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Until this morning, I was not aware of the fact that Russia celebrated Victory Day one day after V-E- Day.
Then I read that Vladimir Putin had invited Trump to attend the 75th anniversary celebration, and Trump is considering going. If it was anybody but Trump, I'd say that it would be a nice gesture for one of our leaders to attend, but this one smells too much like "ass kissing" to me.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/trump-says-thinking-about-attending-russias-may-day-parade-idUSKBN1XI1UG?utm_source=reddit.com&fbclid=IwAR2wJX70xGNviYACjm7FFlwbiMsxR51v2th2uKoSvOfhOl6_Lme5Icthj3I
The look on Trump's face is markedly different from the looks that Angela Markel and Emmanuel Macron gave Trump.
If you read the history of V-E Day, you'll realize that a separate celebration in Russia is actually warranted.
Pockets of German-Soviet confrontation would continue into the next day. On May 9, the Soviets would lose 600 more soldiers in Silesia before the Germans finally surrendered. Consequently, V-E Day was not celebrated until the ninth in Moscow, with a radio broadcast salute from Stalin himself: “The age-long struggle of the Slav nations… has ended in victory. Your courage has defeated the Nazis. The war is over.”
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe