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The International Parade for Victory in Moscow (Russian: Международный парад победы в Москве, romanized: Mezhdunarodnyy Parad Pobedy v Moskve) was a victory parade held by the Soviet Red Army (with several battalions representing the 1st International Volenteer Front) after the defeat of The Kaiserreich. This, the longest and largest military parade ever held on Red Square in the Soviet capital Moscow, involved 35,000 Red Army soldiers and 1,500 military vehicles, 450 aircraft, and other military hardware. The parade lasted just under two hours on an overcast May 1, 1942, over two months after Febuary 12, the day of the surrender of the Kaiserreich's europeian forces to the joint Soviet-International high command. Similar parades were carried out in Calcutta, Madrid, and Chicago. The Moscow parade was lead by Georgy Zhukov, and Konstantin Rokossovsky.
The 'Victory Clause' from the Tukachevsky-Reed Conference[edit]
As part of the Vladivostok talks carried out in 1940 between Syndicated American and Soviet delegations including Marshall Mikhail Tukhachevsky and John Reed. The talks involved a wide range of issues and agreements laid out, from the tightening of economic ties, mutual military assistance agreements, and the planning for the upcoming Operation Vyborg and Operation Detroit on the Canadian and European fronts. The 'Victory Clause' laid out as one of the final items on the agenda outlined the celebrations all participating Fourth International would have in their respective capitals after the defeat of the Kaiserreich and the Dominion of Canada. The clause is as follows:
| “ | Upon the declaration of victory upon the North American, and European continents against the two reactionary empires of Britain and Germany, a period of celebration will be organized for the closest historical date of international worker's celebration (E.g May Day, Anniversary of the death of V.I. Lenin, (Soviet or American) Revolution Day, etc) with a parade in each respective nation's capital of the size and length of their choosing. Each parade will include at least one unit of troops from each other 4th International member nations involved in the International Workers War. | ” |
Preparations for the Parade[edit]
Four days after the capitulation of the Kaiserreich Soviet marshall and premier Tukhachevsky delivered the order that each front that was engaged in combat