Russian blogger Ilya was taking photos of Moscow celebrating Victory Day today. In the West this day is called "Victory in Europe day", but celebrated day before. In post Soviet countries it's called "Victory Day" and happens on May 9th. So here what he saw. Though he says today's Victory Day was pretty gloomy, probably because of anomalous weather - Moscow was hit by snow yesterday and it's unusually cold today - just 2-3 degrees Celcius (usually it's fine to have +15 C on this day). So here is what he saw:
Another thing he says make this look gloomy is that now it all looks like a freaky carnival show. Everywhere you can buy a fake medal, stupid stickers, USSR uniform dresses. People dress their kids and even pets into USSR veteran uniform.
He says everywhere street sellers say attributes very expensively - often ten fold than it costs. Little flags, "Georgevski" ribbons - those black-orange ribbons that you probably spotted plenty on those photos.
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