INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
country as Day of Remembrance and Sorrow.The Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces kicked off commemorations after midnight with a
Divine Liturgy and a memorial service for the estimated 27 million Soviet soldiers and civilians killed in the war.Afterward, 1,418 candles
fought the Nazi invasion, refuted controversial claims that Soviet leader Josef Stalin had planned to invade Germany, and shed light on Nazi
Germany of anti-Russian sentiment as the war in Ukraine heightens historic tensions between the two countries."Russophobic hysteria is
systematically fueled by almost daily public attacks against our country by members of the German government," the ministry said, adding
that authorities in Berlin undermine the process of "historical reconciliation" between Russians and Germans after World War II.AFP
