Members of patriotic movements light candles during the All-Russian action “Candle of Memory”, at Dvortsovaya Square in Saint Petersburg early on June, 22, 2022 to mark 81 years since the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. It has been 81 years since the German Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa and the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany in 1941. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)
