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Pro-Kremlin Youth Movement Marks Nazi Defeat
December 17, 2006
Nashi members dressed for the occasion (epa)
Dressed as Father Frost and the Snow Maiden, Nashi (Ours) activists rallied in downtown Moscow before heading out to distribute gifts to veterans.
The 1941 Battle of Moscow was the first large-scale defeat inflicted on invading German forces that had reached as far as the suburbs of Moscow. A Soviet counteroffensive was launched in early December 1941.
(AP)