All in all, though, the meaning of the day is diminished.

Its post-Soviet name, Day of Accord and Reconciliation, refers to something that people thought would happen in the newly democratic Russia but never truly did.

They are now all separate countries, but women there share many of the wonderful qualities that most men are looking for in a woman, such as dependability, loyalty, commitment to marriage and family.

The Red Army’s defiant stand in the World War II Battle of Moscow is one of them.

We have chosen it because the majority of people in all these countries speak Russian, as it was the common language in the USSR.

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A grand parade will make its way across Red Square on Tuesday, and that makes sense, given the momentousness of the date — the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, one of the defining events of the 20th century.

Only the procession will not celebrate the 1917 communist uprising that led to the creation of the Soviet Union.