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Parade rehearsals for May 9

Moscow, Putin's muscles on Red Square

Tanks, armored vehicles and missiles: on the night in front of the Kremlin, rehearsals are held for the great annual parade on May 9, Victory Day in World War II. A show of strength for an army in distress

28/04/2023

Against the background of the lights of the Kremlin, in the night armored vehicles, missiles, tanks move.

It is not a coup d'état. The Russian armed forces have brought to Red Square, in Moscow, part of the vehicles that will parade on May 9 to celebrate Victory Day in what Russians call the Great Patriotic War, or the Second World War: a holiday that has always been very much felt and also much publicized by government propaganda, during which Putin himself will speak.

It is a demonstration of patriotism but also of muscular strength, given the display of new generation armed vehicles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles and warplanes.