Victory

So very occasionally only a panorama will do. This is the first time I have ever actually taken one but the trusty phone makes it pretty easy. This is a monument to the victors of the Second World War in the suburbs of St Petersburg (although it feels like I need to call it Leningrad because that is what is written everywhere on it of course). Russia pretty much thinks that they won the war because they lost 25 million people compared to our 300,000/400,000 so when I say "the victors" it doesn't mean the allies exactly. A Russian person would genuinely laugh if you tried to argue that America had an important role in WW2.

It's a really amazing monument and you can go down the steps beyond the pillar and there are eternal flames. It's also situated on a huge roundabout and easy to see as you drive past. In regards to the suburbs, Russian suburbs (especially in Moscow and St Petersburg) consist of parks and enormous, enormous tower blocks on a completely inhuman scale, so it doesn't have the same feeling as what you think of as suburbs in the UK or elsewhere, but this is where the majority of families live.