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The future of the world cannot be imagined, if the Red Army had not defended it, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the Victory Parade on Moscow’s Red Square on Wednesday, TASS news agency reported.

"It is impossible even to imagine what would have become with the world, if the Red Army had not come to its defense," the head of state said.
"Its soldiers [the soldiers of the Red Army] needed neither the war nor other countries, nor glory, nor honors. They strove to crush the enemy, achieve the victory and return home. And they paid an irretrievable price for the freedom of Europe," Putin stressed.

The Russian president stated that it is important to remember that the Soviet people had borne the brunt of the struggle against Nazism. "Many hundreds of thousands of soldiers fell in a foreign land and it is our duty to remember this and remember that the Soviet people bore the brunt of the struggle against Nazism," Putin said.

As the Russian president recalled, the Soviet people "crushed over 600 enemy divisions, destroyed 75% of the total number of enemy aircraft, tanks and artillery guns and made its heroic, righteous and boundlessly sacrificial way to the end, to the victorious point.”

As Putin emphasized, these were "millions of people of various nationalities from all the republics of the Soviet Union." "Both on the front and in the rear, in guerilla detachments and in the underground, they fought and worked under the laws of courage and unity, defending their land and continuing their struggle," he said.