Michael Chant, General Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist),
laying a display of red roses at the Soviet War Memorial in London.

On the morning of Friday, May 9, on a day marked with radiant sunshine, hundreds gathered at the Soviet War Memorial in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park in South East London. With a mixture of profound solemnity and high spirits, flowers and wreaths were laid at the impressive and imposing memorial, till it was smothered in floral tributes surrounding the inscription on the monument. The English text reads: "This memorial commemorates the 27 million Soviet citizens & service men & women who died for the Allied victory in WWII" / "WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM".

More or less every single person and delegation attending laid flowers or wreaths. Participants included members of the Russian Speaking Community Council and the Russian diaspora in the UK, as well as British communists, patriotic forces from the former Soviet Union and other progressive people. The ceremony was attended by ambassadors and diplomats from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Cuba, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, as well as H.E. Ambassador Andrei Kelin and Russian diplomats, who laid flowers and wreaths in commemoration.

Michael Chant, General Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), laid a display of red roses on behalf of RCPB(ML).

Other events took place in Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and other cities.

For more information about the memorial, see: Soviet War Memorial Trust | London https://www.sovietwarmemorialtrust.com/

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