>>I'm curious who's country celebrates May 9 as a national holiday and the World War II Victory day?
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>Nobody I know around here. We should, but then it would be May 8 V/E Day. Victory Day (May 9) would be for Russians as the Germans surrendered to the Russian Army a day later. But on this side of the pond I would say that a huge percentage of the population has no clue of what we are talking about. Sad. (But we do celebrate a non-entity as Cinco de Mayo. Go figure).

Yeah I think it's just a Russian Holiday. If I remember right (I slept a lot in history class), the surrender of the Nazi's was May 5th but technically the war ended May 9th 1945.