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Here is video from Moscow's Red Square on Sunday, May 9, 2010, that briefly shows U.S. Troops marching in the huge Victory in Europe Parade marking the 65th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II. For those who grew up during the Cold War, who would have ever thought you would see U.S. Forces marching in Red Square?! It is an amazing sight! According to Allahpundit at Hot Air, some in Russia are not happy it was allowed. Here is complete video coverage of the parade.

US troops: 30:40 UK Welsh guards: 30:14 Polish ones: 29:40

Vladimir Putin has snubbed both the Prince of Wales and the US vice-president, Joe Biden, by refusing to allow them to attend a parade in Red Square marking the 65th anniversary of the end of the second world war, the Guardian has learned. ................................................ Putin, Russia's prime minister, also snubbed Biden, who had planned to go to Moscow and has been left kicking his heels in Brussels. Biden is close to Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president. During the 2008 Russian-Georgia war Putin famously threatened Saakashvili, pledging to "hang him by the balls".

On May 6, 1945, Edward Kennedy, chief of the Associated Press western front staff dispatched the scoop of a lifetime. At General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters at Reims, France, General Gustaf Jodl, German army chief of staff, signed the terms of surrender at 7:41 p.m. central war time. The European Theater of World War II was officially over. Less than 12 hours later, at 8:35 a.m. central war time on May 7, Kennedy's dispatch was released by the New York desk of the Associated Press, and the world went wild with joy. The Minneapolis Morning Tribune ran the headline, "Announcement Due...

Our veterans deserve betterBy JANET L. JACKSON June 1, 2005 The 61st anniversary of D-Day will take place this coming Monday -- marking a day that will forever be seen as a tremendous step forward in defeating Hitler's reign of terror. But would the sheer number of allied dead and wounded be portrayed as a "victory" in today's world of the 24-hour news cycle? According to www.warchronicle.com, it is estimated that 8,443 allied troops were killed or injured during the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Canadian casualties are conservatively estimated at 961. To put these numbers into context,...

PI grew up in an ethnic neighborhood in which most of our neighbors were from Eastern Europe. The couple next door was from Slovakia. They did not want to be identified with Czechoslovakia even 30 years after the forced merger of those two countries, which today again are separate countries. The folks up the street were from Ukraine. It was from them that I learned not to say THE Ukraine. Their relatives were killed by Stalin. A Lithuanian family also lived in our neighborhood. In 1956 a family from Hungary moved into our neighborhood after having fled for their lives...

London; Prague; Budapest – Central and Eastern Europe is a good vantage point from which to judge President Bush's recent visit to Moscow for the anniversary of VE Day — and the resulting debate over Yalta and the value of his democracy project. After all, Prague and Warsaw were the flashpoints that prepared and ignited World War II. Britain and France declared war on Germany in September 1939 because the German army had crossed the Polish borders the Allies had guaranteed six months earlier (in response to Hitler's seizure of the rump of Czechoslovakia). Poland was one of the four...

Bush Buries The Shame Of Yalta May 18, 2005 by Phyllis Schlafly Thank you, President George W. Bush, for correcting history and making a long overdue apology for one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's tragic mistakes. Speaking in Latvia on May 7, Bush repudiated "the agreement at Yalta" by which powerful governments negotiated away the freedom of small nations. Bush accurately blamed Yalta for "the captivity of millions in Central and Eastern Europe" and said it "will be remembered as one of the greatest wrongs of history." This admission has been 50 years coming, and Bush's words assure that "the...

WASHINGTON -- A hand grenade that landed within 100 feet of President Bush during his visit last week to a former Soviet republic was a threat to his life and the safety of the tens of thousands in the crowd, the FBI said Wednesday. The grenade was live but did not explode. The White House, which initially said Bush never was in danger, said the incident May 10 in the Georgia capital has led to a review of security at presidential events. FBI agents are still investigating in Tbilisi, where tens of thousands of people heard Bush speak in strong...

Russia -- The Empire of Tyranny By Askar Askarov FrontPageMagazine.com | May 19, 2005 President George W. Bush’s recent attendance in the festivities in Moscow marking the 60th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat took place against the background of rising tensions between Washington and the Kremlin. The American leader’s decision to make historic first time visits to the former Soviet republics of Latvia and Georgia drew an odd response from the Russian foreign minister, who went as far as sending a letter of protest. However inappropriate, the protest did not transpire without reason. Mr. Sergey Lavrov understood well the symbolic...

U.S. President George W. Bush reiterated on May 18 that the United States will help Georgia’s democratic development, adding that Georgians “have the will to succeed.” President Bush made the remarks at a dinner honoring members of the International Republican Institute, a non-governmental organization that runs democracy training programs and monitors elections in more than 60 countries. The U.S. President also spoke about his impressions of visiting Georgia on May 9-10. “It was a fantastic honor to represent our country in front of thousands of people, and to stand side-by-side with a true lover of freedom, President Saakashvili,” Bush said....

RUSSIA ATTACKED BECAUSE IT'S GETTING STRONGER 19/05/2005 MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - "The strong are not popular," and this explains the growing attacks on Russia by the former Soviet republics, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Izvestia. Lavrov explained his idea by saying that when the 50th anniversary of VE-Day was marked in 1995, Russia had "sky-high debts, it was weak and tended to avoid an international policy that is now described as multi-vectored." Yet the 1995 VE-Day celebrations were not surrounded by the controversy that marked this year's events as the Baltic countries raised...

It was the very worst of times. It was the opening days of 1942.   The story of that year is told in a new book, "1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls," by Winston Groom. When America and Europe recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of VE day - the day the Nazis were finally defeated - I wondered if we would ever have a similar day to mark the defeat of global terror. I looked again at "1942" sitting on my desk. As an editor, I am deluged with books to review. Only a few make it to my lap...

TBILISI (Reuters) - A grenade thrown toward President Bush during a visit to Georgia last week was a threat to the American leader and only failed to explode because of a malfunction, the FBI said on Wednesday. In a statement, a Federal Bureau of Investigation official at the U.S. embassy said the grenade, thrown while Bush made a keynote speech in Tbilisi's Freedom Square on May 10, had been live and landed within 100 feet (30 meters ) of the president. "While the president ... was making his remarks on Freedom Square, a hand grenade was tossed in the general...

In a foreign country the other day, a throng of people, chanting slogans and waving flags, awaited President George W. Bush. Hundreds of thousands of protesters, right? People angry at American aggressiveness and arrogance, no doubt. World citizens who think Mr. Bush is a reckless cowboy, too simplistic, his thought too little nuanced, his pronouncements too unmodulated for this complex, modern world. After all, isn't that what American elites have been telling us for years, now: that the Bush foreign policy is making the United States into the world's pariah? The elites were wrong again. The Bush visit occurred in...

Thank you, President George W. Bush, for correcting history and making a long overdue apology for one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's tragic mistakes. Speaking in Latvia on May 7, Bush repudiated "the agreement at Yalta" by which powerful governments negotiated away the freedom of small nations. Bush accurately blamed Yalta for "the captivity of millions in Central and Eastern Europe" and said it "will be remembered as one of the greatest wrongs of history." This admission has been 50 years coming, and Bush's words assure that "the legacy of Yalta was finally buried, once and for all." It was...

Military planes roared overhead. Thousands of troops goose-stepped, leading the way with the old hammer-and-sickle flag. There, at Red Square, President George W. Bush took it all in. Back in the U.S.S.R., a glum Bush watched the Russian military display to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. During his historic trip to Russia and several Baltic states once in the Soviet sphere, Bush was uncompromising in his defense of liberty.

Hello there! I am new to this forum. I am from Germany and I am interested in politics. I want to learn more from the US especially besides our papers and TV. So as a start-up my question is: What do you think about WWII? Was everything such simple. Have there been certain interests of the Allies? What was the role of the UK? Was Germany the biggest danger or was it Russia? Many question, I know. :) But more interesting for me: What is your point of view regarding Germany today? How do you consider the current politics of...