Children sit atop a World War II-era Soviet T-34 tank during Victory Day celebrations in the Armenian capital Yerevan on Thursday, when Armenia as well as the other former Soviet republics celebrated the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany, the date of the Nazis' capitulation to the Soviet Union, which took place in the evening of May 8, 1945 (May 9 by Moscow Time), following the original capitulation Germany agreed upon earlier with the joint Allied forces on the Western Front. Photo: AFP