Member nations of the Allied Forces are holding events to mark the end of the Second World War in Europe, 70 years ago.
On May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany formally surrendered, after six years of conflict that had left much of the continent in ruins and many millions dead.
On the Eastern Front, Germany's advances were stopped by the Soviet Union's Red Army, at a great loss of more than 27 million soldiers and civilians.
This year's commemoration in Moscow of the end of what Russia calls the Great Patriotic War is expected to be the most elaborate so far, but won't see in attendance the leaders of some of the Soviet Union's war-time allies.
Sima Tsyskin, the Executive Producer of SBS Radio's Russian language program, told Kristina Kukolja about the Soviet Union's involvement in the War.
(Click on the audio tab above to hear the full interview)
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