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| | Pravda.RU:VE-DAY celebrations to center around Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which is devoted to the memory of Soviet soldiers, who died in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany, was opened exactly 35 years ago, that is, on May 8th, 1967. |
 | | In December 1966 the body of an unknown soldier, who was killed in action near Kryukovo village just outside Moscow (the village was located along the 40-th kilometre of the Leningrad highway -- Ed.), was re-interred near the Kremlin wall. |
 | | At that time, the Soviet Union was celebrating the 25-th anniversary of the German Wehrmacht's defeat at the gates of Moscow. |
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