“Obviously we will not celebrate this date for 200 years. One has to take into account the international situation of #detente, as well as the fact that there are now entire generations of people actively living and working, who did not know the #war in practice, who did not see or experience it.”
—Leonid #Brezhnev on the 30th anniversary of #Soviet victory over #Hitler #Germany during a conversation with #Socialist party leaders on March 18, 1975