Great Patriotic War

A mother and her son stand with a candle in front of the memorial sculpture "The Motherland Calls" during a remembrance ceremony in the southern Russian city of Volgograd June 21, 2011. The ceremony commemorates the 70th anniversary of the start of the war against Nazi Germany, known to Russians as "The Great Patriotic War". REUTERS/Sergei Karpov

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