Victory Parade in Moscow on June 24, 1945 - Georgy Zhukov's speech and the Anthem

The unedited speech by Marshal Georgy Zhukov at the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945

As we told in the black-and-white edition of the parade (), Georgy Zhukov's speech was "destalinised" during Hrushev's era, removing all references to the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Army, Marshal of the Soviet Union Iosif Stalin. The reconstructed footage of the parade, presented a longer, un-redacted speech by Zhukov. We translated the speech, which was followed by performance of the Anthem of the USSR.

Still, this was not the complete recording of the speech, as we saw when studying the Russian transcript (https://mojcccp.blogspot.com/2010/04/24-1945.html

). We noticed omission of two very important fragments, important in these times when the West is rewriting the history of WWII!

The complete translation of Georgy Zhukov's speech, with the missing portions highlighted as quotation blocks is at Beorn's Beehive: https://stanislavs.org/the-historic-victory-day-parade-on-june-24-1945-on-red-square-in-moscow-full-reconstruction-with-georgy-zhukovs-speech/

Video fragment is from the 2.5 hour long restored Parade footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM9Luw_CSEg