Immortal Regiment

We are deeply honoured to present the first ever Digital Immortal Regiment.
Today, millions around the world will be marching with photos of loved ones and comrades who fought in the Great Patriotic War/Second World War.
We asked our readers to submit photos for a Digital Immortal Regiment made up of not only Soviet veterans but of veterans from every allied force. Our Digital Immortal Regiment includes veterans from the Soviet Union, United States, Yugoslavia, Greece, Britain, Australia and beyond.

In recent years, Russian cities and increasingly, cities around the globe have held a march of The Immortal Regiment on the 9th of May.
The Immortal Regiment consists of people of all ages carrying photos of loved ones and comrades who fought in, died in and in some cases lived through the Great Patriotic War, as the Second World War is called in Russia.
It is a sombre and deeply moving event as no one in Russia and for that matter hardly any Russians anywhere in the world were not related to someone or knew someone who was in the war.

Foreword by Marina:  Several Russian Canadian organizations coordinated events celebrating the 71st anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 on May 8th in Toronto. However, we

“You are but millions. We are hordes and hordes and hordes.” (“Scythians,” Alexander Blok, 1918) On May 9, 2015, Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary-General, was on an official visit to Moscow in order to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. Upon seeing countless people marching in … Continue reading The Walking Dead: Russia’s Immortal Regiment as Ancestor Veneration