Putin congratulates Armenia’s Pashinyan, Armenian citizens on 76th anniversary of victory in Great Patriotic War

13:41, 8 May, 2021

YEREVAN, MAY 8, ARMENPRESS. Russian President Vladimir Putin has extended congratulations on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War to leaders and nations that formerly made up the Soviet Union, including Armenia’s caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian citizens, the Kremlin press service reports.

In his congratulatory letters, the Russian leader said on the Victory Day they remember the heroism of their fathers and grandfathers with a special feeling of pride and gratitude.

“Today it’s our moral duty to carefully preserve and transform the memory about the incidents of those years to the future generations. We should jointly and decisively fight against any attempt of distorting and falsifying the history, revising the results of the Great Patriotic War and justifying the horrible acts of Nazis”, Putin said.

The Russian President expressed his sincere gratitude to the veterans of the Great Patriotic War, wishing good health, welfare and all the best.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS