Participants of the Immortal Regiment procession in Belgrade. File photoBELGRADE, May 9.The action «Immortal Regiment» on Victory Day on May 9 will be held in two dozen settlements of Serbia and two cities of the Republic of Serbian Bosnia and Herzegovina, the chief coordinator of the action «Immortal Regiment» in Serbia Nenad Simonovic told RIA Novosti. «In 15 cities of Serbia, but we are working hard to prepare the action and 23 settlements have already confirmed participation. We expect a special mass character in Belgrade, the city authorities also agreed to hold the action,» Simonovic said. in the city center from Vukov Spomenik Square to the memorial to the liberators of Belgrade, where wreaths and flowers will be laid at the monuments of Soviet and Yugoslav liberators. Later in the day, the Progress Gallery on the main pedestrian street of the Serbian capital will open the «On the Threshold of Victory» event with an exhibition of archival photographs of the Second World War and a screening of documentaries. Marches of the «Immortal Regiment» on Monday, along with Belgrade, will take place in the largest cities of the country : Nis, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Kraljevo, Krusevac, Subotica and smaller towns, as well as the cities of Banja Luka and Trebinje in the Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The procession of the «Immortal Regiment» will be held again in Russia three years laterThe international forum «Memory of the Winners», which was attended by coordinators of the procession «Immortal Regiment» from more than 40 countries, was held on November 3-4, 2021 at the Russian Center for Science and Culture (RCSC) » Russian house in Belgrade. Serbian Interior Minister Alexander Vulin, Russian Ambassador to the country Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, the leadership of the Immortal Regiment movement spoke at the opening, head of Rossotrudnichestvo Evgeny Primakov spoke via video link. , which is celebrated annually on May 9. The date of the liberation of Serbia from the Nazis in World War II is associated with the end of the Belgrade operation on October 20, 1944. Fighters of the Soviet Second and Third Ukrainian Fronts under the command of Marshal Fyodor Tolbukhin participated in the battles for the capital of Yugoslavia, units of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito fought their way towards them. Red Army. The Eternal Flame burns in it, there are monuments to Soviet and Yugoslav soldiers and mass graves. According to post-war estimates by the Yugoslav authorities, more than seven thousand Red Army soldiers were buried on its territory. Yugoslavia's participation in World War II, according to official data in 1945, cost over 1.7 million human lives. May 9
