Russian soldiers with Soviet Army flags march during a VE Day rehearsal in Moscow. Credit: Press Association/Alexander Zemlianichenko.
9 May is the day the former Soviet Union celebrates the end of the Second World War, or the Great Patriotic War, as it is called there.
I recently read W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz, the book about a child who escapes from the Nazis and many years later goes back into the past to try and save his dead parents.
