A relatively objective report on Russia's biggest holiday - thank you.

Whether the Globe & Mail is ready to admit it or not, most objective historians believe it was the supreme sacrifice of the Soviet people which defeated Hitler and Nazism. When the US/UK/Canadian and other allies landed in Normandy in June 1944, the German army was in fact already a beaten force. I say this not to demean or downgrade the great contribution which the Western allies played, but only to be faithful to the historical truth that we owe so much to the Soviet Union in this regard. Even Netanyahu wrote [for him] a positive message to Putin saying how Jews in particular were grateful to the heroic Red Army in WWII.

We should emphasize what we have in common with Russia and the Russian people instead of demonizing them, which the MSM is certainly guilty of in the last decade.