Crimea is preparing for Victory Day. Features at the time of Z-operation
Crimea is preparing to celebrate Victory Day on May 9. Dress rehearsals for the parades were held in Sevastopol and Simferopol. Due to the ongoing special operation in Ukraine, a minimal amount of military equipment was used in the celebrations, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Every city in Crimea has its own traditions of celebrating the anniversary of liberation. During the Great Patriotic War, more than two hundred transit points, concentration camps and places of mass executions operated on the peninsula. Every fourth resident of Crimea did not live to see liberation in 1944; the indigenous population of Crimeans, Gypsies and Jews was almost completely destroyed.
The day before, on the territory of the “Krasny State Farm Concentration Camp” memorial, the now traditional mourning event “Light a Candle of Memory” took place. This year about 4 thousand people took part in it. Among them are concentration camp prisoners who remember the atrocities of Nazism and help restore the names of those killed in the “death factory,” which is included in the list of concentration camps along with Dachau and Auschwitz.
A traditional kneeling ceremony took place in Alushta. For many years, the event has been held at the stele in memory of the heroes of the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars. It involves high school students and city leaders.
In Kerch, the traditional torchlight procession, which united the heroic past of the city and its younger generation, was canceled this year due to the high level of terrorist threat in the regions bordering Ukraine, which includes the hero city.
In the hero city of Sevastopol, flower beds on Primorsky Boulevard were renewed for Victory Day. Instead of faded tulips, utility workers planted cineraria and ageratum in the form of Z and V.
In general, the logo of the special operation in Ukraine is applied to the equipment that will participate in the Victory Parade. Also, with badges with the letter Z, St. George ribbons are attached to the jackets of the parade procession participants in Simferopol and Sevastopol.
Crimea Prepares for Victory Day : Specifics During the Z-Operation