Russian President Vladimir Putin on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War sent a congratulatory message to President Ilham Aliyev and citizens of Azerbaijan. This is stated in the message of the Kremlin press service.
In congratulations, the head of the Russian state stressed that on this day we, with a special sense of pride and gratitude, honor the feat of our fathers and grandfathers, who were courageously fought with the enemy’s shoulder and worked in the rear.
“Today, our moral duty is to carefully store and transmit the memory of the events of those harsh years to the younger generations. We must together decisively confront any attempts to distort and falsify the story, revise the results of the Great Patriotic War, to justify the monstrous attempts made by the Nazis and their minions” , – said Vladimir Putin.
Russian President expressed confidence that the traditions of fraternal friendship and mutual execution, circulated in the harsh war years, and remain an unshakable basis for building and developing constructive, good-neighborly relations between our countries and peoples.
Vladimir Putin handed over the words sincere gratitude to all veterans of the Great Patriotic War and the Tar workers, wished them health, well-being, cheerfulness of spirit and longevity.