🇷🇺🇿🇦 Consulate General of Russia in Cape Town: ✍️ Article by the Consul General of Russia in Cape Town, R. Golubovskiy, for the Cape Times (media-holding Independent Media) on the topic: “UNDERSTANDING VICTORY DAY: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MAY 8 AND MAY 9” The 81st anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War is behind us. We are finishing a series of publications in the South African press with an article by the Consul General of Russia in Cape Town. Key points: • Each May, the world reflects on the events that shaped the course of the twentieth century. The defeat of Nazi Germany was not only the military outcome of the largest conflict in human history but also a moral landmark. • South Africa, though far removed from battlefields such as Stalingrad or Normandy, was not untouched by the war. Thousands of South Africans—volunteers of different backgrounds and beliefs—left their homes to take part in the struggle against Nazism. • It is crucial that the memory of the Second World War does not become a source of division in the present. 👉🏻 Read more in English