by New Worker
correspondent
VETERANS,
diplomats, local dignitaries and communists assembled last Sunday at the Soviet
war Memorial in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, next to the Imperial War
Museum, in Southwark to pay their respects to the Soviet soldiers, sailors air
force and civilians who died fighting Nazi fascism in the Second World War.
There
were brief speeches from Philip Wilkinson of the Soviet Memorial Trust Fund,
the Mayor of Southwark Councillor Sunil Chopra and the Russian ambassador to Britain
Alexander Yakovenko.
As
usual the veterans of the Arctic Convoy Club were there in force.
Wreaths were laid by ambassadors and military
attachés from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan.
Veterans’
organisations and then other organisations, including the New Communist Party
also laid wreaths.
The
ceremony ended with the exhortation spoken by Russian Convoy Club veteran
Stanley Ballard; there was two minutes silence and then reveille.
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