How was Victory Day celebrated in the United States before Kennedy?

[rupol2000]

In the USSR there was a big difference. Before the left came in 1964, victory day was not celebrated at all, and then they began to celebrate it very magnificently and handed out many anniversary awards.

I think that something similar should have been in the US.

Was it such that after the arrival of Kennedy the attitude changed?

 

[rupol2000]

On the victory parade, the soldiers had few awards. Many didn't have any at all.
They all looked like this.

But in the days of Brezhnev, they already looked something like this

 

[rupol2000]

Since 1947, Victory Day has not even been a holiday. The first anniversary was celebrated under Brezhnev in 1964 and was accompanied by a magnificent parade

 

[whitehall]

What's "victory day"?

 

[rupol2000]

What's "victory day"?

The day of the signing of the surrender by Germany, it seems to you on May 8, and for us on May 9. I don't know where this difference comes from.

 

[whitehall]

The day of the signing of the surrender by Germany, it seems to you on May 8, and for us on May 9. I don't know where this difference comes from.

Armistice day? Nobody remembers WW1.

 

[rupol2000]

Armistice day? Nobody remembers WW1.

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