Victory Day parade on Moscow's Red Square 2014 (FULL VIDEO)
V-Day Parade: Cutting Edge Weapons, Special Forces On Red Square (PHOTOS, VIDEO) -- RT
Russia has celebrated the 69th anniversary of Victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War (WWII) with a traditional May 9 military parade on Moscow’s Red Square, which featured 11,000 troops, 149 military vehicles and 69 warplanes.
The clock on the Kremlin’s Spasskaya tower rang its chimes at 10:00 AM Moscow time to signal the start of the Victory Day parade.
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