Torchlight Procession Marks 67th Anniversary of Victory in WWII
Torchlight Procession Marks 67th Anniversary of Victory in WWII
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On the 67th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, students at the Moscow State Medical and Dental University took part in a torchlight procession... 04.05.2012, Sputnik International
On the 67th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, students at the Moscow State Medical and Dental University took part in a torchlight procession through the center of Moscow to commemorate medical students who served at the front during the war.
On the 67th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, students at the Moscow State Medical and Dental University took part in a torchlight procession through the center of Moscow to commemorate medical students who served at the front during the war.
On the 67th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, students at the Moscow State Medical and Dental University took part in a torchlight procession through the center of Moscow to commemorate medical students who served at the front during the war.
Students marched with burning torches along the Garden Ring from the university’s building on Delegatskaya Street to 4 Dolgorukovskaya Street which houses the university’s clinical and diagnostic center. In June 1941, young doctors joined the Red Army there.
Oleg Yanushevich, left, the university’s rector and longtime lecturer, used the Eternal Flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin Wall to light the first torch.
The names of the war veterans were read out, and torches were carried to the university’s wall at the meeting held near Moscow State Medical and Dental University’s clinical and diagnostic center.
The event stirred controversy, with some internet bloggers and media calling for its cancellation because it was so closely reminiscent of torchlight parades in Nazi Germany.
However, the students reject any comparison to Nazi marches. They say each burning torch symbolizes a student who did not return from the war.
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