Every year on June 22, on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, the day on which the Great Patriotic War began, a nationwide moment of silence is announced at 12.15 Moscow time.
It was in these minutes in 1941, that the citizens of the Soviet Union were officially informed of the attack on the country by Nazi Germany and declared the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.
A moment of silence is a reminder to the world of the aggression against our country and of the unbreakable will and courage of our multinational people, who did not submit to fascism and gave the world victory in the Second World War. It is a symbol of common and eternal national memory and mourning for all those who perished and all the victims of fascism, connecting generations in rejecting aggression and Nazism, defending universal human values and educating present and future generations in the tradition of good and justice and the values of peace and friendship.