Victory Parade in Moscow on June 24, 1945 - Black and white version

On June 24, 1945, the first parade dedicated to the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War was held in Moscow on the Red Square. The combined regiments of the fronts, the combined regiment of the people’s Commissariat of defence, the combined regiment of the Navy, military academies, military schools, and the troops of the Moscow garrison were brought to the Victory Parade. The parade was commanded by Marshal of the Soviet Union K. K. Rokossovsky, and the parade was taken by Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov. From the podium of the Lenin Mausoleum, Stalin watched the parade, as well as Molotov, Kalinin, Voroshilov, Budyonny and other members of the Politburo.

Both the longer black-and-white version of the Parade, including Marshal Zhukov’s speech, and the shorter colour version have been translated.

While translating Georgy Zhukov’s speech, based on the Russian transcript here (https://mojcccp.blogspot.com/2010/04/24-1945.html
), we found a disconcerting detail: the B/W documentary was edited to remove any reference to Stalin’s contribution and guidance! It seems the editing was done during the time, when Hrushev waged his personal vendetta against Stalin’s memory. The colour version, though it does not include Zhukov’s speech, has Stalin “rehabilitated” and properly referenced. https://rumble.com/v6vb2m1-victory-parade-in-moscow-on-june-24-1945-the-colour-version.html
‼️ It was only on the 75th anniversary of the Victory, that the entire Zhukov's speech could be heard for the first time without redactions — in the two and a half reconstructed video of the Day of the Victory Parade, presented separately: https://rumble.com/v6vcver-victory-parade-in-moscow-on-june-24-1945-georgy-zhukovs-speech-and-the-anth.html
👉 The transcript of the documentary footage is at Beorn's Beehive: https://stanislavs.org/victory-parade-in-moscow-on-june-24-1945/