Alexander Levenbuk, the founding father of Moscow’s only Jewish theater, died at the age of 90 from natural causes on December 22, TASS news agency reported, citing Alexander Brod, member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights.
On Monday next week, soldiers are expected to be marching down the sacred cobblestone ground of Red Square with clamoring tanks rolling after them, and Sukhoi jets soaring above the skies of the Kremlin in a pro-war “Z” formation.
Victory Day, celebrated every May 9, is a sacred holiday for Russia. It commemorates the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Soviet Red Army, a feat accomplished with 27 million Soviet lives.
During the post-Cold-War period of cordial relations with the West, Russia emphasized the shared victory of the Allied countries. In 2005, former US president George W. Bush attended the