that in Russia, a colonel who ordered the shot of civilians in Bucha took part in the parade. Colonel Omurbekov led the 64th Motorized Rifle Brigade from the Russian Khabarovsk, which was distinguished by special atrocities in the Kiev region and who received from Putin for this Order "For Courage and Heroism". In addition, before the parade on the red square of Putin was noticed with a "nuclear suitcase".