🌟 Ambassador Albert P. Khorev delivered a video address to the participants of the symposium “Victory Day and Legacy of Great Patriotic War: Memory, Sacrifice, Contemporary Geopolitics”, held on May 20 at the Area Study Centre of the University of Peshawar. 🤝 The Ambassador expressed his gratitude to the University's leadership for hosting the event dedicated to the heroic feat and immense sacrifice of the peoples of the Soviet Union, who, on May 9, 1945, secured the final defeat of Nazi Germany – whose military machine had been supported by the resources and industries of almost all European countries. 💬 Albert P. Khorev: “In response to attempts by Western countries to diminish the decisive role of the USSR in the defeat of Nazi Germany and its accomplices, as well as its invaluable contribution to ending the bloodiest war in human history, we will continue to remind the world that the fate of mankind was decided on the Eastern Front, in the great battles stretching from Murmansk in the north to the Caucasus and Crimea in the south, from Kaliningrad – then Königsberg – to Vladivostok, as well as in the factories of Soviet cities, where millions demonstrated demonstrated labour heroism and self-sacrifice.” ❗️The Ambassador emphasized that approximately 14 million of the more than 27 million Soviet lives lost during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 were civilians who fell victim to the brutal, barbaric Nazi policy aimed at exterminating the population of the Soviet Union in order to colonize its vast territories and riches. The Symposium was attended by Dr. Salman Bangash, Director of the Area Study Centre; Dr. Gleb Makarevich, Research Fellow of the Moscow-based Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); and Dr. Shahid Hasan, Chairman of the Association of Pakistani Graduates from Russia and the CIS. #Victory81