DUSHANBE, April 28, 2014, Asia-Plus -- There will be no military parade on the occasion of the 69th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in Dushanbe this year.

“On May 9, wreaths will be laid at the Monument to Military Glory in Dushanbe’s Victory Park on behalf of the Ministry of Defense,” Faridoun Mahmadaliyev, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan (MoD), told Asia-Plus in an interview. 

According to him, parents of soldiers and officers of the Dushanbe garrison, veterans of World War II and representatives of the public will take place in a wreath-laying ceremony.

“After the wreath-laying ceremony, recruits of two military units of the country’s armed forces will take an oath,” Mahmadaliyev said.  

More than 280,000 residents of Tajikistan took part in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and some 70,000 of them died in battle.  55 of residents of Tajikistan were given the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.  Besides, 15 other Tajikistan’s residents were Full Holders of the Order of Glory.     

The Soviet Victory Day or May 9 marks the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union in the Second World War (also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and some post-Soviet states).  It was first inaugurated in the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the surrender document late in the evening on May 8, 1945 (May 9 by Moscow Time).  It happened after the original capitulation that Germany earlier agreed to the joint Allied forces of the Western Front.  The Soviet government announced the victory early on May 9 after the signing ceremony in Berlin.