Historical Mirror-World or Victory Day in the Baltic States

... additional payments (€100) to the pension and a number of housing and utility benefits. Incidentally, on the eve of Victory Day last year President Vladimir Putin resolved to establish as of May 1, 2014 a life-long monthly endowment (1000 rubles) for World War II veterans and prisoners of concentration camps residing in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, regardless of their nationality. In the upshot, despite the conscious official disregard of Victory Day for ideological reasons, May 9 in the Baltic countries continues to be celebrated. Moreover, the political pressure even promotes ...