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The Partisans Parade (, ) was a solemn
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held on 16 July 1944 on the field of the former
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on the dedicated to the liberation of Minsk from the German occupation in the 3 July
Minsk Offensive The Minsk offensive () was part of the second phase of the Belorussian strategic offensive of the Red Army in summer 1944, commonly known as Operation Bagration. The Red Army encircled the German 4th Army (Wehrmacht), Fourth Army in the city of ...
. The offensive was part of the Soviet Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation (codenamed Operation Bagration). The parade included the participation of 30 partisan brigades totaling around 30,000 partisans in all. It was attended by many different party, government and military officials, including First Secretary of the
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Panteleimon Ponomarenko Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko (, ; ; 18 January 1984) was a Soviet Union, Soviet statesman and politician and one of the leaders of Belarusian resistance during World War II, Soviet partisan resistance in Belarus. He served as an administ ...
as wll as Chief of the Partisan Central Headquarters and parade commander Pyotr Kalinin. In the column, the partisans also marched a
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named "Kid", which was decorated with a ribbon with German orders. The parade was the first of its kind in the
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and was the first victory parade in the country celebrating the country's war victories. Today, reenactments of the parade are currently held every year on the anniversary by youth unions, university students and reenactment groups. In April 2010 a memorial stone was installed. A sculptural monument in honor of the parade was installed on Minsk's Krasnoarmeyskaya Street near the Svisloch River in 2015.


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1941 October Revolution Parade The 1941 October Revolution Parade of November 7, 1941 was a parade in honor of the October Revolution 24 years earlier.Russia and later the Soviet Union adopted the Gregorian calendar after the October Revolution, so that the anniversary now f ...


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