In 2018, the Immortal
Regiment marches brought together the same number of ten million people.
MOSCOW, May 9.
/TASS/. More than ten million people have taken part in the Immortal Regiment
marches across Russia, Interior Ministry Spokeswoman Irina Volk told TASS on
Thursday.
"More than ten
million people have participated in the event across the country," she
said.
In 2018, the
'Immortal Regiment' marches brought together the same number of ten million
people.
The ‘Immortal
Regiment’ march is an annual event held throughout Russia and in other
countries on May 9. The event is dedicated to victory in the Great Patriotic
War (as WWII is called in Russia) that claimed lives of about 28 million Soviet
people, both soldiers and civilians. During the march, people carry portraits
of their relatives who fought or died during the war.
The idea was born in
the Russian Siberian city of Tyumen in 2007 when the march was called the
Victors’ Parade. In 2012, another Siberian city of Tomsk picked up the torch
renaming the rally as ‘Immortal Regiment.’ The next year, about 120 cities
joined in. A year later, people carried portraits of their relatives, who
fought during WWII, in 500 cities in seven countries. Since 2015, the ‘Immortal
Regiment’ march has officially become a nationwide event.
Source: ITAR-TASS 10-05-2019
