Un veterano della seconda mondiale con un cadetto russo

(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr)

A Russian military cadet looks at a World War II veteran, former paratrooper, no name given, carrying his record of service during the traditional veterans’ meetings marking Victory Day celebration in the Gorky Park, Moscow, Sunday, May 9, 2010. The record from top reads: 2nd Airborne Division North Western Front; 5th Guards Airborne Brigade 2nd Ukrainian Front; 597th Rifle Regiment 1st Belorussian Front (one of the regiments which stormed central Berlin in 1945). Victory Day is modern Russia’s most important secular holiday, which always sees elaborate observances throughout the country.