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Two newspapers, one memory: Victory Days in print

By Zhang Wenjie, Kou Jie, Yuan Meng, Song Jingsi, Kuang Xixi
08:19, May 12, 2025 People's Daily Online

As celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War approach, a 1951 edition of China's People's Daily and a 1945 edition of Russia's Izvestia are brought together in the hands of journalists.

Each newspaper records the historic moment when China and Russia officially designated their respective Victory Days.