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Armenia commemorates victims of Great Patriotic War
The Great Patriotic War broke out on this day 70 years ago.
A candle lighting ceremony was held at dawn at the Eternal Flame in Victory Park of Yerevan. At 4:00 a.m., veterans and young people lit up candles to commemorate the victims of the Great Patriotic War.
Similar events were held in all the capitals of the former Soviet Union.
Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 in the largest German military operation of World War II. The war took away 25 million lives.
