Editing Red Square (section)

==== Venue for parades ====
{{Wide image|Panorama 360 Red Square_edit.jpg|1200px|360° Panorama of Red Square: Kremlin  (direction: SE), Saint Basil with Lenin Mausoleum (from 1930) in front, State Historical Museum (NW) and GUM store. Hardly seen are Voskresensky gates just to the right of museum, Kazan Cathedral just to the left of GUM store and the Minin-Pozharsky monument in front of Saint Basil (originally it was in front of GUM store).}}
Two of the most significant [[military parades]] on Red Square were [[1941 October Revolution Parade]], when the city was besieged by Germans and troops were leaving Red Square straight to the front lines, and the [[Moscow Victory Parade of 1945|Victory Parade in 1945]], when the banners of defeated [[Nazism|Nazi]] armies were thrown at the foot of [[Lenin's Mausoleum]]. The [[Soviet Union]] held many parades in Red Square for [[International Workers' Day#Russia|May Day]] (until 1969), [[Victory Day (9 May)|Victory Day]], and [[October Revolution Day]], which consisted of propaganda, flags, labor demonstration, marching troops, and showing off of tanks and missiles. Individual parades have been held on [[Defender of the Fatherland Day]] (23 February 1925),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://libraria.ua/numbers/984/83372/?PageNumber=5&ArticleId=3056403&Search=%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9%20%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80 |title=Доступ закрито - LIBRARIA - Цифровий архів періодики |publisher=Libraria.ua |date= |accessdate=2022-03-14 |archive-date=October 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022064316/https://libraria.ua/numbers/984/83372/?PageNumber=5&ArticleId=3056403&Search=%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9%20%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the [[Day of Tankmen]] (8 September 1946),<ref>{{Citation|title=Soviet Military Parade {{!}} Day of Tankmen, 8 September 1946| date=3 August 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwNlD1AyTkw|language=en|access-date=2020-06-13}}</ref> and the [[Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin|state funeral of Joseph Stalin]] (9 March 1953). On Victory Day in 1945, 1965, 1985, and 1990, there were Soviet military marches and parades as well, and since 1995, the annual [[Moscow Victory Day Parade]] has been held on the square, marking anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in [[World War II]].

In January 2008, Russia announced it would resume parading military vehicles through Red Square,<ref>{{cite news |title=Tanks to return to Red Square|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7200669.stm|author=Aksyonov, Pavel|date=January 21, 2008|access-date=June 14, 2009 |work=BBC News }}</ref> although recent restoration of [[Resurrection Gate and Iverskaya Chapel|Iverski Gate]] complicated this, by closing one of existing passages along [[State Historical Museum|Historical Museum]] for the heavy vehicles. In May 2008, Russia held its annual Victory day parade, during which for the first time since the collapse of the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] in 1991, Russian military vehicles paraded through the square. On 9 May 2010, to commemorate the [[2010 Moscow Victory Day Parade|65th anniversary]] of the capitulation of Germany in 1945, the armed forces of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States marched in the Moscow Victory Day parade for the first time in history.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/05/09/russia.parade/|title=Western troops join Russia's Victory Day parade|publisher=CNN|access-date=May 9, 2010|date=May 9, 2010|first=Matthew|last=Chance}}</ref>

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File:Victory Day Parade 2008-14.jpg|2008 Military parade marking the sixty-third anniversary of Victory in the [[Great Patriotic War]]
File:Moscow Strikes Back 11-25 cheering Red Army parade, bayonets fixed.jpg|[[Red Army]] soldiers cheer [[Joseph Stalin]] in Red Square in a scene from the 1942 film ''[[Moscow Strikes Back]]''
File:Military parade on Red Square 2017-05-09 001.jpg|A soldier during a parade on Red Square in 2017.
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