Neither Stalin nor Khrushchev celebrated this day. The celebration of this day was first introduced after coming to the power of Brezhnev.

Art books on the war (serious) before Brezhnev lay outside the official majestic Soviet literature, and were, in many ways, critical. Bondarev "Battalions ask for fire", Simonov "Alive and dead", "No soldiers are born", Nekrasov "In the trenches of Stalingrad," Grosman and so on. Only after Brezhnev came to power and, probably, Suslov, a "big turn" in literature begins, designed to change the image of war in the minds of Soviet people. The third book of Simonov, "Hot snow" Bondarev and much more - all this is the consequence of this turn.

Suvorov in his books puts forward the hypothesis that Stalin did not consider May 9 a holiday not only because he was indebted to the people for the victory, but also because he did not achieve the goals he expected.

But in any sense, Stalin, unlike a simple Soviet man, has benefited so much from this war. He occupied most of Europe, he created bridgeheads for further aggression in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa. He got into the hands of the property of the Church Abroad, destroyed the bulk of his political opponents in Europe. He took out a huge number of factories and equipment in the USSR (I personally saw a huge number of these machines in the 80s both in Odessa and Vitebsk).

Thanks to Western aid, the USSR did not die of hunger, and after the war it turned into a powerful industrial power. This was facilitated by the mass export of German specialists, engineers and workers in the USSR.

At the same time, Stalin was able to destroy Soviet people more than Hitler, though not for four years, but for 25 years.

On May 9, Stalin allowed Stalin to continue the war on other people's spaces. Stalin helped to seize China, tried to help seize Korea, helped China to begin the seizure of Vietnam. And so on. For 40-50 years, the Soviet Union did everything that Hitler had promised to do at one time - captured the whole world, fanned the war at every point of the globe. It's all the fruits of May 9.

The question arises:

Does Putin make his holiday from May 9. The answer is valid, since May 9 is the feast of aggression and the victory of the aggressor. The USSR did not cross the borders of the USSR in order to destroy Hitler. It was a secondary task. The main task is expansion to the West. Elimination of freedom. But this Stalin failed.

Day of commemoration of the victims can not be a day of celebration of aggression. This is the day of the unfinished, fortunately, victory of Stalin over the free world.