“Nobody is forgotten and nothing is forgotten”.
-Olga Fyódorovna Bergholz-

St. George ribbon adorned the lapels of everyone attending the ceremony of Victory Day (Victory Day, The’ Pobeda), with those orange and black lines, a strong memory of the incredible feat of the Soviet Army in defeating Nazi Germany 9 May 1945. But nevertheless, this great patriotic celebration of Russians took place almost 11,000 km away from Red Square in Moscow, outside the Russian Embassy in Mexico City.

“All Russians usually meet for important holidays such as Victory Day. We have the same love for our country, and is a reason to get together. I think everyone living in a foreign country feel happy, It is a very positive energy. I do not presume my patriotism, but what I have in my heart “, dice Vasily Leonov, the famous Russian restaurant owner Kolobok, in the district of Santa Maria la Rivera in Mexico City. A native of Tatarstan in Kazan region, He has lived in Mexico for the past 17 years.

Russia's foreign policy has taken action to strengthen communication among Russians over the past decade, and it has sought to consolidate the society of compatriots living outside the territory. Naturally, the migratory phenomenon becomes assimilation and adaptation of these actors to a new geography, language and cultural environment, parallel to the search for cohesion among people like country of origin, in this case, the former Soviet Union, and the current Russian Federation.

Tatiana Romanova, who lives in Mexico ago 10 and she works as a music teacher and Russian language, great importance thanking and honoring those who participated in the war, which affected the entire Russian family to some degree. "Both my grandfathers went to the front. This date is to commemorate, remind the family and join with people who gave their lives for Victory, which it is always pleasing. It is tradition and lives within each of us ".

"The migrants were united around the symbols of Russian culture as the focus of their national identity. The culture was the only stable element having a unique world of chaos and destruction-what he remained of the old Russia-, and, despite their political disputes, which it provided the emigrants a feeling of having a common goal was the preservation of their cultural heritage. The <<small Russias>> emigration were cultural homelands "[1]. More than an old Russia, I refer to the preservation of national identity from recreating closed environments and scenarios, which eventually they are permeated by the new context in which they operate.

By the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Mexico, Cultural Affairs Agency Rossotrudnichestvo and SORUMEX (Russian society in Mexico), events and festivities are organized in the framework of national commemorations, which call for the community of Russians in Mexico and their families. These festivities also include the participation of Mexican society interested and involved with Russia, from language study, to people involved in the development or cooperation in bilateral projects.

[1] Figues Orlando, Natacha dancing. A Russian cultural history. Edhasa, Spain, 2012. once. 638

We will share a gallery of remembrance by 73 anniversary of Victory Day in Mexico, and a retrospective celebrating this important date by the Russian community in our country.