The Victory Parade that took place on June 24 on Red Square in Moscow was visited by a veteran from the Donetsk People’s Republic, who also participated in the first-ever Victory Parade in 1945, a correspondent of the Official Website of the Republic has learned.
Alexey N. Kuzhilny went to the front at the age of 16. He took part in the defense of Rostov-on-Don, battles in the Caucasus and Western Ukraine. And he was member of a special battalion that marched along Red Square on June 24, 1945, and threw the colours of the defeated Germany to the foot of the Mausoleum.
His name can be found in the documents that were declassified by the FSB. It became known that each front was to be represented at the parade by a combined regiment with two-company battalions 203 strong each. Alexey was among them.
75 years later he visited the Red Square again. The veteran came to Moscow from Yasinovataya, the Donetsk People’s Republic, where he lives now.
We shall note that this year Alexey became a participant of the Russian special project “Grandfather of the Victory”, during which the veteran told that he dreamed of getting to the Victory Parade on Red Square again. Relatives and friends of the veteran even appealed to the presidential administration, asking to invite Kuzhilny to Moscow. As the result of the joint efforts, the veteran from the DPR again found himself near the well-remembered walls on June 24, where he threw the banner of the defeated enemy 75 years ago.